skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had the exact same T-Mobile account and plans for more than 10 years now, and I have seen my monthly bill go from ~$82 to ~$86 today because of additional fees. The bulk of my plan has been the exact same, just additional or increased fees for the extra $4. It's not much money, but it's the principle that they can adjust my costs upwards without me consenting, essentially forever, that pisses me off.
Koskimas, awesome work! Will we ever see a lightweight ORM like Objection.js on top of Kysely?
13 stone appears to be 182lbs or 82kg - quite the accomplishment
This is evil. All this crap where we dump the costs of imprisoning people on their families is gross and wrong.
History of Grandi's series
This is a little scary, doesn't that mean they can hack you and cause issues from brain fog to mental illness.
tell me your an employee without telling me your an employee
Tried signing up using Google OAuth, not allowing any scopes and got the following error:
```
{"message":"\nInvalid `prisma.user.findUnique()` invocation:\n\n\nError querying the database: db error: FATAL: remaining connection slots are reserved for non-replication superuser connections"}
```

A bit too much info maybe.
Use LaTeX because if the hiring manager has a PhD they'll instantly recognize res.cls and put you at the top of the pile
"presumably".

No, they made a big deal about rewriting the code a few years back to help make things more stable, easier to maintain, and easier to expand.
Is it actually 144? Wouldn't that be the worst case scenario for the attacker? If I understand the whole thing correctly, the attacker can be lucky and find the right stack of 12 in the first try.

So basically, I would set it at around half of the 144: 72
or did I get something wrong there?
Once they started including cleaning fees on the regular, often for as much as a single night's stay, I've largely curtailed my use of the service, and have gone back to hotels. Very occasionally, like for an out of state wedding, especially out in the country where hotel options are limited, we'll still at least glance at airbnb type services. I used to really like airbnb but instead of undercutting hotels on price they're often significantly higher, along with significant risk of an unpredictable or even bad experience. Staying at a chain hotel virtually guarantees no unexpected issues and no unexpected charges or drama. The last experience I had with airbnb (two years ago) the host grilled me on why I wanted a last minute booking (pandemic staycation baby-moon). Was not thrilled with the experience. When you book with a hotel all they ask you is for your ID and if you want a king or two queen beds.
VC valuations have largely ignored presence of competitive pressures.

Simply because for most of the past decade there was a much smaller pool of talent and fewer resources available to spin these things up easily. No longer the case.

This is an app that can be cloned easily and has a low barrier to switching for existing customers. SaaS with high costs of switching are the ones with defensible margins.
agreed -- slowly integrating fiction.

if you're interested there are two fiction books up there right now. The Alchemist and Where the Red Fern Grows

https://www.konjer.xyz/the-alchemist

https://www.konjer.xyz/where-the-red-fern-grows
Sounds like a strategic way for Google to exit a business they aren't making much money on without spooking investors with fresh revenue concerns as AI ramps up as a potential replacement.

Not that it will. I'll die before I let AI be used for advertising.
My MIT Reality Hack 2023 Blog Day 1
The Chinese government has been known to be concerned about this and crack down from time to time.

On the other hand Chinese firms are pulling ahead in the game industry in some ways, I would particularly point to the game Genshin Impact which attains AAA quality on mobile platforms and, despite being based around micropayments, gets respect from self-identified gamers.

Chinese game companies are developing new brands in a time when legacy game developers in the west are making the same Assassin's Creed and Madden NFL year after year.
Hey.

Great to see you executed on this. I was discussing this same idea with a publisher this morning. Would love to catch up with you and understand a little more about the experiences you have had building and now getting feedback on the idea. Do you know Steve Jobs had this same vision?
> A relay doesn't talk to another relay, only directly to users.

Is this universally the case? I'm sure a relay could be built that pulls messages from other relays and shares them with its own clients.
What makes you assume you wouldn't have simply found another well paying position, and still had it, since in this scenario companies are now thinking about hiring sustainably?

I too work remotely making more than I would locally, and I left my previous company for a new place only to be laid off six months later. I would far rather not been hired into the new company and still be where I was at than suddenly job hunting (I have plenty of runway, I should be fine).
> They [Clover] earn a percent of the transaction, so adding a simple option to increase the amount of the transaction is a no brainer for increasing profits. And the act of actually having to press no tip is better at guilting people than simply being able to ignore a tip jar.

I have wondered about this as a possible motive. I assumed that shops paid a monthly fee, or perhaps a per-transaction fee. But they're paying based on gross revenue? Do all POS systems work this way?
Interesting. I used to either go to Peets or Starbucks, and after a while exclusively the latter because of the annoying Peets tip thing which I never know what to put on. Is a $2.5 Americano a $1 tip? Who the hell knows? Anyway, I eventually stopped going to Peets. Then a year passes and Starbucks started this shit. The local workers do that embarrassed "and there's a new extra button you have to hit" thing, but it was just a bit more annoying and now I just use the Nespresso pods at work. We just got a bunch more of them.

My colleagues just use the app which doesn't involve that interaction and then they go pick up.

It's probably a strange pet peeve of mine, but having to think about whether I'm disappointing this service worker or being impolite to them or pick the right price or whatever is costly enough that I'd rather just not interact with them.

It's also why I like the market delis, Chipotle, and Sweetgreen so much. You just show up, grab what you want, pay, and walk out. Smooth experience.
Presumably you take what you need from a larger container that can be dropped.
Usage numbers to me mean nothing here because in my mind it’s the same 1,000,000 people using Nostr, setting up Mastadon instances, running crypto mining nodes, whatever else. There are two kinds of users - people who care about what window system their OS uses, and people who don’t even know what that means. One group uses every FOSS tool they can, the other doesn’t care at all. You don’t need to get the one kind of user, you need the other.
Thanks for these helpful links and tweaks. Customization and code sharing -- both in keeping with true hacker ethos.

Got a good chuckle from the Stylus plugin privacy policy:

"Unlike other similar extensions, we don't find you to be all that interesting. Your questionable browsing history should remain between you and the NSA. Stylus collects nothing. Period."
And the transaction did go through. I’ve canceled the recurring but I’m hoping for a refund for the $30 I spent for something I won’t even get to use (with the custom premium username anyway). We’ll see.
The graphical version of DF also works great via Proton/Wine
I bought a smart tumble drier but never connected it. For me it was a combination of factors.

The smarts doesn't really do a lot for me. My house isn't that big, I can hear when it's done because it stops rumbling in the distance. Getting a notification on my phone isn't very useful.

It was offputting that it needs an app, and the app was rated 1 star on the play store. Do I want that on my phone? I didn't look into why it was rated like that.

Then I started wondering about exactly what Chinese data centre either the drier or the app connects to and decided I didn't need a smart tumbler drier. Not enough in it for me to risk whatever problems it may bring.
But all the odd domains didn’t matter because the email got sent to anyone one of them if you got the address correct. The same is true for Mastodon instances.
sendgrid is still not aware of hey.com .
I found this mesmerizing. It conveys surprisingly many of the perceptual characteristics of the sound through visuals. Good demo music, too, but it makes me curious to see what it would do with vocals or acoustic music. Any other demos?

Not sure about the colors… they were hard to make sense of. And I wonder if it’s making use of stereo information at all.
I've read that silently pushing firmware updates to broadband modems is standard ISP practice, at least in the USA.
https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 can do it a little lighter than a full qemu VM
>Seems like a judge should lose their position if they have a conflict of interest and rule anyway.

That's pretty much what happened to the judge in the article linked by GP (you should read it, it's horrifying). Mostly because it's hard to work as a judge when you're serving a 17.5 year prison sentence.
> You are stating private jails don't control the government. You're right, the opposite is true: government officials control private jails, which means delivering inmates and redirecting profits ...

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

This gets brought up all the time as evidence of something systemic, but the linked article only mentions two judges convicted. Is there any evidence this is widespread?
Flight recorders are called black boxes because they originally were black-colored boxes.

"Black box" in the sense that you are describing is an unrelated term.
They don't. FWIW it's never been an issue for me in the Midwest, but YMMV. In general I'm syncing the files I need to my computer or backing up photos to my phone so latency doesn't really matter for my use case.
Of all components, a disk is the only thing that “regularly” fail, that become too small, and have no other security impact, no profit margin (I think)

It’s idiotic MS took this route.

And what’s the downside/risk for MS? Nothing.. if the Xbox doesn’t work anymore, just don’t give any support on that disk
Okay, but be honest and call it for what it is — a tool to evade financial regulations. 'Borderless payments' is shameless cynicism. It's like calling illegal border crossings 'borderless travel'.
Maybe this is needed to figure out how much VAT to charge you?
Not exactly the 8086, but how about the 80286 bits apart from the Execution Unit?

If one ignores the extra instructions, one gets the impression that most of the differences will be in the BIU, and some in the address adder block added to the system. But possibly that additional adder ALU can be ignored?
Yeah consoles indoctrinated people and opened the way for stuff like the BMW with the DRM heated seats.
I think similarly, micro-transactions and DLC in games, digital goods, rare loot in WoW, led the way for stuff like bitcoin and nfts becoming relatively popular, and not just being utterly ridiculed by everyone.
I don't disagree, but have noticed that the American justice system seems to obsess on jailing/punishing the people following the orders and completely ignores or treats very gently the people making the decisions and giving those orders.

No rules for the rich and powerful, draconian rules for everyone else.
There is obviously social pressure against pressing "No Tip". I feel it.

But then I remember that a tip is for good customer service. Starbucks didn't provide me any customer service, they simply transferred the coffee from their vat into my cup. At which point I can feel justified in declining.

I guess they're taking advantage of people who aren't familiar with this view of tipping, which I'd argue is the standard view in the U.S.
Oh wow, thank you! I hadn’t seen that one.
> This has the effect of discouraging people from working.

Does it? I don't know that we can say it will, for sure. You're just assuming people are lazy, probably. Maybe it will discourage people from doing bullshit jobs and working on shitty advertising crapola, and instead we will have another human renaissance period of amazing things. Everyone I know, even those who aren't college educated and on the track to success since birth, would absolutely do amazing things for their communities with their time if they weren't doing stupid bullshit to enrich others.
Yeah. Let's create a legal market for human organs and start with yours.

It will be most efficient. I promise!
In my personal experience, the number one reason people don't connect smart products is because they simply don't know how it would benefit them. They don't read manuals, and the copy on ads and packaging tends to describe the smart features in ambiguous terms.

The second most common reason is because, compared to a dumb feature, a smart feature, despite doing something above and beyond the dumb feature: has much worse UX; is brittle in its functionality; is ephemeral in its future availability; and is nebulous in how it works (is this using the internet or just the LAN?). It's a bit like the difference between a mechanical toggle and a touch screen.

The third most common reason is because it's just annoying to go through the setup process.

Data privacy concerns come in at a vanishingly rare fourth place.

Again, these are my personal real-life observations of other people.
Okay. So we kill and keep dolphins captive. We eat octopus. We run experiments on monkeys.

This happens globally. For 1000s of years. There is no global or even local movement to stop treating conscious animals any better… which is exactly my point, AI in its current state is less than that. So until we as a society want to tackle consciousness animals I don’t think we will tackle consciousness in AI
Can we please stop using SMS for 2FA?

SIM Swapping is dangerous and far too easy. Use Google Auth or Authy or another TOTP at minimum, a hardware key like a Yubikey is your best option.
Link to complaint: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1563746/downl...
I just did a very un-scientific benchmark to test this.

I chose ripgrep as a conservative choice, since most of the time should be I/O anyway.

I grepped for the word "Jesus" in a file that contained 100 copies of the king james bible (426MB of text). I ran it 100 times and averaged the results. Timed with /usr/bin/time.

--release without overflow checking was 0.0702 seconds on average.

--release with overflow checking was 0.0727 seconds, or about 3.5% slower

That's more than I expected for a program that's I/O bound.
> These people on average predict AGI within ~30 years with more than 50% probability.

I haven't seen that prediction. What I have seen is "AGI is 2 years out", and I have been seeing that for 4 years.

Much like the self-driving cars that were (according to the experts in the industry) 5 years out since 2012, and still not here in 2023.

Maybe if the experts in the industry were more vocal about how far off they are, you wouldn't be reading comments like mine.

> If Astronomers were predicting a mass-extinction level asteroid impact for the year 2050 with 50% probability I doubt you would be so cavalier.

if they had been saying, since 2012, that it's five years away, I won't be the only one laughing at them.

When it comes to AI, though, the world is a lot more forgiving, and collectively more forgetful of the predictions.
It's been years since I used wine but I do recall you can specify which windows version you mimick. Perhaps if you mimick an old ass version of windows wine will behave properly? A quick Google turns up: https://superuser.com/questions/398178/can-wine-emulate-wind...
> No one can compete with gmail

This is kind of very obviously not true.

>and YouTube

Lots of companies operating in the video delivery space too.
That may be an issue during onboarding. I've got an account set up already and I'm able to edit my availability schedule from 12:00am to 11:59pm.
> They are atomic scientists

"Atomic scientist" isn't even really a thing. This is a political advocacy magazine, and always has been.
You have inferred something that may well be untrue.

A 40 year old mature student was last in school more than 20 years ago. Younger students were last in school as recently as 1 year ago. Learning is a skill and it's perfectly possible to be out of practice. There may also be some knowledge gaps because recent practices and knowledge are different to common knowledge 20 years ago.

It's also possible that mature students are more assertive about asking questions.

And also - what some of the students in a class consider "obvious" is not at all obvious to all of the class.

Of course if someone is showing clear evidence of dementia, that's a different issue.
> That means companies like Whirlpool are missing out on services revenue, which is increasingly crucial to manufacturers facing rising input costs, declining replacement purchases, and hungry shareholders.

I'm surprised by the "declining replacement purchases" since based on what I'm seeing/reading/hearing appliance qualities have gone downhill and they have become more complex meaning that more people are replacing their appliances sooner rather than getting them repaired.
I'm not defending the restaurant as I hate this as much as the next person but I'm sure the fee was mentioned on the menu - probably in small print and this was omitted for the sake of a good story.
I wasn't talking about your MacBook. I was talking in reference to my above point that these are accumulating at recyclers and being thrown out.
> Surprised this isn’t a YC startup to be honest

You have a lot more faith in YC than I do.
That's some accident. The pressurization controls are overhead in a not very central location.
If we thought lead in the water was bad, just wait for the news of all the dietary and microbiota damage we've been doing to ourselves.

Obviously this could also become a population-level attack vector.
The modders could have just as easily decided to go the "you must find the logo on your own" route and written a "select the logo" file prompt into the tools. I find the "they intended to let others sell HDDs" then changed their minds later route more plausible, especially since they never went after the "hacked" drives with bans or anything.
>"I'm of the opinion that using a skinned Chromium browser is the same as actively supporting Chrome."

Well I respect your opinion. However I have no time / desire to get political about this particular issue. Brave works for me.
There may be but the easier ways don't put money into the pocket of the appliance vendor.
I would assume all POS systems have to take a percent cut, given that they clear credit card transactions. They have to at least take 2-3% to cover the cc transaction fee.
They likely have the sign posted in a place that is easy enough for diners to miss as they enter, but still prominent enough to fulfill legal requirements about giving customers notice of the fee.
Ok, thank you, appreciate it :-)
And what of the people who crossed freely before your cabal constructed imaginary "borders" on someone else's land?

Rules and laws are merely suggestions. I think and live on my own, and follow laws insofar as they benefit myself and others. Show me a tool used to undermine an unjust law, and I'll gladly employ it should the need arise. I'll accept the consequences too, in this venture or any other.
I imagine you'll get into issues: If I take the original prompt and seed, but very mildly tweak the prompt, would I be violating copyright?
This topic is a sore spot for me because I recently got a "smart" LG washer+dryer set and they are hands down the worst washer and dryer pair I've ever had. In years past I've had good experiences with LG products, but this purchase and the last TV I bought from them are a huge disappointment.

The washer/dryer really push you to use their preset modes that are supposed to figure out the right settings. To find out how long a wash cycle is going to take you need to start it, wait while it sits there silently for an interminably long time, before it finally displays a runtime and starts washing.

Unfortunately the "smarts" are really dumb. The dryer never gets it right, clothes always come out wet or over-dried; I've had more clothes damaged from this set in a few months than my entire life prior to this set.

The worst part is the lack of manual controls. Tasks that used to take a fraction of a second and zero thought on old machines are now difficult or impossible.

For example, if the clothes are still damp and I want to run the dryer for another 8 minutes on medium low heat -- too bad. That's literally impossible to do!
Constipation, headaches, stress, bloating, anxiety, depression, fatigue, weight loss, hair loss, rashes.

I don't know what the cause was, but the gut-brain theory fits all of my experience and treatments aimed at improving my gut bacteria helped the most, and there has definitely been a strong connection between how my gut is feeling and how my mind is feeling.
> Why should some freeloader get a free place to live when I have to pay.

You too can have this "free" housing; all it will cost is your choice of living location and proving that you're incredibly poor.

If that sounds like a good deal, then this taxpayer is all for you mooching off the same system. But as with "I'm moving to Canada" I doubt we'll see significant movement.

So this outrage is emotional bluster, like a child who never learned to share.
The Doomsday Clock Is Closer to Catastrophe Than Ever Before
The article has good content (and the overall point is not missed on me) but think using the F-150 for usage breakdown is "sort of" a straw man - it's not a vehicle one can use for "heavy" towing/hauling or commercial applications where you "actually need a truck". Far as I know F-150s (and equivalent 1500 series/half-ton truck from other Makes) are all gasoline while F-250/2500 on up have diesel options (often more desirable/practical for towing/hauling/commercial uses).
Why, is it quoting substantial portions from the books? Copyright covers expression, not information.
Hmm. Which rules are you referring to? International? If so, I think most of this forum agree that realpolitik made those rules amount to 'might is right'. Local government? If so, parent is very much correct indicating local population's willingness and desire to bypass existing systems governed by international parties above.

I have no real stake in this, but the conversation seems very one sided.
The manufacturer doesn't care about the data, they care about selling it to advertisers. There's no better way to measure someone's actual washing machine usage than actually measuring their washing machine usage. The next-best thing is to buy data on how often the person buys laundry detergent.
I just wanted to say that this practice backfires with me. Those want to excercise such tactics better be in the 'deceive a large amount of persons once then go under and repeat' kind of business because they will never see me again. Assuming they could scam me once. Which is harder and harder by each passing occasions others give the liberty to themselves. Being tired of being scammed got me to reacting harsh even to a faint smell of such and make my stand. Especially when they try to wrap it into supposedly guilt triggering tactics like calling it Fair Wage fee, only to expose how unfair they are with their employees. Those wan't to engage in fair and transparent practices will meet my appreciation as it is so hard meeting such services I want to hang on to them and pay fair prices without forcing on me.
Don't forget "reconfigure your APs because half the devices will error if they see a 5 GHz band"