skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Resort fees at hotels may not be the ultimate evil, but they're close.
I was planning to upgrade, but I won't spend money for staying on the same TSMC process node (I hoped Apple waits for 3nm with M2).

Right now though I feel that the new laptop is not even superior, it's similar category (still awesome).
“Those who forget their history are condemned to see it in a comment with links in HN” - It would be difficult to find a time when there weren't any tech layoffs. Seems like some people think they are much more essential then they really are.

Apple layoffs 1990 https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/20/business/apple-layoffs-ar...

Tech Layoffs 2000. https://www.axios.com/2022/11/01/year-2000-tech-flashback-do...

Tech Layoffs 2009. https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/tech-layoffs-the-sco...

A history of Layoff. https://qz.com/work/1663731/mass-layoffs-a-history-of-cost-c...

Tech Layoffs 2015. https://www.challengergray.com/blog/tech-sector-shed-over-79...
It's common to take a 2 week course of something like Xifaxan (an antibiotic that works in the small intestine) after a positive SIBO test, which is not something you can do without a doctor/gastroenterologist prescribing it for you.

-- someone who tested positive for a hydrogen/methane breath test and just finished a 2 week course of Xifaxan
This Week’s Hype (In Physics)
Hypothetically, what do you think about requiring a big, up-front total and a high-level cost breakdown (section numbers for tax codes, overall material cost, amortized facilities cost)?

To some of your points:

1. Isn't super important because on the <<1% of sales that could happen that way they're required to inform you of your tax burden.

2. Break it out as a line item. Bold it. Maybe a bit more transparency would help with the pattern of stores raking in record profits when any upstream supplier has a minor price hiccup.

3. Having to memorize the tax rates in every city for every class of goods and apply those accurately on the fly doesn't benefit anyone unless it finally pisses off enough people to turn our mess of a system into something simpler. Displaying the actual tax rate on the receipt should more than suffice.

The thing that worries me about the pattern of tacking on crap after a total had already been agreed to is that it conditions is to accept that as just something that happens once in awhile. Like how SF restaurants started tacking on a fixed percentage to cover employee health benefits when that law passed. You'd sit down to a meal, choose what you're going to eat at least partially based on the price and expected tip, and find out after the meal that they expect you to pay some amount greater than what was listed and societally accepted at the time -- and critically, on average it's a much greater fee than is actually required to pay the offending tax. That particular instance has gotten a little better since at least they usually have small-print signs informing you of that fact now, but it repeats itself in car dealerships making up line items passing on ordinary costs of doing business to consumers as if they were collecting ordinary sales tax, in toll companies separating out an additional fee for the envelope they're using to send you your bill, ....
oh thanks and sorry! more to catch up on reading then!! sorry for my oops.
Two things are simultaneously true:

1. The entire UK economy is dependent on everyone having access to cryptography so good that even Russia can't break it, therefore it is of paramount national interest that everyone does have access to it.

2. Bad people will use the exact same tech to avoid detection while planning and committing major crimes that have the potential to escalate to the level of undermining the state.

The only way to prevent #2 is to enforce extremely luddite laws that mess up #1.

In reality things get much harder to guess at when pontificating from armchairs, as when you have to account for the fact that the government and police aren't actually trying to perfectly enforce any specific law — not even the ones we all grew up assuming they "surely must" fully enforce because they were the worst horrors in the newspapers — it stops being clear how much any given law is supposed to help nor how much harm it will cause.
This is a good idea.

I just changed all of my websites to have "100% AI-free organic content" in the copyright footers. (I didn't say "certified" for obvious reasons.)
I think the difference is that in a car, any action that could kill the passengers is nearly as likely to kill the driver as well. Obviously you can't stop the pilot from crashing the plane and killing everyone, but it's still pretty creepy to learn that there's a "kill all passengers but leave me alive" switch in every plane, in a locked cockpit inaccessible to the people whose lives are affected by that switch.
Production will increase. Only this time driven by robots and AI instead of humans. Therefore there is no need for incentives because there are no jobs left for most humans anyways.
blocked by firewall, on my samsung it defaults to 8.8.8.8 if it cannot lookup via lan dns server
Author here, this the website where you go to get customer support from Google, right? /s

Was everyone who reviews extensions at Google part of the cohort who were suddenly given a cardboard box and shown the door recently? The extension has been blowing up in Japan over the weekend (user numbers more than doubled from 29,000 to 68,000 over the last few days) so I internationalized it to add a Japanese locale (and incidentally accidentally used "en" for the default locale rather than "en_US" which everyone seems to default to, for which the Edge Extension Dashboard completely wiped my store listing in their interface - cheers).

New versions on Chrome Web Store are usually approved first within in a few hours, but it's been sitting for more than 24 hours now and their contact form suggests you only bother them after 3 weeks! It doesn't help that the version I submitted has invalid locale strings for Chrome (which worked fine in Firefox, the default browser launched by the web-ext extension development tool - thanks) and you can't back a known-bad version out of review.

Yes, I too have read all the rants about being beholden to Big Extension Store and have nobody to blame but myself :)

Also, happy to answer any questions you have about writing extensions on top of React Native for Web apps - New Twitter was a fix it or quit it situation for me, and I ended up getting lots of practice at the former when it's looking like I probably should have just done the latter.
I use it for 1Password 4. It works quite well, including browser integration.
The person also presumes coughing = covid… when in planes the air is dry and coughing is somewhat normal.
I once spent far, far too much time debugging my “broken” laptop to realize a book was touching the corner of my external trackpad that I wasn’t actively using.
Definitely a common sense step in the right direction. Humans going anywhere beyond the moon using chemical propulsion seems quite problematic due to all the unsolved issues related to radiation and micro-gravity.

Now talking speculative fiction, the real breakthrough will come if we figure out a way to induce acceleration without an action-reaction process. Just an energy source, and no propellant. Being able to sustain 1g for a few months on a heavy spacecraft means interstellar travel (proxima centaury) would be within grasp.
Hmm I’m still not convinced. Gather training data can be thought of sampling the underlying distribution of the data. In that sense, you’d expect the proportions of things to converge towards the underlying distribution as you gather more data.
Heh... (of course) it still needs to be tuned for some particular mindset or personal view. I've asked Marcus Aurelius' book "What is man?" expecting to get

"A little breath, a little flesh, and reason to rule it all- that is myself"

but got

"Consider that all men are actually made up of the same basic components—body and soul, their properties and parts. And so, if you look at the whole, all men are one..."

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Also, if it directly quotes the book, is it really ChatGPT?
The date in ChatGPT's prompt is there so the model can know when its training data ends. So if you ask it about something that happens in 2023, it can tell you that its training data cuts off in 2021 and it doesn't have knowledge of current events. Current LLM architectures do not enable functionality like "answer this question using only data from before 2010". It is possible future architectures might enable this, though.
Parallel knoppix sounds cool. Did the os's on each machine coordinate in any way at the kernel level? Or was it all user level libs/apps/services?
The dangers of smoking are not equatable to the dangers of unfiltered house air.

Smoking is a known carcinogen with a known increase in death rate on top of all of the things you listed. In fact smokers probably also have the exact same air quality and environmental dangers that you listed but have added smoking on top of that.

Sure, have fun, it's your life. Smoke away. Just don't believe lies about "organic tobacco" being healthy for you. It's not.
An honest contractor tells you ahead of time.

They'll say, this is how much it costs to replace the roof tiles, here's how much it would cost to replace the framing if necessary. It's not like rotten wood under the roof is a complete surprise to anyone.
Well I don’t know if I’ve heard of any incidents and there are like hundreds of flights in a day so in all practicality, there is zero concern
Personally I know how to do very complex things with class components and make them reusable but that's because I have been doing object oriented programming intensively since 1994. (Kinda tried writing serial communication code in C++ in 1989 but I never really got OO until I got into Java.)

My perception of hooks is that nobody really understands them or what the real rules for using them are, but it usually works when people copy stuff out of stackoverflow until it doesn't. The fact that it is functions and not methods seems to make some people squee ("It's functional!") but it is pure insanity and not functional at all because the order that hooks get called matter.
From the link:

> How to manage multiple MFA devices in IAM

> You can register up to eight MFA devices, in any combination of the currently supported MFA types, with your root users and IAM users.

To register an MFA device

Sign in to the AWS Management Console and do the following:
For a root user, choose My Security Credentials.

For an IAM user, choose Security credentials.
For Multi-factor authentication (MFA), choose Assign MFA device.
Select the type of MFA device that you want to use and then choose Next.
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I never defended any of those people. You're arguing against something you made up in your head.
Thanks for all of the replies. This post gives me fantasy of waking up one morning finding all of my family responsibilities gone so that I can dive it some random weird things and grow my brain.
Up 4% after hours.

edit: well that didn’t last
I'm saying if the way to know that you're predestined to be saved is that bad things aren't happening to you, that doesn't square with Jesus, Peter, and Paul, and many other early leaders having been tortured and killed by the Romans.

Presumably, the Calvinists believed that Peter, Paul, and others were predestined to be saved, and that Jesus was on the right side of history.

This is the first I've heard that John Calvin preached that bad things don't happen to people who are predestined for salvation.
Support for Markdown-based JavaDoc has been available since at least 2009 via multiple implementations [1, 2]. There have been many extensions thanks to the doclets api. The difference here is that Markdown will be included in the standard doclet and supported by the Java team instead of a 3rd party. Kotlin has few innovations and is rarely a source of inspiration for Java changes, e.g. Jetbrain's often called Scala a research language that they borrowed heavily from to design an industry language.

[1] https://code.google.com/archive/p/markdown-doclet

[2] https://github.com/Abnaxos/markdown-doclet
250 ideas is incredible. if only 1% of them grow to have ~$1MM in value (or anything close), you should have two or three real winners by now. If only by pure chance.

I'm really curious about how that's going. I can't quite suss out what your biggest successes are on your website.
Haptics on Apple Platforms
“Electronic Arts missed cartridge video games”
what did you like compared to cal.com?
Very cool!

Not sure if you use a diagram tool to visualize your databases but I built ERD Lab specially for developers and would love to get your feedback.

If you are on desktop/laptop you can login as guest. No registration required.

Here is a 1 minute video of ERDLab in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VaBRPAtX08

What do you think about creating diagrams using the simple markup language in my tool?
Enough people did that once, and then Twitter changed blocking to ignore that. I've used a blocklist of top-500 advertisers that was making rounds, and it stopped working after a while.

You can't win with a platform on the platform's turf.
Not really any need. Any propaganda account like this that fails to include a single source or verifiable evidence on extraordinary claims is full of shit 99.999% of the time. Don't buy into their false narrative.
I tried that for a long time. The exercise got old after a while.
When the act was passed the average consumer didn't see pickup trucks as the weird kind of status symbol that they've become today. People used them commercially- on farms, plowing, hauling, whatever. So presumably in order not to step on the toes of the economy, pickups got a pass and were exempted. Of course, now that these things have blossomed into full-blown vanity displays and are only occasionally used for work purposes, it'd make sense to lump them into the gas-guzzler category. I'm sure the auto manufacturers won't be the ones to suggest it.
How much RAM is that with? My home server idles at ~25-27W, but that's with only 16GB (EEC DDR4). However, throwing in an extra 16GB as a test didn't measurably change the reading.
This looks cool. The issue with this sort of movie is distribution. For example Container looks cool. I'd love to have seen it. But I missed all the festivals it was at. Who is going to distribute this to me? I guess Steam but that doesn't seem right. I know they've sold movies in the past but I'm not sure how many would ever pay. What's the netflix of vr movies?
Oh that's a great catch, and that episode was 1996, so wouldn't have been a response to Starbucks.

Now it's really got me wondering how far back those plastic tip buckets at mom and pop shops like pizzerias and deli counters go.
maybe beijing, shanghai, zurich, minneapolis, or moscow
You sound like you have a problem with that, but I can't fathom what alternative course you'd rather them pursue.
I think I found it?

Either way, I appreciate the tidbit. Good reading inspiration.
I can sorta get the where they're going with this on the Encro example given, but that line seems impossible to define.

"Sophisticated encrypted communication devices" is a complete and utter joke in a world where even the memes are https encrypted
Is this evidence that the applicant is bad, or good?

This story is real, but I understand if you don't believe it: The year I finished school, all but one of my school's English Lit students failed the state exam (TEE). The only one that passed was the guy coming bottom of the class.
Edit: Do you take the one I linked, or this prescription grade extra strength? https://www.visbiome.com/collections/all/products/visbiome-e...

($6.2/day without insurance coverage)

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Thanks! For anyone in Canada or USA wondering, I just searched and apparently you can buy it online now. About $2 a day: https://www.visbiome.com/collections/all/products/visbiome-c...

I had looked years ago and found it hard to get. Going to check with my doctor, might be something prescribable, which would either make it covered by insurance or at the least a tax deductible health expense.

Here's the Canadian link: https://www.visbiome.ca/collections/all
Oral fixations are tough for some of us. A former coworker and I found ourselves utterly addicted to chewing gum after our office began offering gum as a free perk. I've cut it out of my life because I found myself going through a pack of gum in a day. No nicotine at all, just regular chewing gum.
A hobbyist made a 2x2 angled LEGO brick with a computer and an OLED display embedded into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wBrOV2FJM8

This is a mind blowing level of miniaturization, especially considering that this was assembled by someone at home with commercially available off-the-shelf parts! The fact that he used a cheap, readily available 3D printer to manufacture the jigs and mould parts is the icing on the cake.

When I grew up, computer monitors were heavy and had big vacuum tubes in them made out of thick glass. At the scale of a LEGO brick, it was already amazing having a single LED light instead of an incandescent light bulb!

A working computer!? With a display? Madness!
Why Taiwan Matters to China
It's been years and this was very famous, so I'm going to guess that at least one person who played this number died in extremely questionable circumstances. Large numbers and probability pretty much guarantee that this is true.
> Perhaps this will cause people to think for themselves more

Seems more likely that people will think whatever the best-funded and operated LLMs tell them to believe.
This was made in Rust using WGPU and their WGSL shading language. It still needs more documentation and tutorials, but the results are great and port to many platforms.
Thanks for the link! This looks super useful. Do you happen to know any real life service that is using these techniques?
Have you tried XnView?
Those get burried, and maanged out by social media marketers. Also it doesn't stop the behavior as quickly. Those people are defrauding the people who go there.
As an applicant it might be nice to get unfairly-preferential treatment but at a system level bias in either direction is undesirable
Ayurveda posited a form of gut-brain axis thousands of years ago (and is a core basis for its dietary aspects), interesting to see more scientific research delving into the details.
Something must be done, we are doing something, something has been done.

That's one bias: legislator wielding law to solve every and all problems like they would the proverbial hammer. Reinforced by the fact that they're public figures, surely they can't be caught doing nothing?

A second, more pernicious possibility, is to make illegal stuff that is highly correlated with actual crimes, such that law enforcement can now arrest people for innocuous as a substitute for punishing them for the real thing. Think Al Capone being done for because of taxes of all things.

A third, positively alarming possibility, is to facilitate arbitrary arrests. Probably wasn't the intent (it rarely is), but it does give ammunition to future governments or law enforcement, should they need to stifle, silence, or discourage political opposition.
You must be a blast at parties held by the professionally offended.

Wrong scale of time. Comments take <2 minutes. Reading an article can take >10 minutes. Additionally, the complaining is less than 5% of my commenting time. I use it mainly to bolster opinions not already commended.
Edge has a store?
He's not literally forgotten but few read him compared to Heidegger and Sartre. Some of his writings aren't translated into English or are very rare.
More or less, but with caveats. It's true that many smells (eg H2S, HCN) are detectable before toxic levels, and then become un-smellable at higher levels (saturates and depletes olfactory receptors). But you should still worry about certain terrible smells, because that's often the first sign that something is going wrong. Containment failure, reaction runaway, maybe someone dumped the wrong thing in the wrong waste barrel and now it's reacting, etc.

There's also things which are toxic at the same levels as olfaction, and of course there toxins which are dangerous by the time you have smelled them, or you lack the gene to smell. Most really smelly things aren't acutely toxic like that though. Take DMS (dimethyl sulfide, byproduct of Swern oxidation. Smells like boiling cabbage at low concentration, and liquid ass at high concentration. If you are running a Swern in a fume hood, you are likely quite well-contained even if you've made the whole lab smell like a cesspit.

When we ran cyanation at the kilo scale, you better believe we had HCN detectors all over the place, wore full-face respirators, etc.
If I want to do data engineering for such labs, how should I aporoach or even find such opportunities? I heard they hire graduate students for that in general.
> The only way to prevent #2 is to enforce extremely luddite laws that mess up #1.

That's often how they think, but of course it isn't true.

The FBI has had good success with another route:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-sold-criminals-fake-encrypted...

Then there's just good old fashioned good police work. Informants. In-person Surveillance. Sting operations.
enshittification?

also see: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
I have to plead ignorance on the specifics, since it's not something I've consulted myself, so unsure if it's a universal suggestion or whether each person gets tailor made recommendations - though I think it's the latter (based on conversations with people who did consult a traditional physician). Collectively, I've heard recommendations against tomatoes, eggplants, certain pulses common in the Indian diet, some leafy vegetables, okra, colocasia (leaves and tubers), and milk. At least in some cases, the dietary restrictions were supposed to last at least while they took the traditional medications.
In Sweden they banned smoking on them, and the place risks their alcool license. So they are quite strict about it.
How about minimizing all zoning laws so we can actually have small pubs, churches, meeting places, and stores in our neighborhoods. It would be a god send for suburbanites.
I think it's most likely that governments with radar in the area don't want to admit they have it.
Space Karen free labor task force... assemble! Form of... a Chrome extension.
>Sometimes, people want a more efficient way to read articles, rather than actually reading them.

Is it too much to assume that readers have had at least high school education and know about lead sentences and summary paragraphs?
Just because they risk the alcool license.

In the bus stops nobody cares. In general, smokers aren't the most empathetic kind of people.
How does your initial point of 1g for a few months on a heavy spacecraft lead to traveling 4.246 light years? Genuine question!
The only way to stop having to constantly fight this issue is to manage to swing things back further back, to have backlash in the direction of "no and stop asking", or if necessary, "no, and your smoking crater will be a warning to the next person to try".

We should be in a world where "I want to ban encryption" results in "Of course not, and your career in politics is now over". We should be in a world where "I want to ban encryption" results in "No, in fact here are a bunch of laws enshrining the right to encryption and privacy". We should be in a world where everyone building encryption technologies is building it in a fashion not just resistant to but actively hostile to any ability to control or backdoor it.
I feel like the need for qualified pilots is essentially that it’d be easier to identify what isn’t effectively a “kill everyone” button in the cockpit if used in the wrong way.

It’s a fricken giant metal tube flying through the air!