skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of dozens that we treated exactly the same way. This is bog-standard HN moderation.

Lots of things trend on the front page before they get downweighted, whether by user flags or by moderation downweights. That's how HN works and has always worked. The system can't go by upvotes alone* - if it did, the front page would consist of nothing but sensationalism, rage, and the same few hottest topics upvoted over and over again.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
At the risk of inciting a flame war, I'll politely suggest that, while they're usually good enough, I'm not sure I'd say that AMD's drivers are quality. Not to belittle their engineers, only that I've seen enough issues to not prefer AMD for the quality of their drivers. The fact they're mainlined and FOSS is a big bonus, but that's regardless of their quality.

Beyond that, some of us need/want CUDA or other GPGPU support, which is a total nightmare with AMD GPUs, and other times the price/performance ratio leans in favor of nvidia, or some people just have nvidia cards and can't/don't want to buy new ones.
SpaceX completes fueling test, will now work toward engine firing test
Challenge accepted. Here’s an M1 being upgraded with both RAM and Storage by some Chinese Techs. Yes, you need an oven.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/06/m1-mac-ram-and-ssd-upgr...
I don't even understand how a washing machine can steal any data worth money. Are they eavesdropping on all network traffic or something?
Generally speaking not a bad thing really for the kids out there, especially those without much self-control.
Not sure jobs are the only form of advertising. Sometimes I feel like some domain names like substack are pumped up
While you are wrong in the sense that we know it’s not intelligent because we built it and know how it works, you mention an important philosophical question: There is no way for you to know if anyone or anything else besides you is truly conscious.
I'd call them and have them take the washing machine back.
This is far worse than Airbnb. As annoying as the cleaning fees are, they are disclosed before you obligate yourself.

A 20% fee only disclosed after you’ve already ordered and eaten is just fraud.
https://betterdev.link/
I'm of the opinion that using a skinned Chromium browser is the same as actively supporting Chrome. Its better than Chrome but still adds to Chromes dominance. Google still gets to decide standards in the browser and none of the Chromium browsers seem to work on actual underlying browser implementation, just a different look with built in browser extensions.
> I could log into it to see the status of the machine (spin cycle, rinse, finished 22 minutes ago) I would like that

As long as this monitoring system can completely fail, and the machine still works, I'm okay with it. Ultimately, the more shit like this that gets shoved into appliances, the more the cost climbs. And, If I had to guess, actual functionality (eg. washing my clothes) is the target of cost cutting measures. Which is precisely what I don't want in an appliance.
It could well be a similar phenomenon to how silencers on firearms absolutely do not make a gun sound like it sounds in the movies, but because it's become an established (and convenient) film trope, it persists in film.

Similarly - films depicting kidnapping people using chloroform as an instant knockout drug.
You should ask a real Chemistry [1], but in case there is none nearby

Organic reactions are a mess, and there are a lot of side reactions.

My guess is that mixing ethanol and bleach produce a mix of chloroform and other stuff.

Ethanol is

H H
| |
H-C-C-O-H
| |
H H

and my guess is that the mix has a lot of the thing you get replacing the lash Hydrogen with Chloride

H H
| |
H-C-C-O-Cl
| |
H H

Acetone has no -O-H so you probably don't get too much stuff like that.

[1] I only have a specialization in Chemistry Secondary School, it's somewhat similar to 1 or 2 years of a Chemistry Major (of 5 years). I know enough to understand the explanation in the video, but not enough to write them. [I've used similar equipment for other experiments a long time ago. For example, the connector to the water at the top of the condenser, should it be pointing up instead of pointing to one side?]
hey, peer here, cofounder of cal.com. We're in the middle of writing a generic payment adaptor which will enable Stripe, PayPal, RazorPay, Lightning Network, ...

should be live this quarter
Waiting for Okta to enter the home appliance game...
I didn't change it for a decade with no issues. Our water is pretty soft though.
if they have 15% available I choose that

If they don't I do a custom $0 tip and tell the restaurant why I did it
Why would you not want such an agreement? It means the main maintainer(s) have standing if there is a license dispute.
Mastodon is really, really promising. But there needs to be a go-to server to point everyone to. Kind of like with flatpak -> flathub, git -> github. Of course there's options, but there should be an unofficial default. It feels like the early days of email where everyone was at odd domains.
I agree with a lot of your post, but the Texas example is actually the kind of example I would prefer. Folks were not deceived when they signed up for the process. It was clearly spelled out, enjoy lower rates, but when energy grid gets hot, you might have some conditions throttled resulting in mild discomfort (the exact window of how much this could affect and the minimums was transparently communicated). And it was all opt-IN which I think is again a good thing.

I don't like when smart appliances like the Samsung connect to the internet for what I as a consumer hope are good things (like using Netflix with the push of a button, etc.) and instead abuse that by showing me ads -- not something they include very visibly in the agreement or feature sell. It is not transparent and near impossible to opt out of.
> ChatGPT is interesting, but is laughably bad at any non-trivial instruction.

Have you actually looked at the linked Cheat Sheet?
I prefer to simply install rather than use docker.
How would the server know what the hash is? So you log in with your phone and its 5,000 iterations, then you log in with your desktop and it's 500,000 iterations? Then you get an updated driver for your GPU and it fixes a performance bug and now its 550,000 iterations...how the fuck would the server know what the matching hash should be that it never got sent to it?

It sounds like the server would have to store the lowest possible hash (your phone), which defeats the purpose of the larger iterations on the desktop machine.
> there's no way to self-host the API. You have to pay to use it

Can someone explain this in detail? What exactly do I get with self-hosting?
what's wrong with this image? https://hub.docker.com/r/calcom/cal.com

let me update the docs
Pop-culture is to blame, but it’s not the technical or full scope of the meaning.
This is precisely how many successful scams work. They establish a small "legitimate" transaction so you think they're trustworthy, then they "accidentally" send you a much larger amount of money.

Then there's a "problem" reversing that larger transaction (as you are experiencing at this very moment) so they ask you to repay the money via a different channel... then as soon as they get that money, the original transaction magically gets reversed as well. Boom, you've now paid them twice. You got scammed.

(You may also be having problems accessing your PayPal account precisely because PayPal has flagged you as having received money from a stolen credit card, which is what scammers often use for that larger transaction.)
We actually use tests like that to verify the development of children. I still remember that I had to draw a human and they checked whether I thought of drawing and neck and whatnot when it was time to decide if I’m ready for school.
I thought it was already illegal to force a change of price after fulfilling your half of the deal? Unless the customer agrees to these fees before service, I don't think you can legally force them to pay it. If they do it without question, of course they can get away with it.
Don't pay it! Tell the restaurant to remove the fee or you walk. You can hand the waitress cash for her tip directly.
I read the essay and found it reasonably entertaining, but not exactly in a good way. What exactly is the writer trying to accomplish? I didn't get it, but maybe it's about having an "unbiased" look at the world, probably/maybe in the context of inferring causality, not just for lolz.

The essay writer's main problem is that they are attempting to infer causality from observation or to find an explanation of the data that justifies or supports their worldview. After all, "why?", "how curious", "I wonder how that happens" are powerful questions and statement that have led to countless inventions, investigations, novels, and pleasurable, although at times frustrating, time.

I would recommend something more scientific: observe the world (data/observations), develop a hypothesis that is hard in Platt's sense (meaning it should be discriminating) and test the hypothesis on new data and observations, where new means not used to develop the hypothesis to be tested. And they will see that they should not only collect observations that describe the world, but develop and test hypotheses that can test the mechanisms that lead to those observed facts.

Sometimes this is possible, sometimes it is not.
But it is always entertaining.
You only have a trademarks in certain categories.

That is how Apple computer and Apple the record label were able to co-exist, until Apple Computer started doing Music..
That's exactly what I'm talking about, thank you!
And that nice and handy remote update that either disables a bunch of stuff that you already paid for or that bricks a perfectly good piece of hardware if the company goes out of business.

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Washers-and-Dryers/Samsu...
Yes, based on the general vibe of replies and discussion I see on HN I would expect more like 80% don't have serious startup aspirations beyond "wouldn't it be nice if..." thoughts
I think such scams are usually done to get cash from stolen accounts, so even if you know the real owner there may be a scammer involved trying to get you to pay the out of band.
Civilization can be pesky until someone falls and needs antibiotics to prevent sepsis.
It's a little sickening to take your train of thought to its destination, which is that all of the developers being laid off right now are "bad developers" and will put other companies in a "worse position" if hired.

Should someone laid off as a developer simply accept they can't cut it, leave the industry, and find a job as a barista where at least they can earn some tips?

You make a lot of assumptions about what devs are being laid off in the first place. And about the absolute quality of a developer.

One company's garbage developer is another company's 10x.
It seems as if we have all landed in a bit of a dystopian death grip
That could be a reason, but I don't see a CLA in their contributing guide[1].

[1] https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
Making heads spin: Scientists say Earth’s inner core has changed its rotation
> in Texas there were people who signed something that allowed the companies to remotely control their ac, apparently at night time it was turned up to 82

As I understand it, those people got a discount on their bill specifically _because_ they allowed for that.
I'm here to take back the term hacker to its original meaning
That's not a hard argument, it's a soft argument. But generally these rights are backed by a responsibility to society in general as a collective.
I think the point being that accidentally hitting this switch is probably of some concern.
No Apple is not fighting back, it's forcing everyone to use safari/webkit based browser on iOS.
There are multiple good points.

Which I would addressed first by tooling of course like linters and automated code checks so low hanging fruit is out of the way.

Second thing of shifting left is what I call “developers alignment” - which is yes a meeting where people regularly discuss! things instead of coming up with stuff ad-hoc during review or expecting others to get the context from thin air. Then repeating “obvious” rules regularly because people forget and not expecting people to remember things by heart.
> Join us for our continued lecture series, covering topics such as

Please share/blog these! I too have several degenerate chemistry undergrad stories.

> The poor efficacy of DMSO in assisting drug translocation through skin

Yep. During one particularly sleep-deprived finals week, and after recently learning about DMSO's transdermal transportation abilities, my friend and I tried making caffeine skin patches. It worked...vaguely increasing alertness. However, it itched and burned worse than just about anything I've ever experienced.

Also I can concur that chloroform isn't some instant knock-out juice. But one time, a lab mate and I were running massive columns and had accumulated several hundred liters of DCM (dichloromethane) fractions in flasks (yes, it was a loong day). Despite the walk-in hoods running at full bore, by the end of the day, coworker and I were loopy, giggly idiots. Was it above OSHA PEL? Possibly, but probably not. I think the disinhibition was a combination of energy drinks, fatigue+boredom of running hundreds of fractions, and suggestibility, as much as it was the fumes. But my lab manager did walk in at one point and immediately recoiled from the fumes (which we were nose-deaf to at that point).
https://cal.com/blog/longevity 100%
I loaded the GitHub link, bracing myself for yet another AGPL license, but no, it's Apache 2! So I wanted to say thank you for that and I hope to take a deeper look when I'm back at my desk because trying to keep Splunk alive and happy is a monster pain point. There are so many data sources we'd love to throw at it but we don't have the emotional energy to put up with Splunk crying about it
America Loves Coffee. Why Not Yerba Mate
Why not just pay people their wage rather than ask customers to decide if that person is worthy of making money today
Bigger question: why isn't it built in to Google Calendar?
Proton is so good that it probably erased 90% of the vanilla Wine gaming community, and if you ask anything about running a Steam game on Wine, the answer is "use Proton." Which is a problem for Mac users wanting to run games (Proton is Linux-only), but then again there was never much of an expectation for that.
Not to mention that you can search for AirBnbs that have lower cleaning fees.
The argument of existing homeowners is "forget improving my own house, let me externalize costs to others to raise my own property values."

We as a society have strong reasons to provide a glide path towards reducing that moral hazard created by old entrants.
I have thought the longest to build a replica of Calendly as a practice. And this got posted on front page.

Anyone know way a guide to make a landing page like the OP has?
I will sometimes succumb to drip pricing for the reasons given (already received service, already done research and made purchase choice, etc) but I remember and avoid giving them repeat business.

I don't have time for scammers. Best remedy is to cut them out of my life.
Notably, in Zapatos you write SQL, whereas with this you use a query builder. Personally I think staying close to SQL is a feature, but YMMV.
Interesting example since I’d bet a majority of independent restaurants are sourcing the ingredients from Sysco. Anyway, restaurants, maybe not, but I usually prefer dealing with large companies because they are more reliable.
AI-powered lawyer DoNotPay is neither AI powered nor a lawyer
Mastodon.social?
The ability to just schedule a meeting with someone from a widget on their website seems to me to offer a complete different user experience than having to email someone and go back and forth over available timeslots, even if that back and forth is somewhat automated.
If this staves laying people off, then I'm all for it.
self-hosting can be compliant, but the SaaS offering is at 99% completion for hipaa compliance. SOC2 was already done last month!
What would be the incentive to maintain a Mastodon server? Monetary or else? Is it feasible in scale?
They have a paid self-host option… starts at $189/month.
IANAL. As a contributor? It means the company can relicense my contributions into a license that is wildly different from their current one (including no license/copyright). It affords me no benefit.

There are CLA alternatives like the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) that ensure the company has the "legal standing" to accept a contribution without infringing on copyright, but it doesn't give them the ability to relicense.
In America. This would not fly in Europe, I hope. Pretty sure menus have to be displayed out front with full pricing and service charges have their own rules.
Just monitoring the line voltage and the frequency with which it runs loads and at what temp will tell you the composition of the occupants of the place where it is located. And probably also whether the people there wfh or go to the office.
I don't push computers very hard. I write code, write prose, and surf the net. So, maybe 1995?
TBCH, my pain was on the other path - getting money out of the system and into my bank (I am not in US). Also PayPal never let me make a payment with just a card, without logging in to the system.
Approximately no one uses React without JSX. Probably because writing react that way kills a lot of the utility of it.

It's possible to use only the built output of bootstrap as a static CSS file. The nature of react is that your own code is in the other language, so it's fundamentally different than the bootstrap situation.
Check out Ice Cubes, another fantastic (and free!) app that supports Mac, iOS, and iPadOS today.
I use it to generate whole test suites from function definitions. Not one test, but dozens, covering various inputs and edge cases. TDD purists will balk at that, but it saves serious amounts of typing out boilerplate. You have to recheck its suggestions, of course.

I couldn't get Copilot to spew anything like that (a single simple test at best, and it fails at that more frequently than it produces something useful).

It's also quite good at converting relatively simple programs or configs between languages. For example, I used it to convert PostgreSQL DDL queries into Hibernate models (and also in reverse), JS snippets into OCaml, XML into YAML, maven pom.xml into gradle build scripts, and a few more.
> And as also pointed out by others, it not only requires effort, but knowledge, and that knowledge will be systematically degraded the more AI-ish code generation is used.

How is that different than the plague of junior devs we've always had? Devs will get more senior by identifying and correcting issues in AI code rather than code from their peers. Seems OK, like we just got a whole lot more coding capacity.
ChromeOS is probably more widely used, but yeah. And Steam Deck must be by far the largest use case for Wine.
Ira Glasser on freedom of speech and social justice
> Now go out in the real world in which most people don't work in an office and mostly use internet for entertainment

I wanted to refute your point by giving some YouTube videos about practical uses and their views. Then I checked YouTube's trending videos and compared the view counter to that of a PewDiePie video of 2 days ago and now I agree. You are right.
'Abusing', huh? As though we can expect to see benign monopolies as a norm. Bizarre turn of phrase.
First reaction - "...and the drug version is a mere $1,000,000 per dose"
Splunk is HEAVILY pushing their SaaS offering at the moment. They are the most obnoxious vendor we currently deal with.

We are fine on prem, pay big $$ license fees, but not enough. They want that sweet SaaS revenue.

I would be wary of pushing this, being a non-SaaS platform could be an advantage here.
So long as you don't use a brick and mortar bank, most banks have interest providing checking accounts, although rates vary wildly.

Savings accounts in particular are egregiously terrible at brick and mortar banks. I made more in interest payments in my first month at Ally than I did in the ten years I had my child hood savings account at Bank of America.
For various approximations of "powerful enough": once I upgraded my 486/66 to 32MB of RAM it was powerful enough (could write C++ in emacs and compile while X11 was running, without any swapping).

In grad school I started working on molecular dynamics simulations; computers will probably never be "powerful enough" to run long enough, high fidelity simulations for that to be a useful outcome, so the answer there is really "never".

Since then, I've worked on computers that are much more powerful than I need (TPUv4, 192 core 2TB RAM servers, etc) but are still not powerful enough (or efficient enough) to do all the tasks that people could use them for.

I don't frequently upgrade my home server or home desktop anymore- typically only when a new game comes out and I can't set everything to maximum, or I run out of disk space, or I need to do something that doesn't fit in RAM. I've held off on upgrading from 1gbit LAN to 10gbit LAN because it's not really pressing either.
ChatGPT’s Dark Side: An Endless Supply of Polymorphic Malware
The cookie is merely needed by the web interface -- Ivory gets passed an API key. You can enable cookies temporarily, log in, and then clear them just fine.
I wouldnt call Tailscale "useless" in that case. If you use Tailscale there, you dont have to port forward, so you have no exposure to the general internet. No one bashing on your port, looking for vulnerabilities. You don't need a DDNS, since Tailscale gives you a fixed address for your machine that persists. So you can set a single CNAME record with your Domain hosting service and you're done. And Tailscale has clients for all platforms, including mobile, so it "just works" with all your devices. It's free for up to 20 devices.
No, but by that logic they knew what was going to happen if they hired people and did so anyway. That doesn't even pass the most basic of ethical smell tests.
Dapr – Build connected distributed applications faster
you can use LNCal.com and you'll get exactly that but you'll be paid in Bitcoin!
If you living in EU and this is an Apple Police App - you should, IMO.
The article doesn't mention the amateur ham radio interference pattern research data to figure out the flight path.

See this: https://youtu.be/Jq-d4Kl8Xh4
How do other oauth logins work on your phone?
Wouldn't fly in much of America either. Try this in the midwest and I'm pretty sure your restaurant would be closing in weeks.
Can someone explainlikeimfive please? What is nostr? What is iris? Decentralised matrixy thing? Something else? Should I care?

Thksx
PayPal is very common in German online shops. This is probably because credit cards aren't common in Germany, so before Visa Debit was introduced, it was one of the few convenient ways to pay online.

Bank transfers are sometimes possible, but honestly does anyone anywhere use them for online payments? Transfers still usually take a couple of days to go through.
Right, it's exactly as you say. They educate to and test to the simplest form. Failing at even that means you fail at something the lowest common denominator, as you put it, passes at. That's a pretty strong indicator of something.
When video compression and home broadband converged to make porn
consumption a quotidian pastime.
Or you get more rigorous about what is being accomplished and realize that you don't really need as many people. Or you decide that a remote worker can be anywhere, so why not use the global talent pool? These are the dark sides of WFH for employees.