skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current economic system - capitalism - and the philosophy and behavior patterns that it enforces on people. I saw how the system changes a society first hand when the free market ideology took over the society I grew up. People started to compete with each other, everybody was pushed to make more money, a 'good' career, the youth were pushed to study hard for getting good jobs to acquire such good careers, even as the society started to prioritize monetary/wealth gain before everything else. Social relations, from friends to relatives get loosened as everybody was immersed in his or her own survival and self gain. Worst impacted were the youth, who were pushed to drop social concerns and work harder to secure their future. It caught the youth in their early teenage years by them being pushed to prioritize studying and success over any social relation.

So, in such a society, you enter a rat race very early in your life by starting to study hard for qualifying for a good college, and it chains forward from there on while destroying any social connections that you might have built. You already move to another city when going to college. Then the college itself quite short, merely 4 years, without enough time to create and solidify bonds. That is if the students can even find enough time to socialize in between the classes. Whatever bond was forged gets immediately broken by people moving to different cities, regions or even countries after graduation, to maximize their income and career chances.

By this point the person is already hampered in the social department. Not only he or she was not able to socialize with his or her peers and the system already forced him to isolation and alienation from the peers to compete, but also because his peers have been brought up and educated with the same competitive mentality, the human social traits that our species have developed are already hampered or repressed. The peers are competition, not people to cooperate, collaborate, less, live together to support each other. The co-workers or acquaintances frequently leaving their jobs for a better opportunity somewhere does not help - you know that even if you hit it off with some person you met in your job or locale, that person can move away tomorrow in a flash. Which makes you further wary of creating any social bond that can be broken by next week.

When the entire society is taken over by this mentality that enforces its behavior patterns, there is no escape - everybody is in a fight for survival or bettering his or her circumstances. Its a societal level alienation of people from each other and from what makes us humans a social species.
So you see a fish walking and you take a ... photo?
Yes but that still produces temporal aliasing because the unmoving noise is battling the moving controlnet input. I can't find it right now but there was a good example showing a gallery of one word prompts with the same seed. While the images were of different subjects you could clearly see the impact of the noise controlling layout. What was was a capital letter A in one image was a persons legs in another, but that same overall structure was visible in the same place in 90% of the images
I think it's more important that services can be exposed as filesystems like webfs or gitfs than that they are exposed as 9P.
awful thing about these kinds of attacks is that your inbox never really recovers. these unsuspecting services/blogs will keep sending you emails forever thinking you actually wanted to sign up.
That sounds like a problem for Geely, not Microsoft.
They're still having to make that calculation at the register. There's no reason they can't calculate it when making price tags.
OpenAI Moderation API
That lays bare the economics of the layoff in a very easy-to-understand way, provided the raises don't eat up all the savings from the layoffs.

Using nice round numbers, the following would need to be true for the layoffs to make sense:
You have a team of 20, each making 100k/year, but a lot of downtime for all of them. At your current clip, you can only afford 1.5M/year total for your team. You have enough work for maybe 13 at a reasonable pace for your wages, or 10 at a higher pace. So you could let 7 go and risk morale problems with the unchanged wages, or you let 10 go, give 30% raises to match the raised demands, and your payroll is still less than what you can afford. If all of that was explained, alongside copious expressions of ownership on the part of the people responsible for not driving enough business in, I would gladly work again for the people laying me off.
This is exactly right. It's not hard to get better A/B results by using dark patterns and consumers will still rightfully hate it.
Try to uninstall Safari from Mac OS or iOS, or Chrome from Android. Tell me how that works out for you.
Just don't promote, suggest, or downvote content.

This is a distraction and non-issue...
“The court might think it's doing one thing and it's actually doing something very different,” said Evelyn Douek, a law professor at Stanford who specializes in tech law. “It’s ill-matched to the problem.”

If your algorithm can't be explained to a judge, someone who is highly educated at understanding logic and reason, then perhaps it is broken anyway.

The fact is Big Tech has dug its own grave long ago, and that should have been obvious since the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
I think we all agree that the totals should include everything, as that makes comparison better. But I am precisely saying that there should be someplace where the legitimate one-time costs should be separated out because it is useful to me.
B2B pricing models are typically artifical constructs only weakly related to the costs of providing the service. If you're targeting medium to large clients processing sensitive data, for example, you might start off by just provisioning a VM for each customer while still charging per API call. The price that you want to charge your target audience (or at least your starting point for negotiations with them) will end up much lower than what you'd need to make money off the hobbyist making 20 calls a month.

I wouldn't say this is an unsolvable problem. Sometimes you can build the product in a way that better aligns with your desired pricing model, and other times you can set up some implicit price discrimination in a way that feels more honest than scammy. But is that where your company's limited time and effort is best spent? Often the answer is no.
Right, if it's factored in, that's fine. It'd also automatically remove the incentive to pad the cleaning fee, which is so common in the US that I expect it's hard to compete in listings without doing it (without hiding some of your margin in the cleaning fee, that is).
Why is that an issue? Subway could easily find another campaign, such as “$5* footlong (*or less depending on local taxes)”, “affordable footlong”, or whatever. If your advertising campaign depends on being deceptive, I find no issue with it becoming impossible.
>highly-correlated-with-atheism hackernews crowd

For what it's worth, I've definitely noticed an uptick in respect for religion in our type of crowd, often but not always channeling Jordan Peterson's ideas.

I think after losing the last culture war, religion has had to do some real soul searching and is beginning to adapt to the new, hyper-scientific world.
There was an interesting article on United’s new family seating policy, allows families traveling with children under 12 to sit together automatically with no added fees by default. Sounded like a decent way of identifying when sitting together actually would be optional for most people. https://viewfromthewing.com/uniteds-new-family-seating-polic...
Because things happen every day. If ChatGPT wants to compete with Google, staying up to date with recent events is the minimum bar.
We've had flying drones in operation for a long time now. I wonder why the same hasn't been done to tanks as well. The latency is even less of a problem.
Well, you're supposed to. I expect very few consumers pay the use tax except in situations like purchasing a car where they can't hide it.
yeah there an absolute pile of LLMs that are fully open-source. OpenAI’s GPT2 for one, but also Bloom, OPT, GPT-J, and I’m sure myriad others too
Yeah, this kind of thing is tricky. Rust has had some CVEs filed against the standard library that are CVEs because of Rust's guarantees. Same issues existed in the C++ standard library but since it's UB, not a CVE there.
The “Fashion: Colorized” image had me rolling. I have to imagine they knew what they were doing haha
Youtube is a great service and if the law will make it go away, we must change the law.
All of the colors we see, whether accurate or not, are digital post-processing lies. It's just not possible to capture images with colors like that underwater. The image of the spotted handfish, however, does seem to be the most honest of the bunch, except for its saturated blue eye.
Income tax also feels like a hidden fee since it's automatically deducted from your paycheck and is out of sight/out of mind for most people, despite it taking anywhere from a quarter to a third of your income. If people had to pay a monthly tax bill every month, I think they'd think very differently about their level of taxes. Note: I'm not actually advocating that, I think it sounds awful. But the hidden-fee experience feels very similar
I'm running dark mode on iOS. Likely a broken dark mode CSS, I read it in Reader mode but it's not difficult to check dark mode CSS.
I'm OK with the concept of cleaning fees as long as

a) when I search for a place to stay for x nights, the cleaning fee should be amortized into the nightly rate (protip- Airbnb's website will do so if it thinks you're in Australia)

b) I don't have to do chores. It's super irritating to pay a $300 cleaning fee, then check in and see that the host expects me to to wash the sheets, do the dishes, take out the trash, sweep the patio, and water the plants.
Check out any lecture by Leonard Susskind on YouTube
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Susskind

These are the coolest ideas ever and they literally relate to computational complexity and information theory. It's super cool.

ER=EPR and [complexity=action](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA-duality) especially imo
Great point, and well stated.

In many ways the web is the last great open-protocol success, and the only one I can think of push its way all the way up the presentation layer. Kind of miraculous when you think about it.
Oh I'm aware. I both work in infosec and live in Switzerland, so naturally I've been following the saga quite closely.

The current version is the scytl-developed monstrosity, which will hopefully never be deployed:

1) The developer went out of business

2) People keep finding vulnerabilities in it, like the operator being able to change the votes.

3) Listen: I've been in Security for 20 years and the idea of E-voting is absolutely terrifying to me. It should never, ever, ever happen as long as those systems are developed and operated by humans.
The “exposure” has been underwhelming, with plenty of evidence that twitter fulfilled the wishes of republicans, including modifying their own moderation policy wrt xenophobia to accommodate Trump tweets.
> like they do in California, it's very painful to do that -- and that's only 1 of the 50 states

Not all 50 states have a tax system as absurd as California's, where it matters down to the exact part of the street you're standing on when buying something.

Other states are the example CA should follow, not the other way around.
Can it be used to replace the windows file open dialog window?
It can already do super useful stuff, basically google search, gather results, summarize, (hallucinate, ) which makes it faster and sometimes easier to do this kind of research. Let's be honest, not everyone is so good at reading comprehension, it's an important thing taught and tested in school after all. ChatGPT can basically help those lacking in reading comprehension and research skills and create summaries for them.
> Heck, my barber now charges $25 for a haircut (which takes all of 15 minutes) and we're expected to tip for that too.

It's been customary to tip barbers since forever, hasn't it? When I was just 8, my father gave me money to tip the barber. I think the principle is, you tip so that the server remembers you. With haircuts, that can make a difference.

My hair is now so thin and wispy that no barber can make it look OK. I cut it very short myself, with electric clippers. I haven't been to a barbers in 8 years.
What Is the Longhouse?
Does hand-washing or wearing masks slow down the spread of respiratory viruses?
Sure, racial disparities in police shootings is a problem. But if you look at specific incidents, you'll find that virtually every person shot by cops had a weapon, was a fugutive, had a violent past, was on drugs, etc., etc..

This website is framing the issue as a policing problem, not a crime problem. I don't think that is wise.
And, unfortunately, most companies are terrible at identifying that useful 20%.
If the government runs a deficit- which it does- then the taxes are literally too low to cover the infrastructure so it can’t be “a fraction”.

Sure you can argue some of that goes to military (a safe nation is kinda infrastructure) and healthcare/Welfare (healthy and fed employees and customers are good for business too) but regardless your view on taxes, they all somehow end up back to helping the nation regardless of how efficiently or directly that happens.
How did you interpret the text to mean that? Higher conversion doesn't mean nothing was purchased.

the opposite nearly always results in higher
conversion, where there is a lower up-front price and
fees are only tacked on during checkout.
We need to turn against illegal immigration though, it's critical.
I doubt "too many people start doing it" is ever going to happen.

Obviously this is so difficult to use that most people would rather pay $10/month to get 1TB of storage that can be very easily accessed. Even if someone has 100TB of data and wants to back them up, I don't they would do conversion to and from YouTube videos.

An interesting idea, but probably won't get much real world use.
Almost OODA like. I have a similar process. I noticed that when I started taking cat naps mid afternoon, loaded with context, a solution would find me. Walks are good too.
"First of all, you are talking about something from 1882."

That makes it a lot worse no? It wasn't fully abolished until 1965 when racial barrier was finally taken down. So that was 83 years. Think clearly about what you're suggesting.
I wouldn’t read the claim as “consumers secretly do like hidden fees” but rather “people say they don’t like them but don’t actually care enough to stop giving money to companies which use them”. It’s like how people might say they want to eat better food if you ask them directly but when you record what they actually eat it ends up looking quite different.

On HN you’ll see a similar dynamic with privacy, business ethics, etc.: people say they don’t like being tracked but won’t even try using a browser other than Chrome or worry about local businesses but won’t consist paying +-10% more not to buy through Amazon.
You can, you just do the math backward so it’s $5 everywhere (or $6 or whatever).
ts-reset – improving types for common JavaScript APIs
> several good reasons to embed the browser into the OS

It was actually a great feature (memory may be failing at this point), and it seemed like the filesystem viewer was IE presenting a filesystem view. If you typed an http or https URL, the window would turn into an HTML renderer window. This made it possible to build their mail and newsgroup reader apps as filesystem views. Mail was nothing but a folder full of email message files. News was, surprise, a folder full of newsgroups. Those viewers were responsible with synchronizing the folder with remote services.

I would love if Gnome would allow pluggable views in Files: a mail reader for maildir folders, a music player for folders full of audio files, and so on.
the logos could have been swapped the other way around and the article would have read in exactly the same way and made the same amount of sense.
The Spirit of CSS Tricks is now gone
Look at the header of the saved file, the FILE_SCHEMA element will state which application protocol the file conforms to. In the example I just saved:

FILE_SCHEMA(('AUTOMOTIVE_DESIGN { 1 0 10303 214 1 1 1 1 }'));

vs (random file created by Catia v5.6):

FILE_SCHEMA(('AP242_MANAGED_MODEL_BASED_3D_ENGINEERING_MIM_LF {1 0 10303 442 1 1 4}'));

There seems to be AP242 support in OpenCascade.
I've always been curious about claims that such an approach inevitably doesn't work. I feel like my intuition tells me it could with the right people and variation on the concept. But it's probably difficult. Even the best managers I've seen usually have blind spots on how the team is running.
I mean, food stamps are a thing. Free school lunches are a thing/are becoming a thing. Public housing is a thing. Medicare/Medicaid is a thing. There's a lot more we could do to make these systems more efficient, less expensive for tax payers, and also provide them much more widely. Clearly there's public support for them, by most, in some capacity.
One for Seven, Seven for One
Yes (though FYI I'm based in Europe so FAANG jobs pay around 90-150k).
I'm not arguing for having that many children, just that its a basic way to benchmark how expensive being alive is. Clearly these people having so many children werent just randomly taking on impoverished hardship. Things were tight, but they had reasonable economic security with so many children. This points to a dramatic drop in wages in the last 50 years
Good question - just some weeks ago I summarized my personal method/approach on tech research: https://www.alp54.com/posts/awesome-tech-research/
Further getting in touch/playing around with technologies (prototyping, etc...) might help to get here as well.
That scene was based on an actual historical village communities, such as those in Castile, and the later medieval conflict between the historically self-governing communities and the centralized order that had previously tolerated them: https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/220237/1/06_Communit...
If perfection was the goal, then I'd assert they had no real interest in it other than PR.
It's not just comparison pricing. The online booking portals take a percent of the revenue. The Expedia tax is not very different than App Store taxes.

By requiring part of the fee to be paid directly to the hotel at check-in, it means the hotel gets to keep more of their revenue.
This sounds so alien to me.

Even as an adult I still hang out with my college buddies at least once a week, to do absolutely nothing, sometimes we'd go to bars, often just chat. My parents also do it with their limited circle of friends. Same with my sister and her group of friends, sometimes they include me too.

I don't know where I stand on the extrovert/introvert continuum but boring clubs are definitely 10x more boring than just hanging out for me. And interesting ones aren't exactly for "just hanging out".
I didn’t, from the docs it looks as if it takes advantage of cloud sharing. I imagine once’s it got the link it scrapes the notes and then uses the data.

https://docs.montaigne.io/guides/new-site
In my state, taxes change at least twice a year, and usually 3 times at a minimum. Changing what shelf products are on is a continuous, incremental thing- changing every tag in the store for tax changes would have to happen overnight for all products, on specific nights each year.

Many stores like to pre-tag each product package, either at the store or manufacturer- you couldn't do that if the tax had to be included in the price as the stores have many locations each with different tax rates. (I do think the tax rates should be prominently posted at the door).

Sales tax compliance is already a massive PITA for retail stores. Making them include the sales tax on the tag would just be an even bigger PITA.
Using the “Worst Fuzzer” to Find a Kernel Bug in the FiiO M6
It's become rampant in travel. Booked a simple vacation to Vegas recently. Between flights with their multiple fees you mentioned, hotels that almost are always charging a per day resort fee, and then ticket sales to any event that has multiple processing fees. I don't know how this happened but it's horrible.
This sounds like the perfect use case for Firebase. You can achieve your goals with just a few lines of code in your Typescript app and it will be free unless your game gets really popular.
But are they ethically or morally correct clauses to have in a contract?

I know lawyers let you put WTF into business contracts because its a business to business contract anything goes, but business to human contracts are different and this is what amazes me about the ethical nature of lawyers & law firms knowing some of those lawyers will go on to become judges of all things.

Been There, Seen it, Done it!
What's weird, at least in the US, is that the higher-end the joint, the easier it is to shop by price, generally. Tax-inclusive, whole-dollar-value (no "$7.99" crap, it's just "8"), all-prices-aligned menus are more common as one heads up-scale.
The problem I have with CloudFlare is that their definition of "undesirable customer" includes forums engaging in hateful, virulent, but ultimately legal speech, but does not include forums that are selling methamphetamine and stolen credit card numbers.
Sales Tax probably should be done-away with.

In California, you are taxed when you earn a dollar, and taxed when you spend that same dollar.

If you look at your bank account and it's balance is $100, you do not actually have $100 in purchasing power, but rather 7-12% less, because sales tax will be computed when you spend this money.

Why not just charge the appropriate amount for Income Tax and be done with it...
Scrooge McDuck: financial extension to DuckDB
Wow this looks absolutely awesome. I'll need to play around with it a bit but this would be huge for me.
To be fair, there are worker-owned co-ops that function like companies, and there are those that are heavy on the ideological experience. I once did some consulting for one of the latter ones and it was worse than any bureaucracy I've ever encountered. Everyone has a say, everyone must be heard on everything, decisions take forever and there's a lot of overhead.

On the one side, you'll have a normal company where the workers own the company (well, most employed engineers own some shares in FB, Google etc, too), on the other hand you have anarcho-syndicalist groups that are super hard into the process and THE PLENUM is paramount.
> > It represents an actual cost for an actual activity.

> It really doesn't. It's been a stealth way to increase your rates for a long time now.

Two things can be true at once.

Cleaning is an actual activity they actually have to do after I leave. There are actual costs. E.g., they might use a service that specializes in vacation rental cleaning: https://cleaningglow.com/san-francisco-services/vacation-ren...

Do some people inflate the fee as a way of increasing your rates? Surely. But that's only a problem when the comparison price doesn't include it, a problem I agree we should solve. I'd just like the fee to also be listed somewhere, as it makes other comparisons easier for some people, me included.
A country is a nation with a government. The US’s government is specified in the Constitution. The Constitution said only white men had a say. White men decided to change the Constitution to let others participate.
The microgravity biology community is so small that it's more like a coffee klatch than a mafia.