skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shameless plug, but I made Hey Homepage (see bio) and it comes with a blog and microblog functionality. Also rich support for RSS as social media, with a feed reader, your own (photo) feed, and a list of shared links that resembles a webring or blogroll.

The free version has all functionality, but is restricted in storage space and doesn't come with a nice domain name.
All but one vinyl chloride tank did survive the derailment intact! Vinyl chloride is a gas at standard temperature and pressure, and so AFAICT it's transported in insulated tanks, staying cool enough throughout its journey to be at a manageable pressure (<~200psi). The adjacent fire meant the clock was ticking on how long before it would rise in pressure and be vented through the tanks' relief valves. It was then a deliberate decision to preemptively vent the tanks and burn the contents. A lot of hubbub is being made about the chemical, but in the gamut of chemistry it's really not that bad of a chemical nor are its combustion products, at least as far what has been demonstrated.

I'm not throwing that out there as a justification for deliberately releasing industrial quantities of chemicals into the environment (including residential areas), but rather examining the decision process. An alternative approach would have been bringing in mobile chillers and replacement tank cars to cool and recover the vinyl chloride. But of course that would have cost more than simply discarding the product. Everyone is talking about railroad safety, and that needs addressing for sure. But the situation with the vinyl chloride specifically was a direct result of a deliberate decision, and not accidental. If we want this decision process to be different in the future, then we need to focus on that.
> The legislation — the first bill of its type across the state — would prohibit advertising a price for a good or service that does not include all required charges other than taxes and fees imposed by a government.

I don't get it, so it's OK for government to hide its fees but not the business?

I wish the government were to lead by example and also try to eliminate hidden government fees. Here in California, different cities can have different sales tax, and knowing the final price can seem like a guessing game.

I would love if taxes, tips, and other business fees were all included in a final price that were stated upfront.
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In my experience hotels are free to add daily “resort fees” that cover whatever they want, no option to decline.
> This is also a case where consumers say they want one thing, but their behavior is a different matter. For example, pretty much everyone says they prefer the full price to be shown up front in search result pages. But, as someone who is privy to a ton of A/B testing in this area, the opposite nearly always results in higher conversion, where there is a lower up-front price and fees are only tacked on during checkout.

You think your customers don't know what they're talking about...because the data you gleaned from abusing them says otherwise?

Dictator logic: "My approval rate is 100%! People clearly love what I'm doing!"
One interesting wrinkle is sitting next to another person on your ticket. By all rights it should be optional but person after person books the no assigned seat option and then is outraged that they are not seated next to their companions.
Maybe if your tone wouldn't be so toxic, I wouldn't lose my curiosity and would read all the links you provided to change my mind and start thinking that my RTX 4090 is not a hog. I’ve tested it not so thoroughly - in RDR2 and Cyberpunk it eats even more than 450 W sometimes.

My only concern is the amount of heat - I’m not trying to save some money by buying high-end gaming card.
Thats kind of the point. It takes the wind out of my sails when I realize there isn't any sense of "right" or "wrong" that can be agreed upon. Instead, you have to talk about values, and why one approach favors one value over the other. At that point, you're not talking to a heretic, but a human being with a different value system, which is often not far from yours.
Makes sense. I suppose that may be enticing for some. I just don't know how many people would sign up for it when there's tons of companies dangling RSUs and insane bonuses or the opportunity to do a startup and get acquired. I would wish this theoretical structure luck though.
Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?
Seems like team morale is at an all time low. Most people are just phoning it in at this point. Our business is doing great, but I guess that's not enough to maintain job security anymore. Feels like Q1 the execs are just waiting for annuals to come in to make their list, as there's been total radio silence since the holidays. I fully expect to be laid off in the next 2-3 months.
I will have a look if OpenCascade has a more recent API which saves in the up to date standard. How do you check that a file follows the latest standard?
>>> The legislation — the first bill of its type across the state — would prohibit advertising a price for a good or service that does not include all required charges other than taxes and fees imposed by a government.

>>> “Californians are sick and tired of dishonest fees being tacked on to seemingly everything,” said state Senator Bill Dodd. “It’s an underhanded trick...

Why do government-imposed fees get a special exemption these "dishonest" and "underhanded" tricks? :thinking:

;)

Note: In Europe, the advertised price always includes the related taxes:
https://www.quora.com/Do-prices-in-Europe-include-taxes
Why add another layer? Right now the only tool he needs is an editor. That's it. Can't get any simpler than that. He also probably has a set of templates by now.
At checkout, when there are no additional fees:

Customer: What is this extra fee on my bill?

Business: There is no extra fee.

Customer: It's this number right here. That's a fee. Why is it there?

Business: No no no. That's not a fee. It's for your benefit.

Consumer: What does that even mean?

Business: That's a final emolument that is used to keep costs for consumers low and fee-free. Everybody pays it, since it is for your safety and benefit. Final emoluments like this are mandated, since we are completely free of hidden fees.
Yet the GOP filibustered the version which would have given the 7 days of sick time that rail workers requested:

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/30/rail-workers-strike-hous...

The bill that did pass with bipartisan support was a compromise due to this bill failing. It is extremely disingenuous to suggest that the democrats, who voted overwhelmingly for a bill that satisfied more rail worker demands, hold most of the fault for the strike break.

The GOP correctly realized that by voting against rail workers, they could force democrats to also vote against rail workers in order to avoid a general rail strike which would be disastrous to the economy and laid at the feed of the Biden administration. This is the realpolitik world we live in, and peoples health will suffer due to it.

Oh and democrats do share some of the blame, just not the majority. Joe Manchin did vote against the bill supporting rail workers.
I am an immigrant to Britain, and I am sad for Britain, and I am said about moving to Britain. It is really hard to describe.

before I moved to Britain I thought it's a rich country, but actually it's a poor country with one rich city (London + Oxford/Cambridge)

GDP of London is $66,000. Second biggest city in UK is Birmingham, has GDP per capita $30,000. I have wasted 10 years in that god-forsaken place. Birmingham is not unique, Manchester, Glasgow, and other big cities are withing ~15% error margin.

Second biggest city in Germany is Hamburg, has GDP per capita $85,000. To find a city in Germany that is as poor as Birmingham, you have to go to the 4th poorest city, Oberhausen [1], population 200K, rank 59 by size and rank 104 by GDP.

UK even loses comparison to post-soviet countries - Prague, Czech republic, GDP PP is $57,000, Double of Birmingham. Bratislava, Slovatia - $45,000. Warsaw, Poland - $32,000

And that's average. Then there are some truly god-forsaken places like North & East Ayrshire, has GDP €16,200. I don't even know how that's possible, Yakutia, Siberia has GDP of $18,000

Brexit vote was about stopping immigrants from getting in, British people do not realise they should be the ones getting out. You could hand an average non-london Britton a ticket to a random European capital their standard of living would improve.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_cities_by_GDP#:...
It's also very painful for me to have to guess the final price with all these different sales taxes. I think maybe if it had to be included in the final price, then the cities and counties might standardize a bit more.
Extra fees later on is exploiting people who have invested time into the buying process and now have a higher price for saying no vs. whatever the extra fee is. It's rational consumer behavior, but it is not what you actually think it is.

Vast majority of A/B testing schemes that do gotcha pricing cannot measure the 'credit rating' that your essentially burning by doing this, and it's only sustainable if they don't have any other choice of place that doesn't do this. It's classic short term PM metrics hacking in exchange for hurting the business or industry overall.
I did a test as well. Unlike most people, I've set up relatives very well. Yet not a single post by a relative and some of those have high engagement! All kinds of Instagram Reels and ads and a bunch post from people with high a high absolute engagement, but historically a very low one from me.

So, this obviously is a poor filter, which does not keep me engaged and which proves that Facebook is NOT a social network as to be social, it needs to act as such, and I never hear from my closest people over there anymore!

How hard it is to see that a post is from my mother-in-law and multiply its weight by 100, or one from my sister and multiply by 1,000?

Another thing that Facebook never puts any effort into is photos of children under 13! They had a feature called "scrapbooks" where you can create profiles of your children with the promise of those turning into profiles after kids turn 13. Well, they've abandoned this feature and people kept tagging children as their parents! Not sure how this served their facial recognition, but it inconvenienced us parents!
So this model only works if the laid-off employees can self-fund the new company, right? and they can afford to lose the invested capital if the startup fails?
Agreed! Here's a fun video by suckerpinch trying out some truly insane data storage ideas https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio
On VirtualBox it's easy to set the disks as immutable. The machine will come up, write to the disk and, when you reboot, it'll be back into the original state.

More than once I updated the VM only to realize I forgot to make the disk mutable.
It's a side-effect (uh, or, deliberate feature) of modern POS systems. Defaulting to having a tip line on receipts for e.g. a carry-out meal from a restaurant, which people never used to tip for, or showing a tip option on an iPad in a situation that never, ever called for tipping before and the worker is standing right there watching you fill tap or fill out the receipt so you feel like maybe you're being a dick (what's the norm now? Are you one of those assholes abusing sub-minimum-wage tip workers if you don't tip? Who knows!) if you don't.

Tipping was just not even considered in these transactions, before.

[EDIT] Oh, and percentage-tip defaults for situations where the norm before was maybe you toss your extra change or a $1 bill in the tip jar, and it was pretty normal not to tip at all most of the time. "18%, 20%, 25%, Custom, Skip".
I'm the weird dude who writes raw HTML[1], 5/5, highly recommended.

[1] after 15+ years where I wrote my own CMS, wrote my own static site generator, used wordpress, used drupal.
How can you expect a service like Youtube to operate with “no” algorithm(the word “no” is in quotation marks because even a strictly chronological feed would be an algorithm)?

You would actually prefer to get on Youtube and see the thousands of awful videos uploaded before the one that’s related to what you’ve recently watched?
Agreed. It seems that the A/B testing proves that humans are easily tricked, not that they like hidden fees.
You do, but it is apart of the charging model. They accounted for wear and tear on the car and baked that into their rate. if their rate is 10 cents a mile they transport you, maybe 0.01 cent of that that 0.10/mile is the cost of wear and tear. It isn't a separate charge. Which is how hotels should handle cleaning. Yea, your technically paying for it, but isn't a separate fee. It is just included with the price of the room just as project wear and tear costs are baked into the taxi service rate.
As there are states that are 0%, this would mean "no sales tax at all" which would really hit states where they don't have any income tax and instead just have sales tax.

Under that approach, live in Texas and buy everything online from Oregon and you'll never pay any taxes.

States need to raise revenue somehow and playing that form of tax arbitrage shifts the burden of taxes to the people who don't have the resources to do that.
Yes, it will be a drain on the US economy that the rural areas will require very high $/person to provide government services.

However, the US still has a higher GDP per land area than countries such as Norway, Sweden, Canada and Australia.

Furthermore, you would think that economies of scale should be quite beneficial for countries as large as the United States.
This is lost on a lot of Americans. Many older, recent immigrants from China on the US West coast are not fans of the PRC government, and enjoy US home ownership and financial independence here, despite language challenges. It is raw prejudice to judge people and their intentions based on language and skin color.
Would be interesting to see what proportion of these new flats are being bought as investments to rent-out though.
As mentioned, wasn't sure what was the issue, and had responded earlier. Also provided the GitHub link, to be helpful. It appears that some people do indeed have an issue, depending on their browser.
I'm sure every Californian, appropriately for this time of year, are taking a look at that state income tax return looming thinking "God what an amazing use of my tax dollars.. "
Actually taxis handle this in their fee structure already: a fixed initial cost and a marginal rate for additional mileage/time.
No, it can't be a middle management position if you're the one in charge of the entire project.

Also no, people don't transition from middle management in one industry to the top position of another industry.
They might not be able to operate. That’s the point. In some cases, it might kill the service (and whether that’s desirable is going to be a function of your viewpoint).
How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth?
You can get hired for guild work as a non guild member, usually you join the guild after though.
Or just abolish sales tax. If the states want the money, they can just raise state income tax, which they're already charging, by a few percent. As it is now, it just complicates things and disincentivizes consumers from making purchases, which slows down the local economy.
Usually if you're going to go the snarky LMGTFY route, you'd link to the Google SERP for the phrase rather than a GitHub page.
Lua works pretty nicely also.
> The feds doing this for airfare was the best thing to happen for consumers shopping for flights.

They need to redo it for airfare, because the airlines have figured out how to workaround it by splitting out things that used to be included (seat assignment, baggage, etc). Some airlines now have sliding rates for bags and so you have to know the exact flight to get the price for checked or carry-on bags. Even if it's split out from the total, all of those *potential* fees should be available up-front as well.
This is how some of the trade unions started, back in the day.
There's more detail in the readme on GitHub:

https://github.com/gbevin/rife2

Including:

> RIFE2 has features that after 20 years still can't be found elsewhere: web continuations, bidirectional template engine, bean-centric metadata system, full-stack without dependencies, metadata-driven SQL builders, content management framework, full localization support, resource abstraction, persisted cron-like scheduler, continuations-based workflow engine.

Doesn't appear to have websocket support, though.
You have to change the --percent flag. It takes some experimentation. The format is three pairs of 0-100 integers, one for parameters, attention cache and hidden states respectively. The first zero is percent on GPU, the second one is percent on CPU (system RAM), and the remaining percentage will go on disk.

For disk offloading to work you may also have to specify --offload-dir.

I have opt-30B running on a 3090 with --percent 20 50 100 0 100 0, although I think those could be tweaked to be faster.
When you talk about bias as an adjective, you can have a biased person or biased communication . Humans are vastly complex so you can't have unbiased humans without omniscience.

Language and data however are different. You can have unbiased communication and data.

The statement 2 + 2 = 4 in the base 10 number system is unbiased.

To say unbiased language does not exist is saying that truth does not exist.
> But you can be gunned down in the street by the police

The statistical likelihood of that happening is approximately zero. Extrapolating from this to Fascism is plainly ridiculous.
I interpreted that as suggesting people would wind up buying nothing if all the options are perceived to be too expensive. But sone people will continue down the rabbit hole if you get them in the funnel to start with
> One other issue in the US is that any third space becomes a long term hangout of all the local homeless, which causes people not to want to go there. Several local Starbucks have this problem and I stopped going there.

Yes. Our local Starbucks, at the Redwood City CA train station, removed all their furniture and closed their bathrooms. Now it's a big empty room with a bleak counter, where people sometimes come in and buy something.
https://pkg.go.dev/plugin but not for all platforms.
Interesting fact - valve no longer works this way because it didn't work.
It doesn't need to be fraud. A common trick in designing restaurant menus is to make it harder to scan the price list, because people buy the food they prefer when price is one of many considerations rather than prominently highlighted.

> Centred Justification

> When prices are printed in neat, right-justified columns, everyone glances down the line to compare prices. Menu consultants recommend a centred justification that leaves the prices scattered. This gently encourages the diner to order what she wants, not pick the cheapest price. Another way of minimising attention to cost? Omit the pound signs.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-hidden-psychology-of-men...
Are local sales taxes just a US thing? How do so very many other developed countries manage this just fine?
There is an extremely low chance what you find a collision with 30/8.
So to get it straight:

OSM.pbf file -> ogr2ogr -> PostGIS?

I currently use a .mbtiles file and plug it into tileserver-gl, but i guess in theory you could just import OSM to PostGIS and then add the PostGIS as a source in tileserver-gl? That would be amazing
I'm pretty skeptical there. Do you have any evidence that was a big motivation?

I'll note that the costs of labor, space, and other inputs also can vary widely across a state, so tax differences don't strike me as unsolvable. And regardless, "prices and participation may vary" is an extremely common disclaimer for ads with prices.
Surely Sunak could just buy the publisher and force them to change it back.
1. Chronic Exposure, a term that fails to quantify with units of measure, but it sounds psychologically shocking, to the point the elevated stress hormones conveniently not measured by so called medical experts, might start impeding the neutrophil functionality in turn impairing the wider immune system. Probably explains why the saying Ignorance is Bliss exists.

2. Reperfusion. Damage that occurs after blood supply is restored to a tissue or organ after a period of ischemia. Ischemia, a condition in which blood flow (and thus oxygen) is restricted or reduced in a part of the body. I guess someone had to get a leg of lamb and pump some blood around it whilst cooking it in order to demonstrate the restriction of the blood?

3.Anerobic exercise elevates creatine kinase as a marker of exercise. The supplementation of creatine can not be differentiated in kidney function tests, which are used by medical experts.

4.Neither do neutrophils or immune cells in general.
>You would need to increase its plasma concentration 100-fold to get an appreciable effect on microbes. Why would it be unhealthy for your kidneys again?

Where did you get these half baked theories and ideas from University or med school? You are certainly not a medical researcher!
"most"
Even better, show total price not nightly rate. They'd never do that though because showing the nightly rate holds off the total sticker shock until the user has their credit card in hand.
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