skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were to prevent burn-in before monitor sleep (standby) was invented.

I don't feel like I remember having that in the 90's at all. Not on my PC running Windows 3.1, or on my Mac SE. But maybe I wouldn't use it because the CRT would take a bit of time to power back up?

Does anybody remember when monitor standby mode became widespread both on monitors and computers and OS's? My google-fu is totally failing, maybe I don't know the right search term.
Post it on twitter get it viral and tag #airbnbsuck and they will respond
Behavioral modification has been shown to fail upwards of 97% of the time. Argue all you want, and I will show you trial failure after trial failure of every known behavioral approach.
They aren't things people buy regularly, that's a niche thing.

7-11s will be selling cheap and nasty cables and headphones at huge markups to even justify the tiny amount of shelf space they occupy.
That's not really how I - and I think most engineers - understand the term "expressiveness". In Haskell I can express "a side-effect free function that consumes a String and produces an Int", for example; it's impossible to express this in x86 assembly language. You can certainly write a block of code that has the same operational qualities, but the code itself doesn't in any way express any of that denotational information - it's all just implied or inferred, not something encoded in the language itself; you can't even express the idea of a "function", in fact!
This. Aparthotels (like Sonder) are imo much better than Airbnbs for medium to long stays.
Yeah, if I were booking a trip with a spouse or friend and I was maybe joining a couple days later, I would absolutely book for them. I would make sure the hotel had their name whether through the booking form or another channel. But that would be something bog-standard for just about any normal hotel on the planet.

I actually find it downright weird that you can't book a reservation for someone else on AirBnB.
> I'd rather do what I normally do and just lol at people who charge me with waaaacism for whatever bizarre reason they happen to concoct today.

So apathy? Perhaps a reasonable strategy if others are objectively being irrational. Being a part of the majority demographic, especially one with outsized wealth and opportunity, though could make apathy more dangerous if the cost is systematically harming all the others.
Really, a brand new plug becomes available today, the EU mandates its usage and you think that reduces e-waste?
> The main thing I was taking issue with was your initial statement "With 48 bits as a hard limit of what fits into a register" not how many bits of the register or memory address are functionally meaningful.

Oh, Oh!

That was a hypothetical talking about 48 bit CPUs that grew out of 12 bit CPUs.

That's why I said 384 tera-octets and something we would stick with.
I don't know if this comment is intended seriously but just to be clear. Lithotripsy can cause acute tissue damage and long-term loss of kidney function.[1] The shock waves need to be carefully targeted at the stone and for the correct amount of time to reduce the risk of this, typically with X-ray or ultrasound. You can absolutely not do this at home!

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900184/
Yup. It’s FAANG or almost don't become an engineer.
As someone that has always used Node in the past for side projects and just started looking at Deno should I be looking at Bun instead?

Heads up for the author: the dark theme seems to be handling the tables incorrectly (keeping the tables light but inverting the text to become nearly white).
Its not about „wet dreams of a porsche driver“

Its about the transition phase between now and a full electric vehicle fleet.

Combustion engine will exist in the next 20-40 years.

I am not an expert or sth. If you have links or could expand a bit more on why fossil fuel would be preferable, that would be nice. Thanks
They lied about not getting cancellation messages from AirBnB for a while, hoping the person would go away and trying to refund $0, then when the person made it very clear they weren't going away, the host denied the cancellation request saying they "couldn't" give a full refund (lie). I'm sure they then turned around a rebooked the room, since it had only been delisted for that date for a couple of hours. To recap, they lied, cheated, stole, and double dipped. It was fraud.

Hoping to see some regulation going into that space pretty soon.
It's not a scam. Most Airbnb listings have a "no refunds" policy in the case of cancellation, regardless of circumstance.
If you’re trying to gauge what students will get the most from special schooling, the ones who prepped and studied for the test are probably the ones who are going to do the same if afforded the special school.

Teacher recommendations are incredibly easy to game. I asked my teachers for recommendations and, to help jog their memory and for their convenience, provided them a sample letter of recommendation that I wrote. They could sign and send that one, use the content as a reminder to write their own, or start from scratch.

I’m quite sure that money or services have changed hands for a recommendation in the past, probably more frequently than stand-ins have taken standardized tests.
They were not just researching "how to rain nuclear fire on the US" but also how to send the first satellite into space, send a probe on Venus, put the first man in orbit, etc.
The vagueness of the symptoms does sound a bit like other cases of psychogenic illness:

https://www.livescience.com/18310-schoolgirl-mass-hysteria-y...

Certainly girls in Iran have good reasons to feel stressed right now, and there are indeed people out there who mean them harm. Poison isn't the usual way that malice comes out, though.
Fun game! It would add more to the game imo if there was a fuel efficiency target as well as angle and speed.
New research has shown that video games can change the brains of teenagers
I doubt this story is true. That’s not to say this specific scam doesn’t happen, it does, this exact scam — stuck in jail, stuck in a foreign country — is rife across all mediums, but the sophistication required to introduce artificial is not necessary.

Scams evolve out of necessity, the widespread nature and success of this scam without the use of artificial voices demonstrates that the scam does not need artificial voices.

The article mentions that in one of these cases, there’s very little audio available online of one of the victims and so it posits that even just a few sentences are enough to generate a real sounding voice… but doesn’t consider that maybe the voice was a generic man’s voice that, in a panic, their parents let their guard down and assumed that based on what the voice said that it must be their son.

There’s absolutely the technology out there to generate a real sounding mimic of someone’s voice given enough material, but we are not yet at the point where a voice can be mimicked accurately from a voicemail or a clip on social media.

The article is an example of overfitting: the last few months have been awash with news about technologies like Chat GPT but these voice mimicking technologies have been around for years now!

A far more likely explanation is that the scammers in these cases just happened to sound like the victims — after all, if you know someone’s gender, age and location, and set up a contrived situation in which audio quality is bad, you can guess what they sound like and explain away any discrepancy quite easily.

I guess my point is not that this isn’t going to happen in future, but that these scams don’t need something so sophisticated. People will fall for this scam without the need for AI (as they have been, for years).
My wife is a university professor in the states, she said it's incredibly obvious who has started to use a GPT for the work they turn in. There is a lot of wrestling going on within the staff in her department on what they should do, some people want to outright ban anything that "seems" it was written by a LLM. As my wife discussed with me, it's hard to know how much was written by GPT and how much was edited by the student, maybe they asked 50 questions to the LLM and then copy/pasted it together themselves, maybe they used it for the outline, and filled in the details themselves. The lines can get pretty blurry.

One thing that it seems most of the profs find annoying is... they're aware that GPT can invent convincing sounding sources, so they're doing a lot more work verifying sources.

Commented this ^^ the other day on the UK students being able to use LLMs post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35028224
> Fun fact: there are more bank tellers in America now than when ATMs were invented.

Proportionate to the population?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback_loop_(email)
Your explanation for why Americans (or anyone else) are rich is incomplete.

I suggest you read this paper ("Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills"):

https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/210a/reading...
The host's photo looks like a stock image for sure.
> I'm just glad people are working on trying to discover the chains of logic that let us not be so screwed, hard as that problem may be. I don't see any paradox there that makes the problem impossible,

I understand you don't perceive the paradox. Nonetheless, my point is rather that when a paradox presents an impossible problem, then something about our premise is not understood. Or we need to find an entirely different concept to solve our problems. For example, an entirely different concept of intelligence not modelled strictly on how we perceive our brains. In summary, I think we are trying to solve the wrong problem. I might write something more depth at some point on that to explain my views.

> Incidentally there are many secure systems and schemes that have not fallen. But you'd probably write them off as too narrow for some reason.

This is precisely my point. We can build what is logically infallible to only be subverted by different means. If you can't hack the system, trick a human to give you access. This is how every such system has been defeated.
Most industry cert exams require internships before taking the exam. It could work like that.

I agree with you that most certs suck and are meaningless, but there are a few that are actually hard to get and meaningful.
At the University of Washington, there are kids with Lambos and Ferraris.

I was well-read, at least in the field of scifi books!

I don't recall anyone's parents flying in or them flying out for vacations. You might see them dropping their kid off at the beginning of the year, or picking them up at the end.

I eventually got a car for my senior year, but it was my beater Mustang from high school I'd rescued from oblivion.

But, just because I didn't notice these things, doesn't mean they weren't there.
Not an issue since COVID. Most hotels don't do any cleaning during your stay anymore unless you specifically request it or your stay is over a week.
Show HN: Web Bluetooth remote for Canon cameras
Published my Web Bluetooth demo that uses a reverse-engineered protocol of Canon camera remote (BR-E1) to provide a remote intervalometer that works directly from a Web page.

P.S. Yes, as most other Fugu APIs, it works only in desktop and Android Chromium-based browsers.
Wine 8.3
It seems like you are trying to use ChatGPT as a smart entity but it is basically advanced autocomplete. The links it provided are just what is likely to exist, but not what actually does exist
I had a similar experience in Colombia too. Hot water was definitely an amenity.

I remember walking along the street asking 10-12 hotels in a row if they had hot water. None did and the last one suggested (sarcastically) staying at a 5* hotel if I wanted it that much.
It’s not about specific changes to law, it’s about the principle of “Organizations with $50B in the bank probably don’t need federal funds.” Having them put skin in the game with an endowment tax would also be acceptable.
> Anything I deploy needs to have an upgrade plan. Ideally, something that provides a package (either on distro or a repo the package provides), so "apt update" will resolve it. Docker can be a good way as well, Sentry does a pretty good job at this.

I wrote an article called "Never update anything": https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/never-update-anything which in truth argued that while updates are necessary, they're also going to break things... a lot. And there isn't always going to be an upgrade path either (e.g. using AngularJS or Clusterpoint).

In my experience, even containers break things surprisingly often: everything from GitLab, Nextcloud, OpenProject to even things breaking in regular server updates, like a Debian update breaking GRUB or another Debian install automatically launching exim4 which prevented my own mail server from working.

Perhaps that's because of how we build and package software, because of the fact that we don't separate the runtime from the data enough (e.g. persistent directories) or that we make too many assumptions about the environments...

Regardless, I can understand why some don't even update working but insecure software: because of the risk to turn it into secure but not working software.
Can't help but think of "No Country for Old Men" as soon I see the title of this post.

Call it, friendo.
Generally, companies of any size can choose not to do business with you. What's wrong with that?

If you disagree, you need to change the definition of "utility" then; a utility such as an electricity company can't just cut you off for no reason.
Hotel suites with full kitchens are not uncommon.
Which it is. The idea that you can accurately gauge a person's skills during an interview is complete bullshit. And at the end of the day an interview is just a discussion, people are hired based on how they make the interviewer feel and it will be months before they discover if they are qualified or not.
Big tech is not hiring now. Those absurd total comp levels may not be coming back.
Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change
I always thought the connection between turning a plane and a bike were somewhat interesting. With a plane, if you rudder left, it causes some right roll. And vice versa. If you roll left, you have to apply left rudder to counteract right raw.
The article really doesn't do anything of the sort, and honestly neither does the statement. LastPass acknowledged that the issue had been patched for "75" versions, and discussed how it wouldn't have mattered if they had practiced proper isolation.

edit: Or not, or with major qualifications. That quote was mislabeled in the article
We are very close to, or already past the peak human population.

We're not at peak yet. We still have an excess population growth of around 60-80 million a year. We have to bring that down to zero excess per year before we can talk about peak population.
What stops me from removing that data manually?

Some AI tools are open source so nothing prevents me from modifying the code and removing the part that adds those watermarks.

Even closed source programs can be patched to remove that functionality.
I don’t think Meta knows it’s a game company
Your weak submission will solve nothing. Russia will correctly interpret your submission as encouragement to take more.

After Ukraine, Russia wants Moldova, Georgia, and they have a plan for the gradual takeover of Belarus. They've even been talking about having a go at pushing back Poland's borders and at this stage Russia may well be dumb enough to try a direct confrontation with NATO.

Russia can't be negotiated with anymore. Russia will see any settlement as an opportunity to rearm and resupply in preparation for the launch of their next invasion.
Social contagion happens in families as well.
Can the West’s perplexing employment miracle continue?
While we are bashing the UX… I experienced a weird issue with scrolling that was incredibly annoying as I tried to read the article. I had to very carefully start each scroll action from a certain area of the screen, or else nothing would happen. This is on Safari on iOS.

Edit: Strange, the issue was gone after I reloaded the page. The article was much more enjoyable after that :)
This gets posted here every few months, and every few months I feel obliged to mention that my blog[0] uses a modification of this.

I find it provides a very pleasing experience for reading longer posts although I will admit it works better on desktop than on phones.

[0] https://sheep.horse/everything.html
never doing business with AirBNB is worth every penny.
Ok, perhaps I was not precise in my terminology. The problem is how that consumer surplus will be distributed. And whether those who lose their jobs are able to find an alternative source of income. If consumer goods are cheaper, but people are still unable to afford them because they no longer have an income (or a greatly reduced one) then we still have a problem.
Shh, they'll send Big Eraser to rub you out.
All of those bad things only happen when the licensing body lobbies to get laws requiring the license. As long as the license is required, it wouldn't have any of those effects, because then you could get a job with someone who doesn't require a license.
Never use an intermediary. Instead of dealing with <hotel>, you have to deal with Indian call center agents. Hotels.com and booking.com and similar are the absolute worst.

I lost maybe 4 hours repeating myself to various people in India just so I could tell the credit card company I tried to resolve the issue for the chargeback.

Indian call centers are the worst because it seems like none of them are empowered to actually do anything other than rigorously stick to a script which cannot help you.
At the end of the day, therapy is just an attempt to help someone with a problem. I think we've all experienced a well-intentioned person who made things worse, and it shouldn't be surprising that someone attempting to follow a formula like CBT or DBT or ACT or whatever, might still be the opposite of helpful.

I like and have benefitted from some of these frameworks, but none of them is a silver bullet.
This is why shared secrets are important. You might be able to clone a voice, but you won't know what its real owner knows.
I know a fulltime host in my city. He goes to extreme lengths to ensure only 5-star reviews. He is basically on call 24/7 to address guest concerns, however the total amount of work he does in a week is probably 10-15 hours for a livable income. The sleep he loses and amount of psychoanalysis he attempts on guests sometimes doesn't seem worth it though.
>As the other commenter states, are you not aware identity dissociative disorders are a thing?

These are irrelevant in the context of the discussion and the argument being made.

That "you may feel the presence of two or more people [or intelligences] talking or living inside your head" does not mean "two or more people" indeed live inside your head.

Same way as if you feel that your neighbor "is satan" or that "everybody is out to get you" doesn't make it true. It's a failure mode of one brain, not a proof of two (or more) brains.
If you have a suitable machine to do so, then couldn't you just tunnel your DNS traffic through it and out its default resolver, without having to run your own?
Your observation, while accurate, is a tangent. The point of the bibliography in the context of an academic paper is to reference the academic merit of the work. In the case of science, this would be reproducible experiments (ideally).

Perhaps you would prefer to include the generated text source as an author.
I just turned 60. I turned a layoff at 27 into a year long sabbatical. (That is what I put on the resume) I didn't have any money and still managed to travel and do volunteer work.

I have never regretted it.

Take the 600k and go somewhere cheaper for awhile.

You'll never get younger and your health is the most important thing for the remainder of your life.
I cannot ensure laptop + software + permissions are established within a week. Let alone expect someone to be contributing code.
Is there a way for me to get one of these or print my own
Bugs fixed in 8.3 (total 29):

- #24256 3D Sexvilla 2: extremely long loading times

well, then.
Nowadays I wouldn't even trust a traditional hotel to do that correctly without calling them first.
Universities have an incentive to pass you, and never claim to teach you technical skills -- they teach you theory.

This would be different because they would have an incentive to be an accurate measure of ability so that companies would continue to require them. Presumably the big companies would constantly contribute to the curriculum, and the small companies would then benefit from that.

Medicine and the law are constantly changing, and somehow those licensing exams stay up to date. I assume the same methods could be used.
It used be a droplet of mercury inside a sphere with electrical contacts. I doubt they'd use that method today.
well, Amazon Go isn't the only cashierless brand in Amazon's portfolio. It was the experimental small store. They're moving towards deploying the technology in Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh stores.
But generally, you don't need to agree to it. (Which may or may not work if it's just standardized as the back-end.)

I have a couple slightly different addresses. One of which is probably 30+ years old but is still used by the two local telcos and a few local businesses.
Interestingly, the host was also violating AirBNBs terms of service and the author could have gotten a full refund if they realized. It’s against AirBNB’s ToS to charge a security deposit outside of the fees already charged by AirBNB. I’ve had AirBNB offer to kick a host off of the platform if they didn’t back down on this. You could probably get them to cancel a reservation because of it.
Usually you have to have an internship before taking a certification exam. I assume the same would be required here.
Why are the posts there in English?
Standarization of features might lag behind D3D, but availability of features usually comes first on Vulkan because of the extension system. For example NVidia brought raytracing to Vulkan long before DXR was a thing.
The scam is in listing so the actual location is inaccurate/uncertain so as to trigger the cancellation policy more often not the presence of a cancellation policy. Not that a scam being in policy is supposed to make something less of a scam anyways.
I tend to agree that studying and practicing for the SAT has a material impact, but most people on your side of the issue dispute that.
Ok, but at least you only had to do each one once, and not repeat those tests for every job interview.
I am steadily and methodically informing my grandma that this is the reality now. She’s far from modern technology and I think she doesn’t fully believe it yet to act reasonably under pressure. But mass scamming like this (worldwide, all locales) is only few months away, maybe a year.

My plan is to create a set of code events from our past and to convince her to never trust “me” wrt finances, to always hang up and call my number and even then to leave an “incident” unresolved for at least one day.
I don't like AirBNB at all, but that doesn't sound "generous" to me.

The host isn't reducing their income. They're paying a fine outright, and it jumps to 50% 2 days before.

Since things out of your control can happen (the toilet breaks, the place floods) a 50% fine seems reasonable without being unnessarily punitive. And 25% seems OK too since more than 48 hours should be enough time to find an alternative?

I would expect to ban a host if they cancelled stays repeatedly or as any kind of pattern, however.
It's by Oracle: https://github.com/oracle/graaljs; seems to be built to interop w/ GraalVM based languages/services
As a motorcycle rider I’m not sure what those situations are. Maybe dirt bikes work that way? My street bike is very light by motorcycle standards and it still weighs 400lb wet. It’s not something you can really push around, even at low speeds. Body positioning is critical but that’s different.