skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a bit surprised by seeing this, before I saw "Date: 23rd July 2019"

Booking.com was a textbook example for a website made terrible through such tactics, but has significantly improved since then (at least for me - note that this may be because I'm in Europe, and they got fined for some of their tactics, so maybe they only turned it down here). They still have 1-2 such "hurry up and buy already" things but it feels like it's nowhere near as bad as it was. I guess at some point they realized that it's really good at a) increasing conversions within the session b) making users absolutely hate you and poisoning your brand. (Although some of it is probably also me getting used to it.)

Unfortunately, except for the high pressure sales tactics, Booking simply has the absolutely best UX I've ever seen on a booking web site:

1. It actually works. That shouldn't be remarkable, but I can't count the number of times a site either told me they were sold out or the price went up 5 steps into the booking flow, or failed at the payment step with some cryptic error. Especially flight booking sites are so terrible that by now I'm willing to pay the surcharge for booking directly with the airline or a known-working site, but I've had that with hotel sites too.

2. They know to only ask for the minimum of actually required information (although they sometimes hide a second set of questions behind a short first step - but it's never the 5 steps that I commonly see elsewhere).

3. They actually show you what's available and provide a decent overview of what is or isn't included.

4. They usually show the actual price, or the actual price minus a $2 tourism tax. Unlike a hotel web site, where you are playing guessing games with taxes, resort fees etc.

5. They don't require me to create an account (unlike e.g. many hotel web sites, where it's often clear for me that I won't be staying there repeatedly).

In addition to that, they have very good inventory, often with favorable cancellation conditions, and often significantly cheaper than booking directly with the hotel (I've never gotten a better price by reaching out to the hotel directly, usually they're not even willing to match and tell me to book through Booking...).

Ultimately, the horribleness of the competition is what resulted in me going back to Booking despite hating their sales tactics. Is there any competitor that is actually better?
How long until they start burning through $1 trillion a year on military airplanes that don't work?
Sounds like a pretty scummy thing to do, especially considering insects contribute to your ongoing survival?

What about turning lights off around your house a night do they don’t come near you and forget the oil ? You can live in harmony with insects.
How much of your 25 years in Canada did you spend doing each, and what's your reasoning? I was pretty unimaginative when I was 25 too, but the states isn't my vibe.
- People who've been slandered online or wrongly put into "compliance databases" (https://www.vice.com/en/article/pak7wb/exclusive-secret-blac... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/the-dirty-secr..., https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/H...)

- People with white collar convictions

- People who bounced checks in the past or were unwittingly used as money mules and ended up in Chexsystems

- Banks closing accounts that interact with crypto exchanges
This compares VVC in VBR mode to the other in CRF mode. I can imagine just that difference accounting for some of the apparent improvement for VVC.
That's a feature. If everyone did this it would put them out of business
I suspect this site is even older https://www.spiderfan.org/

It's a little more up to date but has a similar feel.
I tried the kagi search engine when it first came out, and it was just ok. When they started charging I just couldn't commit to paying their ask. But after using phind for two weeks, I got completely blown away. That's a search service I would deffinitely pay for, to avoid ads.
Come try to do it in Italy, if you really like a challenge! ;(
If you click "Settings" (on the right on desktop, not sure on mobile), it gives you two volume sliders, one for music and one for ATC.
As far as I can tell, Bell holds its Canadian customers hostage to force peers to pay them for what should be mutually beneficial peering. It does not participate in _ANY_ of the Canadian internet exchanges. Even Rogers connects to TORIX.

https://bgp.he.net/AS577#_ix
Per article, top 20 places based on average daily searches of 108k active Zillow listings across 100 largest cities over six-month period.
Top 2 are Northeast Dallas (TX) and Hollywood Hills (LA).

Median value in Dallas $425,393. In Hollywood Hills, median value ~$2 million.

Article suggests folks are searching between "a mix of daydreams and practical."

Breakdown:

* California and Texas: 4
* Arizona: 3 (all in Pheonix)
* Upper East Side and Upper West Side the
only New York ones
Even with a filing extension, you still have to pay what you owe on time or face penalties and interest.
Of course. Thanks! Silly me, looking in the documentation... lol
The postal bank - or some other federally run bank - still seems like a very good idea to me.
I really enjoy Orion's Arm! There's a substantial variation in quality depending on who is writing and how much investment's been put into a given corner of the site.

I appreciate its outlook a lot, overall - that the future involves change, but not necessarily destruction. It's much more hopeful than a lot of science-fiction tends to be now.
Sure but that's true for many (if not all) things that superconductors might (in theory) enable. I do think, though, that especially in computing there'd be enough economic incentive to use superconductors everywhere if the energy savings are substantial enough.
I find when you get in the groove of the COM style, especially its consistent error handling, you want to use it within modules too.

But I think part of their objections for within a module (from memory, because I haven't looked into their rationale in a while) is it's not worth the performance cost.
I don't know how you can read this list and find it boring.
Some feedback on workflow:

- Automatic1111 outpainting works well but you need to enable the outpainting script. I would recommend Outpainting MK2. What the author did was just resize with fill which doesn't do any diffusion on the outpainted sections.
- There are much better resizing workflows, at a minumum I would recommend using the "SD Upscale Script". However you can get great results by resizing the image to high-res (4-8k) using lanczos then using inpainting to manually diffuse the image at a much higher resolution with prompt control. In this case "SD Upscale" is fine but the inpaint based upscale works well with complex compositions.
- When training I would typically recommend to keep the background. This allows for a more versitile finetuned model.
- You can get a lot more control of final output by using ControlNet. This is especially great if you have illustration skills. But it is also great to generate varitions in a different style but keep the composition and details. In this case you could have taken a portrait photo of the subject and used ControlNet to adjust the style (without and finetuning required).
To late for that. If they did that 10 years ago I don't think politicians would be talking about side loading. Apple is trying to get ahead of policy that would force their hand.
The sane reaction to that is "hey our government kinda sucks, we should change it via (voting/protesting/a coup/a revolution)" or if you're a bit more cynical "hey our government kinda sucks, I'ma start working on getting citizenship/a visa somewhere else".

Not "hey we should live in magical fairyland where nobody collectively organizes anything but I still get to live almost exactly as I do now".

(Also potentially workable: "hey our government kinda sucks, I'm going to go and live on a commune with a small enough number of people that we can actually coexist based on general kindness and goodwill")
Argh this grinds my gears.

It’s the education SYSTEM that is wrong. We are working with a 150 year old way of educating kids that does not apply to our culture today. Kids aren’t going to work on the farm or in a factory. They need the math!!!

For courses like algebra, etc. kids need support at home from parents. When that support isn’t available (for whatever reason), don’t water down the content for goodness sake. The kids need 1-on-1 tutoring help.

Cut off the head of the problem—the school administration that continues to support our archaic system-and spend the money you will save on tutoring the kids. Or switch to mastery education. Fix the PROBLEM.
Both are possible. The source code to the Firebase push messaging service is available on Maven and GitHub, so you can re-implement it. Otherwise, you subclass the same service but override `onHandleIntent` instead of `onMessageReceived`, and avoid the code path that immediately displays the notification for 'notification' messages when the app is in the background.
Why any modern image spec should have a maximum resolution is beyond me.
> Red Hat makes more money because they’re an enterprise software

That was my immediate thought on reading the GP. HAving been in a few Red Hat meetings to discuss possibly using some software of theirs recently, the meetings were indistinguishable from how a meeting with VMware or Veeam goes. They are a company providing enterprise solutions.

That's not meant negatively, that's just what they are, and if you're in the market for an enterprise solution then you appreciate that these companies exist. You get assurances that what you get works as advertised or the provider spends time and effort making it work as they advertised, and you aren't spending your (limited) engineer talent to do so when it can be spent on areas that aren't easily served by throwing some money at it or the cost benefit ratio is far more in your favor.

> OpenShift trying to take on vSphere, Ceph evolving into an enterprise storage player, etc. These aren’t simple moves.

Except it isn't. One of those meetings I had? It was for Red Hat to tell me that they don't really have a good competitor to vSphere anymore, since the RHV platform is being EOL'd and they're getting out of that game. Sure, you can run a VM in OpenShift now, as long as that VM lives in a container and is part of a k8s cluster. The path to success for virtualization with Red Hat is Kubernetes or bust, I guess.
My 2 cents, some of the reasons America succeeds:

(fact) America is a single market with a single language with basically a single set of regulations. Expansion is cheap in America. It makes a hell of a lot more sense to expand to another US city than it does to expand to Norway or New Zealand; but for a company in those countries, expansion is very expensive, expanding requires new laws, regulations, business entities, and languages, and shipping costs more.

(fact) America is geographically isolated from war, can't be invaded, isn't saddled with war or reconstruction debts.

(fact) Also by virtue of geography, America can produce everything: it has plenty of space to create anything it needs, from mines to farms to factories.

(fact) Americans are ambitious to a fault. I am an American living overseas, and possibly one of the most offensive things anyone has said to me here is "you should lower your expectations". I am constitutionally incapable of lowering my expectations. I don't give a shit if I live in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, I will export millions of dollars in products that I produced here, or I will die trying; 9 to 5 in the suburbs is not an endgame for me.

(opinion, maybe fact) The consequences of failure in America are lower; in some other countries, you're forbidden from starting a new company and they will revoke your passport for some time. People don't try because there's no "try again". They also have no access to capital, essentially.

(opinion) America also siphons wealth from every other nation; for example, it seems like people are more likely to invest in public markets in America than in their own countries a lot of the time. That means access to capital on the stock market is more accessible for American companies than others. It also seems like as soon as someone gets rich overseas, they move to America.

On the other hand, it's not all doom and gloom overseas, here in NZ all I have to do to start a business is walk outside and start selling shit. To file taxes for that all I have to do is fill in my Net Income on a 1 page web form and click Submit. There's no medical debt, car insurance costs $100 a year, and nothing has a barrier to entry; I can talk to the person in charge at just about any company or organization in NZ.
Went digging through the wayback machine to find it and its available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20230117024804/https://www.ahist...

which leads to: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ATMkf7SAwwjePZZZb0mFrFX5rM...
I hope people see the end game here. This is a chance for big players to rebuild the walled gardens that were lost with the open source movement of the 90s.

Regulating algorithmic decision making for public facing businesses (without appealing to "AI" which is meaningless) makes sense - not globally of course. Anything more restrictive that tries to regulate, what, stochastic gradient descent, is a naked power grab by incumbents and those that think they can profit. It's important to contribute to and work with open alternatives to avoid further concentrating power in big tech companies
I’ll donate and I’m sure others here too will if they hit you with a cease and desist let us know! I think it’s important to have tools to unfuck the web from dark patterns companies use to deceive us.
i think that the concensus is that grant did it to ensure support for his wife after his death, which to me shows that he was very good man (and his actions in the civil war, and after, back this up).

i've read about half of his book, which can be quite funny in places. but relies (naturally) on some detailed appreciation of the geography of the battlefields, and geography has ever been my least favourite area of knowledge, so i had to give it up.
I don't know about that particular analysis, but there've been a number of such claims that don't stand up (mostly because, as you ask, the districts themselves don't follow Benford's law). See, for example, "Inappropriate Applications of Benford’s Law Regularities to Some Data from the 2020 Presidential Election in the United States" by Walter R. Mebane, Jr. [0], and "Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?" by Matt Parker [1]. This fits the general pattern that there's been a lot of suspicion raised about fraud in the 2020 election, but none of it actually seems to pan out.

[0] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/inapB.pdf

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78
I believe the main point is that Windows doesn't support AVIF desktop backgrounds, which is annoying. PNG and JPG (and possibly GIF) are common denominators for a vast majority of systems and applications.
It's almost as if organizations tend to build tools that fit their needs. /s
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it staves off abject sadness.
Thank goodness nobody who was yet to make an important contribution died in the civil war. Or any war for that matter.
> to attend school, go to work, and 'restore their daily lives'
You might like this book about an attempt in New Hampshire

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541788516/
At some temperate (different for every person) the sealskinz will be too hot. I really liked wearing them in near freezing weather- basically I didn’t have to buy a waterproof boots. When it’s above 50 Fahrenheit I don’t wear them because I will sweat in them.
To be fair, doing backtrackes through JNI calls is generally pretty complicated.
>The sane reaction to that is "hey our government kinda sucks, we should change it via (voting/protesting/a coup/a revolution

That's not a sane reaction; insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The military industrial complex is not going to be killed through the democratic process, because it owns both sides.
Unicode CLDR Project
>> I can now ignore anything you say about caste since it shows you don't know anything about it.

Basically, your mind is not capable of tolerating anything that goes against your worldview. The Telugu coworker will know about their fellow Telugu coworker's caste and can easily inform the Punjabi.
Hmm, I’m not sure. I think that example would need to be fleshed out a bit (at least, I don’t see it, but then I live in the US so maybe I’m missing the forest for the trees).

Conway’s law is about the structure of the thing being built mimicking the organizational layout of the people building it.

The county sheriff is just the sheriff attached to that unit of administration. It seems more like if Conway’s law was the observation that shape of the management tends to match that of the org chart. It is not really a correlation so much as a tautology.
I'm a simple man. I see an article from Fernando, I click.
They don’t want the Rust trademark to be associated with bullets. Is that a bad thing?
> Especially since the outputs of generated images are not 1:1 to their source inputs, so it could be argued that it’s a unique derivative work.

I think what you mean to say is that the argument is that both the models themselves and (in many cases) the output from the models, to the extent it might otherwise be a derivative work of one or more the input images, are transformative uses. [0]

[0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-what-transf...
It's the same reason why you get paid more when you switch jobs rather than stay at your current employer.

Loyalty doesn't pay.
The cynical part of me hears this and assumes that they’re intentionally offering better-than-average rates in a new market to establish a base of customers, and then slowly pull back the competitiveness once they’re established.
The answer makes the reader feel good but is lacking as an advice column.

How does the parent handle this social situation with their child? That's really the underlying need, not as much "is my philosophy in the right or wrong?"

I think a potentially usable answer is for them to follow their child through their thought process. Have them walk you through what's on their mind. "Describe for me what it would mean to you to have a bigger house."

It's possible the discussion could lead to the reason why they find the subject to be so important to them.

Or, another tactic could be to just state the obvious: "Since we earn the income that supports the family, our preferences on how we spend money might be different than those you will have when you live on your own." It could move on to "If there is something you would like to buy or a trip you'd like to go on I can help you find ways to earn and save toward that goal."
T-Mobile gives me full speed when I set my APN to B2B/IPV4.
Only in a size that’s one too big but then you can use that size for socks.
It probably isn't too different from other access methods:
1) Get access to port 80 for > 60 seconds. Point it at your temporary VM.
2) Use any cert authority, and for verification, choose a file-specific location verification (you can choose amongst DNS records, an email to admin@domain, or a specific file location on your site with many of them)
3) On your VM, Quickly paste the file-specific location into a django GET route.
4) Run the Django site on port 80.
5) The cert authority verifies you, and emails your account the cert, the website author being none the wiser. You can now use it later to fool future visitors for a deeper attack or email-related attacks.
Two reasons, the first being to run an experiment whose result is predicted by the paper, in order to confirm the science in the paper.

The second being to mitigate the accumulation of insects around my campsite.

While it is true that insect populations world wide have been impacted by the commercial deployment of pesticides by large agricultural operations, it is not true that populations outside that particular affect are negatively affected. Insects, as a fauna, have an extraordinarily effective reproductive cycle relative to the natural hazards they encounter every day.

The most recent article about excess honeybee populations was a good example of how honeybees that are outside of the risk zone are not in any danger of becoming extinct but can and do displace important local pollinators.

A non-persistent local light trap is the ideal mitigation strategy for insects in a particular regions because it leaves no lasting footprint, doesn't contaminate the food chain, and has zero net impact on the overall population density of the insects.
For small payments, the IRS accepts cash via Dollar General, Family Dollar, CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens, Pilot Travel Centers, 7-Eleven, Speedway, Kum & Go, Royal Farms, Go Mart, and Kwik Trip. That's their solution for people with no bank accounts.
It's bizarre how people refuse to accept that hydrogen fuel cells are technically batteries and have absurdly high energy densities. And if pressed, you usually hear some excuse like poor efficiencies, as if that isn't a powerful justification for pouring billions of dollars into the problem.
Why does a speech need to be "protected"? What about all the historical speeches that are in the public domain?
It’s completely what you make it, though. If what’s in the OP isn’t your style you could literally type in anything you want.

I’ve done pictures of my wife in the style of other photographers, Soviet-style propaganda posters, 50s pinups, Alphonse Mucha, and much more.

I’m a professional photographer and have tons of great pictures of our dog - the kind of stuff people pay for. My wife’s lock screen on her phone is something I generated instead.
> Creating a derivative work of a copyrighted image requires permission from the copyright holder

It does not (in US law) if it falls within Fair Use, which is an exception to what would otherwise be the exclusive rights of copyright holders.
> So are you okay with the government subpoenaing your private phone communications

You keep bringing it back to personal civil liberty because you don't have an answer to the question "So why is more government oversight of corporations bad?"

I actually have no problem with such a subpoena being attempted (it is part of the regular process of investigating a crime), but I have a problem with a court rubber-stamping it. I have no problem with the corporation I'm working for being obligated to track and furnish similar records for any corporate assets I use, and to be obligated to ask questions if they catch wind that I might be trying to skirt auditing law by pushing conversations that should be legally audited private. Catch the difference?

> Fascism is when the government controls every area of your life and of corporations. Do you think giving the government more control of the private sector will lessen the chance of fascism?

I actually do because the definition you gave is not actually what fascism is.

Fascism is a political movement emphasizing extreme nationalism, a supremacy mythos of that nation, and the militarism necessary to support such an inherently unstable structure. Among its tools can be usurpation of corporations. But tight control of corporations is also a hallmark of socialism and communism, among other structures. You may as well say its wrong to breathe air because fascists do that too.

A healthy democracy reigns in the excesses of an unfettered corporate sector. Those excesses, left unchecked, can (not will, but can) result in, among other things, fascist-leaning private company owners throwing in the power of their corporations behind like-minded politicians and building the machine that facilitates a Mussolini or Hitler rising to power. Mussolini, in particular, was funded by Italian industrialists.