skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The title should really be the quest for a cheap smartwatch with battery life, which seems to be what the author was looking for. The more expensive Garmin watches have excellent battery life and solar charging.

Just get one without a screen. Iirc there are a bunch of G SHOCK digital watches that can show phone notifications. You can even get solar for a never ending battery life
> Yeah, every time the discussion comes up about, for example, reparations for the descendants of slaves, I start out thinking: it's been 150 years!

Well, that might be a bit disingenuous. The "last chattel slave" was only freed around September 1942. I've seen this reference in several places, but the most direct one is a footnote on a wikipedia page [0].

Regardless, it is probably not worth putting a time limit on suffering. The children and grandchildren of enslaved black people are still alive today! Waving it away with "time has passed" seems more an attempt to bury the issue than to approach it with some semblance of acknowledging the wrong done.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeville,_Texas#/media/File:Be...
You sound like you have never traveled with kids :) it’s just convenient not to HAVE to go out for all meals…
I usually use this awk function to parse CSV in awk:

# This function takes a line i.e. $0, and treats it as a line of CSV, breakin
# it into individual fields, and storing them in the passed in field array. It
# returns the number of fields found, 0 if none found. It takes account of CSV
# quoting, and also commas within CSV quoted fields, but doesn't remove them
# from the parsed field.
# use in code like:
# number_of_fields = parse_csv_line($0, csv_fields)
# csv_fields[2] # get second parsed field in $0
function parse_csv_line(line, field, _field_count) {
_field_count = 0
# Treat each line as a CSV line and break it up into individual fields
while (match(line, /(\"([^\"]|\"\")+\")|([^,\"\n]+)/)) {
field[++_field_count] = substr(line, RSTART, RLENGTH)
line = substr(line, RSTART+RLENGTH+1, length(line))
}
return _field_count
}

It's not perfect but gets the job done most of the time and works across all awk implementations.
Sure. Just like a bullet proof vest is impervious to bullets. It's still not gonna work against a Rheinmetall Rh-120 120 mm smoothbore tank gun
I think if you want the historical context, read the dissenting opinions from the other justices. Such as https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Jacks...
It benefits a subsection of locals (the ones working in tourism or renting out their apartments) to the detriment of the rest of them. You can see this play out in cities like Barcelona: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/29/the-airbnb-inv...
The best part is you can still get around this. Although I've been lucky enough to not need to do this. I think my oldest project used Java 5 originally and doesn't use Sun classes.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4065401/using-internal-s...
In isolation, I love the idea. I don't have a strong sense of how the tradeoffs would affect things in practice though.

Perhaps they are not a big deal, but if they are too restrictive, then maybe the next best thing would be to have anything go (like in Python or Javascript), but the compiler guides you to where it's having trouble inferring things.
Coke owns most sodas, so if you're switching, you're likely to end up switching to another Coke product.
Yeah most of mine were in San Jose, CA, but this was 4 years ago and they were single rooms (not an entire apartment), so I wonder if the practice has grown since then. I still don't like airbnb for other reasons: broken stuff (even in well reviewed places), worsens the housing crisis, poor quality but nice looking furniture. The furniture is "bony."
Amazon is more like eBay than eBay now

Steam is like eBay but for low quality games

It happens to them all. There are big games on steam, but 95% of the stuff on there is low value, low cost content
The Shareholder Value Myth (2016)
Rando relative who wants media attention most certainly does. One my aunts (and her husband) would definitely lie like this to get in the news, no doubt about it.
With DLSS Steam isn't hosting and distributing AI generated content, Nvidia is distributing it with their drivers. So any liability regarding the source of the training datasets falls on Nvidia, and there is no reason for Steam to get involved.
Its features are minimalist, so it really doesn't have access to anything other than your text messages and whatever health data it collects, which you can control in a fine-grained way.
I feel like constraining access in this way would lead to some pretty nasty second-order effects if you didn't also redistribute a bunch of wealth from the 1% to the renters.

Also with all rental properties being government-owned there would be zero uniqueness and everyone would be forced to make due with whatever the government thought they needed. A good example of this is old Soviet-style tower blocks, where no matter how big your family you get the same size apartment.

At least with the current system, people who want to rent detached homes are able to. Your system would suffer from the alternating cycles of austerity that seem to plague governments and the tower blocks would gradually lose all amenities and everything would become exactly the same for the same price.

I'm not sure that's better than the current system. A better system would just prohibit private equity from buying real estate and renting it. I think a lot of the housing price increases are due to PE firms buying rental houses and then farming their management out to local management companies.
Reminds me of when the WHO declared meat as a carcinogen. Pretty useless information. If you actually follow their advice, you'll likely just be switching to something that hasn't been studied as much.
You can lie. That’s what “self-certify” means.

If you have the money to participate and lie about having/earning more money then you qualify.

There is no constitutional way to prevent you from investing based on net worth, so the law places consequences on the companies offering investments.

And the only time this affects the company is if they were relying on a regulatory exemption that also allows unaccredited investors, in which case you should have just participated as an unaccredited investor and they were supposed to verify.

Otherwise, the law says “self-certify”, which is the state sanctioned term for lying.
> Even harder to see why they picked this issue when there's seemingly many more blatant ones going on.

I know nothing about their thinking here, but very often when you see enforcement agencies focusing on something that seems like a lesser problem in the basket of problems, it's because they're selecting the specific point they feel they can win in court on.

What wins in court is related to what you can prove, not necessarily related to what the worst offense is.
Regardless of what your take is on the substance, as a former lawyer, I was really struck at the language in the various concurrences and dissents. They are very clearly pissed and/or disgusted with each other in a way that is very not-normal, even for hot button cases.
Because there's more to travel than just food?

I'm not imposing restaurants with my weird dietary restrictions.
You and me both. I love using them for large group trips when we can rent a mansion but the idea that a residential zoned structure built for mid to long term residents can be used as a de-facto commercial hotel is baffling to me. I cannot start a restaurant or bar in a subdivision, why would I be able to start a hotel.

This business need to be suffocated to death by local municipalities. Where I live, they just earmarked just over $1M to start tackling the problem. It's been illegal for a long time here but we have over 1500 illegal units operating in a town of 150k people.

FWIW, between my two sisters and my mother, they have 8 airbnb units. Love them dearly, want them to succeed, but nightly rentals are just contributing to the already fractured housing problem and it's only getting worse. We need to send a message that our homes we built for people to live in are indeed homes and not another financial instrument.

[0] https://www.independent.com/2023/04/26/santa-barbara-vows-to...

EDIT:

My brother and I were talking yesterday how govt probably won't solve the problem efficiently. We came up with the solution of a bounty program for ordinary people to collect the necessary info to turn in illegal op units and collect part of the fine assessed to the illegal operator. Self governing system.
https://bigmemes.funnyjunk.com/pictures/M_86dcf4_64411.jpg
> Both are parts of who I am and neither deserves shame or uplifting.

This is a good point. I've always thought that my esteem of anybody should not change based on immutable characteristics of that person, or other factors that they had no material choice in being.
The sub story caught traction for the same reason Balloon Boy did in 2009: there's an element of the unknown and a rescue angle. Same as the kids in the Tham Luang cave.

Sadly, refugee boats capsize all the time in the Mediterranean, and there's no ongoing drama.
It's surprising how the smartwatch market seems flooded yet lacking when it comes to basic, reliable options. I would look for reliable battery life, GPS and water resistance.
> [In California], they already for a long time do not consider race as a factor in admissions, as per law.

They do to an extent, they just try to hide it as "holistic review" or such, make it hard to prove.
Ask HN: Where do I present an iPhone/Android app to get noticed?
Where does one present an app (iPhone/Android/Windows etc) to get noticed to get some reviews and downloads? Are there any networking events/meetups where one can present their application?
Fortran is the silent king of the world. I think the singularity will be caused by an old piece of extremely optimal Fortran code that has been quietly taking over the world on exceedingly faster hardware.
Just returned from Ireland and every 'regular' soda was full of disgusting artificial sweeteners. In the usa these would be labeled diet. And of course sucralose was pretty common and we're now finding scary things about its harm to the human body. Sugar really isn't that bad..
These ‘monster’ gravitational waves have supposedly been ‘spotted’ by calculating disparities in pulsar timings. The article didn’t have as much information as I was hoping - were any of these waves detected/confirmed by LIGO?
> Just looking at grades and test scores can't figure that out.

Do you have any citations to back up that assertion? I think we've reached the point of calling these metrics a bit more than correlations.

I hear this all the time from pro affirmative action groups, but I don't think it's backed up by any science. People who practice more are going to be better at that thing. Same in sports, musics, medicine, literally everything. Hard work it turns out pays off. It's very unfortunate that some can't do the hard work required to make the grade. But that doesn't mean that they should be elevated _over others that did_ make the grade _based on the color of their skin_. I can't even believe I have to argue this.

Looking at academic factors should be the strongest determining factor, economic factors is fine, but looking at race is racist, by definition.

Advocacy groups trying to change the definitions of words as a way to sort of "legislate from the bench" is dishonest and an obvious attempt to avoid the debate on very controversial topics. It will always be racist to make determinations based on race. Attempts to change this definition is racist.
They probably want to make sure the plane is undisturbed before it can be examined by crash investigators and so on?

There's probably a bit of a safety and practicality aspect of accessing a plane with a collapsed gear.
Notice how this uses a sun.* package, i.e. a hidden implementation detail of 1 specific JVM . Java was never guaranteed to have it in the first place. Some of these classes were so usefull that people used them even if they shouldn't. There are compatibility flags in the jvmbto allow access even in java 9, but each new version slowly causes additional pain.

One risk of using libraries (or working with other people) is that you don't know if they limited them selves to good enough practices. Most do, a small percentage doesn't, but they cause pain for all of us.
Sounds like the equally-ridiculous "cultural fit" part of company interviews. Even if candidates pass all the measurable, competence-based criteria for the job, companies have the cultural fit card to play against those candidates for whatever unsavory reason the company wants to exclude them.
Its a reversible operation right? Right!?
It's worth thinking about this beyond the money— what values does the USA and its people want to stand for? Affirmative action can be viewed as an obstacle to individualism and self-determination, but as a boost to multiculturalism and tolerance.

Specifically in the context of education, do we want to think of universities as institutions that help people earn more money and affirmative action as the university deciding who _will_ earn more money, or do we want to think of universities as institutions formative of the American zeitgeist, and affirmative action as the university ensuring the zeitgeist involves said multiculturalism and tolerance?

My experience, as a foreigner who went to a university in the USA, is that the cost of college leads a lot of students to think of universities as the former— one can't really blame them. Another thing I noticed, and this might be cultural, is that at my university I saw a lot of fear of mediocrity and a very clear idea in students of what their "path path success" was. I came in quite lost and undecided, thinking of college as a place to explore, take different classes, figure what I want to study and what I want to do with my life as I go. Some of my peers seemed to think as college as a step in a grander plan, and were doing internships freshman summer already aiming for a specific job at a specific company after graduation.

For people in that mentality it's not hard to see why affirmative action very much matters, and why they might think of it with so much disdain.
WSL keeps moving and adoption increases - compared Stack Overflow reports for 2022 and 2023, WSL is mentioned in Operating Systems and taking 15.68% this year.

For professional usage by developers, stats are: in 2022 - 14.34% and in 2023 - 15.68% ( https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t... ).

P.S. Macos takes 33% and Ubuntu 26.69%
3M knew about the negative "externalities" of PFAS 50 years ago, they just decide YOU didn't nee to know.

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-p...

It's the same with oil companies having studies on climate change privately, while discounting climate scientists publicly.

Profits over People is the way of Capitalism!
Today only banks have ECB accounts. It allows individuals and regular business to have access into central bank money directly.

(it's not mentioned anywhere, but if ECB wants to do quantitative easing in the future, it could give every EU citizen 100 EUR directly, so called helicopter money. It would be the most effective way to do monetary easing and would allow many negative effects of QE trough banks)
The reasoning for showing cleaning separately is so that the daily rate isn't inflated. If I was wondering how many nights to stay, and saw the cost for one night as say $300, then I'd guess five nights would be $1500; in fact though the cleaning cost (usually paid direct to the cleaners) might be $150, and $150 for the accommodation, so five nights total cost would be a more affordable $900.

Edit to add: we have one Airbnb apartment, and zero chores for guests to do; our cleaners get our cleaning fee and we have laundry costs on top of that. Not all Airbnbs are a ripoff.
I think it’s a neat skill to have at the moment, but not very meaningful when it comes to pure application and infrastructure development and design. What you can accomplish with GPT is still possible with Google, and well, GPT info needs to be googled or reviewed in some way as well.

My main use case is to ask it other ways to approach solving problems I already understand. Sometimes it reveals interesting ideas others have already had, which I like. The other day I was using promises in the JS world to create a sort of sequence of who-knows-when-it’ll-finish tasks, and GPT pointed out that what I actually wanted was an async generator. Kind of obvious but also, not at all — people rarely reach for generators in the JavaScript world. So that was cool.

Despite a fair amount of experimentation and building basic stuff with the API, this has been my most valuable use case yet which has real rewards. I made a tool which uncovers solutions to error stacks I pipe into it (in VS Code or in a standalone situation where it listens to your app’s errors), and it was interesting, kind of worked, but was mostly just a time sink. It could be fine tuned and I’m sure Co Pilot X will solve this elegantly, but there’s no real magic underneath this. You don’t need to know it. You’d figure it out fairly quickly if you needed to.

The secret sauce in AI isn’t something you learn easily, on the other hand. That’s a career in and of itself, and it’s not trivial to pursue. For the time being, I think it’s totally fine not to adopt these tools as a developer. Just keep an open mind to it, explore when you feel interested, and continue focusing on doing what humans do well but machines don’t.
yes, because you'll be done with your thing before others figure out how to lay out your spreadsheet. also your solution will be reusable.

(based on my experience where people who could've benefited from awk for a one-liner dependably reach for sheets/excel rather than something like python or perl)
> So on and so forth for literally every slice of life you can think of; you will never find anything that reflects the demographics of the underlying society.

Aside from discrimination built into the slices of life, sure.

To use your NFL example, a pull quote from a 2022 Yahoo article: "Those who did come faced virulent racism and discrimination". There's a number of articles on Google under the search "nfl discrimination against asians" which show the same thing.

This can be repeated with similar results for all of the other examples you've brought up as well.

And when there's discrimination happening in the workforce, it can't be used to say "this is the natural balance of [attribute] in the workforce".
Generally you reinsure yourself with other insurance companies, so that if you get more than a certain amount of loss in a single year, other insurance companies cover the extra. This risk can be spread between several reinsurance providers, taking a percentage each.

Lloyds of London is a marketplace where a lot of insurance companies reinsure with each other, or with "syndicates" which are groups of investors.
Without paid family leave teachers stockpile sick days and aim for summer babies
cost. not just purchase cost either - it would decrease efficiency.
I don't think it's day and night compared to the U.S. I was looking for a job for 7 months already and can't land anything. 10 years of experience as DevOps/SRE, permanent resident.

So tried to find some basic job and it is even worse there. DoorDash is not hiring anymore, all my applications to custodian and similar jobs got rejected. I went to a bunch of restaurants around the town and applied to dishwasher, cook and similar positions, filled their forms and never heard back. I don't know what to do.
It didn't literally lose the gear, there was a mechanical issue that prevented it from engaging.
Pasadena, a decent sized city in Los Angeles County that houses Caltech of all places, was forced to officially desegregate in the 1970s but they've still got tons of policies left over that discriminate in housing [1]. South Pasadena real estate agents unofficial redlined the neighborhoods well into the 1980s and possibly even the 1990s. Schools, especially in Altadena, were still highly segregated when I went to elementary school there in the 2000s. In the 21st century, for f**k's sake.

And that's in a city adjacent to Los Angeles. We don't see many rebel flags in Southern California but the segregation is just staggering.

IME it's even worse in the East coast cities, especially with the way roads, highways, and mass transit are built. I'll admit I had no idea what true segregation looked like until I lived in Ft Lauderdale/Hollywood in Florida (in the mid-2010s).

[1] https://makinghousinghappen.net/2020/06/23/pasadenas-raciali...
Opinion: The unconscionable move many hospitals are making
>When the Biden administration declared the end of the Covid-19 public health emergency this spring, the last mask mandate holdouts began to jettison the requirement. Unconscionably, this has included many hospitals and health care facilities.
>We're on the cusp of a profound content shovelware crisis.

Everywhere. Games, porn, text, articles, music, etc. For the generation that grew up with the internet already existing, this is their epoch moment, lives pre and post generative AIs.

I was thinking the other day that original artworks are going to be far more valued with a glut of AI generated.

Thinking slightly ahead, you can find your absolute favorite artist, and in seconds use their style you love so much to make the family portrait you would never be able to commission them to do. But going forward even more…

It’s just not the same as a print right? Well, thanks to AI being able to learn and determine where brush strokes would land, we take advancements from 3D printers and your desktop painting rig picks up a brush and paints it just as the artist would have.

Then going forward even more.. the artist himself needs some cash and knocks out 100 of these customs while they sleep, signs them, and now they are originals, sort of.

So… verifiable originals are going to be the hot thing. A painting with a video of the artist painting it… but not an AI generated video of course!

Maybe the artist will have to print it on location while you watch.
Sounds like a cop-out. They can't possibly verify that any content they're hosting isn't already copyrighted, let alone in a "murky copyright state"
And the alternative is letting rich parents hire agencies who will prepare their kids with a perfect portfolio of extracurricular activities starting year 10 that poor kids have no chance to match.

At least poor people have a chance when it comes to standardised testing.
Hypocrisy is alive and well
And in Venice Italy it is more like 67%. But this is not common.
Right now it is Republicans who are complaining on principle but look at all the leftists who “think the rent is too high” and think another 50 cents here or there are going to break them. (Sorry, if your landlord installs a heat pump your rent goes up, it’s not the perversity of landlords or capitalism, it is that heat pumps cost money and the people who benefit from it will pay for it. Sure the government can subsidize it but that raises taxes which somebody pays.)

Pretty soon Bipoc people will be saying they can’t afford it and rhey’ve suffered too much already, other people will say that it gets in the way of their lifestyle (sure, cis people can afford it, but don’t you know what I’ve been through…) and soon they are wearing yellow shirts too and crossing the barricade.

Not to mention people in the global South who will be resistant to making land use changes for problems they attribute to the North.
It's my understanding that LIGO is too small to be able to detect such waves, hence the use of pulsar timings.
It makes sense, as IARPA/DARPA and Google are closely aligned historically. Which, yea. I want the best of the best designing certain capabilities.