skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Offering choices is not obfuscating the price. Member pricing requires you to login because of their arrangements with third party sellers requiring them to not “publicly” advertise lower prices.

And as soon as you choose a room type, Hilton shows you the total price. Perhaps not the best they could do, but not worth complaining about in my opinion.

Parking is often not included or desired, so it makes no sense to include that in the price, but it is listed prominently on the final page.
Population density of entire states/provinces is completely irrelevant. I trust you're aware that ~ 2/3rds of BC's population, for example, lives in a tiny strip of land (Lower Mainland).

There are 10 million people in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver metro areas, and the distance between the three is about 500 km. That would be more than enough density for high speed train in any part of the world. Spain's major population centres are a lot more geographically spread out.

I'm not sure I'd start with high speed rail in this corridor. The focus should be on high-frequency, high-reliability fast trains that may not hit the true HSR speeds, but at e.g. 200 kmh would be plenty fast enough for now. But the argument that "the population density isn't there" for HSR is absurd.
Have been thinking about one of these for writing. Is it something you recommend for that express purpose?

Note: I can't just use an e-ink screen w/keyboard and a simple text editor, I used a handful of specialized writing programs like Scrivener and FinalDraft and often collaborate in Gdocs, so I need something that mirrors the screen of a personal computer unfortunately. My goal is to be able to spend more time outdoors writing in the sun, which I can't do without a clunky laptop hood or other hacky solution...
Charming??! I've known enough of his kind that his "charm" immediately sets off all of my Malignant Narcissist Klaxons.

He's charming in the same sense that the creepy guy driving the windowless "FREE CANDY" van is generous.

And you only mentioned the tip of the Spamberg -- it goes MUCH deeper:

His real name is actually Richard J Schueler, under which he is famously known as the "Spam King", for being one of the first people in the world to be successfully sued for online spam, specifically the Viagra spam scheme that he ran from Panama (which he lost).

Richard Heart - Spam, ICOs, and Death Threats:

https://imnotdead.co.uk/blog/richard-heart

PSA: Crypto HEX Founder is Actually Notorious Criminal ‘Spam King’:

https://blockcast.cc/news/psa-crypto-hex-founder-is-actually...

Richard James Schueler - Friggin Spam King:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190416235350/http://www.panama...

HEX Founder found to be Notorious Criminal:

https://cryptotraderspro.com/hex-founder-outed-spam-king/

Why HEX is a Ponzi and not a solid investment (Part 2): Richard Heart:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kwhjxa/why_...

>During the interview at ANON, Richard confirmed that he was one of the first people in the world to be sued for online spam, back in 2002. This shows us Richard has experience abusing unregulated markets, as he is doing with crypto these days.

Hasn't the last eight or so years of Trump trained people to instantly see through that kind of bullshit, and easily recognize a malignant narcissist for what they are, or does he specialize in fooling the same kind of people Trump still fools?

What kind of person actually makes videos and web pages about themself with titles like:

RICHARD HEART IS THE BEST PERSON EVER! I OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST DIAMOND.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TQGzltcKNk

Richard Heart is a force for good:

https://richardheart.com/
> Can you? A defined benefit plan is ultimately involving someone taking a risk.

Yup. No less than Warren Buffett, who spent literally his entire career performing risk analyses, could figure out a way to manage defined benefit plan risk, and stated as such in a (now famous) memo in the late 60s or early 70s.

Couple that with the number of pension defaults and pension haircuts that have occurred and are likely to continue to occur and 401(k) plans look a lot more attractive, both to the employer and to the employee.
Not as much as you think - the people selling them want you to think the old ones were awful and need replacing, but they were designed for both reasonable efficiency and decades-long life. (You really need to factor in a literal 6-10x lifespan difference into efficiency and environmental impact figures, too...)

I have a large 60s/70s vintage chest freezer I bought on Craigslist a few years ago. I worried that it was power-hungry, so I got a Kill-A-Watt and monitored it. I don't remember the exact figures I came up with, but it was pretty negligible: Even in my non air conditioned (but attached) garage in Austin (with the highest electric rates in the state, by far), it costs me only about a dollar a month to run. So we're saving a ton of money by being able to buy and store as much frozen food as we want, at a cost of $45 up front to buy the freezer, plus a buck a month to run it - that's a deal to me.

All appliances, back when they were made here in the USA, lasted for decades. I have a cousin who had a (admitttedly expensive at the time) KitchenAid dishwasher from circa 1960! (In very cool copper color!) It still ran perfectly when she sold her ranch house several years ago.
What an ice hole.
To be fair, is a photo of a hole that interesting?
I typically see AirBnB's as the more expensive option. I travel frequently and have shifted back towards hotels. They are easier to book, peace of mind, points or rewards, concierge services, the list goes on. The main reason for an AirBnB is larger spaces, unique designs, and areas with low hotel density.
What I'd really like to see are the multiplayer games from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games ported to the web. I was too young to understand how those worked as a kid, and my dad's copy had some printing issues (occasional pages have white streaks across it).

EDIT: To clarify BASIC Computer Games != 101 BASIC Computer Games (the original has more than the microcomputer version including CANAM and DOGS)

This is a later printing than what I have -- http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/_Books/101_BASIC_Computer_G...
Hm, I still couldn't find the price after signing up for the newsletter.
Imagine how much hassle it is to wash that veggie container in sink.

How much gunk can get into shelves rails.

I clean fridge twice a year and would like not to do it more often.

Modern fridges are optimized for easy cleaning.
It’s the theoretically best one possible. BEV fanatics are just spreading propaganda against it.
This seems like a multi-reference to me:

(1) Dune, (2) Turrican, others?
Thank you for the, uh... Warning.
Yeah, I guess, it just seems crazy that all 30,000 people losing their jobs could be a tolerable outcome for the employees.
Assuming they mean Geekbench.
ICO via email
It blows my mind people invest money with a guy doing this so openly
Years ago, yes I used it.

Nowadays, to be honest, everything that I need to be fast in Python is largely around numerical code which either calls out to C/C++ (via numpy or some ML library) or I use numba for. And these are either slower w/ PyPi or won't work.

HTTP web servers are notoriously slow in Python (even the fastest ones like falcon) but I found they either didn't play nicely with Pypi or weren't any faster. In large part because if the API does any kind of "heavy lifting" they can't be truly concurrent.
I was absolutely certain I saw a photo of LK-99 floating over (partially, part of it was still touching) a magnet. Of course, this proves nothing as it's a photo, but I have this memory of seeing it, so maybe someone else saw it in some official capacity.
Bricked things can't be unbricked (unless it wasn't actually bricked to begin with and was misdiagnosed). That is why it is called bricked.
Seems like they know that the audience for an open source game is going to be FOSS nerds first, gamers second. Leading with Rust makes a lot of sense in the list of descriptions.
I can quickly go out and buy a fridge that is far cheaper than a month's salary, and that has the same effective features. I was honestly waiting for the feature that I couldn't do on a normal, non-internet-connected fridge these days.

So, really I don't understand what this post is referencing. The fridges from today are vastly better than that thing, especially when you consider things like temperature control, power usage, space, and usability.

Can you buy worse fridges? Sure. You can spend substantially less and get something more barebones.
Mastodon was developed in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)
I don't know their specific numbers, so this might not be true in their case, but raising prices will drive away customers. Depending on where you're at on the curve, this can reduce your revenue because the adding higher price didn't make up for the lower volume.
I think the specificity of data is general, but I have a number of models that predict preferences and engagement for myself and communities. The production models either use classical ML with bag-of-words and other features or classical ML on BERT-like embeddings. The data is a set of judgements about individual documents.

I tried fancier “fine-tuning” methods and the noisy nature of the data means they won’t perform vastly better than my current models and have training times more like 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds but it is worse than that because if I want good results I might need to fine-tune 8 models and pick the best.

So I stick with my system because I can retrain as much as I like, run thousands of experiments a day if I want, etc.
I mean, there’s an entire multi-billion dollar industry dedicated to photos of holes.
That's where the "make the accusation in the courts, not the press" rule is most important!

If you have a legitimate accusation to make, prosecute. Don't merely complain on social media.
Hydrogen planes have been tested. The physics works out provided you have more room for the tanks.
> No, we've opened up the ability for someone who writes a short textual description of an illustration to obtain an illustration ostensibly matching that description

Yes, that is the new art form which has been invented and opened up to a wider audience. By analogy, some people used to complain that DJs were not real musicians, because they just play records made by other people. While technically true, this observation is not interesting, because selecting and mixing records to create a larger sonic flow is its own art form.
> Though from what I understand Mastodon was service that got traction from the US right not the US left

Definitely the US left.

When the US right tried to use Mastodon, their instances got cut off and in many cases, Mastodon apps would block connecting to them entirely.
Please, if the title is going to be that, at least remove the capitalization from that "m", so it represents an unity instead of "millions of something undisclosed".
If I translate a copyrighted work into another language is the translated work under copyright?
The strip mining imagery landed for me when focusing on the trend of open source communities adjacent to cloud platforms. Citus, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, etc all feel like corporate goliaths forked and outcompeted David. No analogy is perfect, but I can see facets of why one might liken this to strip mining.
Potential value extraction of OSS really depends on the license; the (A)GPL vs. MIT-style license debate has been going for decades now. There’s a reason none of the big corporations touch anything GPL, aside from Linux distro subdivisions that are never their direct money makers. And when you compare what actually reaches consumers, like Qt vs. GTK for an ancient but ongoing example, or basically every Android distro pre installed on a consumer phone, and the various modern MIT-licensed FE tools (React, Flutter, etc.)… the apparent levels of nefariousness/data mining/anti-competitiveness/price-gouging generally seem higher for the MIT-licensed (and especially corporate-controlled) products than (A)GPL products. (Yes, there is also definitely a trade off in terms of easy UX between these!)
Side bar: Does anybody else dislike this one-sentence-per-paragraph format?
Please show me where this comment thread introduced the term "owed" before the one instance to which I replied.
There’s a fair amount of liquidity, but trying to withdraw 1 billion in Eth is going to impact it’s valuation.
I was building an elaborate job monitoring system, but then I realized that what I really need is monitoring the actual end to end functionality.

For example, instead of monitoring my Minecraft server process that OpenRC spawns, I have a dedicated monitoring server that actually queries the server for version, number of players, etc. Same for websites, etc. Think of it as periodically running an integration test on a live system.

This way I get much more confidence that the service is doing what it should.

I'm not a big fan of over complicated monitoring systems - I simply have a script that builds a HTML status page with enough information to know when something goes wrong.
This is the best state of affairs sum up at the moment and my favorite plot line is the soil scientist.

https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1685960703658860544?s=19
>3. Microsoft heavily botched their ARM rollout (again. Hello, Windows RT). The translation layer on W10/11 is just bad, not because of bad coding but just the technical limits of what they were trying to do.

It's not bad at all, however Intel patents heavily restricted the initial implementation, to the point they couldn't ship the 64bit emulation. Apple decided to wait out the patents.
What a weird response to having intellectual dishonesty being pointed out.
No, the `least` typedefs are irrelevant aliases for the exact type these days (except supposedly some 32-bit-only DSPs exist though. But 9-bit computing has been obsolete for longer than most of us have been alive, despite talking about it).

The `fast` typedefs are effectively programmer-opted-in to promotion to register size or something. But compiler optimizations often do the same thing on a per-operation level (signed overflow is UB, unsigned overflow masking can be deferred for addition/subtraction/multiplication and bitwise ops (though some can change the mask)).
I find it funny that there are "block lists" distributed to Mastodon admins listing reasons for why certain nodes should be blocked; my favorite is the "free speech" category of nodes to block. It would be one thing if nodes were blocked for hate speech, science denial, or spreading misinfo, but free speech? The epidemic of people blocking so many Mastodon instances/enclaves is hurting the migration away from Twitter: why go to Mastodon if it's more balkanized than federated? Just let individual users block others on the Fediverse -- like Twitter supports.
>Is the Dutch legal system inviting themselves to become a party to every single he said/she said drama on Facebook?

Legal action is very expensive. While vexatious litigants exist, the total volume of legal proceedings being commenced is not particularly large.
That could be coming, but it's probably easier to get the approval and funding to start a Mastodon instance and start learning for when/if they go further than to bolt on new functionality to the CMS.
Because people don't buy FF points as a speculative investment. If you said "I am starting wonderwonder's airline. I will only sell tickets based on FFPs. I am currently selling FFPs at a discount to what I will sell them at later and they are transferable. You should buy them now to resell them later" they would be securities.
They’re a Troll, please don’t feed them. Just look at their other comments if you don’t believe me.
It allows for even more targeted phishing/scams and lowers the bar of entry required to do this and the difficulty of doing this at scale. the human element is a pretty common entry point.
I thing that I will run my own instance.

I got ban on official mastodon social site lol
> Because of US left/right politics global warming has become a political topic rather than a scientific one.

Any issue for which a policy response is advocated is, ipso facto, a political one.

But the reason climate change is a globally controversial political issue is that it fits the game theoretical conditions of tragedy of the commons as well as having large up-front costs for delayed benefits (the latter not being a huge deal, but it compounds the former.) This manifests in, but is not caused by, US right (“capitalism is good, but taking coordinated action to avoid environemntal catastrophe damaging human society is good for capital”)/farther-right (“capitalism is good, and if there is a need to take action for the long term, it will be rewarded by the market without government intervention so as to make it the natural choice”) politics.
Glossary of Landforms
My favorite magician of all time, and it's not even close. Was really said to hear he passed a few years ago.

He could REALLY do this, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F93VCA_TCQ

Actual card throwing starts at about 4:30.
I think a lot of the recent interest in embedding comes from the fact that it's so much more useful now. Now there is a way to usefully process natural language queries, and embedding is the way to retrieve related information in the course of processing the query.
Interesting: "Towards the base, the ice is more than 120,000 years old and dates back to the last interglacial period, a time when the atmospheric temperature above Greenland was 5°C warmer than today."
The basic problem is that you can't do double blind studies. Because the very same person would need to be once treated, once not treated and once treated with a placebo therapy. From the same "baseline brain state".

I.e. you can gather as much data as you want (referring to the metastudy you linked to) but you can't eleminate the inherent bias. People who are treated can not not know they are treated etc.

And while I do believe there is are a lot of forms of psychotherapy that work, I do admit (to myself for that matter) that this is based on belief. Possibly until we can simulate brains with a "sufficient resolution" (whatever that means).
I have never seen or heard of that happening. Are they being overloaded?
It will make sense for nearly all transportation that can’t be directly electrified. The problem with batteries is that it is a massive resource hog, and one that is fundamentally unsustainable. It will have be abandoned. The only alternatives are ideas like synfuels or ammonia, but those require green hydrogen production anyways.
Could yes? Will it be? I can tell you when you don't need the answer anymore, i.e. in a few years.

It's the very nature of the hype cycle that it is very hard to distinguish from a real thing.
Chest freezers are a little special, as they don't need much actual cooling power if the insulation is functional and they aren't opened. Vertical freezers and fridges lose all their cold air when opened, chests don't.
Its more like 5cm in diameter.
And that's how I first learned about Cloudflare. Which I eventually joined, and built Cloudflare Workers. :)
So do you believe defamation laws should not exist at all or that they should not apply to anything publicly published on Facebook?

Obviously courts should consider severity and other factors but factors like damage to reputation, other damages etc. should be the deciding factor on whether a court would accept the case not whether it's published on Facebook or anonymously.
I for one am excited to truly have intelligent "ICE" like from Gibson's Neuromancer (or in its more modern incarnation like in Cyberpunk 2077).
Wow you guys! Some of you say that Etsy won't give any reason, and here you say that Etsy is accusing people of fraud!!!

You can't have it both ways! It seems to me like Etsy's silence is the opposite of an accusation, and whatever investigation they're doing, they don't want these sellers to flip out any more than necessary!

Also, these sound like reasons to me:

> Etsy's payment policy states the reasons for putting money on hold include a sudden increase in sales, a shop having only made its first sale recently, the shop committing a "policy violation" or "other risk factors".

Etsy's interest in fraud prevention goes to their reputation as a marketplace, and their relationship with legitimate sellers, buyers, and their payment processor, and any other third-party services in the loop. If Etsy doesn't accurately detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, then their bank and payment processors will ban Etsy for fraud, and I think that would really suck for 100% of sellers!

It is not easy for Etsy to bank-switch. They can't just POKE a register.

Also, some of those reasons aren't necessarily fraud, just indicators. It's a "Yield" sign to slow things down until they can check it out. I mean, do you realize the scale of this platform?

Personal gain, my foot.
Rather, it's unsurprising that corporate executives took Open Source for exactly what it was designed as.

It's left the anti-copyleft guys babbling about plunder and The Spirit of Open Source™. I'm honestly shocked that I don't hear them calling companies that get rich off OSS "settler colonialists."
UV and Blue Light Take Down Drug-Resistant Bacteria
I just suffered the same fate. There's a thick fog of absurdity in teams where people who lacks knowledge, drive and desire to do great work waste time on nothing, bragging about nothing, while slowing everything you try down (even when done with a wide care about the team operations in general) [0].

I lost the will to fight even though I think about it on a daily basis but now I just coast along. My issue is that time passes and I don't want to live my life like this so I keep dreaming of a way to sustain myself and then do better work for better purposes.

[0] it's a common pattern in groups, I've seen that in many different jobs.. it can be jealousy, old age fatigue making you sour, mob think, lack of communication but in the end, there's a natural tendency to create friction. It's the complete opposite of childhood playtime.. where everybody had one goal : maximize fun together in some game (Intrinsic motivation 100%). Adult life makes this very rare.
yes, people love pictures
Discussed on HN 8 months ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33801973>
I mean, we joke that Oracle is a legal company with an engineering department... but at least they build things.
There is https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ which suggests that in the future this kind of behaviour will be default. I'm not sure of the specifics but I have seen lots of conversation about it in Debian circles.
The response was enormously condescending, for reasons I went into at length, so I think the tone was justified. That the response was worded politely doesn't really matter.

> While I'd like to agree with your points about the potential downfalls of therapy, and the troublesome implications of these applied at scale to the perverse incentives of a pro-therapy society, I cannot.

Sorry, but I think being able to separate tone from substance is something pretty fundamental for having discussions you can learn from, so I wouldn't have much to tell you on this score even if I agreed about the tone being too adversarial.

Now I would respect something like "I agree with your points, but please lower the tone". But saying "I can't agree with your points because of your tone" -- come on.
>> Unfortunately, in the EU, rules concerning credit card payments and fees make co-branded credit cards unattractive to airlines and banks

In the EU card fees are capped and this is a good thing. AMEX extracting excess fees from my local coffee shop and then giving (some) of it back to me as air miles is the dysfunction.