skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A major part of business of former employer of mine, involved simply buying parts from another business, doing things to try and hide who the OEM was, and having salesmen resell it for a large markup without doing anything else to the parts. A major reason it did this, was because it subsidized the other side of the business which often lost money in the short term, but resulted in growing this profitable side of the business. If things were priced correctly, the money losing side would have charged more its services, and this profitable side cheaper. However, if they did just that, the demand may have not of been there to sustain or grow the business like it had.

I honestly hate this sort of stuff though. When I pay my toll on the highway, I expect it to pay for maintaining the road I used, not for unrelated things. Anyhow, may be a similar kind of thing going on here, or you know... just flat out profiteering.
$26k for a contrast MRI is outrageous. An MRI machine costs $1m at the high end. If you figure the procedure takes 2h and the machine runs 22h/day - which they tend to do - they're making over a quarter of the cost of the machine daily. It doesn't cost anywhere near that to run it; even if we're talking maintenance, salaries, and utilities.
homogeneity is only optimized for a small volume within the bore. Regardless, the superconducting coils will still experience a change in Lorentz forces as sequences are run, and noise from other components will still be "heard" by the main magnet
Learning to play poker now. You basically have to fight your own psychology and do the thing that makes the most mathematical sense. Eye-opening but very difficult.
Google could invest only in woke companies and make a small fortune — by starting off with a large one.
How do they verify the person hitting "agree" is legally able to consent?
That just convinced me to sign up
Yes, curiosity and the desire to create and explore. Those are probably my main drivers though I certainly can feel and acknowledge that greed and lust are key drivers.

I wasn’t saying greed is the only driver.

Edit: I’d also add, I think it’s a false romanticism to think that people like Einstein and other great thinkers and creators were not without the lower drives like greed and lust. If you think about all of the stages of their lives, and all of the actions and endeavors that led to them advancing their fields, greed and lust would have been interleaved as drivers of many of those actions. Maybe one year Einstein just had a bigger fire lit under his feet because he was trying to impress a girl. Or he worked harder one year because he needed the money.

Then you have people like Edison who were certainly motivated by greed and the lust for power. You have the industrialists like Carnegie who built the railroads. Then you have all of the workers across generations who did all of the work… how much of that work was driven by the “selfish and intense” desire for money?
To people confused about "students tipping teachers", this is the context:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/in-a-reversal-apple-is-now...
Googling "cryptomunitions" just directs to your comment...

What is this "cryptomunitions" you're talking about from the 90s...?
Btw, how well does 'random-dithering' work for sound (compared to sigma-delta modulation)?
Not sure where you see my comment assuming they are idiots or malicious. I just note that they don't mention it, where they might reference the study that supports your assertion that they are significantly fewer.
Theres a temporal component, the later law needs to specify it overrules the earlier. The earlier law can't reference a law that doesn't exist.
Several people on the board were all contribution-less tokens, they never stood a chance.
Differential: Type safe RPC that feels like local functions
I'm fine with this one. Massive amounts of money spent on the opposite of the political orthodoxy is always fun.
Seems pretty clear to me. Official power means the person has been designated as an authority.
Ah! I vaguely remember rage quitting over the crows but didn't remember which book was it. I should give this another try then.
Isn't that "futures" in a nutshell?
Interesting read, would not have thought about MS machine translation as I know that Google translate is complete garbage for Japanese compared to ChatGPT4.
bringing money to smarter people to actually build things is huge! even if that is all he did, why do we down play that?
Brings back some nostalgic memories of HyperCard.

Nicely done =)
Knew the full extent of the attack and exfiltrated data, yet took no action to re-secure systems that could be exploited using this information. Negligence?
"burn them down" is kind of a brilliant political move.

on one hand, it's true to the "all bugs are security bugs (and the converse is obviously true)" position.

on the other hand, it will demonstrably cause hassles for what i term the "checklist security" people. "oh noes we only have the budget for N CVEs per release and we must have NONE > $arbitrary-number". and so that's a very good thing because checklist-security like that is far worse than nothing at all.

on the the other-other hand, in more legitimate, well engineered downstream user, a CVE for every bug may conversely actually help real security. "all" you have to do is evaluate every single potential security flaw's real actual applicability and impact for your use case. and if you can't afford that - faking it with a check-the-box mentality is no substitute. but maybe you can afford that? if so better data will probably help, not hurt.

finally, the other concrete improvement is that the people closest to the product will be able to more accurately judge the CVE score and more quickly correct outliers. a local privilege escalation that requires enhanced privileges to execute is not an 8. i'd much rather have 1000 CVEs with appropriate scores than 10 that are massively overrated and stupid. of course, a simple one-dimensional metric is hogwash anyway, but - baby steps.
Though browsers should really protect you against that already. ('Should', not 'would'.) Because SSL doesn't mean that there won't be malware on the site injected via some other means, ie by someone hijacking the server or by an otherwise malicious server.
Similar to RunCSS?

https://github.com/mudgen/runcss

The fact that you now require JS to get your styling to work is a big con.
This seems fairly focused on safety, and less on the working in the title. But working from Hotels is definitely a pain. They almost always have worse wifi than an AirBnB. It varies whether they have a good seat, table that you can work at (AirBnBs, also but you can usually tell from the photos).

I usually end up at coworking spaces in both instances.
I am no master pianist, but I imagine much of the feel of such an instrument comes from the physical weight of the keys, and the feel as they strike the strings. Although good quality keyboards have "weighted" keys, they don't feel exactly the same. I think it would be hard to reproduce this exactly.
"The devastating effect is caused by the fact that they aren't building enough housing." [X]

"Don't blame Airbnb when you refuse to build enough housing, the markets going to figure out how to market."

AirBnB reduces the already limited supply of available housing. [Y]

AirBnB makes a bad situation worse. We should ignore this because the bad situation exists? WTF.

Problem X is exacerbated by Problem Y. Therefore, according to HN commenter, "Problem Y is not the problem. The problem is Problem X."

Who is persuaded by such nonsensical reasoning.

1. According the study, Problem Y is a legitimate problem. HN commenter provides no evidence to counter/invalidate the findings.

2. Assuming Problem X exists and AirBnB knows it exists, then AirBnB is consciously making a bad situation worse. For profit.

https://cjur.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/cjur/article/download/27...

"Through removing housing that would otherwise be available on the long-term rental market Airbnb is reducing housing supply and, in turn, housing affordability."

In other words, converting long-term rentals into short-term rentals using AirBnB reduces the effective supply of available housing. This may in turn cause long-term housing prices to increase.

The study suggests the effects of AirBnB are not felt evenly across Canada. For example, some areas are adversely affected while others are not.

"Five years ago, short-term rentals in cities - both in Canada and abroad - were almost universally illegal with the exception of licenced bed and breakfasts. STRs were illegal either through bans on commercial uses in residential areas, through fire codes and regulations on lodgings, or through explicit bans on rentals below a certain threshold of nights. Despite operating in a legal grey area at best, STRs facilitated by platforms such as Airbnb have proliferated."
> [...] I don’t think you can do it with a regular git command. I’d be interested to know if there is a regular-git-command way to make .git/HEAD a non-branch reference though, and if so why you might want to do that!

various git checkout commands can get you there, e.g. `git checkout FETCH_HEAD` after fetching something like refs like refs/pull/x/head (github) or equivalent to-review thing (gerrit has refs/changes/x/y/z, gitlab refs/merge-requests/x/head)

I'm reviewing stuff all the time and never bother with branches much (I create a branch before moving off if required, or directly on the remote by pushing the current detached head with a name); and it annoys me to no end when tools like b4 want HEAD to be a branch and just don't work until I create one for the current commit. Thankfully ths has gotten pretty rare.

Alternatively you can explicitly get there through `git checkout --detach <branch>` but I'm not aware of much use case for this one.
VisionOS is not consider a gatekeeper my the DMA, and despite the platform supporting it Valve has made no effort to expand their game store to Android. It is doubtful that they will work on an iOS game distribution platform.
Perhaps you can pre-process a few seconds at a time only?
You are right, it also comes down to the individual consumer preferring plastic bags because cold stuff broke paper bags some of the time (2 liter cocacola or juice bottle etc).

Maybe the government should force the use of those bags in certain establishments... regardless of them breaking under moisture or not...
Ads are among the most benign things someone could use your private information to do. With your personal information:

* Parties can engage in price discrimination against you. (You don't shop around? you've got some extra spending money? double prices! Looking up risky activities? high insurance rates!)

* Parties can engage in lawfare and blackmail

* Parties can influence elections (without advertising, e.g. by gerrymandering or by targeting your participation in elections just based on knowing how you'll vote)

* Parties can target people of your race or beliefs for genocide (oh, sorry, I meant to say "lawful orders of governments")

Plus the definition of advertising itself is up to interpretation: is sending someone to your door advertising?
> most people really don't understand just how much everything is about to change

So instead of hedging and saying "it's going to change some things", you play into the "it's going to change everything?". Its stereotypical grandstanding when nobody really knows what is going to happen. The AI bros and AI deniers are both exhausting crowds.
Ah, I still don't understand 'grow or die'.
Nice does it also capture desktop audio?
This was solved by improved cockpit security procedures. The security theater at the airport is wholly unnecessary.
Typo: MIT Liscense => MIT License
Agree, I couldn't really read it. It seems like probably a cool project though.
Also enjoy his discovery that, while the game got flak online for years due to the release build have files that were not optimized, it turns out most of the optimizations that were done were actually for the worse due the low instruction cache/ram (I forget the exact details.) Things like unrolling loops just increased the code size and required more slow code paging.
That sounds fascinating! Does anything like this exist now in the open source world?
Elon always had a smarter-than-thou attitude, it's just that when he was only using it to sell cool sci-fi projects, it didn't stick out as much. But when he started branching out into other projects, where his lack of knowledge was more apparent to most people, it became increasingly clear just how petulant he was when he found it he wasn't the smartest person in the room.

For me, not that I ever gave much thought to Elon since space wasn't really my thing, it was the idiocy of the Loop proposal that turned me off of him. For other people, it might have been hyperloop, or it might have been the rejection of his submarine idea (see sibling comment for more details there). If you didn't notice it until after he was chafing at all the covid restrictions, you weren't paying enough attention.
Sadly React disallows this pattern even though this interface is in the DOM spec
The Golden Path awaits
And thus Shapeless (https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless) was born.
Ah ok yeah I thought that was too good to be true. Currently using onX for this but am paying $30/year for the private land layer
I’ve tried to get into Streams at one point, for their promise of efficient processing of large (infinite) streams of data. Great for stuff like kafka / event streams.

There is a lot of very nice functionality in Node around it - pipe functions and the like, and it can work, but in the end I’ve settled on just using async iterators.

It’s just so easy and understandable to go

for await (const item of my AsyncIterator) { … }

And for people who don’t grasp in detail how it all works, the abstraction is very easy to use.
The US has "driver's licensing requirements" that are basically pro-forma. Any idiot can pass the test, more than 90% of adults have a driver's license and renewals don't even require a retest, implying that they're just an excuse to stick you for a fee.

It's the sort of thing that seems like it would serve some important function and then you try to imagine what would change if they didn't exist and it's hard to come up with anything serious.

Meanwhile it's a cause to charge you with a crime even if you harmed no one in any way, which is exactly the sort of thing that libertarians oppose, so it's entirely consistent that the audience would oppose it.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Q&A – Under the Hood (2006)
I think Julia is talking about the literal contents of .git/HEAD. If you run `git checkout FETCH_HEAD`, you'll checkout the same commit ID that's in FETCH_HEAD, but the contents of .git/HEAD will be that commit ID. It won't literally be the string "FETCH_HEAD".

I'm pretty sure Julia is correct. The contents of HEAD are always either a commit ID or the name of a local branch ref. That's what she means by it not containing a non-branch reference. i.e. it will never be the literal string "ref: refs/tags/..." or "ref: refs/remotes/origin/...". It will always be either "ref: refs/heads/..." or a commit ID.
I haven't played a whole lot but sometimes it definitely makes more sense than others.
> At least in the U.S. business owners have the right to refuse service or turn away a customer to protect their patrons and business.

But this is not about Apple's right as a company to refuse any business with Epic, they still have that right.

This is about Apple not complying with a law that targets them due to their anti-competitive behavior; a law that requires them to give the means to operate an App Store competitor to anyone who requests it.

Apple is the one who decided to require an Apple developer account in order to operate an App Store competitor, so they effectively gave up their right to refuse any business with Epic by adding this unnecessary requirement.
>I can fairly safely say your assumptions are incorrect.

Tell me what assumption is wrong so I can learn (unless your point was that software (and hardware :)) can have security bugs which I'm already aware of), else I will continue to repeat this.
The problem with blaming it on drugs is how many people take drugs without turning into huge assholes/idiots.
Add RCS to that list.
I think a lot of lessons learned around iPhone 2007-2012 have to do with looking at the elephant in the room.

Blackberry was doing great with keyboards and refused to sell more of. Windows Mobile had tons of muscles as market share they just trimmed off. Windows Phone had Marketplace trust issue that couldn't be solved. Nokia burned itself down before Google. Palm did most of it right, but couldn't be bothered with exclusivity reneg.

I can't say solving any one of them could have saved each of the brands, but they all had one giant elephant each that were enough to drag them down.
Notably, Android does let users swap out the system webview. So clearly such a thing is possible.
Canada is the same. In fact, some provinces in Canada require the retailer to honor the warranty if the manufacturer refuses and the warranty was advertised.
When I was in high school in the 80s, there was a piano class at the high school and the students had non-sounding, non-moving plastic piano keyboards to practice on at their desks. Nowadays, they get 60-key keyboards with headphones.
Conversation needs to shift to "market power" which is where the EU has gone. The fact that Apple shares the App store market with Android evenly in terms of users for example is meaningless when they nonetheless hold the vast majority of the influence through their market power.
Apple should offer 2 versions of the phone. One version for the consumers who appreciate the extra level of security and another for the rest.
Why willpower is overrated (2020)
There was a scene like this in the Talented Mr Ripley (1999).
The most common UBI variant is to simply give everyone the equivalent of a tax refund, no questions asked. Then, to pay for that, the tax rates at the higher income brackets go up.

Very low or zero income: the government pays you a basic income.

Low income: they still pay you, and you have to pay a negligible amount of tax on your extra income from work. Crucially, your benefits don’t disappear instantly if you get a job, unlike with many welfare programs now.

Mid-low income: you pay the same in taxes as the basic income, for a net tax rate of zero.

Higher incomes: your net tax after UBI increases proportionately to your income from work, steeper than before UBI.
Learning Human-to-Humanoid Real-Time Whole-Body Teleoperation
I think it's worthwhile to ask - in what other fields do exceptional people become consensus world-class experts after four years of part-time study?
Hyperconverged Ceph is both trivial to set up and amazing. Would highly highly recommend it, it makes everything so much easier when your VMs are backed by RBDs.
I like the Aztek more.
I wasn't aware of 'keywords', thank you! Shame there's no completion / easy list (I think?) for things I'd rarely use, but I'll give it a try for a couple and add more progressively if it works well.
I believe it's the same incident reported by The Record [0]

tl;dr it was hacked last month

[0] https://therecord.media/cisa-takes-two-systems-offline-follo...
Kernighan & Pikes Unix Programming Environment.

It’s *nix specific but a great introduction to all kinds of programming concepts with great working examples in a variety of languages you’ll use every day
As I said in my OP, I'm not well versed in this market - so I don't know what it's worth. But people keep replying with factually inaccurate information and that's frustrating.

Do I personally think it's worth $2,975? No. But I'm not in the market for one.

Honestly almost everything in the automotive aftermarket seems like a rip off to me, so it's hard to be objective. Your example of $1,400 for an "elevated to roof level" rack sounds like a rip off. Yeah, if 8 pieces of welded aluminum cost $1,400 then maybe $1,600 for custom-sized low volume tent is about right. Ford sells folding tonneau covers for $1,100. A tow hitch for a Lexus GX is $330. This is all extortionate. But millions in this market continue to pay the costs and find the value is worth it.

Can you find something cheaper on Amazon? Of course. But in the first-party world of $300 tow hitches and $1,100 pieces of hinged plastic, is $3K a lot? I don't know. The original reviewer says, "I think that much of the thoughtful and unique design elements might warrant the cost: it’s fairly lightweight + easy to install/remove the stowed tent from the truck, stays out of the way (unless you want to transport multiple bikes in the bed), doesn’t reduce range due to decreased aerodynamics, and has intuitive pieces that make setup + takedown a breeze." Of course this was omitted from Elektrek's copy/paste of the original review.

But I don't think the discussion is really about the appropriate cost for the Basecamp, which is what I'm really interested in. I'm reading a lot more emotion in this comment section than seems warranted for a tent.
El Grande Shayāṭīn.
So now I need to give up my privacy because I need to let Apple use my GPS / IP address?

They say it's their on-device indicator, but that could mean many things. GPS, external IP, cell phone masts...

Do I really own the device if I can't control what runs on it?
This is better than many novel
Completely anecdotal but I feel like I’ve been seeing ‘engineer’ more than ‘developer’ lately - front end web application engineer, JavaScript software engineer, etc
A buddy and I have both run into the bad IP range in Oregon. We moved to using VMs in Virginia. It wasn't worth chasing down the bad IP range. I always use a blacklist check - https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx - for instance.
Nitpick: 'didactic' should be 'eidetic'.
Maybe the "who're" in my brain was activated by the $61K rusty pickup truck?
> they'll replace traditional pianos in many scenarios

I'm not convinced. Totally VR pianos are obviously a bad idea just like totally VR keyboards for typing are rubbish for anything more complex than a wifi password.

And as for learning using VR - well, I'm not convinced by things like pianovision. How do you learn a piece with that? With sheet music I can play the music at my own speed, when and how I want. I can go back and play a measure a few times to experiment with timing. Speed up and slow down, and develop my own ear for how I want it to sound. If I'm feeling cheeky, I'll improvise extra notes in the song, or take some notes out if I'm not feeling it. At an instrument, sheet music is a polite suggestion.

I can imagine playing something like pianovision and getting good at pushing the buttons at the right time like guitar hero. But being a human shaped CD player feels like a very small part of what makes a musician.
Yeah, a lot of the tents in that price range mount on top of the vehicle and include a frame and mounting equipment to keep away from animals.
> agree, but I am thinking about scenarios where businesses get sued for consumer safety

Not for tampering by a previous owner. You can do that with a laptop
More employers now say they're willing to hire workers without a college degree
> I would rather that developers do not have the choice to choose an app store where anything goes.

That's not up to you. What you get to decide is which stores you're willing to install apps from. If lots of people refuse to install apps from unrestrictive stores then developers who want to reach those users will have to meet the requirements of more restrictive stores.

You would only not have this choice if the app has a dominant market position, and then can force you to get it from a store you don't want to use. But then your problem isn't an overabundance of trust busting, it's an insufficiency of it.
Show HN: Use SDXL fine tunes to make pro-quality maternity photoshoots at home
A policy as likely to stick in our marvelous environment of endemic corruption as banning trading by members of the legislative branch and their families.

"Rules for thee, not for me."