skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're quite right. The trouble with cartels is the incentive to cheat by offering a better price under the table is very hard to resist.

For example, auto dealers often will sign terms with the manufacturer saying they won't sell a car below a certain price. But the dealers can (and do) "cheat" on this by throwing in extended service plans, below-cost financing, a higher price on your trade-in, etc.

A common theme on HN is that people cannot negotiate prices. They can, all the time. All that's needed is to try. Even just saying "is a discount available" will often get you 10% off. (Of course, you have to be nice about it.)
Just wanted to say thanks for the interesting discussion - I learned a few things and I hope you did too!
I'm just thinking of taking up a martial art. I was considering BJJ. My main goal is to build strength, fitness and general physical discipline. Any thoughts on which martial art would be ideal, with minimal likelihood of injuries (if such a thing is possible).
Dude shit on all sorts of stuff but Noland Arbaugh's life is objectively better now and he himself certainly thinks so.
I wouldn't re-use a blade that SawStop triggered on. I assume the blade itself will go out of true based on the forces. It's a lot more damage than a few teeth.
> It's describing her own understanding & perception of her risk profile [..]

Q: Is she an [ex-]MMA fighter or a neurologist?

> it's not like they're making shit up and trying to sell it to you here

Not wishing to sound unnecessarily snarky, but she is selling her book.

I can't help but feeling that the process looks like: press release > journalist > article > clicks.

Some days, the clicks seem to be all that matters.
As someone who loves Easter eggs this is the best story I’ve read so far. Thanks for sharing it!
I hid one in an internal “time sheet” tool we had at work that would be triggered after typing 666
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> Microsoft Co-President Jim Allchin stated in a memo, "If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."

For years, our yearly training specifically warned against using violent metaphors when referencing our competitors. It was probably because of that memo, huh?
I didn't expect the twist there, nice work on the lyrics!

I feel the suno-generated song itself lacks congruency. Like, you could listen to it 10 times, have the lyrics in front of you, and not be able to sing along.
And yet the website domain name is "nature.com", not even a HTTP subdomain involved.
Hanging clothes on a clothes line to dry only works you dont live somewhere with frequent rain
You, and I, and everyone else talking about this... we evolved to live in small bands of humans, never more than maybe 200 total. That we would have sane responses or reactions to a gather of 1,000 people haranguing us is impossible. A caveman who had 1,000 people mocking and insulting and screeching at him would shut down mentally. And you and I are still that caveman. 100,000? Brain explodes.

And that's what's happening right now, today. It's short circuiting any possible counter-reaction we could have to abuse. This is why everyone's sort of worried about cancellation, but we're also a little reluctant to talk about it too. I see no evidence that the problem is about to correct itself and end up being no big deal. I see alot of evidence that it's only just stumbling around and will become an even bigger problem... the people participating in this stuff, they're learning new tricks, learning to self-organize better. We'll have shit like anonymous tutorials about how to look someone up and ruin their lives perfectly efficiently ("Then, call and ask for the HR department between the hours of 10am and 11:20am local, because that's when they're most receptive. Please use this verbiage, in a slow and calm voice."). Even my example's bad, I can't keep up with the state-of-the-art.
You probably don't really have a proper data engineering teams -- they are most likely BI disguised as DE -- don't ask me how I know it.
Well, I can mostly speak to Japan, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was also true in China.

The long hours of Japanese work culture are true, but simultaneously, there's a lot of wasted time. Japan evens praises sleeping at the office, when you're clearly getting no work done.

This might be limited to white-collar office workers; no idea about people on the factory floor.
Trying to Manage My macOS Windows All in One Virtual Desktop
The "37" is the most common answer for how humans pick a random number.
Right, like I wrote, it's probably jacking rents up some.

But empty units are empty units and too many of them means you need to lower prices or you are losing out on money because you don't make anything from empty homes.

And whatever effects this has (I'm curious to see what comes out off the lawsuit), you're just not going to be able to say "wow, look at how much landlords in San Francisco are making.... gosh, I want to double my rents!" if you're in a place without a tightly constrained housing supply.
There is an investigation ongoing. Things like these take time. There's no point in informing the public about every action undertaken during the investigation, because the entity being investigated may take appropriate precautions.

Anyway, don't despair just yet. And yeah, I also wish it wouldn't take that long.
Lets built houses out of wood mixed with oil and then make regulation to make it firesafe.
My point is that they managed a way into the market and held market share with considerable doubt against them.
Real dollars that go to the poorest people's pockets to pay for food for undernourished children.

Not everyone is as rich as you. For the people who are, you can donate your nickels to your city every year.
Related:

JavaScript Allongé is free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476337 - Oct 2013 (51 comments)
>""The system is currently working just fine, but we know that with each increasing year, risk of data degradation on the floppy disks increases and that at some point there will be a catastrophic failure," Tumlin told ABC7."

Do they know that floppy can be backed up?
beating everyone else to the land fill
Won’t WebDAV sync the whole file every time? I can’t imagine webdav being superior for this than Dropbox’s block level syncing.

Especially if Joplin files are anything like OneNote files and have the whole content of a workbook as a single file.
Japan is doing away with 3 1/2 floppies . https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/floppy-disk-requirem...
This helped me. In class now and the first ever accounting course I've taken. It's hard to wrap your head around without any background.

Thank you!
We are not trying to make any profit. Open Soure will come.

We've just added english and did not jet update any content. I don't think the way the data is stored is problematic.
If all this turns out to be useless, burning their cash for nothing seems like a great way to accelerate tech while going down. I guess that would actually be a positive thing.
I have an Oasis 2 (2017 or so timeframe). What would be a good option that's similar to it? I love the screen size, the flush screen (I understand the Oasis is glass rather than plastic), and the page turn buttons are all pretty important to me.

KOReader sounds interesting and the built in Libby support is kind of rad sounding.
I didn't say he wasn't "allowed", I said it was "weird". It is weird, and potentially concerning. I don't really see how you can disagree with that. It's not a civilian's job to try and intervene with foreign policy. I don't know enough about law to say what he did was "legal", but assuming that it is, it's still weird.

What would probably be illegal is taking money from Russian in exchange for disabling it, and then claiming it was to prevent nuclear war, which is why I think it might be worth investigating bank accounts. I'm not a lawyer, though, so it might just be "gross", and not illegal.

This isn't even getting into the fact that he tweeted multiple times about how he would solve the Ukraine conflict, around the same time, basically just saying "Ukraine should surrender to Russia cuz it'll save lives".

> If the Biden administration disagreed, they could have used executive power to force him to do whatever they wanted, he said as much publicly. The government has done this before in the past.

The US isn't officially directly involved with the conflict so I don't actually know that they could force him. They're providing funding and the like, but I don't know that they could use any kind of wartime acts without direct involvement into the war.

I know he says that the Biden administration could force it, but, for the millionth time, he lies an awful lot, and never takes responsibility for anything, so it's hard to know if that's actually true.
That seems to be common in US infrastructure projects. If it isn't a megaproject, is it even worth attempting? /s
I love the black and white boox as a low tech device. I do a lot more reading and a log less mindless scrolling on my boox tablet. There's also grayscale chrome and firefox plugins if you want to see what it's like.
There is an inundation of foreign nationals holding in various camps and temporary housing that are fueling inflation (gov’t money printing, aka fraud) and will drive price increases soon as they start being interleaved into society.

The other side of the equation is also that the same inundation of foreign nationals into the system will drive down wages.

We are all riding the dragon. We shall see how it unravels.
> Demand for a roof over one's head is inelastic.

Quite the contrary. In my younger days, I could not afford an apartment. So what did I do? I got together with a friend who could not afford an apartment, either, and we shared an apartment.

I've also rented a house with multiple roommates to bring the cost down.
the CIA and army works like the OG fortune 500 mega corp.

most of those anecdotes were likely detrimental to the good overall outcome, but they work as great promotion and effectiveness signal for some expensive team.

like some google PM boasting how they sold more pixels because of some dumb feature that actually annoyed all users, and everyone just bought pixels because the competition for even worse... but saying it was because that feature gets him and his director and their vp a promotion.
Something I saw in my own family (I have a family member who is a recovering addict) and in literally every single episode of Intervention is that THE prerequisite to recovery is to stop enabling the addict. Many (most?) addictions are only possible because an enabler prevents the outside world from acting as a forcing function on the addict. So typically this would be a parent who provides food, shelter, money, etc. Once an addict has to provide those things for themselves, it starts a cycle that results in sobriety. Of course, this doesn't always work and the people who it doesn't work for are often the people you see living on the street. But this has been the process for every recovering addict I know and my addict-in-recovery family member says the same about every recovering addict they know (a lot).

It doesn't sound like your brother is exactly an addict (although maybe...), but this snippet sure sounds like he has an enabler in his life (emphasis mine):

> no job, no interest in work, no interest in getting out of the house
I would think anyone having outstanding financial leadership ability, who cares about the financial shortfall resulting from this kind of irregularity, would seriously consider recovering an amount equal to the misdirected funds (and then some) using the Airbnb technique.
The article says they tried running both in the same model--and found abortion was a far bigger factor than lead.
Are we arguing direction or rate of change in velocity?
I'm not saying anything about the Chinese protections merely the US protections.
As a 36 year old, I still don't understand what people find so compelling or addicting about social media.

OK you can argue that HN is social media, and so I understand the reason why I like to participate in this site.

However, I am just a username and comments. I don't understand the (bigger?) social media where you post all the details and photos of your life online like facebook, instagram, and twitter, etc.

I never seemed to have a problem keeping in touch with family, friends and making new friends with my hobbies by just using in person meeting, phone calls, and basic text messaging services.
I am an elected official (12 years and elected six times in Illinois) unfortunately seeing this process work over 12 years is discouraging. For example President Obama allocated 8 billion dollars for high sped passenger rail service improvements. By 2017 almost 2 billion of this money had been spent on railroad improvements / railroad crossings and line inspections.
Fast forward to 2024 no high speed rails have actually been built. For example Chicago Illinois was to get a line from Iowa City to Quad Cities to Chicago (straight line). This project was fully funded at one point but Iowa and Illinois had (still have) a disagreement on bridge repairs connecting the states.

Now Governor Pritzer has authorized a new high speed rail commission to try and get this project going again.

In a nutshell .. Rail project between Iowa City and Chicago was fully funded as of 2016… all that actually happened is some rail road crossing were improved.. lines were inspected and no actual new lines constructed. Instead 1 out of the 2 billion was spend on “engineering” costs and compliance paperwork … which now has expired and need to be redone if the project is to be completed.

The amount of money spent on compliance paperwork and “engineering” is staggering. Many six figure salaries depend on slightly altering existing engineered projects to meet compliance requirements for projects that are never built. From waste treatment upgrades, water treatment, road improvement, traffic studies, on and on. The amount of money spent on services that are not finished or lead to an actual project is absolutely staggering … entire industries depend on this inefficiency and lobby effectively to keep things “obtuse”.
Or very high ambient humidity (which I guess causes frequent rain)
You managed to find the only context imaginable in which the joke didn't work!
It works just fine indoors.
So what? I went on Amazon and I see tons of color e-readers already
In crypto we are worried about the best case scenario (from the attacker’s perspective).

Randomization in algorithms, to avoid worst case behavior, would be things like shuffling input, XORing hashes for query parameters per run or per hash table, or using random tiebreakers.
you mock, but someone much smarter than you or me had this to say:

"Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form."
A new bill wants to reveal what's inside AI training data
I started playing around with ADS-B and military aircraft are all over the place, at least on the east coast of the USA.

In fact, this Seahawk just flew over: https://globe.airplanes.live/?icao=ae6904
> you're dead and no longer exist.

The Greeks felt you pass twice, first when you die and then when no one who said your name is still alive. So this might extend that second phase a little for this cohort.
some things never change.

nsa today is full of furies. pretty much all the staff out of Hawaii (analysts) and Langley (liaisons) is all furies and anime girls avatars on the employee chat thing i can't name.
> If this tool allows a market to be a bit collude-y, it may add a bit to rents, and it's worth suing them to see what comes out.

When I buy stocks, the price is set across the country, anyone can get a quote and see what it is at the moment. Is that collusion?
Adding logos to QR codes, changing colors or replacing squares with circles in QR code is a CS sophomore weekend project at best. It's really fun and quite easy to do. You don't even need to understand Reed-Solomon codes for that.

This project, however, doesn't even do it. It just imports popular react library `react-qrcode-logo` [1] which does all the job (few dozens lines, really) [2].

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-qrcode-logo

[2] https://github.com/gcoro/react-qrcode-logo/blob/master/lib/i...
Is it ''?

Or is it ,,,,,,,

Or is it tabtabtabtab

Or perhaps it's "NULL,NULL,NULL"

My part of my work is data ingestion and I've seen all these (and more) as answers to the "empty values" question.

I'm not saying that other formats aren't without their problems, they certainly are. However, CSV doesn't just have those problems, it has multiple other problems on top of them.

It's a basic idea with really obvious edge cases addressed in multiple ways depending on who is producing these documents.
If you don’t like Spotify:
https://www.otherppl.com/
Google Photos' enhanced editing tools will no longer require a subscription
How about you hang your clothes indoors when it's raining inside? I've been doing that for years in a rainy country in a tiny studio apartment. No issues.
What’s the command line?
People are bailing on Safari after DMA makes changing defaults easier
Would an example of putting in effort to maintain residuals be providing software updates and infotainment system hardware upgrades to owners?

Because those are two things that Tesla is doing that nobody else is doing at all or very well.

https://www.tesla.com/support/infotainment
This version should have [2019] in the title.
Agreed. Developers and consumers already have a relationship with repository platforms - it makes sense to integrate the monetisation or paid support channel there.

Can I coin the term ‘pay per pull’ (not that I think that’s the best approach)? Perhaps you could pay with a freshly minted CommitCoin?
Any color at all would be invaluable for diagrams, schematics, graphs/plots and other reference material where different subsystems, pipes/cables, datasets, etc are distinguished by color.
What are your feelings on production and propagation of "foods" rich in refined sugar?

To be clear, I find your thoughts interesting and worth understanding, but if you also believe that the government has zero business in public health decisions involving refined sugars, then we just fundamentally disagree about what good governance is. (nevermind the social media element, which is new and evolving and a higher-dimensional problem space)

And that's ok. I will likely vote and conspire against the interests of people like this (with that view of government) until I the day I die (or my mind is changed), and cultivate communities that openly resist building the world based on those assumptions.
Please link or provide a product name, I've been looking for something like that!
Yup, and exposing pointers in a gc language was a mistake as it blocks this. It limits (efficient) applications to small deployments
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Myth and folklore has always been used as an instrument for defining culture and reinforcing it. Nothing is a better example of this than the myriad of Bibles produced during Charlemagne's rein, and these manuscripts are the progenitors of the English bible. A source for the curious, https://www.purecambridgetext.com/post/charlemagne-and-the-e...

So what does this author consider “psyops”, exactly? I assume anything that subverts the culture being maintained by the ruling class in the current time for a given place.
So, just so we are clear, your stance is the following:

You can't believe anything Elon says because he is a liar and lies "all the time", but you can can also accuse of being a Russian asset based on no evidence ?

He didn't say surrender, he said negotiate a peace deal (in Istanbul), and as controversial that was a year ago, it's clear as day today that it is correct.

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-great-risk-front-lin...

Apparently the US media convinced people like you that Ukraine could actually win the war, when common sense and basic math should have shown you there was never a chance. How many innocent Ukraine were sent to the death as cannon fodder, we will never know. Musk stance was right about Ukraine, we certainly know that now.
The JVM and GC have a learning curve for the people implementing the database. But most users wouldn't get exposed to any of that. And if you manage it properly, things work fine. I've used Elasticsearch (and Opensearch) for many years. This is not really an issue these days. It was 10 years ago when JVM garbage collection was a lot less advanced than it is these days. These days, that stuff just works. I haven't had to tune GC for at least half a decade on the JVM. It's become a complete and utter non issue.

There are many valid reasons to pick other products but Elasticsearch is pretty good and fast at what it does. I've seen it ingest content at half a million documents per second. No stutters. Nothing. Just throw data at it and watch it keep up with that for an hour sustained (i.e. a bit over a billion documents). CPUs maxed out. This was about as fast as it went. We threw more data at it and it slowed down but it didn't die.

That data of course came from kafka being passed through a bunch of docker processes (Scala). All JVM based. Zero GC tuning needed. There was lots of other tuning we did. But the JVM wasn't a concern.
German high speed trains used 3.5" floppies to update seat reservations until ~2016.
Because the problem is what Google did to the standard in opposition to just about every non-Google group, not that there was a standard called "manifest v3" at all.
You're confused, apparently thinking there is only one goal: fund software development.

But that's incorrect, there are at least two goals: ensure that software development can continue, and provide users (whoever they may be) with some approximation of GNU's Four Freedoms (freedom to use, freedom to study, freedom to modify, freedom to distribute).

At least, those are the minimal two goals for anyone interested in FLOSS.
Well said. It's actually not complicated or arbitrary. It also works effectively in practice over the gdp of the known universe. If you are savvy enough to be interested in and understand the different computing approaches to double-entry bookkeeping, one can assume the whole DR/CR concept isn't beyond you.
Definitely BJJ. Just avoid mainly competition gyms, and you'll be fine. Look for a school that offers a fundamentals class (most gyms do, but... competition gyms lack in this regard).

Muay Thai has also been okay. It's brutal when you first start (RIP your toes and shins), but the sparring at my current gym is very relaxed, nobody is trying to kill you. This is how most muay thai gyms should be (not saying they are).
> they are as old as the hackintosh community.

Serial spoofing is, but Apple cracks down on that too: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/t9p5ff/psa_usin...

It's really not fair to say that the scene was "just fine" up until Beeper went commercial. In those 10-15 years, there were a lot of changes intended to segregate Hackintoshes from Macintoshes.

> There is a difference between commercial exploitation and hobbyist usage

What damages would Apple claim? That people didn't buy iPhones to use their insular and potentially-illegal messaging service? That they abused the same resources that millions of unknowing users exploit for free daily?

It's Apple's call to pull the cord whenever they want, but it's also entirely their decision to keep iMessage a walled garden. It's impossible for you to redirect the vitriol towards Beeper when the only thing they did "wrong" was sell a solution to an Apple-designed problem.
I've always just used a regular dull-ish wood blade... never died. Survivorship bias?