skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on where you're going and I'll usually price both, but in the US I've usually found that a full-home Airbnb with two bedrooms is as cheap as an acceptably sized hotel room, with the added benefit of an easier checkin and checkout, no next-wall neighbors to worry about, and a full suite including kitchen and living room.

The only time lately where a hotel has made more sense for us has been when we're intentionally choosing the cheapest possible motel because we're arriving late and leaving early (a stop on a road trip).

Edit: I should probably clarify that my kids are light sleepers and won't go down easily while there's movement in the room, so the standard cramped-quarters 2xQueen arrangement that hotels offer isn't really viable for us for a longer stay. We need a space where the adults can go while the kids go to sleep.
>Money--overall monetary takes are down across the board.

If this is the case across the board, it can't be an indicator of decreasing quality. It's more likely that with the internet and streaming, box office revenues simply matter less than they once did. Everyone is competing with streaming and the internet, no one wants to go to a theater anymore.

Same with music. No one cares about Billboard anymore now that everything is on Soundcloud and Spotify, and no matter how niche someone's tastes are, there's probably an entire ecosystem of content for it. I recently found out dungeon synth was a thing.

>Innovation--its documented that everything is now IP sequels and the number of original things is way down.

Where is it documented? Show me the documentation. I doubt that if you combined all movies releasing this year in theaters, and everything on every streaming service, that even half would be sequels.

>Impact--which artists and decades were playing at the last wedding you went to? Yeah, thought so.

What's your thesis here? That no modern music is ever played at weddings? That music played at weddings is an objective measure of artistic quality and cultural impact? Why even bother asking this question if you're going to answer on my behalf?

But as far as impact goes, again, it's simply impossible for any music to have the same impact in the internet age as it did pre-internet. That isn't an indicator of quality going down, it's an indicator of the scope of available media becoming so broad and diffuse that no one thing, regardless of quality, can capture the market like it did when pop culture was more centralized.
Dust on Mars is quite problematic. Perhaps worse than lunar dust. Even exploring Mars and returning --without a dust hazard--is unlikely to succeed in this century.
Radar Chart - Custom Label appears to have illegible markings and the "February" label gets cut off to Februa in other radar charts.
Don't listen to the grinches that stole Swift. Electron is fine. We have lots of RAM. Just make it good. Data scientists won't care.
That implies the reverse! That DevOps is hotter than ever.
" there are benefits to security by obscurity when its part of a layered approach with constant maintenance and feedback"

im not sure i understand what this means, can you provide an example and why its controversial?

do you mean a one time pad using memes via image steganography on heavy traffic forums? I recall this is what North Korean spies used to do in early 2000s
I wouldn't go out of my way to this store, but it is next to some places I frequent. I would not waste another 30 minutes of my time going to a completely different store in some attempt to avoid being an "unpaid employee", my time is valuable.
And demand got even smaller after Planet Labs proved you dont need fancy radiation hardened spec parts for modern medium life missions https://www.wired.com/story/planet-labs/
Lots of people use both VSCode and native Jupyter notebooks that would love this app as it develops.
CGRP blockers are the true magic. 6 years ago I had the worst cycle yet, wanted to end it. Found a neurologist who actually knew his shit and understands the pain, he got me injectable sumatriptan and emgality. 6 years of no attacks, stress has recently brought on a cycle so scheduled a nerve block to break it. If you suffer from clusters you need to talk to your doctor about getting on these injections, they saved my life.
Or, private equity buys up all the homes and rents them or AirBNBs them (or both) and then uses their massive asset equity to buy more homes. This natural pressure raises the prices, and thus their asset value which lets them acquire more and more. Build more houses? Feed the beast.

FIRST prevent housing investment in all forms. Then build more homes.
> Where you go, what you buy; a perfect snapshot of millions of ordinary lives. They were betting that this would be the currency of the future, as fundamental as oil: the stuff that rules the world.8

>They were wrong,

The fact that both Google and Facebook are based on precisely this suggests to me that it is not the theory that is wrong but the execution of the other examples. Uber - where you drive - just isn’t all that interesting to advertisers

I’d say the more important perspective is one of walled garden. The companies with tight walled gardens seem to succeed the best at hijacking these personal behavioural exhausts of data aka surveillance capitalism etc
> a one time pad is and will remain highly secure

A one-time pad generated correctly and used correctly will remain highly secure, provided you have a highly secure means of sharing the key material. There's a lot rolled into those assumptions.
good god...please dont tell me theres a subreddit for this
The pandemic killed a fantastic meetup called "Papers We Love" here in San Diego. I miss the many great people (and papers) I met through PWL, and would be thrilled to see something like it again.

If not, we're just going to have to jump-start it ourselves.
Security by obsolescence
I use one of the gTLD for my email, don’t recommend it. A lot of places don’t accept it.
It's not only a refund. It's a refund + $300 credits.

Have fun doing accounting for those credits.
Heat killed the servers too :p
> what has changed since 2020 and 2021, exactly

For starters, the virus itself has changed.
It's hard not to imagine Google giving a little wink as they hand over that check.
You can think of Cal as the non-med school portion of UCSF. We think of the East Bay as non-SF, but the perceived distance is mostly water psychology. If you glued Emeryville to the SF waterfront, it'd be way closer to downtown than SF State.

I'm not familiar with LA traffic and transit, but I would not be surprised if it took way longer to get to UCLA from the LA City Hall than to Cal from SF's. It's harder to walk there though, at least until 2030.[1]

It's true that SF culture is dispersed, but that's sort of intentional, a hyper-local city of neighborhoods.

[1] https://oaklandside.org/2022/12/20/bay-bridge-bike-path-on-t...
I wrote a docker network plugin once which interfaced with a VDE virtual switch. The benefit was that the switch was user space and pipes based, so technically you could wire more things into it (like packet droppers) without messing with your hosts networking stack.

The motivation was I wanted to use more easily customized dockerized services to test bare-metal system images boot process - which required a bunch of stuff (like DHCP, config management etc.) to be "available" on the network but more easily swapped out.

This actually worked great! You could use QEMU to spin up a machine, have a DHCP container assign it an ethernet address but then reserve an IP range on the docker network for docker to launch containers into.

It also meant you could bridge into the virtual network easily and without any host IP stack interactions - just launch an interactive container onto the network (or launch it with two interfaces, one on the "real" network so you could provide internet connectivity).

I wanted to get around to testing failure states, but it never ultimately came up.
That's an interesting thought. However, it assumes that the problem scales with the number of transistors, i.e. O(N). I expect that the complexity of place and route algorithms is worse than O(N), which means the algorithms will fall behind as the number of transistors increases. (Technically, the algorithms are NP-complete so you're doomed, but what matters is the complexity of the heuristics.)
You show every single millennial in the world a picture of Messi then a picture of Zuck, Zuck will lead, for sure.

If you show Elon Musk the same will be true. Messi is more popular, not more known.
> because everyone who cares about it has condensed on the Mac platform

This elitist and incorrect viewpoint has plagued macs for a very long time. I wish it would die.
Definitely, they have been shot down lots as I mentioned. The problem is that they are cheap enough to have lots of them that can saturate the defenses. The Houthis and Iranians haven't been able to arrange mass attack, either cause they are drones or couldn't assemble enough at once.

One other factor is that they mostly work for shore defense since carrier or aircraft would use more effective weapons.

Direct hit would hurt a carrier. I don't we have warhead sizes for Iranian ones but normal anti-ship missiles are 500-1000lb. Those probably wouldn't sink but could cripple it, forcing it to withdraw or knocking it out of action which makes more vulnerable.
28 Days Later (my QUIC journey)
Amazon could reduce this PR disaster by organising to give returned Astros to school programming clubs. Along with a way to hack the firmware, of course.
Implementing a whole ass new W3 spec is not something for a single contractor working on donations to do. That's a recipe for never finishing.
Off the top of my head the way I would this:

* On the back end request the third party code and then associate that code with a hash sequence.

+ On the backend dynamically modify the html such that there is a div tag with an id whose value is the hash sequence. Also modify the html such that there is a script tag that requests the third party code from your domain. For tracking purposes you add the hash value to a data attribute on that script tag.

* On the back end modify that third party code such that all instances of document. and window. are replaced by document.getElementById(hash_value). and all query selectors begin with #hash_value.

* You would to replace .parentNode in the Element prototype with a custom property that checks for and drops escape from the providdd container.

Then send the html document to the browser. If the third party code breaks that is ok. The constraints should be communicated to the third party and it’s up to them to test their own code before sending it to your server. All you care about is that their code does not escape the dynamically provided container. Test this regularly on your side to look for security violations.

Also, this may not work, but it would be fun to experiment with.
I am genuinely curious about such not-so-infrequent reports of finding metals like arsenic/lead etc in various commonly used items. Are these metals such essential/common part of modern industrial processing that chances of them being everywhere is inherently higher? If so, is it that much cost prohibitive to change the processing to remove them from the final product? Even if so, how come they haven't been removed due to the massive scaling/improvement of production process that we have witnessed in the last few decades?
The ruling does not seem to say that impeachment removes the immunity.
As the article mentions, producing an optimal layout is an optimisation problem where the related decision problem is NP-complete. Even laying out standard cells has to be done using heuristic solutions - blowing up the size of the problem by going from cells to transistors just makes that worse.

The logic is built out of standard gates and logic blocks like flip-flops anyway, so the overhead of using standard cells that implement those building blocks likely isn't too great.
Yeah. I think it's the result of conflating theoretical cryptography and practical IT security. Kerckhoffs's principle is true in the theoretical domain and it's certainly important that the designers of standardised crypto algorithms adhere to it but it doesn't follow that it's pointless to change your SSH port.
I’m skeptical of the claim that short-term rental clampdown is the main factor influencing NYC’s $300-a-night average hotel room rate these days.

It seems likely also to have to do with the decision [0] to convert 20% of the city’s stock of hotels to shelters even
as demand rebounded post-COVID. Primarily the stock on the cheaper end of the market.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/nyregion/hotels-prices-mi...?
Yes and it's still incredibly cheap. Demand relative to supply is what you need to look at to see if we need to go to the expense and effort of making more methane out of CO2.
That is amazing.

Security by obsolescence.
BTW, if you can hack Astro, you can hack Alexa...
Imagine that: if you ignore all the government regulations that are put in place to protect people, you can provide a cheaper service.

I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
The point of that quote seems quite clear to me: an Airbnb with 2+ separated rooms is qualitatively different than an extra large hotel room.
No more long list of chores to do when I go to my hotel?
I travel places with one or zero hotels. Remote areas near skiing or parks, the other option is not going.

Also I’ve found even if a hotel is a bit cheaper we can save hundreds by cooking ourselves. Especially with two teens. This is doable in some hotels but not well.

The insane cleaning fees and chores are the downsides and requires me to be vigilant. For places I go a lot, I connect with the LL offline and do it privately. ToS be darned.
I'd like to know why AWS went with Aurora DB for their DocumentDB backend. Did the Mongo license change trigger a rush to build something Mongo compatible, but not quite MongoDB?
The military is pretty good at coordinating complex engineering projects in secret.
Barcelona has a population of 1.6 million people and Spain has an average household size of 2.5. This means that the 10k rentals that will return to the housing market will house about 25k people, or 1.5% of the current population of Barcelona.

That's not nothing, but it's pretty clearly not going to make a substantial impact on housing prices.
99% of my social media engagement is on anonymous social media because whatever I do on real-identity social media is either broadcast to everyone I know by the platform (FB, LinkedIn, Twitter), or becomes indexed by search engines, and unfortunately my firstname+lastname is globally unique.

In fact I would say this is the singular reason why Facebook declined. I just don't want my 8th grade classmate to see that I liked my cousin's wedding photos 20 years later, y'know?
One of the silliest things I have seen them doing is trying to refreeze parts of the tundra to stop oil pipeline issues. Literally trying to solve the issue they have a hand in causing.

But so long as it is profitable combined with globalized game theory of resources, this will continue far longer than seems rational.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thawing-permafros...

>To safeguard the pipeline from possible collapse, the pipeline operator, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, was granted permission earlier this year by the natural resources department to construct the passive cooling system to arrest the thaw of permafrost that is essential to locking the supports in the ground and keeping the slope from slumping or sliding. Alyeska is installing approximately 100 free-standing thermosyphons 40 to 60 feet into the ground. Construction is expected to take 120 days and will also include a three-foot layer of insulating wood chips atop the permafrost.
Sure, plus at that point they don't have utility. But still, the government has a track record of secret keeping and silencing entire organizations.
At Wimbledon, the Human Eye Keeps Dropping the Ball (2023)
I'm surprised that they didn't find a market for the `.off` TLD.
Starfish Are Just Heads
Government regulations aren't there to protect all people, they're there to make house prices go up infinitely by artificially restricting supply. And also to protect white people from Black people (redlining).
Yeah I can’t see myself every subscribing for the discount or something, but it has a lot of value as exactly that.

The coffee I like isn’t available anywhere near me. And even if it was, it’s just one more thing to stay on top of because I damn sure don’t want to run out.

I go through it consistently enough that I just haven’t had to think about coffee in probably two years. Every once in a while I open my door and some has appeared and that’s exactly when I realize I was running low.
For example:

A Tesla battery is roughly 80kWh, and costs $5k - $10k. If it were $3/kWh then it would cost $240. And since most home batteries are 10kWh they would cost $30 (plus electrician labor costs and wiring).
I think a more important question is what is the value in "catering to this segment of travellers"? The article goes into that near the end, but it doesn't benefit me to have tourists come to my city. Whereas living next to an AirBnB does impose costs on me.
Is it really a disaster? They cancelled a thing that most people probably didn't even know existed until yesterday. In that sense, it is like Google.
ex-AWS here. No, plenty of projects get built and released without a truly rigorous working backwards process. PRFAQs (working backwards document) do get written, but wouldn't say PMs and GMs always have the highest bar for being evidence driven.
The kids would probably be more successful in figuring out innovative usages for the product.
I can’t find the link, but i read that food deserts are mostly there as a result of market effects, i.e. insufficient customers bought fresh fruits and vegetables from shops in that area, so they closed.
It was fun to do the animation by hand and get it to look how I wanted. I'm sure there are libraries for it... I also wanted to encourage people to click the starfish. Open to suggestions on the UI!
Have you tried out being the executive yet?
In the US at least, the practice of owning and renting a home isn't something that Airbnb invented - it's something people have been doing for many many decades. And while it might have been a reasonable critique that Airbnb skirted regulations in its early days, the practice is almost always heavily regulated where it is allowed today.
Exactly. The problem there is the same as the problem in every city where housing costs have gone way up: they aren't building enough new units. It's really as simple as that; it's a simply supply-and-demand issue. And generally the reason they aren't building new units is because of zoning restrictions.
OP here. Since, while the tournament is going on, it's a year later & they are still clinging to the old system, it seems right to bring this up again.

[Amazingly, there are no new stories in 2024 on this topic that I could find.]
Study measuring toxic metals in tampons shows arsenic, lead, other contaminants

Article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-toxic-metals-tampons-...

Full paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

HN: 2 days ago | 3 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40879497
See https://go.dev/blog/declaration-syntax for the rationale.
I Like Dumb Plans
Boat swarms, like cheap cruise missiles, are more useful for shore defense. Carriers operate further out, either out of range, or plenty of time to detect them. But it may make amphibious operations impossible.

They are also something new that nobody has developed defenses for. The US has working on small boat defense, so maybe improved guns will work for drones.

One variant that would be interesting are semi-submersible drones.
I don't know that it is so much these metals being added as part of industrial processes as that these metals are found naturally in the environment in a wide array of common materials. As a result of using these materials in manufacturing, the metals end up in the final product. Test equipment is getting more and more sensitive, and cheaper, so it is getting easier to detect very small amounts of these metals.

That doesn't mean they are "safe". It means the metals are pervasive on earth, and as we get better technology, hopefully we can do more to remove them from products where they are a danger.
it has never been easier to make games.

libraries, frameworks, and vertically integrated stacks (consoles) are plentiful and of varying but generally good quality.

it has never been easier to distribute games.

steam, console stores, mobile app stores, or a binary in r2 behind a cf worker.

it has never been cheaper to run game servers.

ovh metal is $100/month for 1Gbps unmetered egress and 4 fast cpu cores.

it has never been easier to learn to code or to learn a new lang.

gpt4.

it has never been easier to run a live tv show about gaming.

twitch, kick, yt, or nginx rtmp to cf r2.

it has never been easier to join or create an async community.

discord.

hardware has never been better or cheaper.

while this has always been true, it is a factor. 7800x3d 7900xtx 1440p240 is an insane build, especially as a first pc.

people are building and streaming and gaming 24/7 and it’s amazing.

what will be released tomorrow? what is being built today? who just decided to learn to code and will code daily for the rest of their life?

can’t wait to read about it and watch it live in the morning tomorrow.
Which gTLD? I was thinking of using .land for email aliasing?
From the Wikipedia page linked above:

> Seven Republican senators joined all Democratic and independent senators in voting to convict Trump, the largest bipartisan vote for an impeachment conviction of a U.S. president or former U.S. president. After the vote on the acquittal, Mitch McConnell said, "There's no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day." but he voted against conviction due to his interpretation of the United States Constitution.

It's worth noting that the Supreme Court ruling here probably disagrees with McConnell's interpretation of the Constitution in a way that should have changed his vote.
The brands were not named in the paper.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
>But Mozilla argues advertising is 100% essential.

Citation needed. I realize they get a ton of money (probably most of their funding in fact) from Google, but still have they actually made such a statement? For now at least, they support ad-blockers a lot better than Chrome (because of Manifest v2).
Nice! I've been meaning to reach out for a while. Didn't know that photomatt = Matt Mullenweg :)

Over the last 12 years, I've bootstrapped and built an open source platform to power Web 2.0 (social) and 3.0 (transactional) portals. You can see it at https://intercoin.org/overview.pdf

My team and I have long wanted to integrate them with Wordpress. This is our roadmap: https://qbix.com/ecosystem

I'll reach out and email you tonight. (greg at the domain qbix.com)
Bardcore and Neo-Medieval vs. Actual Medieval Music [video]
This game brings me so much nostalgia. I used to play SC when I was a middle school student from 2000 to 2002. I was so good at the game that around my age group I was probably the best in Seoul. I also participated at a pro tournament (ongamenet I believe), but lost to NaDa during the knockout stage. Then I moved to the states so I stopped playing.
To be fair, hollywood productions hardly ever touch the whitehouse or policies playing out and showing effects, to the point where it almost seems like the lack of coverage is perhaps even intentional imho. I did a very quick internet search on "movies about the white house" just because I was drawing such a blank and I only get White House Down, Olympus has fallen, and Independence day as the main search results.