skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I remember when Amazon Prime first started, I signed up for the free trial to get free shipping on something. Of course, I forgot about it and didn’t cancel, but then I got an email from Amazon saying, “hey, you didn’t cancel your prime subscription but you also haven’t used it at all, so we are going to not charge you and cancel it for now. Here is how you easily restart your subscription if you end up needing it”

It was such a wonderful feeling that clearly impacted me so much I remember it some 20 years later. I gained SO MUCH loyalty to Amazon after that, and sure enough, I restarted my prime subscription a bit later when I got a better job and started ordering more stuff. They made so much more money off me because they sacrificed those few dollars for one month of my subscription fee to show me they weren’t just trying to make me forget to cancel.

Amazon today would never do that, of course, but man I think more companies should if they want long term, loyal, customers.
You know what's strange? I recall living through the 90s and the utter panic experienced by people like me, that CTS was going to destroy our livelihoods. My sister attained a dual college degree late in life, landed a cool job, and within a couple of years she was on permanent disability due to CTS, and other wrist issues.

But I've somehow been immune to injury and debilitating ailments like that. I've used keyboards since 1986, 30 WPM at the outset and worked up to 100 WPM consistently. I've used computers in my career, hobbies, and recreation time, practically every waking hour, say 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. Plus the one-hand mousing for decades (I tried left-hand mousing for a while, just to mix it up.)

Lately I've been embracing voice dictation to good effect, and the recognition is approaching a usable level, but only for ordinary text entry. If I were compelled to write code, or issue UI commands via voice... ouch!

Today I suffer from a lot of chronic pain, joint aches, stiffness and cramps, but it's generalized, and not yet debilitating on any given day. I have more trouble walking and carrying loads than typing. I feel like it's miraculous that injury hasn't slowed me down yet. I've never had a significant ergonomic setup, good posture or technique. I wish someone would study me and find out my secrets.
What Gmail Did to Email
Has anyone put together a good and regularly updated decision tree for what model to use in different circumstances (VRAM limitations, relative strengths, licensing, etc.)? Given the enormous zoo of models in circulation, there must be certain models that are totally obsolete.
Robert was not only incredibly generous and talented, but he was always so friendly and humble. Fond memories of that period of time.
I did some Algol programming back in the late 80s - when it had mostly been obsoleted by Pascal, Modula, and even C for what we called "structured programming" back then.

I remember it as a likeable, economical, expressive language, without significant warts, and which had clearly been influential by being ahead of its time.

So my guess is that Hofstadter was just referring to its practical elegance - rather than the more theoretical elegance of Lisp.
"Fees" on top of the top line price should be illegal. It's just a way to smuggle in a 100% increase in the purchase price to get an initial buy in for a product. It is super scammy.

Heck, I would even take this a step further and say that taxes as well should always be fully included in the topline price. If a company wants to add a breakdown of how much went to taxes, I'm ok with that.

The sticker price should always be the full price.
> We’re looking for developers with or without experience in Rust. You just need to be interested in browser technologies.

Well, both that and the ability to work on a project that requires you to run a toolchain whose minimum barrier to entry wrt resource use and developer experience makes the C++ ecosystem that preceded it seem lean and inclusive.
I'll have to check it out! :)
If it does, then "record profits" sure is a bizarre way to punish them.
I don't think this is a bad idea. Each month you would confirm whether you want to continue with the service, and if you say no or don't respond, it stops. If you think this would be annoying, then pay for a year (or more) in advance. This method would in theory reduce/remove the ability for folks to perform mid-month chargebacks under the guise of "I forgot to cancel".
It actually is a real pain to put the headset on and off frequently. Much, much more so than earbuds. It's a major UX issue.

I don't even really see people take off headphones in this scenario, just uncovering an ear. It would be fairly hilarious to see someone lift up one side of an AR headset to make (singular) eye contact, tho.
Yeah, it's not height itself that's the problem, it's body shape. As just one example: some people have long torsos and short legs, others long legs and short torsos. Those two groups will have wildly different BMI curves even at similar health levels.
I can sum up my position as this:

1. the original intent of the law was so further away from this scenario that it isn't really applicable in any form. You can see from the first clause that they envisioned a scenario where a soldier is hurt by a booby trapped flag being left in some base. Hence the fact this is part of the mine convention.

2. I am not convinced this actually applies in the legal sense of who signed what and whether these are armed forces at all. Generally intelligence agencies are not bound by international law and regularly do things such as use other armed forces uniforms which is illegal, or simply have non-uniformed paramilitary forces

3. The morale aspect: It is generally accepted among democratic nations that targeted assassinations against terror group members is legal. See US, UK, and a whole bunch of nations that were members of the Afghanistan, Iraq and anti-ISIS coalition.

If Israel had went with that route, each of those 3000 houses bombed would lead to many more dead by the surrounding families, similarly to in Gaza. While in this scenario, most were incapacitated in a non-lethal way (although still horrifying, this is war after all). Making this much better than the alternative
I've found the opposite. every time I attempt to subvert the borrow checker, I eventually discover that I'm attempting to write a bug.
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Website not quite loading.. HN hug of death?
EU has been pretty vocal about "Circular Economy" and also the right to repair for ages, so I do not expect a bona-fide repair job brings anybody in legal trouble.

But conversely: Should the original manufacturer be responsible if somebody installs hacked-up "performance" software in a car ?

Of course not!
I've heard NixOS is good, but I guess I still need a GUI os because of browser and some apps I use regularly. I would love to get out of the macOS world, its going to a bad place. Seems like I've configured my whole digital life around apple.
Even the EU's own official web portal [1] has a cookie pop-up that covers half the screen of my mobile phone when I visit it.

[1] https://europa.eu/
>The fact that you just look at the buttons that you’d like to interact with and pinch your fingers while your hand is resting on your lap is a massive plus for not looking like a dweeb.

i dunno. repeatedly making little pinchies in your lap with your $3500 goggles on still seems very dweeb-coded to me. i almost did a spit take when i looked up how much the vision pro costs, lol
"He articulated the way it should be" – Interview with Jonathan Ive
Did we get real buttons again? I can't see myself buying another one of these touchscreen versions....and apparently no real buttons :(
Remember things like this never happen under a GOP administration.
I just wanted to take the opportunity to say something positive about these companies, since it's so rare that I find anything positive to say.

I applaud these efforts. The amount of energy that's going to be burned by these things is crazy. Whether or not that energy use is wasted is an open question.

I think it's a positive thing if the companies making these bets don't offload the costs of those bets onto public utilities, and also that they're looking at energy sources that have less of an adverse environmental impact than things like coal.

Kudos, guys.
I don't remotely get it, either. Most group calls I'm in involve one person presenting something and we're watching that, not each other. For things like a one-on-one call with my manager, we just talk. Shit, sometimes we even talk on the phone, but usually still a computer. He might be wearing no pants for all I care. I usually have a cat on me and am probably laying flat. If it's before 10 AM, because my wife goes to work so late, she's probably walking around naked behind me and nobody needs to be seeing that.

My company was also 100% remote from its start, even before Covid.

As others have stated, it's also just unnerving to have people making nonstop eye contact or staring at any part of your body at all, even if it isn't your eyes. Maybe 90s Los Angeles was an abnormally shitty place to grow up because of the gang activity, but this is the kind of thing kids started fights over all the time. Robert DeNiro's most famous movie scene is about how threatening it feels to have someone looking at you.

This isn't even unique to humans. When you regularly interact with animals, you're taught to look away and not hold direct eye contact because they'll see it as a challenge or threat. I've learned to do this with my own cats to make them more at ease. You learn to blink, narrow your eyes, look to the side.
I would like more sites asking consent when passing info to a 3rd party becomes necessary (in relation to a requested service, like when you use location services in a phone app, for example) instead of asking for bulk consent for the whole site visit.
So they have the monopoly on repairs
> loop: move.b (a0)+,d0
move.b d0,(a1)+

...

> loop: mov al,[rsi]
mov [rdi],al

This hurts my brain. When we invent time machines I'm going to use it to go back and slap whoever at intel came up with that operand order.
To get primitive...

Science translates observation into abstraction. (That's a big leap. And yes, one could make one's own observation. But nobody has the time for that.)

But is it a good abstraction? (And then we have all these methods for ensuring that.)

Also, why this implicit preference for abstraction? (Yes there's an upside. But consider the downside.)
The author (me) specifically recommends to not buy the bulky travel case from Apple and instead, just use the default front cover + a lens protector.

This is specifically to not to take up any extra room than is necessary. The only room it takes up is essentially the width of the HMD itself (even negating the strap)!
You're overthinking it. If there's any confusion, it will go to court, and reasonable humans will decide that, actually, the form being in a filing cabinet in the basement isn't actually reasonable.
Unit test are nice to have if you want to make test coverage or have sufficient time to implement them properly. In practice they contain only vague assumptions (the test passes, but the integration stops due to those assumptions being false) or contain things any basic code review should catch (and if you keep paying peanuts they won't do that so you make more unit tests).
Intellectuals were writing letters explaining their findings(and asking for feedback) to each other and (math|royal|philosophical) societies all over Europe for 400+ years - shouldn't that count as an earlier form of peer review?
Yeah Docker’s non-native and runs under a virtualized Linux everywhere but… on Linux, so that’s a little rough. I’ve found some of the alternative VM hosts for that to be a ton faster and more power efficient, as they make better use of MacOS’ built-in virtualization system, but YMMV. I’ve also found that Apple’s lead on power management is so great that I can be using a power-sucking thing like Docker and still come out ahead, which is really lame :-/

I hear that “Docker Desktop” is especially bad on MacOS, but I’ve used docker almost as long as it’s existed and still haven’t used that (I don’t really even know what the point of it is?) so dunno about that part.
Simply using the brush tool triggered this error for me.
There's a particular car wash chain in Utah called "Quick Quack" that I hope gets hammered by this. They are the most eploitative I've ever seen. Super, super easy to subscribe. Literally just say "yes" when asked and they'll get it all set up. Cancelling however, good luck. Sad part is I really liked the product, but unless they radically change the subscription BS I'll never be back.
> PS: at least Clang has a warning now in pedantic mode: https://www.godbolt.org/z/ovj5r4axn

Did you mean gcc? Your link shows a gcc error:

<source>:3:5: error: 'auto' requires a plain identifier, possibly with attributes, as declarator
3 | auto* p = &i;
| ^~~~
Elon Musk could become first trillionaire
Always found talking to Chris Chedgey very helpful.
For plane that's pretty unfair. If you don't get any ancillary fees, the price you see is almost exactly up to the cent what you pay.

Now if you get any extra, sure. But that's a different problem from Airbnb hiding 100% of the cost in mandatory cleaning fees.
The fundamental skill I think technical people lack is understanding how non-technical people use software and technology. We just can’t imagine how non-tech people see things, and since most users of most products are non-tech users, many decisions should be made by those types of people.
So I can't just blame my bullshit on "the computer" or say that AI ate my homework and have to own it? Terroble times. Next thing, evil bureacrats will then make me actually care and owm broken accessibility.
Amazing news. Looking forward to gyms that have been abusing consumers forever on this being forced to straighten up and fly right.
> Now you're maintaining a bestiary.

Any battle-hardened test suite is already a bestiary. Having a subfolder of diverse & exemplary config files, that could be iterated over, is not adding much to the pile.
One of the author’s points - that there’s a feedback loop here - is certainly true, but I do not think its helpful to conflate “low willpower” and procrastination with laziness; there’s another feedback loop here, where it is theorized that negative self-talk/criticism is psychologically harmful, and self-compassion can benefit mental health and potentially has positive neurobiological impact (neuroplasticity, lower cortisol).
I find it really interesting that ideas we (I) would have labeled “woo-woo” 20 years ago are being proven to have biological bases, to the point that my health insurance pays for what is essentially mindful meditation - and it works. And this is not only interesting, but frightening: learning that “the self” is more neurons than soul-stuff, and that we can rent compute-hours on brain organoids, makes me wonder if OpenAI and friends are actually on their way to creating Life.
It isn't something I've seen advertised by credit card companies here (UK) but in the US at least some offer virtual cards whereby you can give different vendors a specific virtual card and cancel that if they don't stop taking payments when you want them to.

As much as I'm not a big fan of PayPal¹ I use that rather than separate credit card payments/subs for online purchases including subs for things like hosting accounts. Stopping a payment from their web UI seems like it would be easier than arranging a chargeback or calling the CC company to put a block on future payments, and it reduces the number of companies that I hand my credit card details too. When I cancel a service I make sure that the sub is cancelled there as well. I always follow the cancellation procedure at the other end too, unless it is obnoxiously bothersome, as just cancelling the payment method feels like I'm being dickish².

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[1] I'm not sure that I'd risk a business account with them, and I hardly ever keep a balance there, due to the many stories of accounts being frozen for long periods with litle reason and inadequate review.

[2] You might argue that often they'd be more than happy to be dickish, hence the cancellation procedures, but I prefer not to stoop to that level whether they would or not.
Cookie pop-ups is a clear case of "malicious compliance" and I guess all spying companies hoped they could make it so annoying that citizens of EU would revolt or something.

Didn't work, instead many more people (at least here in EU) are now aware how how bad the spying has become.
Buttondown is a great non-success. Ergo they are a good company.
to be clear- these ministal model are also licensed for commercial use, but not freely licensed for commercial use. and meta also has restrictions on commercial use (have to put “Built with Meta Llama 3” and need to pay meta if you exceed 700 million monthly users)
They officially discontinued the oasis last year. I'm holding onto my oasis until it dies.
Just a note:

It is up to the company to not pursue you for the money. Contractually, you probably still owe them the money, unless there is a clause in the contract that says that non-payment is a way to cancel the membership. They could legally pursue that, or sell it to someone else to pursue.

Not paying is not the same thing as not owing. Many companies will just let it drop. Some won't
California did this:

> Guests in California will see a fee-inclusive total price—before taxes—on all listings.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3610

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
>what else is Lisp being used for commonly these days?

It is being used for formal verification in the semiconductor industry by companies like AMD, Arm, Intel, and IBM: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/
The flying experience is oppressive in the sense of being a constricting, heavy-handed and overbearing environment, indifferent to your inconvenience or discomfort.

Where else can you get a full body cavity search, be denied water, be delayed by several hours without so much as an apology, be nickle-and-dimed with overpriced shitty food and $5 fees for a cab to drop you off, and have your luggage smashed up, all under one roof?

Of course, I'm not sure the Apple Vision Pro can do much to improve on the situation.
My bad, I thought you meant in general, not specifically in the DC space.
I find this article to be quaint -- remember reading it decades ago and feeling more receptive to its perspective. Ironically, I prefer using Clojure (though some here challenge its status as a Lisp lol) to interface with Large Language Models rather than Python. Clojure in particular is much better suited, for some reasons that Hofstadter details, and if you can interact with an LLM over a wire, you are not beholden to Python. But what we use to interface to these massive digital minds we are building, including the Bayesian sampling mathematics we use to plumb them, may have their elegance, but they are orthogonal to the nearly ineffable chaos of these deeply interconnected neural networks -- and it is in this chaotic interconnectedness where artificial intelligence is actually engendered.
I partially agree with this, but at the same time... I don't feel that shunning the use of makeup and telling people their preferences are actually a result of societal brainwash is a good solution.

If the problem is that society (in bubble X, Y or Z) teaches us our value is judged solely based on our appearance, then we should address the lessons we teach. I feel it is unproductive to play whac-a-mole with the emergent symptoms of such an underlying problem.
Still waiting for a refreshed Oasis.
A company cannot exempt itself from product liability with an EULA.

Cloud services are also explicitly mentioned as covered.
I was talking to a physicist on the bus today who does a lot of numerical and computational work. He was telling me about how he and Ken Wilson learned to program a specializing SIMD machine in the 1980s that quickly became obsolete.

He told me that he thought knowledge about computers had a shelf life but knowledge about physics was eternal.

Math in particular has that element of universality (can't believe that intelligent aliens wouldn't know about the integers, Pythagorean triangles, etc.) For that matter, there are aspects of computing that are universal too because they are math.
Llamafile v0.8.14: a new UI, performance gains, and more
And they have a right to only allow non-paid users to access their site through the their app or through a browser that is running in an environment where it can securely attest that the browser and its environment are to the site's liking.

That's going to be annoying.
Out of all the devices where having a physical airplane mode switch would be nice, I'd put the kindle pretty high up. Kinda sucks having a battery that lasts ~45 days in airplane mode, and like a week and a half when I forget to turn it off.
There are few things that terrify me more nowadays at this point in my career than spending a lot of time writing something and setting it up, only to turn it on for the first time and it works without any issues.
A Visual Guide to Stochastic Gradient Descent
No, not needed. This argumentation can go both ways; some may even say, "Well, Python is 'Lispy,'" which to me is obviously not. It boils down to what can you do in the REPL, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844611
If a treaty could be found that was violated, the Alien Tort Statute would allow it.
Well this is about comparing with other countries, isn't it?

Also [citation needed] for purchasing power is down. Again, comparing with other countries, US disposable incomes are in a completely different ballpark. I wasn't aware of them going down.
It's not just Intuit. I doubt that there would be tax breaks specifically for owners of private jets if not for lobbying from companies like Cessna.
VCL: A new open-source VirtIO-GPU OpenCL driver leveraging hardware acceleration
Because a chargeback is for some sort of fraud, and as scummy as crap like this is, it usually doesn't count. It's not a universal "I want this charge to stop" tool. A human WILL review it, and you WILL get dinged, up to and including account termination, if you do it too much and too frivolously.
It can be any size that you’d like.

In fact, the virtual display is higher resolution/high scaled than 13 inch MacBook (source: https://azadux.blog/2024/10/08/traveling-with-apple-vision-p...)
Oasis was officially discontinued last year. I'm in the same boat. I love my oasis and will not upgrade until I get those buttons.
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> because it's weird

I don't get many opportunities to express my exasperation with the paradigm of the youtube content creator's thousand video cuts per spoken sentence, but hell, in the same way, I think it's just $#@%ing weird.