jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I've only got experience with one Credit Union so I could just have a particularly good one or something, but I imagine given that they _don't_ have branches everywhere probably requires them to invest a little more heavily in figuring out how to do things without people being there in person.

My wife's still with one of the "big banks" and more than a few times has been required to go in for basic signatures and stuff (not even for new services, just like "we updated this thing you need to come sign it"). Last time I did something major with my Credit Union was to get a loan from them, and it was shooting them an email, they called me up and we hashed out the details, then they sent me over an approval and a docusign link and I signed it and the money showed up in my account.

I wouldn't necessarily say that I can "transact online" as such (like, it's not like there's a "loan" flow on their website) but they're certainly capable of figuring out how to get things done without me being there in person. I can only imagine with so many staff going remote and people being more hesitant to go places this past year they've only gotten better at it.

Only downside over the years has been that there's never been (and never will be) any sort of integration with any of the budgeting/etc services like Mint. No company is really gonna invest the effort to pick up the 100,000 members my CU has.
Don’t store your crypto on an exchange and you reduce your risk.
> over a nine-month period beginning in August 2018, he routed nearly 20,000 “Tech Fraud” scheme calls to call centers in India. Many of the callers hung-up shortly after making contact with a call center operator. However, approximately 7,524 callers remained on the line with call center operators for more than 20 minutes.

30% made it to >20 mins? Even on my best day, I can’t keep them on for more than 5 minutes.
If you follow the links, the "64%" statistic is from data that is at least 5 years old. Are there more recent #s? A lot has changed in the last 5 years.

I'd also argue that "Facebook: We told them to join these groups" is a misleading take, since it's not a quote from Facebook and it's twisting their words. I guess "64% of Facebook users joined groups via recommendations" isn't sexy enough of a headline.

It's interesting that no one mentions the percentage for non-extremist groups. Assuming the omission is intentional, I wouldn't be surprised if the rate for rate for extremist groups is actually lower than for nonextremist groups
It's clear social media companies are in over their heads. I'm glad I don't use them and they need serious oversight. Just today Twitter allowed the promotion of genocide on what they would consider to be their tightly moderated platform https://twitter.com/chineseembinus/status/134724760209453465...
DoH or DoT is encrypted. The address of the upstream resolver typically is hard coded or comes as a parameter during DHCP.
It would simplify things a great deal for people compiling to JS. Forcing one looping facility into the behaviour of another can be hard. Implenting just about any looping facility as recursion is a matter of thinking for a while and then sitting down and doing it.
One thing people who have tinnitus should do is get their blood pressure checked.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tinnitus/symp...
Kinda sad that the key to always being sharp is to make sure you’re always a little stressed, or uncomfortable or on edge or “out of your comfort zone”.
I think a lot of the love for Excel by office workers comes down to empowerment. Workers like being empowered to solve their own problems. Excel does very well. You as a non-programmer office worker can quickly make a spreadsheet that solves your problem. You can update it on your schedule as your problem changes or to explore new possibilities. You give that up as soon as you go to a CRUD app. Need to change something, put in a a request to IT who might get around to it in a week if you are lucky. Wheat would have been a few minute feedback loop with Excel is a multi-week slog.

There is no other tool of which I am aware that enables the common person to sit down at a computer and make the computer do useful real world work work for them in a flexible way than Excel. I have used it for budgets, lists, form entry, and reports. In addition, it provides a very smooth on ramp into programming via the record macro button, which will write the VBA function that does what you are doing in the GUI. Most of my VBA functions started out as record macro, and then were edited to generalize. Truly an amazing piece of software.
Google had the most complete archive of comp.lang.c (and the rest of Usenet). That archive is now inaccessible.

Users posting to comp.lang.c through Google Groups were a problem -- especially with the recent bug that caused GG posts to comp.lang.c++ to have the "++" quietly dropped.

If Google made its archive of all Usenet newsgroups available, I'd be fine with them dropping the posting interface. (And some users actually managed to post to comp.lang.c through Google Groups without breaking things.)
Gives me a rifle to look into. Thanks.
I find active cancelling headphones to be very unpleasant. I've switched to custom molded in-ear monitors which do an even better job of eliminating external sound (musicians wear them on-stage to protect their hearing), sound better, and don't bother me the way active cancelling earphones do.

I have no idea if active headphones are "bad", just that they make me feel very uneasy.

The downside is that Custom In Ear Monitors are pricy (> $1000). When you have them made, you can often choose how many db of ambient sound attenuation you want.
Do you assume the average Joe is that much dumber than you?
Yes, but Google Sheets or shared Excel files in OneDrive. Otherwise the magic that is Excel gets lost in various versions in people's email attachments. Collaboration + Spreadsheet though truly is a versatile tool.
> One thing left out of these discussions tends to be the views of just about every non-college Republican or independent. It’s just mainstream liberalism against elite Republican views, thirdway-ism, or some niche contrarian take from the right or the left.

Not just non-college Republicans, huge swaths of non-liberal Democrats (mostly people of color). Are the majority of Black Democrats, who believe you can’t be a moral person without believing in God, represented? Are there any Muslims who hold social positions their religion tells them to be true? When it comes to immigrants, anyone who actually believes what your typical Indian or Bangladeshi believes? (Or is it just the elite who deliberately left those countries and assimilated into white American culture? And even among the latter, is it the first generation parents hoping their kids will integrate to a degree, but hold on to traditional social morals, or is it the second generation ones who picked up western social morals despite their parents’ efforts?)
But some people remember, and once one person posts, more people post.
I read a little bit (only section 1.1, if I recall correctly) in high school (in grade 11, I think). I didn't get very far (mostly due to being busy with school work/forgetting about it), but I didn't find the parts I read too difficult. It doesn't assume much prerequiste knowledge.
I think it's a dick move. It's like calling the cops because your neighbor is smoking pot in their garage. The activity isn't harming you, it only "harms" the people with a relationship with the company. If it were me, I'd likely use the competitor's lack of PCI compliance as a tool for my own marketing -- I wouldn't even use the competitor's name, but do something like "Unlike many of our competitors <my_awesome_product> is fully PCI compliant because we care about your security." Turn the "weakness" of the competitor into your strength. But reporting him to the authorities? That's very Stasi-esque.

Unless a law is being broken AND it's creating an unsafe situation for your customers or your company, leave it alone. In my opinion it's a classless move to go after your competitors in that fashion. Beat them with a better product. In this case, a "better" product would seem to be one with PCI compliance.

As far as the "toxic waste" analogy -- I've never heard of anyone getting cancer and dying from a lack of PCI compliance. In fact, there are likely more important things to worry about than PCI compliance -- Target and all of the other high profile retailers that were credit-card hacked -- they were all allegedly PCI compliant, yet it still didn't do much good. I'm not hear to debate the value of PCI compliance -- if it's a requirement of your business, then obviously you have to do it. But I am debating the ethics of reporting a competitor for an activity that is NOT illegal, nor is it directly harming your customers or your business.
No, it disincentivizes investments full stop. People aren’t making dumb investments deliberately. You don’t get any new information about whether an investment is smart or not based on your currency being deflationary.
Sigh! The only comment I can make on this rainy Friday with imminent layoffs is that I definitely would like to be in his shoes. Rather than the cool lunches he describes, I will take my luncheon in a miserable cafeteria, talking about inane project matters with my colleagues.

BTW, so the interesting lady with the turban on his blog header is not his wife, she doesn't look like her?
http://tinyurl.com/39ncl9n
As much as I like your approach, I have this feeling that not everything is butterflies and unicorns. Sometimes, you have to find a way, and the way is clearly a "split-up".

However, I dob't agree with Fred's either. This kind of things is something that should be prepared: founding and growing a business are not the same thing. I think it's very important to have this kind of discussion with other co-founders in the very early days : what are everybody's limits : do we all agree that at some point we may have to step down from our roles and let someone more experienced/appropriate lead whatever we're working on. This doesn't mean we have to leave the company, but maybe find a role that fits us more.

Look at GOOG. Larry and Sergey didn't quit, they just put the best person in their shoes and took on something they could do better.

I trust that everybody knows their limits, and don't enjoy working 'in the red zone' forever. It just has to be very clear for all the co-founders what these limits exists, and that at some point, co-founders may not be the most appropriate person to run whatever they run.
I've been unable to access the site for a couple of hours. It magically just came back up though.
I'd say that what he meant was not that he started using swear words and grew a mohawk to implement a calculated persona, but that he allowed those parts of his personality to bleed over into his professional life as a conscious decision.
Only found this article, but it is directly from the PIK, which is considered the highest authority on climate research in Germany:

https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/climate-chang...

If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything suddenly starts looking like a nail.
One can be obsessive about a thing without being offensive about that thing or anything else. I think you are equating two separate issues. Social awkwardness is just not the same thing as anti-social behaviour.

And in my industry experience, having an encyclopedic knowledge of an obscure subject around a bunch of imposters does not go well, doubly so if their career depends on convincing others that they have skills on par with yours despite never putting the time into acquiring them.

To me it's like they demand everyone be fungible when the real power move is using comparative advantage to build a winning team.
The lack of censorship that you don't like is the main value proposition and what I like. Run your own server to match your own values, but don't impose them on others.
> Wasn't aware that they're paying people to astroturf though; first I hear of this. Do you have proof of it?

They are not and he can't/will not be able to provide proof because it's a false claim.
I can imagine extensions to this concept being applied to shape tweening in computer graphics and to materials science.
What it should probably say is:

"Unforunately, this should not be considered a secure alternative to desktop applications because it is not feasible at all to protect against code injection, malicious servers and side-channel attacks."

The unfortunate thing is that however cleverly you mess around with Javascript code the current (browser) implementations break all security.

tptacek is a little "zealous" about this topic in particular :P (and I actually do see a use for JS crypto as a method of obfuscation, rather than security) but he is right.
Except that if you're having fun, you will ignore things that are not fun at all, like figuring out how you're going to make money.

There's always some code that could be rewritten instead.
What features is it missing?

The main strength of Google Docs is Gmail integration. This is, arguably, more powerful than tighter Office compatibility (which is one reason that Microsoft wanted to do Docs.com with Facebook).
It seems you can purchase the Shape of Space video, Audio CD, and activity book from here: http://www.keypress.com/x5877.xml

I wish my birthday wasn't so far off. :-(
Average, sure. But the federal tax poverty line doesn't vary by state, does it?

When I was leaving MD, after I'd emptied my cabinets of everything, a friend got sick and I wanted to make him cookies. The ingredients for cookies from scratch - a pound of sugar, flour, butter, baking soda, baking powder, 6 eggs, milk, chocolate chips and 1 pack of jell-o vanilla instant pudding mix and one 20 oz bottle of Diet Coke cost me $57.81. At SAFEWAY. Not Whole Foods, Graul's or any fancy store. SAFEWAY.

I still have the receipt, pinned up as a reminder.
My only thought is that the other 'big telcos' got billions of dollars from the US government to upgrade their infrastructure. Whatever became of that?

This is why I have little sympathy for them when they bitch and moan about how people are using 'too much bandwidth.' Also note that they never come right out and say things like, "We oversell our bandwidth," or, "Our infrastructure can't handle what our customers are using." It's always framed in terms of the 'big bad' users that are hurting the poor ISP's stalwart network.

Granted, I'm not sure that AT&T falls into this net. They probably didn't get government money to build out their 3G network.
If they ever drop calls from capacity problems then something has gone horribly wrong (either tech wise or provisioning).

But my point was that bandwidth is (or should be) renewable. If you do a download when everyone else is doing one your traffic should be getting shaped down to the provisioned minimum until there is room for it. This will make the traffic slower during those times, but there are going to be times where nearly no traffic is on the line.
GOAL code was many things, but "ugly" is a stretch. Jak and Dexter did more than any game of its time, and the only reason they were able to do that is because of the flexibility of the codebase.

Its performance wasn't merely on par with C, but actually surpassed C in many cases. For example, they were able to stream content from disc dynamically while the game was running, and no other engine had that capability. That sounds unrelated to "performance" since it's a design decision, but in fact "performance" is everything which the end user cares about, such as load times. And the only reason the game engine performed well was Lisp. Many of Jak and Dexter's competitors didn't survive, performance problems being one of the reasons. (Game publishers used to cancel projects if development milestones aren't being met, such as a convincing tech demo. So if a tech demo was unconvincing, e.g. due to extreme performance problems, publishers basically killed the company. Maybe that's even still true as of 2015, but it was definitely true in 2001.)

EDIT to your reply: You're right, I edited my comment and added a second paragraph. Also, I apologize for my earlier tone. It was uncalled for and needlessly argumentative. Sorry.
Sounded like too small of a debouncing cap/s on/around the nic, undersized vcc/gnd planes and/or too small of a power supply to handle peak current.

The other thing, once a system is booting, is always make sure RAM, storage, CPU and nics are all working, so test those individually: memtest86+ (or rowhammer or latest memtest86 non-plus), iozone, prime95, iperf or their equivalents.
Which site did you start? Were you ever able to get any traction?
I'm familiar with this, but I don't get the relevance. Explain?
I'm glad they accept donations in bitcoins (not converted). I've been donating some of my early-mined bitcoins to charities. I tend to be more generous with them than I could be with a straight credit card payment.
There must be a psychological effect at play there.

https://archive.org/donate/bitcoin.php
To give the earlier comments posted here their due, I think Keith Devlin's argument in the interesting article kindly submitted here is incoherent enough that it is possible even for people who largely agree with Devlin's conclusions to disagree with how he presented his argument. I really like to talk about mathematics education here on Hacker News, because I am a (part-time) mathematics teacher by occupation.[1] It's plain that mathematics education is better if it is really education ("drawing out," by word origin) rather than teaching in the sense of speaking out words that maybe no pupil is listening to. Mathematicians are fond of saying that mathematics is like swimming--you can only learn it by doing.

I can cheerfully damn the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics with the faint praise that they are generally better than the previously existing curriculum frameworks in most states of the United States.[2] I have lived in other countries, and I know that mathematics education can be done far better than it is done in the United States.[3] Keith Devlin is certainly correct that young mathematics learners must learn to work exploratively with challenging problems that cause them to think and wonder about what they are doing rather than merely memorizing thoughtless procedures.

It is also crucially important that elementary school teachers be trained and equipped to teach mathematics well, as lousy mathematics instruction in early childhood is an especially strong factor that keeps many American pupils poor.[4] Right now many families are doomed to low incomes and thus low upward social mobility by how their children are instructed in mathematics in elementary school.

[1] The nonprofit organization that organizes the classes I teach provides some details about the classes.

http://ecae.net/math1/

http://ecae.net/math2/

http://ecae.net/math1/orientation/

[2] http://educationnext.org/files/ednext_20123_Forum.pdf

[3] "Good intentions are not enough" by Richard Askey

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~askey/ask-gian.pdf

Review by Roger Howe of Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Liping Ma

http://www.ams.org/notices/199908/rev-howe.pdf

"Word Problems in Russian and America" by Andrei Toom

http://toomandre.com/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pdf

[4] "Racial Equity Requires Teaching Elementary School Teachers More Mathematics" by Patricia Clark Kenschaft

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf
You're right there are workarounds. But the protection is for consumers, hence the check as to if people are likely to be confused. It's terrible that the makers of Pyrex can change the product so it's no longer heat tolerant, for instance.
It's very frustrating, I bought three over the last couple years. I think the biggest help to consumers is TrueCar.com which basically uses the information they gather about prices people recently paid for cars to negotiate a fair price for both parties. Whenever I mentioned TrueCar the salesmen were kinda disappointed because they knew they couldn't squeeze any extra money out of you. I started a website to help people get good deals on cars and then just decided to quit because TrueCar was efficient enough. Even the dealers that didn't participate still respected their pricing. At that point it was just a question of making sure not to get screwed on the financing and trade-ins.
I actually recently wrote a blog post on VR game design www.renderingwithstyle.com/post/106510862343/now-youre-thinking-in-vr
His "sketchbook" sounds an awful lot like a REPL to me.
"when people tell you they love their jobs while you are paying them to perform their jobs"

Parent comment doesn't say the drivers said "love" and the comments made don't appear to be over the top in any way. Also you are discounting the parent commenters ability to discern a BS answer from a real answer by interpreting emotion. (Not saying you aren't right to be skeptical as you raised a valid point).
> And please fck off with 'only old people die from COVID-19'. Old people with 3 comorbid conditions deserve better than to be left to die because some smartasses feel like it. And there are other groups of people risking dire consequences of COVID-19. Like people with weak immune system. Or ones with diabetes. Or ones being treated for cancer. Should we write off them too?

Nobody said that, you didn't read my post.

(1) People in risk categories are at risk. One of which is being old, and another is having a comorbid condition, and a huge one is having 3 comorbid conditions while being 82.5. That's a risk category for getting out of your bed in the morning.

(2) Those people, the old, and with comorbid conditions, were to isolate, as they are doing literally right now.

(3) The whole point behind the process was to create a protective buffer around them, otherwise they wouldn't be calling for their isolation.

Take a deep breath.
yes, of course.

i was just responding in the tone of the thread
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We're going to have a full year of students who essentially get to take a mulligan, they're going to be able to cheat on every test, postpone tests, get extra study time etc.

It's about time we realize that education was never about merit in the first place.
Exactly true. But I didn't mention or say 'exercise' anywhere. But even with that being allowed, it has to be on your own and not with others, which the latter had happened over the weekend in the UK with mass gatherings and ignoring the previous measures. [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51999864