skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I wasn't clear: I'm saying that there is at least one contributing factor to humans clicking a lot, and that factor is NOT attributable to the human/computer player's thinking or decision process.

Rather, a fair portion of that churn is due to an inefficient communication system or control structure between the player and the game.

It's analogous to pitting an android against a human at racing an old car: Both of them will have a high volume of activity with their left foot on the clutch and right hand changing gears, but it doesn't reveal anything amazing about their thought-processes. It's simply what manual-transmission cars require in order to accomplish a certain task.
That's true, but I've yet to see a primary insurer that doesn't use reinsurance.
>PayPal tried to take money from my checking account because Consumer Reports "autorenewed" my subscription -- without my knowledge or explicit authorization.

The only way this happens is you create a "billing agreement" when you first signup. Its a feature of Paypal that then lets sites bill more stuff to you without much in terms of prompting. Its useful because services like Steam use it to avoid prompting users over and over again to login but other sites use it....because they can. Problem is its not very obvious to perhaps the majority of users they are creating a billing agreement.

You can terminate these agreements any time in the paypal site. But you have to do it yourself as otherwise it'll just sit there indefinitely.
"Go on, sign up anyway. Why would you care if you're dead?"
I think it's a legal requirement, regarding automated calling.
What about US itself?
> Does that mean you enjoy them less?

Enjoyment is not the point. I am a different person because of reading GEB, and my coding style changed because of reading On Lisp. With internalisation and comprehension, the first kind of book will change the way that you think forever. This kind of book is going to be a boring if you are unable understand the concepts that it is trying to communicate.

If these concepts are going to change you forever it might take some reflection (i.e. if you continue perusing the entire book at "reading speed" you will hit a point where you no longer understand what the author is talking about due to not sufficiently internalising the earlier material.)
Sort of, but not really. Being in SOCOM (special operations command) units, you'll often get extra training in the form of Additional Skill Modifiers. For instance I was a UAV Pilot trained to fly the Hunter TUAV who got put in a Shadow 200 TUAV unit. I went back to training for a few months and came back with a W2 ASI denoting Shadow 200 qualification. That made my job designation change from 96U to 96UW2, which depending on the role, can mean extra pay.

Generally socom operators get paid more due to hazard pay, which is a graded scale based on how likely you are to get maimed for life or killed. I can't speak for anyone but the US Army, but they only allow commissioned officers and warrant officers to fly helicopters. As a UAV pilot, I was in a group of the only enlisted pilots in the entire US Army. We were on the same flight status with the same awful yearly physicals of the helicopter / plane pilots.
> Many Americans avoid "fake meat" due to their cultural beliefs.

Would you order a dish prepared with fake avocado and fake olive oil? If you are happy to eat the genuine product, why would you choose to eat an imitation, barring poverty or lack of availability?
Living costs, food costs, most of your clothing, transportation, etc. You literally just pay for fun and off duty extra activities / extra food.
> The Vue community hangs out on Discord

Oh? I've only ever been in the gitter room... I had no idea there was a discord too...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17463595
Wow, just the right article at the right time: today after seeing SiriusXM charges of ~ $20 monthly for subscription, to my huge surprise, I searched for online cancellation, only to find none exists. I called them to cancel and indeed ended up not canceling, rather getting a promo deal. I really love SiriusXM while driving, but that lack of online cancellation completely annoyed me.
People have been predicting an apocalypse in the short term for a long time now. Remember "The Shape of Things To Come", and "The Limits To Growth"?
Get a better bank.
What changed a few years ago? IPv6?
It doesn't require an undergrad. I was in the US Army as a UAV pilot for 4 years, got out and got a job as a Unix Admin. I'm now a successful software engineer. Also, $240k is not obscenely high. Top end google engineers make more and that's about normal starting comp for a very talented engineer in certain segments of finance.
We have plenty of competence in wind and solar energy. What we need to pay attention to is that many of the nuclear plants built in the past are flawed, and so we always had less competence at building them than we thought.
What right do they have to know what your disability is?

The ADA has exemptions for when it would be unsafe or unreasonable to provide accommodation, and those are the only places where anyone can discriminate against someone for whatever their condition might be (eg the vision and prescription requirements for pilots). In fact the ADA explicitly disallows asking for any general information about disabilities - an employer can only ask yes/no questions about specific criteria.

I can’t imagine what their argument for not supporting someone cancelling their subscription would be.

Fun question: if you were to say you were cancelling for medical reasons would they be opening themselves up to a lawsuit if the call center asked what it was?
Assuming the design of next gen modem from Intel are done on 10nm, which is highly likely so, it shouldnt be surprise Intel will fail to deliver it on time.

Given Intel had precisely one customer to serve and failed to meet their demand, I highly doubt Intel will win back whatever they loss.

I also doubt Apple "used" Intel, more like given an opportunity to Intel. Which they really need to get into the 4G/5G value chain. I hope Apple has back ported their latest 4G design to 14nm+++.

Things are looking very ugly.
But it makes for horrible, horrible governance.
Thank god for that.

I made the mistake of joining a Goodlife gym in Canada many moons ago...

The place was disgusting. Always crowded. Mould growing in the bathrooms. Stunk very badly, etc...

So I stopped going regularly... and one day I was in the area I decided to stop in and cancel my membership.

"Oh sorry, you'll need to make an appointment with management in order to cancel."

"OK, is a manager in right now?"

"Yes, the manager is in but I was told not to disturb her right now."

"OK, well can you tell her a customer is waiting paitiently to cancel his account?"

"No, sorry, I am not allowed to disturb her. You're going to need to make an appointment and come back."

So I did that...

And about 3 weeks later I went in at the agreed upon time to cancel my subscription and I was just sitting... waiting... for over 1 hour...

Right beside a poor old lady that was trying to cancel her subscription as well!!!

She was overly polite and was dealing with this overagressive meathead trying to keep her locked into the service...

"I hate coming here... I never come... I never should have signed up... I just want to cancel..."

"But do you have any friends that might want to take on your subscription? It's at a discounted rate and you might be able to help them out by transferring it over to them."

"No, I do know know anyone who wants to come here."

"Ok, let me go talk to my manager about this."

And he left for like 20 minutes and came back and gave her the gears again.

When my turn came... I just said "I'm moving to england and I don't know a single person here who might want to absorb my contract".

It was a total lie... but it was the only answer that would get me out of there in under 10 minutes.

Companies abusing politeness really are terrible to society.
While I could believe that this is true, I would love to see some evidence to back up this claim. You would also need to account for the entirety of emissions, including, as a previous commenter said, other emissions involved in the supply chain.
Iirc the head of one of those schools has already said that they can fill their class up with valedictorians if they do choose.

If they followed the pure merit route it would be exactly like it is today in other countries - people would over prepare for the exams and entrance will depend on who got 0.05% more than another person.

That’s the main draw of the American system- these schools long ago saw that there would be a problem because of baked in bias and took steps to equalize it while keeping their own interests constant.

And let’s not ignore the raw ability of the people who are aiming for Harvard - if a candidate for
Harvard doesn’t get in, their safety school is still the first choice of a massive chunk of college applicants.m

Ps: in this sub thread I was not specifically talking about diversity; but it is an argument I do make and it is also a short throw from where my previous comment in this thread.
I have done this once, when my employer at the time was mistreating me to such a degree that quitting immediately became very important. If your work situation is tolerable, you onbviously should not quit, as you lose a lot of negotiating power that way.

That said, the only way to win a negotiation is to not want what the other party is offering. Even when job searching while unemployed, I just turned down places trying to pitch the standard cookie-cutter $150-160k job offers, religious micromanaging Agile crap, etc.

Unless you need the job, you really should just say no to these things. It’s almost a civic virtue to help keep wages competitive with actual value add, help fight back against abjectly bad business trends like Agile or open-plan offices. At least require them to really pay you well if you are forced to deal with that nonsense.
The whole point of the new generation of both Westinghouse and EDF reactors is that each would be a commodity. And both are stumbling at the start.
I'd assume devices being able to stand up to normal use and function is something customers care about.

We can quibble over whether or not the Touch Bar is an improvement or a regression, but dust jamming keyboards that can't be decapped?

That's someone taking their eye off the ball of customer experience. Not just for power users, but for all users.
This parallels its influence on me as well. In particular FCaCA has been a good source to learn how to narrow down problems so they can be tackled without diluting the original essence of the problem. Masterful treatment in my opinion.

I still think Hofstadter's "old school AI" thought processes warrant more attention in today's DL frenzy than they get. His books have been a great source of very interesting questions including style transfer (he dealt with fonts in "Letter Spirit"). It was also the inspiration behind some early experiments using n-nets [1] (shameless plug)

[1] https://blog.imaginea.com/deep-type/
I feel like this outlook discredits a lot of wonderful young people out there.
I like huntsmen, myself (alas wife does not). They're rather mean looking but otherwise mostly harmless - to humans, but definitely not all other kinds of bugs. This would make them most excellent house guests. :)
A history of storage cost
It does support it, but the DCD card has always been expensive/rare. Also requires V10/V12 graphics, which are almost as expensive/rare.

Every Fuel has standard DVI, although Fuels have other drawbacks
Comcast and SiriusXM are by far the worst I've ever come across. They demand explanations, try to cut you deals, claim they have to transfer you to their manager who attempts to up sale you. I seriously had to get one of my debit cards reissued in order to get charges to stop and to get my XM radio account closed out.
Maybe Hofstadter hadn't chosen the best metaphor, but criticizing it from the point that it contains too many irrelevant details isn't unlike dismissing the use of apples for teaching counting numbers (what happens if I bite an apple, what if an apple is larger than another one and so on).
vertical farming will only be economically viable with near free power and massive transport taxes. Nuclear power would be the only realistic viable option.

Given the damage that agriculture has done to the environment, vertical farming would be a smart choice for humanity. but sadly with out current perceptions of nuclear power and the stranglehold that globalism has, it will likely never happen.
I read most of this paper and skimmed a few sections I felt were old hat. The author discusses various problems that apply to all fuzzers focusing especially on a naive fuzzer's inability to achieve depth into complex code paths. This, they explain, is solved by modifying the target program, or by seeding with data that is known to exercise deep paths. These are well known techniques. The rest of it is explaining the author's concept of three basic components of fuzzers, which are "sensors" (what e.g. AFL and others would call "instrumentation"), "generators" (just what it sounds like, this component generates target program inputs) and "processors" (these read sensors and influence the generators). I like the clarity the author brings to the subject and the framework is good for thinking about fuzzer design in a clear way. I'm not sure that the particular subject of the paper, VrankenFuzz, is anything groundbreaking. Also the author says at the end that they want "compensation" before they release it as open source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw "Vertical Farming Won't Save The Planet"
> they hardly get cancer

this is based on what, a few thousands individuals from that specie? on that kind of sample size humans also hardly get cancer, unless humans get really old. Not sure that statement can be substantiated.
That oversupply of talent is also being directed towards 100s of projects that are hoping to be successful. How much of that talent would be better allocated to basic research and discovery? How much further would that propel us if we redirected more of our focus from commercial gains to satiating human curiosity?
Automating molecule design to speed up drug development
I think he is being sarcastic. That code is a nightmare and if a company has code with that cognitive overhead then they better get cleaning that mess.
Easier to change address allocations and DNS entries of a dozen devices in my network to fix the problem for just me, than to make a request to corporate IT to fix the problem for everyone? No.
I remember "Things to Come (1936)" which has a scientific Utopian message.
Police Hot Chase Car Simulator
15 FPS vs. 30 FPS vs. 60 FPS (HTML5)
That is a poor analogy, because the service of car parking is already available to everyone.

A better analogy might be sidewalk ramps, which probably get used ten times more often for prams (strollers) than for wheelchairs. If they were absent or faulty, complaints by owners of prams can help grease the wheels of local government.
> Given the damage that agriculture has done to the environment

Has it? I thought that the worst thing for the environment was subsistence farming.
Maybe you should start paying people what they are worth? Those annual job hoppers do so because a year later someone is offering a 20% raise and you offered a 3% bump and an "atta boy". Companies are trying to control wage inflation by refusing to pay market rate to their current employees.

For the record the average tenure in the Bay for a software engineer is 2 years. So your "at least" is the average.
Imagine running the winning MARLÖ model on this. That's going to turn a lot of heads (most likely going to attract attention from kids as well).
Seconded on this.

It's my favorite answer, because it normally creates enough awkwardness on the call to make the other party want it over as quickly as possible.

And getting them on your side is always step 1.

Bonus points if they ask "I hope it's nothing we did" and you respond with an extra long pause and "I think it's best for everyone involved if we get this cancelled as quickly as possible."
Yes, correct, IBNR can come from cat, or non-cat.
The impedance is ridiculously high; there isn't very much power available at all. Even just to get enough current to sense accurately can be difficult.

Some googling suggests that even if you somehow extracted all the current from the entire planetary atmosphere's charge-separating processes you'd get maybe a gigawatt.
Thanks! I'm glad to have contributed to a conversation worth having.
Oh yeah!

data:text/html,<html contenteditable></html>

That's one of my favorite "stupid HTML tricks". I wonder who first figured it out? I can't find the original blog post (if it even was) and now it's a known thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6005295

https://www.simonewebdesign.it/how-to-make-browser-editor-wi...

etc...
I'm Seeing Mr. Rogers pop up quite a bit recently.

Reminds me of a srsly good podcast episode about Mr. Rogers:
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/ep-131-the-genius-of-mr-roger...
I guess it's about the same? I imagine the profit margins are not very high.
Great tip!! (which I knew it 25 years ago, but still...)
Thanks for the summary.

> Also the author asks for money at the end before they release it as open source.

That raised my interest. It's not exactly what the author wrote though:

>> I’d like to release the source code publicly as open source for a compensation.

I imagine they'd consider other forms of compensation, e.g. free accommodation in a castle in the south of France (maybe that's just me).

I'm interested to hear how this pans out. Asking for support after releasing FOSS doesn't always work either.
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> ...until mass grid-scale battery or some sort of energy storage device is deployed...

I'm not confident we'll ever see anything of the sort. Just based on the scale of current/projected electricity usage we're talking pyramid++ level projects.

Assuming we did have reasonable grid-scale storage, though, we'd bump into a pretty painful issue: the climate crisis is one of energy of which electricity is just a portion.

We don't just need grid scale storage, we need storage to handle gridS for low carbon synthetic fuels, shipping, and air travel. We know what that looks like for fission: approx 10 times current reactor numbers. We have no idea what that looks like for WWS...
"Why would anyone have loyalty to a company that has no loyalty in return".

As a temporary US worker, hopping to a new job is too risky. Will I get fired at a new job?, I need to get a job fast or leave the country.

Also, there's a lot of uncertainty over what happens if your employer started a green card process, and you want to switch jobs.
I think you're (unintentionally) equivocating on value vs quality. The grandparent comment used "quality" in the colloquial sense for value as best I read it. I doubt that anyone running a company thinks that having thier name next to gory images makes people think the skill of the shoe stitching (quality in your meaning?) is worse, but that it reduces the alignment of the pnumbra between the company and the individual reducing the value of company's brand / ability to sell products to the consumer.
I live with a 3D joystick in my left hand and trackball in my right hand. Obviously I do this for 3D cad work. My arms barely move. I go out of my way to avoid the keyboard, even to the point of using the "mouse" for cutting and pasting.
> Employees owe companies nothing. Act accordingly.

I try to impress upon younger workers that in the vast majority of cases, employees owe their managers nothing. Too many young employees get trapped into thinking, "yeah, the company is uncaring, but my boss is awesome". They don't have the life experience to inform them that no matter how awesome their boss is, it is extremely unlikely they have no external pressures to trim staff whatsoever.

The rare cases are those bosses who own the company outright, and make it plainly obvious with how they compensate and treat employees over time (2-3 years of consistent, first-hand observed behavior) that they plan retention over the long term. Or you're part of a worker co-operative or similar stability-promoting arrangement. Okay, then I'll grant you that you might afford the luxury of developing a less self-interested, short-termism strategy. It's not all sunshine and roses on that side of the fence, either; plenty of criticism from market fundies that such arrangements are only possible in sclerotic, uninnovative, inefficient, dullard organizations (I happen to disagree with the fundies on this point, but that's a discussion for another time).
not stupid. Imagine if you wrote:

get-content file.txt

and the result was the file content visible on screen. Then you were happy with your code and you put it in a function for reuse:

function test {
get-content file.txt
}

and now there's no output. PowerShell pipeline is not stdout, get-content doesn't display anything on screen, only the output formatters at the end of the pipeline do. If the function has no output by default then you would see nothing. That would be an annoying behaviour the other way. In PS, braces {} make anonymous codeblocks and they're used often, e.g. in code like

# square the first 5 numbers
1..5 | foreach { $_ * $_ }

# rename some files
Get-ChildItem | where { $_.Name -notmatch '[0-9]' } | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name + "2" }

That would be really annoying if you always had to 'return' results out of scriptblocks. And it would be annoying if scriptblocks in functions behaved differently to scriptblocks in filterscripts or calculated properties.
> When using a mouse you constantly have to slide your arm around within an imaginary square on the desk surface

I use a trackball, a highly underrated input device.
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The Flamanville EPR is a bit of a special case since it's the first of its kind, so it's not surprising that it's not on budget and schedule, I hope EDF learned some lessons from that.
I try to put myself in the company's shoes:

Employee: Please pay me more.
Company: Why?
Employee: If you don't then I will be able to find a more
lucrative/satisfactory position elsewhere.

At this point in the conversation, the company has only a couple of possible responses:

1. You're free to do so. I'm not increasing your pay.
2. Ok. I'll take your word for it. Here's a raise.
3. Prove it, and I'll give you a raise.

#1 is the only option if the company is strapped for cash and the best option when the employee's net value is low.

#2 can be a good choice if you have a very good sense of the job market and what makes a competitive compensation package OR if the employee's net value is high and an equally good substitute will be difficult to find.

In all other situations, #3 does seem the most sensible and least risky.

If a company is inclined to #2, they can and probably should award the raise preemptively, before it has been asked for.

Now, as an employee, if I suppose the company has thought all of this through, and they haven't preempted me with an offer of a raise, then I can infer that #2 is not among the possibilities. So I probably don't even need to ask for a raise. I should probably just look for other jobs and then when I get an offer I can find out if the company is going to take option 1 or option 3.

As a big company, such as a Fortune 500, often a manager will want badly to retain an employee and would happily go for #2, even preemptively. But if the senior management (who never even sees that employee) does not share the manager's assessment of the employee's value or the manager's familiarity with the job market for that role, then they will not allow it.

I've seen all of these cases occur. Happily, my current employer is happy to pursue option #2 for high-performing employees.
But does that also mean "You may record this call"? Because it doesn't say by who it is monitored.