skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting on May 7, 2019, when a seller issues a partial or full refund to a buyer or refunds a donation to a donor the fees originally paid as the seller are no longer returned.

Imagine you're a seller on eBay. You offer 30 day returns. Your buyer purchases a camera for $1000. They pay with PayPal. An hour later, they write and say "I changed my mind, please cancel this order. If you don't, I'll just return unopened when I get it, so save yourself the shipping." So you have to refund. And you just lost $29.
In this case it was just poorly done; they explained that it was caused by X, then redundantly restated that X caused it but in a format that looks like X was being defined
The existence of 737 max is not enough?
What happened to the women in tech is that the clerical jobs were all replaced by computers.

I'm still not clear how office work has improved by me not having a secretary. The two hours a day I waste on email, meeting planning etc would pay someone a comfortable wage and mean I don't have to be bothered all the time by emails that I probably don't need to answer, unless it's from those two people.

In my current gig we have an actual full time office manager and it's fucking amazing.
So heres the thing..

I can't request a refund.

To Ventra.. I presented a valid payment. I accepted service and recieved service.

To the Credit card company, they're garbage. I can't opt out of a contactless card. I chewed out the CC CSR.. but they try to frame it as me being in a bad situation. ("That sounds like a terrible situation, I can understand how this can be frustrating in a big city") BTW: This is chase.
How many guys have you dated?
I've never trusted password managers. I write the unique portions of my passwords in a notepad and combine those with a common but unwritten alphanumeric sequence to form my full passwords.
>>our neighbors complained that we receive "too much" delivery packages

That feels like straight out of 1984. I mean what are they driven by? I can only imagine the brainwashing that leads to things like party loyalty and snitching on neighbors because they look like they order a lot of toys.

>>they had a printout of all my online orders (no warrant needed) and my chats (no warrant needed)

Given all this do you really want to be risking your own and your family's life by writing this on HN?

>>a new app called "study the word of Xi Jinping" is almost compulsory

This is laughable. Seriously. For starters. Forcing or demanding respect never works.
So, the idea of "discussing it" is to first exclude everybody who might hold an opinion different from the one you want to arrive at (preferably without even actually asking them - why bother to ask a person if she's for or against military drones if she served in the military so you already know everything about her views from one single factoid?). At which point I'm not sure why indeed waste time on having any council at all - a dozen people that think all the same can be replaced by just one person at 12x more efficiency.
Agree 100%, but people need to move into places today and tomorrow and I get that rent control is not a long term solution, but in the long term we are all dead as the saying goes. When more housing exists, rent control can end. In the mean time, I pick market distortion over people out on their ass do to impossibly high rent.
I humbly presume that you are familiar with topic at hand, and so, if you please, can you elaborate more on 'scratching the surface' part? I'm genuinely curious about other aspects of policy/systems-building, as it were. Pointers to blog posts or books should be enough, as well. Thanks.
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This is absolutely blowing my mind right now because 20 years ago during a significant psychotic episode I also ate soap on the advice of a glowing angelic figure who also commanded me to store samples of my own semen in a freezer in my basement. I've long since accepted those experiences as crazy edge cases in a complex brain and tied every supernatural interpretation I had to actual rational events, and I'm sure this is just an insane coincidence, but damn if it doesn't make me pause for a second. I wonder if there's some strange cultural artifact I've forgotten that both I and this fellow were exposed to that would explain this synchronicity.
App engine flex is a “bring your own container” set up.
LastPass is hard to use for me, so I wrote my own,

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/passcell/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/passcell/mjbndaapn...

All encryption/decryption is done inside the browser, as you can verify the source code, https://github.com/zncoder/passcell.
I'd love to find out what it is that the truly consistent teams are doing that other teams aren't. For example Astralis (currently) or SK Telecom (LoL) or Fnatic (CS) a few years ago. Every now and then a team comes along that just seems to dominate consistently. I wonder if it comes down mostly to the skill of the individual players, or if the team culture/infrastructure plays a big part in it.
Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says
When your Redshift instance locks up, it doesn't end up on Wikipedia.
Does fourth-generation Okinawan mean that her great-great- grandparent moved out of Okinawa and yet still consider oneself an

It seems like the article is using the fact the author is a fourth generation Okinawan to frame her as an authority on the subject, which I don’t think is valid.

All the second generation Europeans I know call themselves whatever citizenship they have adopted. They don’t learn their parents language, instead strive to be integrated into their new country.

Can someone explain the American habit of keeping track of being 1/8 Irish or a 4th generation anything? I can’t help but see this as a vain attempt at being unique and interesting.
That doesn't explain why Bitcoin is useful for anything other than relieving stupid people of their money?
mind sharing how you use pocket? i stopped using the web and mobile apps. all i get now is a weekly digest and that covers all i want.
I wouldn't trust any password service that uploads my data anywhere, with or without the key (though especially with the key like here). I wouldn't trust it if it uploaded the password data to Dropbox or any similar service under an account I own. Even if the data is encrypted, someone can get access to it and work on decrypting it offline. That's simply too big of a risk considering the power of state actors, although I assume state actors would just get the data directly from each website and not need my passwords. Still, can't assume anything about any adversary. Others could certainly be capable of cracking an encrypted file offline.
I'd argue they're merging into the same thing for certain products with frequent releases. Things like VS code get free marketing every month with their release announcements hitting the front page of HN, reddit and the like.
Darpa Subterranean Challenge: Robots Compete to Explore Underground Worlds
Yeah AWS Aurora does have some nice capabilities compared to Cloud SQL; if it weren’t for the other issues mentioned in the article it would have been a driving factor towards choosing AWS. Still Cloud SQL seems “good enough” in general (other than the somewhat ungraceful way maintenance is handled); I’d be curious to hear if there are particular issues you ran into that made you switch to unmanaged SQL?
The main driver of C02 reduction is based around geopolitical forces and national interest, and the west is on the wrong side of history on this one.

We got lucky that China / East Asia / India do not have access to cheap hydrocarbon, aligning their national interest with that of longer term survival of humanity.

Some dude in BC is vacuuming up C02 in his backyard and this becomes news ?

Meanwhile ...

- China continues to shave off millions barrels of global oil consumption due to their initiatives involving electric buses for the masses.

- China dumps so much solar production capacity on the market that it undercuts coal and gas.

The solution to climate change is not going to come from cute startups but from national projects.

When history books are written, the pages will be filled with praises of national initiatives taken by govts of south korea, china, germany, ... ( india ? not sure yet have to wait and see ).

Pretty words are not going to be written about the richest and most carbon intensive nation on earth along with its cronies ( Canada / Australia / UK ) actively undermining efforts to fight climate change ( while continuing to export and use fossil fuels to support the bulk of their GDP ).

But you will always have some dude vacuuming up CO2 in his backyard in BC to provide moral licensing.
It's a very similar psychological trick. I've even heard project managers I like and who I think are generally very good do it. I think it's just part of their language now, and some may not realize they're doing anything kinda shitty. But it's something straight out of Cialdini's Persuasion, and unsubtle enough that even I can tell what it is.

"Do you feel comfortable committing to these stories?" Always a question.

Committing. If you don't make it for any reason not obviously caused by "outside blockers" you're morally responsible—and maybe even then. What are you, some kind of liar? Quite a step from an estimate. Kind of harsher than a deadline, even, which are oh-so-rarely as "deadly" as the name implies. But people close enough to Scrumish processes to get in the meetings but far enough away not to be writing code or testing things or putting out designs sure seem to like that word. Commit.
Do these people not fall under "the ruiners"?
Former Mozilla CTO was detained at US border and told he had no right to lawyer
Same here migrated to bitwarden from lastpass. So far my experience with bitwarden has been great. Bitwarden apps are very good.
A cow-orker of mine mentioned this card a few months before it was actually released. "Transparent water," he would say, wistfully. I wasn't convinced it would be that interesting.

We both bought cards. I was convinced.

I really wish I'd gotten back into game programming then (I was doing mostly systems stuff, boring things like storage and operating systems). It would have been a lot of fun.
I don't know about "many"? The only famously successful one I can think of off the top of my head is Bertrand Grospellier. And I guess Benger got some publicity when he made the WSOP main event.

Is there a whole host of ex e-sports players making a professional living off poker? Or are these guys outliers?
Results of Applying K-Means Clustering to Magic: The Gathering (Part 2)
It's why I live in a less exciting and not as progressive geographic location. I could not afford to have a buffer space around my house in new york or california and for me I value my solitary personal home with yard and trees over some (really great) economic and cultural benefits that would come from living in other more expensive regions.
I owned one of these and it was wonderful! Wild to find someone who worked on it. I needed it because I needed EverQuest to be high res, and couldn’t do SLI (not enough free pci slots!) so the Pure3D nailed it for me.
Hey super, I consult with hedge funds to fix this type of behavior. send me an email, maybe I can help you fix your situation: hn (at) gotem.co
Flex is not at all very expensive. Per instance cost is about 1/2 the cost compared to heroku, putting it on par with the likes of ECS in terms of cost but ships with usable monitoring, logging, and metrics out of the box with extremely generous free tiers that stay free way longer and that are still marginally cheaper than what you’d pay in AWS land if you exceed them.
So after the previous article, some people wanted to see what the results were. Here are some of the insights I could get. Let me know what you think!
One common mistake I see often is in step 1, understand the problem. Assuming the problem is not understanding the problem.

I'm reminded of an issue my old boss had at his house. His power bill was raising at an alarming rate, he assumed it was the central hvac, spent a few hundred getting it tuned up, no effect. Spent a bunch of weekends replacing weather stripping, adding sealant, etc. minor effect.

I came in with an app that lets you estimate current power usage by looking at the power meter[1], and killed circit breakers one by one while measuring current usage.

The cause turned out to be a malfunctioning swamp pump he forgot the house even had.

He assumed he knew the problem, by focusing on the common cause of such problems, he assumed wrong, and because of this, every solution was addressing a different problem than the one he was trying to solve.

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Another example is the story[2] of the old as fuck ibm mainframe that was powering a website that would take on the order of 10s of seconds to return data. Everybody assumed all of the delays was to be blamed by the "legacy hardware". Every solution pitched involved migrating off of it, a daunting task no manager wanted to green light. Finally they brought a consultant in to figure out what was going on. Turned out it returned data in 6ms or less, the cause of the lag was the java app that would read the output from the mainframe to transform and send to the browser.

They could have solved the problem years ago if they had just actually tried to understand the problem.

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[1] (power meters have a thing that happens every n watts, along with a decal that tells you what n is, so you can determine current power usage by measuring time between these n watts, there is a handy dandy app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sam.instan...)

[2] 7074 says Hello World
Okay, but move the jobs there too.
>Equipment sales were actually going down for close to 3 years now. We are up for long winter in the industry.

I heard some say this, Would it really be "Winter" though? I guess from equipment manufacture perspective that is yes. From the industry as whole I guess it is just longer cycle, more cost reduction from technology stand points.

>A poorly held secret in the industry is that fabs want to use EUV to not to make <7nm, but to make economical <40nm litho with single exposure.

I guess that is still many years out? Considering all the ASML EUV unit are fully booked till 2021, and with increasing use of EUV from Intel I guess that is likely to continue till 2023 / 2024.

It would be quite some time before we can make super cheap 20nm components.
I wouldn’t sign any political petition in my company. That doesn’t mean I don’t have an opinion, or that I wouldn’t act on that opinion, such as by leaving my company if I didn’t like it and had another alternative.
CBT has been debunked by multiple meta-studies. Psychology, as a science, is a joke. The brain is the most complex structure in the known universe, but to be a psychologist you don't need even a basic MD. It should be struck off as a science all together.
Instagram breaks API for non-English users, but they don't care
Brilliant work! I know this feeling very well..God if i can this everyday at work it would be just amazing...
A few years back I bought the domain for 5ktocouch.com, now I wish I had done something with it.
Been using pass for years. It's great and I highly recommend it. There are also some great browser plugin for it as well.
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This was in 2009. At the end of 2008 when startup financing dried up, I ended up with pretty much no income. I was recruiting on an hourly basis, and I couldn't find a new contract. I had about $50K saved up to pay taxes and an S.F. studio apartment, and I decided to live off that money & try starting a startup. A year later I had no money and no apartment.

I could have stayed with my parents in the burbs of L.A., but I figured I would have gotten stuck in an area where there even less opportunity. I ended up floor surfing at a cheap place here in San Francisco, the Harcourt Hotel at 1105 Larkin St. Basically I made newer friends faster that my new the friends didn't want me crashing with them anymore.
That's terrible, and I don't think there are any easy answers. Just be there if he reaches out, and help in small ways when you can.
That is regional, though. I'm from New York and I've addressed groups of older female relatives as "you guys" without anyone batting an eye.

In other parts of the country that's not common and people see "guys" as gendered, and people feel like you're forgetting they're there.

The word "dude" as a form of address is gender neutral and business appropriate some places and not others.

It's a hard problem: Y'all works some places but sounds goofy and affected in others. Same with "folks."
That is such a fantastic article. It’s timeless: it was published in 1850, but it remains more relevant than ever.
Aren't 100% perl code -> paint splatters. For each code there exists a paint splatter i.e. image of the code itself.
Not entirely related but one problem solving issue I see often is people not testing and refusing to test their assumptions. Often while trying to help someone with a problem I ask if they tried something and they say

"No that cant be the issue because it shouldn't be affecting it"

Yes under ideal situations this wouldn't be an issue but if the system is not working as expected then how can you be so sure that this bit is working as expected.
At least the newest better 4 core Macbook Pro 13" are now beating the 2015 15" MBP in raw CPU power. I'm looking at (only) CPU benchmarks the recent years and for me it seems Intel was pretty much sleeping from around 2013-2017... maybe it was also their internal problems with going to 11nm and also lack of competition!

I think Intel could have stepped up their no. of cores with low thermal CPUs a lot sooner. The last radical step up from Intel was 2013 with Haswell CPUs and then after that 2018 with a more lower TDP 4 core CPU which we see now on the Macbook Pro 13".
a "bug"
That's incorrect: Seattle is building new apartments but only those who make large salaries can rent them. The population that used to pay reasonable prices for rentals now cannot afford the prices and are either leaving the city or in extreme cases living in the streets. In this respect Seattle is now closer to San Francisco than what you imagine.
You have to ask yourself what is that space used for??

They're all compiled languages doing (roughly) the same operations. There is an order of magnitude difference in the number of instructions in one compared to the other.

Apache is more likely to be entirely cached whereas the others aren't.

Size matters for performance.... if you're not CPU bound, fine, but to say its immaterial is naive.
Rich people shouldn't just push legislation that benefits them. It's clearly a negative to our country. ALEC has already shown they are not helping things. One prominent example is their legislation that makes it illegal for communities to build their own internet access, regardless of how undeserved they are. This does no one any good, except for the comcasts of the world.

ALEC is evil, like the Koch brother's legislative activities, evil in that they only serve the interests of wealthy monied groups, perpetuating their power.
I agree but they didn't build more housing either, they replaced 20 units with 15 and 59 with 55.
The Ethiopian pilots knew and applied the mcas-related procedures.

Also, Ethiopian airways is quite old and had a good safety record.
I am a password store user, however it is a very nerdy solution. The use of git is it's biggest strength because you can host it yourself super easily, but your also stuck with git's awful ux.
Also the lack of file name encryption limits the options of using free git hosts - maybe that's for the best, but it clearly limits adoption even more.
>Programmed Inequality by Marie Hicks [0] is a great introduction to some of the history.

That's largely bullshit.

The position of 'programmer' today would be that of a systems architect from 1960. The position of 'programmer' of 1960 is the linker/assembler program of today. The jobs where women used to be a majority of the staff were simply automated away.

Before you cry sexism the position of CNC programmer, a largely male dominated profession, has suffered from the same. With the job going from being a hugely skilled profession in the 1960s to being something you press a button in a cam package, with the pay dropping correspondingly from the 60s to today.
honestly, its slow. icecat is quite nice.
I need to create some. In the meantime this is not a bad writeup:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2117651/comparing-sql-an...

To clarify, I think Prolog is a lousy data storage language but a fantastic query language. What I've done in the past is used Prolog to query a Common Lisp object-oriented database (after modifying the Prolog to produce composable lazy streams, which is not usually included in the Prolog box but is very handy for database querying.) What I want to try next is the above with standard PostgresQL as the backend repository. That will make possible an apples-to-apples SQL comparison possible.
I'm starting to think this person refuses to be logical, not directed at you kbenson. PlayStation Network ran fine for years in our own datacenters, we decided to move to AWS instead of dealing with acquiring and maintaining our own hardware. Trust me, Sony isn't lacking some very bright people, we just don't want to deal with on-prem anymore, so yeah we'll throw ridiculous money at them for that pleasure.

diminoten -- relax, take a breath. Your rude and condescending tone is unnecessary. We don't see eye-to-eye, but I'm not discounting your experience. I can't say I'm getting the same vibe from you.
Tricky part of this is rent control adds an entire new group that no longer cares about housing being built and is interested in the status quo (as well as making it less attractive to build new housing and rent it out).

I suspect if you put it in place it becomes politically impossible to end and even harder to build new housing.
> Yes we could overprovision a single server with 5x the resources for the once a week indexing.

You assume this is bad, but why? Your alternative seems to be locking yourself into expensive and highly proprietary vendor solutions that have their own learning curve and a wide variety of tradeoffs and complications.

The point being made is that you are still worrying about maintaining infrastructure and overprovisioning, because you're now spending time specializing your system and perhaps entire company to a specific vendor's serverless solutions.

To be clear, I don't have anything against cloud infrastructure really, but I do think some folks really don't seem to understand how powerful simple, battle-tested tools like PostgreSQL are. "Overprovisioning" may be way less of an issue than you imply (especially if you seriously only need 8 machines), and replication for PostgreSQL is a long solved problem.
What happens if you lose your notepad?
Why Young Startups Should Invest in On-Call
Fact: Crashes increase churn by as much as 534%. Crashes decrease next-day app opens by almost 8x the normal.
Fact: 68% of customers end their relationship with companies because of poor customer service.
Fact: 8 in 10 Consumers are willing to pay more for a better customer experience as big business falls short on expectations

In this article, we explore why startups need to set up an alerting and on-call rotation system from an early stage, and how to do so. Please read and give your feedback!
https://blog.zenduty.com/blog/2019/04/05/Why-Young-Startups-Should-Invest-In-On-Call
Yeah, this is better than their initial "what, me worry" response. They should just own up to their screw up. They will owe giant fines and be sued. Their reputation is what is more important long term. Own up to the change.