skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with both you and agentultra. I'm struggling to understand why. You're correct on the comparative impact. But I've long believed psychology is important too.

We lefties are frequently criticized, for better or worse, for hypocrisy. Maybe personal pro forma efforts will remove that rhetorical angle of attack.

Also, there's got to be some priming benefits, an opportunity to educate about the larger issues. However, my faith in this strategy has been rocked by failures (betrayal) of the whole recycling charade, which has served to alienate people and likely reduced future engagement.

I wish I knew what is best. Right now, I don't even have an opinion, just more questions.
A feature that I've yet seen implemented: white-listing numbers to bypass the robot
If YouTube developers are pushing changes that break IE6 layout for the "hundredth time" or crash the browser or OS, it sounds like they didn't have adequate QA or didn't test IE6, even though it was used by 18% of their users. "Nobody joining the team could be expected to know that early versions of IE" had some quirk could be caught by code reviews and QA.
People who upgraded to IE7 were capable and willing to upgrade, and more likely to upgrade to a later version when available.

IE8 was the included browser with Windows 7, which was generally well received compared to Vista which included IE7.

The timing lines up within the release window of IE 8 (March 2009) and Windows 7 (July 2009), so potentially a lot of upgrade push from other things in the air at the time.

Edit to add: people on ie7 because it came with Vista probably had a more capable/pushy update system than those on XP with ie6; but I don't remember the details on how microsoft system updates worked at the time.
> Imagine if the government would try to nudge people in the way these companies do

You've never seen a Got Milk ad, have you?
I don't think either of your "possible explanations" are borne out by the evidence, but then there are a dozen other explanations that are both more plausible, and whose truth-potential is not dependent on whether they make sense to you personally.
> 200 million in funding
> 100 million in sales

Well, there's your problem right there.
I have a feeling this was a company that would have done well if it had avoided the lure of VC funding, built its product and scaled slowly solving the interesting and challenging problems of building a home/play robot and getting consumers to like and want it, eventually selling to an Amazon or Google for a $100M+ exit.

Instead, they tried to fund their way to become a robot unicorn and died an undercorn.
> Your regular hours probably show up when Googling your business name, but any holiday-specific hours won't.

they often do. Google is quite insistent on getting businesses to update their holiday hours for any common holidays, and when you look up business hours on a holiday you see the result of this - many businesses do update their holiday hours, and the business listing tells you whether the business owner has confirmed that the hours are correct for the holiday, or they have not updated the page for the holiday.
Are they for sale? That sounds dope!
It's geopolitics. In short, when there is only a choice between US and Chinese manufacturers, whichever doesn't matter because they're both considered equally hostile. Chinese is cheaper though.
They also __legally__ unload a large amount of tax burden by working with APs[1] on special custom ETF redemption orders.

For example, an AP will place a redemption order for an equity ETF. Typically, they will either receive cash value of the ETF or a basket of equities that are selected by the Front Office that are part of the underlying index represented by the ETF (the selection for a given standard basket is its own topic of portfolio management). However, in the case of the aforementioned custom orders, Vanguard and the AP will negotiate a special basket of equities to be given in return for the redeemed ETF. Sometimes this basket will just contain a large number of shares of simply one security. It's even possible that both parties make money off of this transaction due to the tax code. This transaction allows Vanguard to unload a large number of securities without paying taxes on them, and allows the AP to obtain these securities a negotiated, cheaper price.

Essentially, the transaction could like something like this:

->Vanguard has 1,000 shares of CompanyX they want to unload. This company can be found in Index Z.

->AP has 1 share of the Vanguard ETF that tracks Index Z. They want to redeem it

->AP gives their 1 share of the ETF to Vanguard

->Vanguard gives them n shares of CompanyX, at say a 5% discount so that:
.95 * $CompanyXPrice * Shares = 1 share of Index Z value

->Vanguard is spared the capital gains tax on these shares. AP gets these shares at a discount. They both (on paper) make or save money.

This is legal in the current tax code. The above example is simplified, but it should illustrate the situation (hopefully) well enough.

A brief blurb about it here too: https://www.pennstatelawreview.org/print-issues/articles/the...

[1] https://www.etf.com/etf-education-center/21021-who-are-autho...
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The Tax Break Was $260M. Benefit to the State Was Tiny: $155,520
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19800082 and marked it off-topic.
You and the parent are saying the same thing. You're just mincing the word "force". You're insisting on using it in a different figurative sense than the parent, but the parent's meaning is perfectly clear.
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A dynamic response IVR message would be fantastic. When I call, I usually care about today's hours. A shortened response such as "Thanks for calling Foo Café, open until 6pm today" or "Thanks for calling Foo Café, we open today at 10am" if the call is before opening hours, would be fantastic. Not so long that it's tedious and infuriating to sit through, but still prevents employees from having to handle such a repetitive task.

I wonder how often that's the case.
Again, why are you focusing on this one person when there is an entire report backed up by hundreds of scientists that has the actual numbers, which are not 1-7F? This makes no sense at all. So one guy misspoke, or was misquoted, or exaggerated. His stuff on the ice age was also nonsense as you pointed out yourself. The important thing is that the actual IPCC prediction was accurate - that is the real "authoritative statement" and can be read at length on line - that is what you should be quoting.
Ok, my point still stands then; it's good to have multiple sources of information
Pretty sure there was a USG lawsuit about what MSFT could require from OEMs.
It is ok to be white, it is just not something that needs to be said, and derails the discussion from things that do need to be said.
Is health-care data the new blood?
isn’t that basically a temp agency?
Where in this article is there any examples of how most people aren't following agile methods? Pointless
It was the Developer Toolbar, I've got a pet project that I'm making compatible with IE5 and its challenging to work without it.
I think it's ambiguous. At what point is there a refusal, and what degree of insistence is required? Someone initiates a request for service in French, the response is "no, no, no this will be in English". Has that person refused to conduct the transaction in French?

I suppose the person requesting service could be more forceful about insisting on being served in French, but does someone have to go through a second round of insisting/refusing before service has been denied? And what words count as insisting (id that is required), what words count as refusal? "No, no, no, this will be in English" seems very close to a refusal to me.

I wouldn't be surprised if this has been formally litigated in Canada, it'd be interesting to know.
Your CSS/Sass skills are indeed gold!

My next game will be using this.
Zero it and install Linux. Problem solved.
BBC report being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19799426
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19796607
Where in this article is their any examples of how teams are not adhering to agile methods? Pointless
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> But it seems free or cheap services era from google is finished. They now started to aggressively monetize.

Or in other words, behave like a rational business. I would also say that the era where the user IS the product is (hopefully) coming to an end, and this is how Google moves forward in that world.
lolwut? Even in my story above where I casually walked into the hospital, they had no idea about my ability to pay until after treatment had been rendered.

And just like in the US, you can walk out the front door at that point. But unlike the US, nobody is deluded into thinking you're bailing on a $12,000 bill because you got some stitches.

I got stitches in Austin five years ago after drunkenly slipping on a party barge and gashing my head open. The whole time I was getting stitches, someone was there using scare tactics to ensure I was going to pay for them, tried to take my name and info down, suggested that maybe we should only do 3 stitches instead of 4 if I wasn't going to give them my info. Probably extra pushy because I was drunk.

They billed me thousands, I gave them the $100 in my wallet and walked out the door.

My experience in Mexico for basically everything related to healthcare has been superior to the USA, from drugs to child birth to surgery to other healthcare fields like dentistry. I'd probably rather get cancer here, too. I know a Mexican here with a brain tumor that gets operated on every year. He can walk in to a public hospital, but he prefers the private ones. His last operation, he paid $1,500 cash. I don't even want to know what that would cost in the USA. Probably the rest of your life in servitude.

The USA is nice when you have a cushy white collar job like most HNers, and that's what I don't like. I don't want to work a cushy job all my life. I want to live off my savings for years at a time, live on a beach, take risks, start things, yet not lose half my savings when I have an accident. As far as I'm concerned, the USA can't deliver that.
Isn't that essentially the role that all the apps powering the "sharing economy" are providing?
They also shunned, kicked out or hanged anyone that didn't "try hard enough" so I wouldn't take their philosophical/religious opinions too seriously. They believed in a merciful god because the earthly reality they subjected themselves to was anything but (i.e. it was a coping mechanism). They basically ran the closest thing to a caliphate to ever exist in the western hemisphere. Of course they put a good spin on it but every utopia is also a dystopia.
URL parsers also have bugs (or at least don't all agree on one parsing if you rely on more than one parser). Just take a look at https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Wed-August-8/us-18-Orange-Tsai-... for some fun examples.
Yes, IE quirks were hard to deal with, especially when making complex designs.

However, this is setting a precedent for restricting websites to certain "acceptable" clients, which is not a good direction.
Biggest takeaway from this is how many underlying presuppositions appear to be assumptions.
Congrats Derek and Jeff. Excited to see what you guys build together at Confluent.
For Academia, yes. All of the scientific articles are written in that language.

The youngest generations are hugely influenced by Youtube and the internet, and many speak English more fluently than their own legacy local language.

This is a great thing for humanity. A common language will ease the flow of ideas and simplify commerce.
I'm scratching my head as to the possible identity of the mystery SUV. Luxury SUV, Japanese, uses a turbo... maybe the Acura RDX? And the transmission housing is not stout enough to contain gear shrapnel?
The poster had addressed that already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797003
Interesting that the movie "Heathers" came out 30 years ago this year. It's about exactly this thing. If you didn't experience it 30 years ago, you may have been simply lucky.
They ARE the topics which needs to be understood if you want to understand what that number means.
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I've not yet seen anyone comment on the fact that Dell was informed in late Oct, confirmed by late Nov...and the public was advised in mid April. That's a lot of time for a known and confirmed vulnerability to be undisclosed, isn't it?
It is really quite simple: The US has yet to provide their evidence to European countries, or has and their evidence is so unconvincing nobody actioned it.

That's what this entire situation boils down to. The US has been making claims, now it is time to back those claims, until they do nobody should do anything. A lot of people suspect this is more about geopolitics than security for legitimate reasons.
Your right to make noise with your pie hole in no way obligates anyone else to listen to, or even hear you, let alone broadcast that noise to a larger audience than you would have had without their help. Full stop.

There is absolutely a legitimate, and very, very important conversation to be had around whether, e.g., online censorship or moderation or "deplatforming", or whatever, might constitute something functionally akin to prior restraint, where the edge cases are in those questions, and what to do about all that.

That said, having those discussions about private behavior using terms that are — and historically have more or less always been — used in the specific context of the State only confuses things.

My point being: if we're going to have that discussion, which we for reals should be doing, let's try to do it in a way that doesn't make it harder to have, let alone have productively.

The attempt to expand the specifically and narrowly constrained notion of "Free Speech" (note the capitalization) to domains other than a constraint upon the State is a specious conflation, and ultimately yields more heat than light.

EDIT: I mean, really, how productively can that conversation be had if it's using terminology that enables randos who don't meaningfully understand this distinction to pile on, all, "But the Twitters violated my 1st Amendmentses!"?
>you could stop by and make an appointment in person

sure, you could. but that also means interrupting him while he's working - if he doesn't have time to answer the phone, he also doesn't have time to deal with you in person. it's just ruder to ignore you when you show up in person.
Got an example of something that Wikileaks has released that ended up being 'false'? Because Wikileaks isn't in the business of releasing 'opinions' or 'speculation' - it releases data and material facts, for the general public to make its own conclusions.

Ask yourself this question: why is it so hard for you to consider that Wikileaks never lied to you? Who has convinced you that it is an organization that cannot be trusted?
ADP announced deprecation for IE10 and IE11 last year. They apparently didn't realize that Edge doesn't run in Win7 which many of their customers still have deployed, given the issues surrounding Win8 and 10.

I guess they can use this as an excuse to not upgrade their shitshow flash app that beings a multi-core processor to it's knees just navigating between entry fields.
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Previous discussion on the same topic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782394
>It's perhaps worth stopping to ask why astrophysicists hypothesize dark matter to be everywhere in the universe?

>To explain observations of galaxies inconsistent with general relativity, the existence of dark matter was posited as an unknown and invisible form of matter calculated to make up more than a quarter of all mass-energy content in the universe

Food for thought: the best current evidence of dark matter is the Bullet Cluster[0]. In particular, look at this picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/1e0657_s...

At first, these were two blobs of dark matter and gas. They collided. That resulted in what we see now: the dark matter portions (purple, measured by gravity lensing) magically went through each other (because dark matter is weird like that) while the gas portions (pink) actually collided and formed a shockwave (like normal matter behaves), with much of the gas remaining in the middle.

The tone in the article quotes there makes it seem like dark matter is some esoteric rounding error, but that seems like pretty "solid" evidence for... the anomalous mass readings we call dark matter.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
Could be that it took a while to distribute the fix to all the affected PCs?
There are a few yoytube videos that show diy versions of what you describe, but efficiency ia not there yet.
Seems to me they needed someone to be in charge who knew how to get these things done and give him a title like "manager"or something
true, but normally its a leak of policy, or something politically embarrassing. (brexit will be a great success/terrible failure because of x, delete to taste)

But this is different, this is a leak of an actual state secrets. This is much more secret because its expressly illegal. (the official secrets act makes many things vaguely illegal, but leaking things marked "secret" or similar is an actual offence.)

Not only is it illegal, its also leaking other country's intelligence, which is a massive nono
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Having spent several years doing a PhD that was primarily statistical analysis, I can assure you I understand ranges very well. I certainly did not assume it is a normal distribution. There are going to be multiple sources of uncertainty including statistical and systematic errors which have different distributions. Taking all that into account they came up with an overall bound, and the actual number is within that range. That means the data are consistent with the prediction.

And you need to stop quoting that 7F number. That number is not in the IPCC report, which is the thing we need to be comparing against - it is an unverifiable number quoted from one person who appears to have made multiple other errors, as you yourself pointed out (eg ice ages timeframes).
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I don't know man. That sounds more like you're in a media bubble than it sounds indicative of some broader trend. The media report the exceptional, not the norm. It doesn't mean you're wrong, but just that this evidence is about as weak as it gets.
No, I mean, he's not qualified to interpret the findings. It's far from obvious that a negative DNA test result means "definitely didn't wear the condom". (And more broadly, such a test is only informative if you can be sure that no other condom was used, which you probably can't.)