skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a customary experience - Pretty much any interaction with Paypal support that doesn't involve you losing hundreds or thousands of dollars is an uncommonly good experience.

Paypal is a well-oiled machine until you trigger some exception that creates a case with their legendarily incompetent support - at that point, the results will be essentially random and often apparently malicious, no matter the facts of the case.
Another way they save is by discouraging their use. Since people who've called with real issues have had to waste a whole lot of their time, they're more reluctant to do so the next time they have a problem.
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Interesting, this also makes the garlic hack less useful if you need only 1 or 2 cloves.
The failed startup attempt was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19605695

It's good to see that Tobi Ogunwande persisted and successfully changed his strategy. It seems that he learned a lot after his first failed attempt.
> Orange juice is 71% vitamin C

> it's too early in the morning for me to give you an education

One of those statements was correct. You are off by more than 3 orders of magnitude - an impressive feat.
Olive articles like this!
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Who develops on production servers?
Fruit sugar is still sugar.
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Hmmm, there's a banner at the bottom that says 'Recruiting for 2018'. Is this thing dead?
The cherry on the cake ultimate big big win for me is that with fzf, fuzzy selection behaves uniformly across all tools in my stack. Before that each one has subtle differences in filtering the resultset from the input, which often threw me off.
Or sucking c1ck. There are miles of c2ck out there. Good for the environment, lots of pr3teine.
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> Maybe some Vitamin C?! Orange juice is 71% vitamin C!

Not it's not 71% vitamin C, it's about 0.05% vitamin C.

125 ml of orange juice provides about 71% of the daily vitamin C needs (60 mg), which is probably what you meant but very different from what you actually said.
These are very particular canned olives in the US that have a different taste. Twenty or thirty years ago they were the only black olives you could get here. They are still available, but now you can easily get real tree-ripened black olives as well.
The EU has a lot of law about digital payments. In September this year, a new provision will come into force in the entire EEA that requires digital payments to be made with two-factor authentication, for example. I don't know whether or how that affects PayPal though.
> And there is NO added sugar

This is NO good argument - even without added sugar, orange juice is on par with coke (about 10 gram sugar/100 ml).
Is the MWI more complete in this regard? How does it decide what a "branching event" is, when it happens, and when it doesn't?
To be fair, Postgres did come out of Ingres, an older database. So its ancestry goes back a fair bit longer than MySQL.
For the even lazier, one can just add https://sci-hub.tw/ in front of the nature URL and through the great work of the sci-hub people, get access to a web page that has the paper. It's an amazing UX!
They've very slowly been getting better at various ridiculous UI issues. For example, they finally have a proper TOTP system (rather than their old security key that nobody used).

But yes 20 character password is infuriating. My guess is that, at some point, it's extremely hard to change the password character limit and make sure it's correctly updated everywhere at once. Passwords are used in several places and they're afraid of missing a few.

That's my most generous reading of the situation. I still think Paypal is pathetic. Their country locking is the most awful shit: you can't use a foreign phone number, it has to be one of the country you registered with Paypal. If you move country, tough fucking luck, you have to close your account and open a new one and that's "standard procedure".
But PayPal has an option to return a payment, it doesn't have to be you manually sending a transaction back to the person.
To summarise: Broadly the grandparent is correct, but some of his problems have been addressed in a very new version of the database in question. Is that fair?
The point I was trying to make is not that it's exclusive and hence why I reiterated I'm not against planting trees. Or trees in general, in any case I like them quite a lot as I come form the countryside and miss the forest and mountains a lot.

One of the points I was trying to converge is on the danger these types of articles pose and is they are delusional. It makes society think oh well, that's a big problem but we have a readily available solution, just plant more trees and all is solved.

The other is on one of the statements which is dubious.

I do a lot of work on this area hence why I'm saying all of the above and that's what I found when speaking with general public. And also with people with `high educational degrees` which (in theory) take things more critically and think them through.
Anyone else hate car sharing services? Honestly I just found the experience increadibly stressful.

Before I go anywhere, is every little scratch and dent listed in the little handbook?

If I clip something in a carpark (like a bollard or tall curb) I've got to spend 30 minutes on the phone explaining it to the person on the other end then pay some hard to determine fee.

On my way back to the spot if I get caught in traffic there is another fine for being late.

That's before we get into the difficulty of how you'd do it with a small child with a pram and car seat etc.
Receiving unintended funds can have all kinds of unintended consequences, including related to law enforcement.

In his case, he just got suspended and asked to provide documents he is physically unable to produce (contrary to presumption of innocence).

the next day, and after almost two weeks since the refund to place (but only one day after the long phone discussion) my account was blocked as "suspicious" activity and in order to unblock it I will have to provide original product receipts of the product I was "selling", something that I do not have as I do not even know what I was selling!
Well... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-28/air-co...

I imagine maintaining a lower temperature in a house needs a lot more energy compared to a car, unless maybe you have a tiny well-isolated apartment.
Of course, this all raises the question of whether there are only unethical use cases for bots pretending to be human, or whether a law like this could hit benign uses for bots as well.

For instance, ARGs could have bot accounts for fictional characters on social media sites. These accounts could give pre recorded messages that then hint that the user should visit some third party site for more clues or information. Is that legally dubious? I can see it being so under this law, but I don't think it's comparable to a business running say an automated chat support system and pretending its bots are human.

Same goes with roleplaying bots on online community sites. These aren't a huge thing right now, but they could be in future, with accounts that act like NPCs do in video games or interact with the players account in side quests or what not. These don't seem like they'd be morally 'wrong' things to have on a site, but they'd probably get hit by this law regardless.

Point is, these types of bots don't necessarily only have dodgy use cases.
I hope Libra (the new currency from FB) will set a higher bar.

I can confirm that PayPal is horrible to legitimate merchants. One would expect better fraud protection given the high fees they charge. I never expected they would simply “freeze” our funds without explanation.
http://paypalsucks.org/toon1.shtml - from 10 years ago.
I have a great love for both of these delicacies! :) Note: I don't drink orange juice bought from a shop, I make it myself from the oranges I buy. And I don't really care about their health effects. I just love the taste.
Hi, could you teach me how to navigate hiring phase? I have more than 2 years of JS experience, python, shell and whatnot, still 130k sounds good for me.
Couple of things to note: if you’re an employee and rich and earning, chances are minimal because your employer deducts taxes every month and deposits to the Government. If you own a business and you are rich you can choose a lot of ways to dodge taxes. Some legal , some not.
Yes, it's what I meant but it will be lost on so many people.
The first few tree planting drives in Tamil Nadu (a southern state of India; it's capital Chennai recently ran out of water) got significant public backlash [0] for this reason: they planted nothing but Acacia trees (due to their short growth term) and the leaves took a long time to degrade, killing all the undergrowth and creating a monoculture.

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/Acacia-rem...!
It's India, not Indiana.
The OpenPGP RFC bis does add AEAD. The spec is overall much too flexible IMO and could use some modernization, but I don't see it as un-salvageable, as you seem to.
Well, more olive oil with less butter seems a healthier option.
I don't know where the low password limits come from, but everyone has some kind of limit. I guess people just choose a "nobody will use a password longer than X" number. This is completely unrelated to the backend storage and hashed passwords are commonly limited this way.
You never heard of bank transactions going sideways before? You should have opened the issue when you saw the funds, but you let your greed get the best of you and now your pissed you lost....what exactly?
Our parents/grandparents had wood grain, we have recycled plastic “performance” T-shirts that sell for $125.
Yeah, I can totally agree with that under the constraints you mention. I might conflate my annoyed experience with marketing type bots with the actual requirements for a support one, there's certainly dark patterns with how bots are implemented and integrated these days but if they become more wide-spread I guess we'll figure out how to tackle those as well.
I just did this last month. It's a solid risk management move.

Never had an issue with PayPal debiting funds though, in 10+ years using them.
I will put people who say this in the same category. Anyone who thinks added sugar is the same as fruit sugar...well...
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Fertility rates across better-developed majority-Muslim countries have been plummeting: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

Not quite to the extent of some white European populations, sure, but very far from the "breeding like rabbits" image that politicians use to drum up fear among uninformed voters.
Every other psychological trait is heritable[1], why wouldn’t desire to have children be?

[1]http://humancond.org/_media/papers/bouchard04_genetic_influe...

Genetic Influence on Human
Psychological Traits

There is now a large body of evidence that supports the conclusion that individual differences in most, if not all, reliably measured psychological traits, normal and abnormal, are substantively influenced by genetic factors. This fact has important implications for research and theory building in psychology, as evidence of genetic influence unleashes a cascade of questions regarding the sources of variance in such traits. A brief list of those questions is provided, and representative findings regarding genetic and environmental influences are presented for the domains of personality, intelligence, psycho- logical interests, psychiatric illnesses, and social attitudes. These findings are consistent with those reported for the traits of other species and for many human physical traits, suggesting that they may represent a general biological phenomenon.
As a buyer I would never want to use cryptocurrencies. There is absolutely zero customer protection without the cryptocurrencies going trough a middleman, at which point it's nothing else than another version of PayPal.

This is the primary reason I, and I assume a lot of others, use PayPal - not because of their amazing customer support, but because of their customer protection which works just fine in 99.9% cases - which is still a lot better than 0 customer protection.
As long as it's a small, non-locking pocket knife, you're fine. If it's larger, you're fine as long as you have a good reason (eg. needed for work).
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no, GDPR does not have any effect on personal websites.

Article 2 of GDPR defines the scope of the law.

> This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data:
by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity
The vagueness is how the American legal system has worked since inception. I don’t see it changing now.

Society changes faster than representatives can legislate.
The other issue with bots is whether a company's support is bot-only or human.

Free choice and all, but without disclosure (pre-purchase) a company shouldn't be able to "cost manage" their support function by using an algorithm fronted by chatbots.
without oxygen access decomposiotion wouldn't result in CO2.
Bottom of a swamp essentially, a peat bog.
It’s sadly both allowed and common in France [1][2], the term they use is either “olives noires” (black olives) or “olives noires confites”.

[1] https://www.carrefour.fr/p/olives-noires-entieres-3560070340...

[2] https://www.carrefour.fr/p/olives-noires-denoyautees-crespo-...
That's very nice in theory but in many situations ineffective or problematic for the person involving HR, e.g. if the person you're dealing with is your boss, if they're deliberately exploiting the system, if you're working as an external contractor, if HR is incompetent and many more.

Also it places the burden of effort on the target of the abuse vs. addressing the problem at its source, swiftly and quickly.

But anyway what I'm saying is a nuanced argument and comment threads are bad places for that. You already judged it "childish stuff" and I'm sure others think the same so I'll leave it there.
It is his business, it's his account. What if he'd had an auto-transfer setup to clear his account and it sucked up the money before the magical refund? Then he'd have PayPal up his ass about "hiding funds".

Would you let some 3rd party use your PO box or parcel locker as long as "it was none of your business"?
The snowflake generation do get offended by everything.
I deal with rather...prickly folks on a daily basis. Nothing like dealing with folks that have multiple violent felonies on their record (and, to be fair, many of them are now extremely decent people) to help develop your "people skills."

I try not to be an asshole, myself, and do try to avoid contact with them, where possible; but we don't always have the luxury of being able to pick those with whom we must interact.

In my experience, I have found that I have a great deal more control over the nature of my interactions than you would expect. If I am dealing with an asshole, I can rather quickly figure out what kinds of things are likely to exacerbate their issues, and avoid those behaviors. Doesn't let them off the hook, but helps me to exert a bit of control over our relationship.
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In all the laptops I've seen, volume and brightness controls require the Fn modifier to be pressed (or can be set to do so), else they behave as F1-F12 normally.
Firefighting is basically not a factor. Insects can spread pretty far, carry some across the ocean and they'll go investigate the opportunity.
Some financial systems, a large number of which run on mainframes, have databases where all fields are fixed length. (A database with fixed-length records is trivial to access randomly.)

One of my credit cards lists my name as "Christophe" rather than "Christopher" as they have a fixed-length 10 character field for first names. Customer support said it was unfixable.

It only takes one such system, in a complex web, to impose that limit on all systems.
For the whole week there is a degraded service for at least some parts of the Gitlab.com:

- web unicorn workers stuck

- background repo mirrors delayed for hours

- scheduled pipelines do not run on time
It's way worse than that. Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are well known in research for being seriously dangerous yet they were prescribed like candy for over a decade. So many people develop disabling symptoms overtime that end up not being linked to the drug because dna adduction and mtdna depletion won't necessarily show up quickly. The drugs have likely disabled hundreds of thousands at this point by Dr Bennett's estimations at UNC. There's something like 10,000 reports and those are assumed at being less than 10% and possibly 1% of total incidents.
Picnics were pretty common afaik. Fast food wasn’t as saturated and highway rest areas and state parks had charcoal grill stations.
Fruit juice contains high amounts of sugar. There's not much difference between the sugars in fruit juice and the sugars in cola. Fruit juice is not a healthy drink. This myth causes harm. Parents give their children fruit juice because they think it's healthy, and this causes toot decay.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/childrens-health/...

> Like fizzy drinks, fruit juice and squash can be high in sugar, which can cause tooth decay. Because sugary drinks can be high in energy (calories), having these drinks too often can also lead to weight gain and obesity.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/water-drinks-nutrition...

> Unsweetened 100% fruit juice, vegetable juice and smoothies can only ever count as a maximum of 1 portion of your recommended 5 daily portions of fruit and vegetables.

> For example, if you have 2 glasses of fruit juice and a smoothie in 1 day, that still only counts as 1 portion.

> That's because fruit juice and smoothies don't contain the fibre found in whole fruits and vegetables. Have other types of fruit and vegetables for the other 4 (or more) portions.

> Fruit juice and smoothies also contains sugar that can damage teeth. It's best to drink them with a meal because this can help protect your teeth.
Never shared a room but problems with flatmates, I recall a few. One offering to stab you? Yup! Another nearly burning the place down by forgetting a chip pan? BTDT (and then he did that a 2nd time!). On a lesser scale people who don't seem to understand what washing up means, or that loud noises travel.

It's not nice but - stabbies and fires aside, that was unusual - dealing with difficult people is part of life and you learn some useful skills.

The other side is you do meet really, really good people. That IMO outweighs the bad.
> it's too early in the morning for me to give you an education

This is rude.
> "None of it is defined by how anyone else feels"

Number 3 in the list:

Tersely worded group e-mails that make people feel uncomfortable

So literally not true.

And a lot of the other items are only slightly less literal.
Fruit juices should be seen as a form of processed sugar - even if the processing is not as substantial as making table sugar. Whole fruit - such as a whole orange or grape or apple - is a much better and nutritional choice.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/health/fruit-juice-sugary-dri...

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/food/juice-and-diabetes.html

https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5001
Probably rental home. I have also been in this situation where my landlord wasn't in the moods of having to deal with AC installation, so he didn't approve it. I can imagine doing the same if I had a Tesla 3 back then.
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Black olives in Canada and the U.S. refers exclusively to "California ripe olives" (at this point not the brand, which IIRC still exists, but the process), they've been called that in North America for longer than they've existed elsewhere, so to mandate the name be qualified on shelves would cause more confusion than it would solve.
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Davide Pautasso is offline monday.
I can't edit now, but that was typed on my phone and it autocorrected 'dev' to 'Feb'. Amazing.
It is only a sink if you take carbon out of it. Else it is a closed system. For every tree growing, there is somewhere a tree rotting.
Implement a tax on advertising budgets and use it to fund an independent watchdog, a la CFPB.

To avoid capture, require all watchdog individuals to be masked / anonymized, with prosecution flowing through the DoJ.
You already have server logs for analytics.

What you refer to as “analytics” is actually stalking and I’m glad we have regulation around it now.

By the way, you don’t need to display a warning, you need to ask for consent in a non-intrusive way (consent should be freely given).

Or just you know, don’t stalk people. Seems like an easy enough solution.
I opened my paypal account in Sep 2003, and deleted it in November 2013. Even though I didn't have to concel their "support team" it started to feel like a scammy site I couldn't trust by 2010 or so.

I've found a few sites over the years which only supported Paypal as an option, in every case I've chosen to buy elsewhere or not at all. Paypal is not a company I could support.
Yes, this article felt like reading the rant of a scientologist about 'suppressive persons'...
By planting trees you can very much speed up this process, but it’s still going to take decades to get significant tree growth. Further, you can’t count 100% of those trees as net growth because the area would have gained a few trees in that same period. So, critically the impact of planting trees
needs to be compared to an ever more forested area that would have occurred if similar measures where taken but zero trees planted.

On top of that grasslands can store significant carbon in root systems which is then slowly released as the grasses are killed of by tree growth.
> People with Asperger's or otherwise on the autism spectrum can be huge "assholes" by the definitions here. Does autism make you unemployable?

Those "smart assholes" with Asperger I know can be very nice people if being nice is rewarded. But it requires a conscious effort on their side (and fair feedback from those around them). If being an asshole is tolerated, they take the easy route of not caring.

> It is good to be pushed out of your comfort zone in both needing to develop thicker skin AND showing empathy to others' sensibilities but within bounds.

Maybe. But in my experience, most of the "victims" usually don't speak up. It is those with an already much thicker skin, the ones that don't shy away from a confrontation, who bring up the topic.

EDIT: I overall object to the label of "asshole". Insulting people with toxic behavior is toxic in itself.
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This certainly isn't a uniquely Japanese phenomenon, but I feel like it's definitely something I'd expect to hear about from Japan.
That touch of unconcerned practicality.
Also, https://www.trilliontreecampaign.org/donate-trees quotes several projects with a low price of EUR 0.10 per tree.
>Their recent interface upgrade took years

Nah it's still not done. There are nooks and crannies of the site where the early 2000s theme is still around.
The benefits of Vitamin C have been wildly overstated, thanks mainly to Linus Pauling, whose theories on its therapeutic and preventative effects have been consistently debunked in large studies, with some studies even associating high doses of Vitamin C with increases in some types of cancer in mice:

https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.h...
Google Maps does not have all the trains. Use a dedicated train planner like https://www.thetrainline.com/ which works great for EU trains.
Thanks for posting this :)

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