skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For awhile you were able to start an Audible trial, get your free token, quit and then start another free trial endlessly for infinite free audiobooks. I got 30 free audiobooks this way and they didn't even take them away after they fixed this.

Something that might still be there is whenever you quit a trial or payed service they will 100% of the time ask you to stay and offer it for 50% off. You can simply get the same service for half the price forever.
Apparently the government is having to get their execution drugs off the street
I don't mind google search. Let them have search, they're obviously the best at it. What I have a problem with is literally every other service they provide. Google shouldn't own the most popular browser, the most popular video streaming platform, the most popular map service, the most popular operating system and (one of the?) most popular email services. Why is a single company allowed to have control over essentially half the internet? I don't think there's a precedent to that and it's about time it's tackled.
Reason number 432,237 never to go to Alabama.
The effective solution isn't flying this one particular plane, the solution is to get involved in politics and work at getting people elected who will provide the resources necessary to the government agencies responsible for certifying safety.

Of course, in the US, we do the exact opposite by going for the candidates that harp on about waste and cutting down government in favor of free market solutions even when they aren't tenable. Unless of course, it's a terrorist attack, then we can unleash the floodgates of taxpayer funds to agencies tasked with violating our civil liberties.
What if those same companies are helping to power the NSA illegally collecting and storing data on Americans without a warrant? Is that different to you? Where in this Constitution you elude to does it permit that? I can show you precisely where it doesn't...
The author is not suggesting that we use landfills built to old standards.
Sure, however they are not directly tied to their bread and butter - pay per click. They could over time divest and move data centers and jobs elsewhere without directly affecting revenues. Would be painful and risky but feasible.
Dnsfrag2tc: Force DNS clients to retry fragmented UDP over TCP using nfqueue
I almost always search keywords while my girlfriend uses sentences and we often get quite different results. If I'm having trouble finding a good result there's a pretty good chance she will find something quickly. Surprisingly this holds true even for programming questions on topics that I know well and she's never heard of before.
GSM also provides a time reference. I seem to recall connecting to some networks that didn't provide it though.

Base stations should be using GPS (and others) to discipline a local oscilator that should be ok enough for a while in absence of signal. They can probably also get a timing signal from their backhaul.

It works better with precise timing, but I think it's workable with best efforts.
Murdering people legally is hard. It's a good indication that it _should_ be impossible.
Working for money is already a huge tradeoff, but working for free ... I wouldn't even imagine it.

That's why there are trial periods: both sides can stop at any point for any reasons, but you still get compensated for your time.
> “Wang said the salaries of his 40-person team for two years cost $700,000.”

Good luck with that. If you’re averaging $10k per employee per year over the long term, I guarantee anyone with the ability to be a good engineer is still going to come to the US where they can make orders of magnitude more.
I'm definitely not running a production environment. But imagine this scenario:

I've got my Linux shell with various tools like GIt, JDK, NPM, NVM, Maven, etc. All the config files are setup in my Linux home in the VM. But the whole point of WSL is that I can use the nice GUIs available on Windows. So now I've SourceTree for Git, IntelliJ, WebStorm, etc running on Windows. And they all need the same tools installed like maven, Git, JDK, etc.

First problem is that the I now have to duplicate all the tools in both Windows and Linux - all sorts of fun problems when they get out of sync. Same with the config files which are always screwing up due to differences in line endings and path slashes.

But the worst of all is performance. If I compile some huge multi-module Scala and Java project completely in native Windows, it takes five minutes. Doing it in WSL bash takes 15 minutes. And having my IDE in Windows doing it on the code that's on the Linux WSL filesystem takes 60 minutes, assuming it even works with all the path and line ending problems as the tools are sometimes called in Windows, sometimes called in Linux.

Exact same problems with python apps, Node apps, and everything else that is common these days.

It's absolutely no better than what I did 10 years ago when I had my company spend $200 for VMWare Workstation license and I ran Fedora or Ubuntu VMs with Linux, but still tried to use Windows for half the build. Same with Cygwin...
Sure, but no matter how much you do this additional focus, there will be always be a few terrible persons going through the net. The only way to avoid it would be to cut down on freedom to an extreme.

It's also very expensive. The legal system, prisons, and the whole gov web is a big, slow and inflexible machine.

Removing the incentive to be an asshole is just better. But it's our job, not the job of some higher power.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/drugs-in-t...

some but not all
Both articles are essentially the same story. The Intercept is just milking it from two different angles, focusing on either China or Middle Eastern dictatorships as the evil regime Semptian is selling to.
Allegiant has one of the notoriously worst safety records of any US airline. I definitely wouldn't recommend them if your goal is to pick a safer flying experience.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allegiant-air-the-budget-airlin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiant_Air#Safety_concerns
Death row is very expensive. In part because the types of people up for death are high risk and so they have to pay for more security (guards, locks and even fire protection). In part because death row sees the most appeals so lawyers keeping them in cost more.
I used to work at a company where each team member got a budget of ~£15 a month towards a team lunch which was typically saved up and spent once every 3 months. The bright spark who thought they could cut some costs by removing that perk probably cost the company 10x that just in the time people spent grumbling about it (it was eventually reinstated).

While I think the reactions are a bit OTT (see my comment down thread); it's certainly true that companies do a very poor job of evaluating this kind of decision.

One of my key indicators for when it's time to start brushing up my CV is when people spend an inordinate amount of effort trying to save a few quid on stationary when these things are rounding errors on the companies bottom line.
so are we finally going to retire OKRs or not

because that it the most mindnumbingly ridiculous and timewasting fad I've ever put up with on a development team or company "because Google does it"

maybe C-level management should just do it amongst themselves and just put their results on a list and it would be the same as a random directive coming down from high that nobody questions. most of your startup's "passionate team members" are lying about it and do not care if they the understood the direction the OKR process went or if they just did what was told, skipping the whole thing.
To be fair you can make a steak from horse meat, or any beefy animal for that matter.
I am personally all for freedom of information and also would like the concept of protected groups to go away, however...

Liable is incredibly hard to prove in court, and usually cases are taken in civil court not criminal court.

Can a platform ban specific groups? I see where your argument is coming from. Commerce is allowed by the Constitution for the common good (to serve everyone). Could Walmart, for example, say that conservatives are not allowed to shop there? Definitely not.

However, it has recently been established, through a series of court cases culminating in the Gay Wedding Cake case, that you cannot compel speech from an individual that they don't believe in. Corporations in the US are often given rights similar to individuals. I can see this going to the Supreme Court under a similar argument with Google, etc. (you can't compel us to disseminate what we deem as immoral, anymore than you can make a Christian baker bake a gay wedding cake).

Ironic because leftists were livid with that decision, but it may be the one that allows private companies to censor you on their networks.
It would be even more useful if they would make all the GMaps data available, like locations, points of interest etc. Like now I thing you need to have a CC attached to your account in order to get a slice of that data for free.
I actually think the current MacBook Air configuration with Touch ID & Retina - $1100 - is basically exactly what I (and many people) want in a personal laptop.

It's light, easy to use, plenty fast for anything I do on a regular basis, and the Retina display is excellent.

Unless I have reason not to trust it, Touch ID is the perfect way to log in when you:

1. want to have your computer lock after a short period of inactivity and

2. tend to use long passwords that you don't want to type in all the time.
If they pay for lots of things in cash, they must also receive lots of cash somehow. Otherwise they’ll be out of cash pretty quick!
A lot of it is drive and people skills.

If senior people like/trust you and you're willing to stand your ground/fight for something you can normally achieve significantly more.

That and luck on how those above you are trying to play the corporate politics / personal career game.
I think this is _really_ regional. Lots of places in Germany don't take cards. Virtually everywhere in Ireland takes cards now (for small places via mobile phone gadgets). Some places in Sweden don't take cash.
"The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer" is a wonderful talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY45YE7ggng

The AGC implemented a virtual machine to run higher-level computational routines. The whole architecture is really interesting.
Then you have a condemned criminal sitting in a cell instead of being tortured in Hell like he’s supposed to be. Can’t have that.
This seems inspired by the recent double episode of the popular podcast planet money, and some contrarian gotcha that we all like to do. Is the npr also infiltrated by the kocks?
>Galileo (now also down, nobody noticed)

Galileo hasn't reached full operating capability yet, so that's probably why few people have noticed (as why would you depend on an incomplete system?)
Humans don't need to self-contain an entire model of a human in their brain. Multiple humans can come together and write disparate information down, for example.
> unless you are copying >15GB files.

Or, presumably, using them in a miltitenant SAN or DBMS where the SSD’s pipeline is full of concurrent random IOPS to more than 15GB of hot data.
When you talk to people there are three types:

1- Those that agree with you.
2- Those that don't and won't agree with you no matter what.
3- Those that don't have a well established opinion, yet.

Generally, I know group 1 and 2 are inmaterial. I tend to try and find those in group 3.

If you aren't going to accept that the world is round or other extremely self evident things... there's nothing I can do to make someone see it. Although by pointing out how ridiculous the flat world-ers are (or pro drug prohibitionists), I hope that maybe someone who is considering the flat world theory will see the other side.

Mostly stringent, crazy opinions are the loudest, so we need a sea of reason to counter act them.
The American and Canadian military are significant examples where many organizations are 'run' by people under 30. Yes, most field-grade and general officers, and senior NCOs are over 35. But, for example, the day-to-day decisions of logistics and tactics and technological is done by people between 19 and 27, by junior enlisted and company-grade officers.

I have never had as much responsibility an operational control over my job, in both fiscal and mission terms, as I had between the ages of 19 and 23 while in the military.
I wouldn't go that far. This post is basically newbie-fodder, seemingly from someone more towards that end of the spectrum than the other. Seems unfair to encumber them with expectations on what they thought was a helpful post for beginners grappling with "so, what exactly do I abstract?"

It's really just a small tutorial on DRY and finding repetition that you can extract. HN upvoted it because its provocative title makes HNers think of things like recursion and jmp which we can talk about in the comments.
"Wang Meng Qiu, a startup founder who graduated from Stanford University with a doctorate in computer science, held jobs at Facebook and Twitter in Silicon Valley before he moved to the outskirts of Shanghai to launch his own drone company, Zero Zero Robotics.

Wang said the salaries of his 40-person team for two years cost $700,000."

Generously assuming that the full 40-person team didn't onboard until year 2, that's an annual average salary of only 17,500 USD per person. I know the software development labour is cheaper in China, but quick comparisons indicate that something is off with this figure. Maybe most of the 40-person team are on an assembly line?
I'm not convinced she should get these records. While it is all public, it is also sensitive so you should have to justify your access.

That is the prisoners in question have some privacy that should be respected.
Would love a proper write up.
Apple's prices used to be non-insane. Marked up, yes, but not nuts. Wasn't even that long ago. You'd have people post stuff about "look I can get a PC that's just as good for 40% as much, what a ripoff!" but it'd always turn out they were choosing worse parts.

These days, though, between price hikes, mediocre to poor base memory amounts and disc sizes, and massive markup on upgrades, it's not true anymore. Their prices are hugely inflated.
What's stopping you from using Bing Search, Open streetmaps, hotmail, Firefox etc.? Google doesn't "control" anything you don't let it.
loll, good luck.
None of those ad-hominems challenge his points.
Write "not deliverable" and drop it back into the "outbound mail" slot? Or get a stamp with the same for even-less-work version.
It's still very fast. Less than 2 minutes to read the entire drive of the base model. It's more than twice as fast as any SATA SSD. Similar to 2017 Macbook Air for read speed and much better write [1]

I'm sure for almost all users of those machines, the SSD is more than fast enough for everything they want and big upgrade from HDD based Windows laptops many will be switching from (those were typical 3-4 years ago and even now are still around).

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/laptops-portable-pc...
That’s funny because I actually love the Hans Zimmer theme.
Maybe in terms of total dollar amount, but what happens when you take into consideration the cost of living in each country (including subsidies, etc)? I don't know the answer...just talking out loud. I have no idea how far $10k will take you in China.
A VPN would still be effective at suppressing the tracking effects of all the "like buttons" while also revealing issues such as jquery being loaded off a CDN that also directly hosts content for 40% of the web.

For users wanting to thwart pervasive CDNs from receiving packets every time they visit almost any site on the web, it's matters less if a service they visit is using an amazon resource on the back end; as long as all services aren't using the same database backend, this puts e.g. AWS back in the position of only having a little of your consumer/browsing information instead of nearly all of it.
Because everything else being mostly equal, why would I stay at a company that cuts a perk, or doesn't offer one at all?
What company doesn’t? Who books them otherwise?
Some shops will do extra verification, such as rubbing it against paper to ensure the ink comes off, and use a UV light to see the hidden symbols. Even though it might be legal tender, sadly there's no obligation to accept it. Just as they might refuse Pokemon cards as payment too. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-legal-...
Will Graphene Batteries Overtake Lithium?
Proximity Placement Groups
Does that mean all those congressmen and senators with dual citizenship don't trust the US gov either?
Something was wrong. It's back online now.
Note that if you were using your American phone, it's likely it does not support all bands used by UK telcos (especially since LTE became a thing, true worldphones aren't really a thing anymore). I was amazed at how terrible the phone signal was in San Francisco last time I was there, until I realised that my (European) phone only supported one of the LTE bands used in the US.
Oh boy, another one of the daily anti-FAANG posts. Amazon is evil and should be boycotted - usually coming from people who shop at WalMart and invest in companies like BP (i.e. my in-laws).

Good luck blocking AWS - and whatever percentage of the internet running on it.
I wonder if it is $775 per day?
Interesting! In case you are wondering: the fingerprint is the hash printed above the rendered picture, and it should be unique per device class (because of the hardware / driver / OS / browser / ...).
Google Legally Profits from Fraud on Its Platform
I don't mind google search. Let them have search, they're obviously the best at it.

I don't think that's a good idea, to let one company "have" search. Basically, you're letting a single company regulate discovery and information for a large chunk of the culture as a whole.

Why is a single company allowed to have control over essentially half the internet?

If that company has control of most of the discovery and monopolizes the information produced, they have one level upstream control of most of the Internet and the culture. It's like they don't just own the reservoir, but own a majority share in the river and most of the dams upstream.
I imagine the vast majority of customers will never notice the difference as not everyone is buying these things to monkey with code or large video files.
just had some family move down there (near the coast), partially to be near other family.

"yeah, it's really nice down here - housing, weather, etc - but I hate being 45-50th in every national list".
> What I have a problem with is literally every other service they provide. Google shouldn't own the most popular browser, the most popular video streaming platform, the most popular map service, the most popular operating system and (one of the?) most popular email services.

So you're saying they're giving away too much good free stuff and need to be stopped?
Or maybe US engineer is overpriced.
Oops Tether 'Accidentally' Created $5B in Crypto Out of Thin Air
Far worse than my safety record for driving that is for sure.
>Google shouldn't own the most popular browser, the most popular video streaming platform, the most popular map service, the most popular operating system and (one of the?) most popular email services.

Why the hell not? Another company is free to make a better streaming platform, better map service, better browser, better email service... The government has no business telling companies which (legal) products they can or cannot create and own.
If you have worked in a FAANG, chances are, you won't have a problem finding employment in another company. My suggestion is to always value yourself, and if you see that a company doesn't value yourself a you do, find another company. There are many and we can usually get to pick one that fits well. Also, I suggest not beating yourself up if an interview doesn't well, they can be really hit or miss and I don't think they often really evaluate you but rather they evaluate how you would fit in that team, which is VERY different.
Huh. Very interesting, considering our local food bank itself sets up outside grocery stores with lists of food to donate, and canned/preserved food fills some 80% of the page.

Sure, if it's unasked for, huge donations of canned goods can be less useful than money. However it's not as if they can't use or don't need canned goods.
Then why is trash being sent illegally, labelled as fuel?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.scmp.com/news/asia/southeas...

Also is you know it will end up in the ocean, and you still send it, you are responsible. Just like supplying known criminals with a gun is a crime
I think the most common pain point with this is going to be an initial iCloud sync if your drive is full of stuff.
It's nice to hear the Don Eyles story; I haven't heard it before, having only seen stories about Margaret Hamilton and her role.
Yes and that's the point. As a lay person it's not my business to determine which Boeing aircraft are safe and which aren't. Boeing's conduct has dealt tremendous damage to their reputation for safety and this casts a shadow over the entire fleet. They have to do a lot of work to rebuild that reputation and restore the public trust.
His role in the Bengal Famine [1]

His order to bomb Dresden [2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#Debate_a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa...
they were the only ones who would publish the findings without edits.

They only let him do that because it fits with their agenda. The real test is if they would let him publish an article on Putin's corruption...without edits..
At least next time Jony Ive will not say "fastest disk read ever"
I think companies like Cal Edison do a lot more than billing and sales. They have to build out and maintain the transmission infrastructure. Which, considering they charge 32 cents per kwh marked up from 2 cents, it seems the infrastructure upkeep is a lot more expensive than the actual power generation.
In the US, you could just walk into any bank and ask. I’ve done it before with other notes. Bring 50 quid with you if it’s not your bank. If you’re getting it right when it comes out, it will almost certainly be uncirculated. Go at a quieter time (not a Friday or first bank day after the 1st or 15th).
Shit. Yeah that’s it and is retrospectively obvious. The prisons probably are responsible for operating under their assigned budgets, which means they need to literally kill off their liabilities.

I wonder what correlations exist between prison profitability and inmate death rates.
Because the main ingredient of the injection cocktail, sodium thiopental is no longer manufactured in the US. The EU has also banned the drug. So states are now trying to "score" an alternative, pentobarbital which works similarly to sodium thiopental, but is slower acting, resulting in a few botched executions in Texas.

https://www.inverse.com/article/4100-the-growing-black-marke...
note previous post from this user:

> Disclaimer: I’m own about $500K in my portfolio in Amazon.
P.R the Startup LILLUP announce a joint research agreement in A.I with U.S..M.B
Because robots.
I'm guessing it's a marketing pitch from the era. The "bicycle makers" narrative sells better than "two smart guys did something smart."