skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been warming up to the idea of municipalities invoicing manufacturers for disposal fees.

Eg. Most garbage dumps sort appliances into a separate area to recycle the metal. So there should be a guy there that takes note of the manufacturer and sends them a dumping invoice every quarter.

So manufacturers that produce junk that ends up in the dump have to lay for the externalities that today they don’t have too.
Manufacturers don't want to put "safe until" on anything because there are a lot of things that can go wrong with an agricultural product and you don't want to provide a firm safety guarantee.

The thing is, most labels that I see have _sell by_ dates. They're intended for grocery stores, not consumers. But people treat them as _use by_ dates. Which is just awful.
> " Manufacturers don't make money off secondary sales of used products anyway, so the pressure to make products barely survive the warranty is always there."

I agree there is not a strong price pressure in most cases, but resale value is priced into new cars/trucks to some degree for instance.
Sometimes the way it fails gives the impression of a less-than-comfortable level of competence with technology. I also almost switched banks when my first was acquired by another, its webui was so much worse.
Just like Wag!, you're not wrong, you're just wrong.
How could his mistrust be rooted in an incident that happened years later?
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Jeffrey Housenbold, of Vision fund and Hilary Schneider, CEO of Wag both went to HBS.

Maybe they knew each other from before. Connections do work...
I loved the bouncy moving rubber ramp at the Campbell Fry's! I used to take my daughters there when they were very young and we would run up and down the ramp.

It almost got them interested in electronics. Alas, not quite.
1. Enough of the extra income is weighted towards the beginning that for most people it's worth $25k particularly since repayment us based on income.

2. Public loans are over 90% of disbursements, and if you're only borrowing $25k you're definitely getting public loans. Public loans are made directly from the treasury. No banks involved.

Also most stem phds work as researchers and teachers--they generally aren't paying tuition.
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Yes please do not every redesign this. I am still on old.reddit.com, new reddit sucks.
What if you don't have a home directory on an ephemeral server?
Consumer Reports was amazing in the late 70s through the 80s. I don't think my parents bought anything > $100 without consulting the thick CR annual report guide, which tested pretty close to everything: cars, TVs, appliances, tools, bikes, checking accounts, telephones, computers... you name it. And the reviews were amazing: they'd build testing rigs to simulate years of usage. They'd tear down appliances and show you where a fridge would probably fail first. They'd list what was important and what was marketing BS for everything.

Today, though, it's but a shadow. When I've checked on their recommendations, and then checked crowdsourced reviews, the crowd frequently bests CR's opinion.

Wirecutter and it's ilk should hire a mechanical or electrical engineer to do teardowns into every review.
I'm surprised they don't mention the Dune prequel titled "The Butlerian Jihad," written by Frank Herbert's son according to the former's notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
That’s exactly who I went with.
> your voice can do a lot

Your money can do a lot more - see the NRA.

I remember a generation that grew up with nightmares of nuclear war, Three Mile Island and child kidnappings. Lot of good all that did.

The US has been screwing the Yemen’s of the world for over a century, and the best the todays alt-left can do is tweet about it and watch Chomsky - if they tune RT in.

As this study shows, this is just another generation where the world is all black and white and the news reflects that - in a 280 characters.

I’d suggest what I did - watch/listen/read foreign media for your world and domestic news if you’re really interested. At least you know the bias. Anyone getting their news from US sources is the real definition of an isolationist.
A wooden ladder is even easier (though heavier).
Why don't you ask a couple follow up questions about the situation before you slide into the comments and deliver judgement on a something you know nothing about?

> It's a method useful for startups only.

this is a start up. So yes it's useful.

> Deprecation should only be on the table if your original design was flawed.

It was.

> It says a lot about your company and creates a broken windows atmosphere

It says a lot about what kind of person you are to come at me with a statement like this. The entire reason this approach is being done is to deal with broken windows genius.

> "Wanting typescript" is a shitty excuse for putting a business critical system up for adoption

TS is one of many changes we are adding to deal with the "broken windows" you so snidely commented right before delivering this one. Isolating the part that makes this shift impossible without a lengthy and expensive re-write is absolute the right approach as we can continue delivering features, address tech debt, and leverage this critical piece of software until we can migrate it to the new infrastructure.

> Enjoy your growth stagnation.

Enjoy being a smug asshole.
It's implemented this way for balance of a simple implementation and how lightweight it is. Not to mention, there is at least one benefit: the voting mechanism doesn't depend on JavaScript.

And if you are not authenticated, you are instead taken to a login page. Logging in then gives you the redirect and the upvote is registered.
If the company has an industry-disrupting feature whereby they are able to locate and follow a canine (or its owner) wherever it might go, they could name that feature “Tail”.

This would mean they could get proof of referral by Wag tailing the dog…
Aha! I knew such a thing (a spherical log transform) had to be possible, but my SDF skills were not up to snuff. Very happy to see it done!
:D

I found out the fun way this trait often doesn't fly in interviews when they ask about your best quality.. Scuttled a phone interview with a hiring manager at Cloudflare real fast and he condescendingly chortled that "Everyone says that". Thought I did an okay job rescuing the interview after that but.. Wasn't feeling the dude anyway after that so I guess the feeling was mutual :)
As long as you consider surviving and having your children supported financially to be worthless, yes, the labor was free.
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You don't need a website. Whatever model you're interested in, the answer is simple: as much cost cutting as fucking possible. Like on the scale of if a certain change saves ten cents per unit, the engineer has justified their own salary for the year.

Those new "smart" devices with the fancy touchscreens? Same exact fundamental parts and functionality, plus a half-integrated "smart" module to keep up the veneer that hides the rest of the thing being as uninnovative as possible. If you're lucky, a non-baseline model contains a single extra sensor that enables some increased functionality. Of course that means additional complexity, lower popularity, and higher margin which actually gives you a higher chance of breakage.

Ultimately when it comes to appliances, DIY repair or GTFO. Like seriously if this topic is a concern of yours, next time something breaks, just open it up and figure out what's wrong. Odds are it's a simple repair common to the particular model. Youtube is your friend [0], along with some polyurethane coated gloves (sheet metal attacks!).

Trying to outsource to a repair person won't help you either. A friend just had their apartment clothes washer die. One of those nicer ones without an agitator that still seems to do a good job getting clothes clean. A rough look says its a mechanical problem with the drum suspension. But the repair person said "control board" - at least $500 for list-price parts and labor, about the same cost as buying a new baseline model with an energy rebate. I've personally concluded that "control board" was likely just a canned response to test whether the customer is serious about paying for the real labor to actually diagnose the problem.

So both they and I are getting new washers. I don't actually think it will be the control board, but if it is, I will be highly tempted to just design a new generic one myself, which might as well have Linux and a network link, and see if I can't do my own little part to get us out of this planned obsolescence meets surveillance capitalism mess.

[0] The part where it helps you get stuff done, not the part where it spies on you to better psychologically manipulate you. Hell, people with mechanical abilities will probably be priority threats when AI gets serious about optimizing us out of the picture, so you might want to use a VPN. But I digress.
A lot of people (myself included) try to forget the Brian Herbert books ever existed.
Cadets /= "a military recruitment program". Cadets are more like the boy scouts, at least what scouts were a few generations ago. It is more like a summer camp where, if you are the best camper, you get to go on a helicopter ride on the last day of camp.
> In any event, this raises a bigger question. What if a site is actually broken in Firefox, but it's not Firefox's fault? Should Firefox then be changed to non-conforming behaviour, aping any Chrome bugs?

I can remember one case of such a thing happening before: css box-sizing.

Before the attribute existed, the spec said content-box was correct, and all browsers except IE implemented it that way. IE implemented border-box, going against spec, but it turned out to make so much more sense it was eventually added to CSS, and nowadays is the recommended way to go (but still not the default value).
Are you sure? The article reads: “Much later, in 2017 or so...”
e.g. on refrigerators they will give a "10 year compressor warranty" but the compressor isn't the thing that's going to break, it's the touch-screen panel on the front of the fridge

Indeed, the core "refrigerating machine" is extremely reliable, because it's hermetically sealed (a design which dates back to the 1930s --- and the guy who made this video has others on his channel of such machines still in working condition), and it's usually something else that fails first.
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I think it won't hold up. Not for legal reasons, but for economic reasons.

Say they don't pay the $1,000. What is Wag going to do? Sue the customer? Wags has no collateral that they can repossess. Taking the customer to court will almost certainly cost more than $1,000. If the cost of collecting this fee is greater than the fee itself then it's not in the company's interest to enforce it when customers refuse to pay. The result is that the fee effectively becomes optional.
I agree.
But I feel the people / company that recognize and appreciate your broad skill set is the place you want to be. I struggled a bit on this myself.
I wonder if the upcoming Dune movie will include the scene where the Fremen commit a wahhabi esque suicide attack.
It would be cool if any food about to expire could be given away by your refrigerator. Maybe robots will one day handle that. Maybe even sniff the food to make sure it's still good.

Of course, when robots start cooking and restaurant quality meals on demand for the cost of the fresh ingredients, the need to store food will drop like a rock and this problem goes away.
Maybe it's just that I don't trust them, then.

I was already aware of all of those factors, they just don't ever seem like in-depth enough info to actually influence my decision.
I did some research. While uranium atoms are heavier then gold atoms they are also bigger so they don’t pack as tightly.
Swapping Horses in Midstream of Delivery App Development Process
What is the cost of decommissioning soon-to-die hardware like this? Right now companies arent required cradle to grave handling, so quick disposal is prioritized.

There is no such thing as away, so watch what we put there.
> As for the increasing efficiency angle, I'm not buying it.

It used to be true(r). As you keep halving electricity consumption with each generation of products, eventually it isn't worth replacing just to save electricity, even if the new appliance is cheaper than the previous generation.

The problem with fridges is... they're almost all used 24/7.

Re-using old inefficient devices is fine/encourage-worthy in low-duty cycle applications, but there's just a lot less usage variability with fridges.
In the first case mentioned in the article. They request social media identifiers I believe for all visitors now.
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Yes, it definitely is.

There are obviously a lot of factors, and scarcity of engineering talent is a big one that makes it all possible. But the reason these numbers are so astronomically high, as in significantly higher than these same companies would pay the same engineer in another city, is because of housing prices due to the shortage.
Are you saying that every Hong Kong resident would choose to protest if not scared?
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$1.75/year doesn't sound like watts turning into dollars quickly to me, when a freezer costs several hundred to replace.
True, though if you enable JS, you'll have a good HN search tool.

I'm a fan of basic functionality w/o JS in most cases myself. I make exceptions for useful and non-annoying sites. Algolia meets both criteria.
Notifications from sysadmin to user, reminders, and that sort of thing.
Note that this a layout trick and not an algorithmic one. An algorithmic speed up that is good for dense convolutions with small kernels is to use Winograd: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09308
For large kernels, implementing an FFT tends to help.

Also worth keeping in mind that many modern networks use depthwise separable convolutions, which are channel wise convolutions (skipping a reduction over the channels, which is a memory bound operation) followed by 1x1 convolutions (which are exactly matrix multiplications with no im2col step).
You might want to curl the weather on your login with https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in I do this on my RPi
Of course, some of these steps (like finding the best learning resource), can only be done once you're already an expert who knows what all of the resources are! There are also a lot of situational things, for example although you may have a preference between videos, documentation and example code, the best to learn from is usually whatever medium the best teacher decided to use.
Reddit search is limited in several ways, most especially in that comments aren't indexed.

I actually find it useful though. It's among the features that kept me using Reddit as a blogging engine for as long as I did, though accumulating annoyances have since driven me from that.
The paper that earned Einstein his Nobel Prize, explained
I just have a little house, but I have hundreds of blank CD-R and DVD-R-whatever discs that I will never use.

Does anyone want them?
What's wrong with just Shamir Secret Key Sharing?
I navigate directly to old Reddit. However if links within Reddit (in comments, sidebars, wikis) specify the full domain, I end up at new reddit.

I basically never ever want to be there. I've specifically not enabled JS for 'www.reddit.com' so that the site won't load, but I still have to fix URLs manually when directed there.

What I'd like is for any 'www.reddit.com' I encounter on the site to be rewritten to 'old.reddit.com'.
Thank you also for not changing the back-end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
I wouldn't say it made me flinch, but that is not a throwaway line. It deserves some additional, I'm sure quite interesting, explanation. But I believe he is referring to HQ, and there have been other write-ups on HN about how to automate beating it.
“I left an important part out of the process above - how do you actually find the best resource. I don’t know.

That said, I’ve gotten “lucky” enough times that I think I know how to optimize for finding it.”

Pro tip: No, you don’t.

I’m game to explain it over coffee to the author, who seems to be in the Bay Area, but this writing reads a lot like someone who just started to scratch the surface on abstract learning and metacognition while thinking that it’s a wildly new discovery.

It’s hard to hear/read the reenforcing recitations of new-to-the-(speaker/author) concepts and not see it as a slow-motion replay of a common thought process, akin to sitting in Dolores park listening to musings on democracy and governance in the age of automation... thirty minutes after a batch of pot truffles has sold out...

As a generalist/multi-whatever, let me say this: expert engineers hate the knows-enough-to-be-dangerous guy who thinks he’s god’s gift to learning that can just walk in and be conversant after reading one book. That guy is a pain in the ass know-it-all that spoils conversations, derails projects, and digs bottomless pits of technical debt.

How do I know? I was that guy when I was younger, and I’m sure I drove people nuts.

No doubt there are times when I’m still that guy, but I try to hold my tongue more now until I’m confident in what I know and openly disclose where I think I fall short.

If you can’t take that mechanism for learning and flex it down to the bottom of the rabbit hole, or if you always fall back onto the crutch of relating a complex topic to a comfortable imperfect analogue, you’re aiming to be the engineer that gets handed non-critical work or the manager that nobody wants in a meeting... Or maybe a successful founder of some kick-ass mega unicorn... sigh... whatever.

In the big companies (and Silicon Valley) I hear/see this type of thinking and self-congratulation all the time among engineers with 1-4 years of professional experience. On occasion, those engineers have the horsepower to back it up, but it’s rare. Some of that write-up resonates with how I’ve learned/worked over time, but I’d never write something so stridently confident.

Me 20 years ago?
You left out that he brags about working 80hrs/week when you _know_ at least 20 of those is just calling people chimps and pedos on Twitter.
I agree with the BFS strategy but I’ve never gotten good enough at anything to gain the respect of an SME.
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Yeah back then I remember it was toasters that were incredibly shitty.
SME?
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> It is really a difficult call.

In my view it isn't, USA has chosen common law jurisdiction which clearly states "Innocent until proven guilty". So it should not just put it on the books, but has to follow it in spirit. Don't create border buffer zones, guam to dilute it, this is taking USA to same level as other nations which it criticize for those violations.

In Continental law in few jurisdiction like Japan (what happened with Carlos Ghosn) and China they follow "Guilty until proven innocent". In this jurisdiction the prosecutor exercise control on whom to prosecute, because onus is on plaintiff to prove innocence through evidence.

Here the discussion is not about what is happening inside the country, but at the borders so surveillance state is not a question here.

If you have discussion on surveillance, China is a transparent surveillance where citizens are aware of it, USA with NSA is an opaque surveillance state. I am sure I don't want either of them, but if forced prefer a transparent than an opaque system.
As a web developer, I love using new features. 90% of the time though, the new features can easily be covered by a polyfill, and there is no excuse not to use poly fills.
Err, plenty of these agencies have enforced against their customers.

They won't end up in court, but binding arbitration.
They will make an example of a few people and the rest will fall in line or run away, as per usual.

They are more likely to enforce against the dog walkers than random customers.

The customers will not care about that enforcement, it will be relatively effective in achieving their goal, etc.

In practice, they will most likely use this clause to prevent organized abuse, etc.

Remember also that you agree upfront to let them charge you.
So it is going to be you who has to try to get the money back.
(You will not likely win a CC dispute here)
I love telling this story, but that wasn't the point of the post
I got to 65, and from what I can tell the 'exploitable' pattern is that when an enemy to the side follows you for 'n' squares, it will join the 'queue' behind you, allowing you to play a game of inverse snake.
But not testing Safari I can understand since it's only officially on Mac. Sure you can kind use it via Epiphany and Midori but a lot of features, like Service Workers for instance, don't exist and therefore can be tested with a download. For me, even after wasting time trying to build from source, it didn't seem like the feature flags worked.
Comparing to Facebook is probably the worst possible comparison, though, and doesn't seem representative of most other sites.
I wasn’t replying to you, not sure why you feel the need to resort to personal attacks.
Given that software as a arena is a widely competitive and rapidly evolving one, you can never know if the person in front of you is an expert or not. In such a case, what has always helped me is to first remind myself to be humble and use this cheatsheet:

* ask questions that probe your point of concern, instead of pointing out flaws. This allows the other person to reveal his expertise with a solution and also enlighten you in the process or admit their mistake.

* Never claim to know everything. Always be cognizant of the fact that other people ("newer" people) will show you up. Always be willing to learn from anybody who makes a concise argument.
Ultimately the dead cannot have a permanent resting place on this earth. There are 100 billion people who have died, if it takes 25 square feet to bury one, the space occupied by the dead will eclipse that occupied by the living.

After 100 years or so burial plots should be recycled.
It’s interesting to note that iPhones render JavaScript faster than laptops/desktops.

https://mobile.twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1049082262854...
How much of this perceived increase is also because people are more open to communicate they have mental health problems.

People are also more encouraged to seek help and counseling as opposed to before.

I also think that people today more readily label their feelings with labels such as anxiety, depression or whatever. As opposed to previous generations who lacked such a vocabulary.