skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but wonder if people got any overdraft fees, etc during that time since the money was temporary missing because they expected it to be there for the checks or automatic payments. Usually $35 a pop, so could add up. So your money missing and overdraft fees sounds so devastating.

I know a while back the local news was talking about this issue and interviewing workers, and some of them were unsure about their money. but sounds like they got it back at least. So sounds like now just a court battle, but at least the individual workers aren't involved in the nightmare directly it looks anymore.

Sounds like it probably was days before putting it back, as they had to call and talk to someone - told them it was a mistake then later yet another disappeared... Then call again, etc... Even a Facebook group was started with many employees who all had the same issue.

Here's the clip https://youtu.be/ELZaXpJiMFU
I feel like most of the options are really only there to provide cover for the creepy ones. Another comment said that "Initiate Sex!" is their most popular campaign by far.
Banks don't put your cash in high-risk investments, they put it in market funds to gains a few points
I'll color the picture in a little more, maybe that will help make sense of it.

We have a unique workload that includes very large bursts of work that need to be worked on ASAP. Spinning up instances on demand is not fast enough, so we had a lot of servers sitting idle. Lambda allows us to execute this same work for much cheaper because we aren't paying for idle CPUs. Lambda also allows us to execute at much higher concurrency than ec2 would, for the cost. 15000 Threads spread across 100's of IPs is easy and cheap on lambda, not so much on EC2.

We went from ~250 customers per cluster(our term for a set of dedicated workload servers) to 2600(haven't pushed it past there yet). The work that was done on those instances is slowly being moved to Lambda and all new work/features are added to Lambda directly. This has effectively allowed us to drop a few clusters and also move to lower resources per instance.

FWIW we don't use ELB for Lambda, they come in via API Gateway, to Lambda/Step Functions directly or into an SQS queue in the case of workloads that have rate limits. For Lambda based workloads it breaks down something like 56% of cost is Lambda, 34% of cost is Step Functions and 9% is API Gateway.
I don't care if it's all real or not. The story plus your supplement makes me want not a movie but a multi million budget series.

And a phone containing pics stolen inside a govt z building... lol. It's almost too cliche.
A few years ago Facebook had less stringent limitations on its ad targeting, and I believe Chris Soghoian was able to target ads to individual people (from the Google public policy team, if I remember correctly) by specifying enough intersecting demographic criteria related to each individual target. This probably doesn't work anymore because big tech companies have gotten stricter about how small the pool of targets for a demographically-targeted ad campaign can be.

At one point, you might have been able to create a non-retargeting-based ad campaign that would only have targeted your friend!

Edit: another amazing example using a different method is discussed elsewhere in this thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21094682.
AMD's included coolers are one of my favorite little "bonus" things about buying their chips.

As you said, Intel's stock coolers are known for being loud, aren't actually too great at dissipating heat, and aren't even included on higher TDP chips. So you're almost automatically spending an extra $20+ over the chip price on a decent cooler.

On the other hand, AMD ships solid coolers with (pretty much?) every chip. I've run my R5 1600 with the stock cooler for two ish years without any real heat or noise issues.
Diligence in doing the job well, and diligence in putting in long hours, are two very different things.
This is called Multi-faceted Search and it is pretty common for high end goods (think boats and cars).
For bullshit charges, you can just call your credit card to dispute them, and chances are you'll get your money back. I'm sure Avis and Europcar have probably received a bunch similar complaints, so they may just be automatically approved.
> Serious question: with how big the federal budget is for... pretty much everything... why is this the case? Is there truly not enough funding? How much money goes in and where does the money go?

By the time we're talking about non-military discretionary spending it's 15% of the total.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

> I feel like time and time again I read how private sector can do better than the public sector, in all sectors.

The private sector has its own problems. Do we want the government to be more like PG&E and Comcast? Consider the difference in outcomes between for-profit universities and state schools. The topic is too in depth for a random internet comment, but things really need to be taken on a case by case basis. It's all about incentives.
I mean, it could be the case that the real diamond isn't there at all, and is back safely in some vault.
great, so lets use both: regulation to set the baseline, markets to take care of issues that arise above or outside of that baseline.
“People disregard security warnings on computers because they come at bad times, study finds“

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160817142911.h...

Why does everyone on HN act like this phenomena? I’m often talking about the HN bubble and this is another example.
Out of the six points you mentioned, you blamed everyone, blaming the pilots twice, and merely mentioned this against Boeing:

> The flight computer system and MCAS was implemented problematically, relying on one input because the expected control authority was very low, and then when that was not changed the system was not re-architected.

Do you have a personal stake in Boeing or something? Because you appear very biased indeed. There were several ethical breaches that resulted in these tragic catastrophes.
I once sold a car to a man for $500 more than my initial asking price because he made me mad with ridiculous haggling.

I thought it would make him just go away. He produced the money instantly. I've always wondered about that...
To speak directly to your point, yes, actually, because now people who want to rationalize smoking can do so by being suspicious of a conspiracy to feed them slanted information.
Well, the Tsar Bomba was made as a single of a kind, ust for testing, and at half of its designed size because a bomb of that size is basically useless.

So I don't think we would get larger warheads. It's more likely we would get smaller ones, at power levels that can be used, and use their small weight as a feature. (Not something great, but I don't think we will ever use an Earth Crust removing bomb.)
The distiller is cheap but the power is not. Its like running a microwave 24/7 to make enough water for two people. I want to try making a solar one.
You did not do a 'tour of duty', you worked a comfortable, air-conditioned, white collar job for a few years. Co-opting the language of actual military service is downright offensive.
Beyond Pricing raises $42M to tell you what to charge on Airbnb
Lately, the idea of building and operating a solar farm sounds interesting.
I dont know how he manages _THAT_ many Twitter accounts!
This was a great time for this to be posted. I've been spending a lot of time with Racket, and closures are a big part of that. I believe (though maybe I'm wrong) that Racket's closures don't have the issue described in this chapter of closing over values vs. variables due to the functional nature of the language.
Those overdraft fees are absolutely reversible, it's just a pain to contact the bank to have them reversed.
Does Workers KV rely on Quicksilver? Is that stuff going to be open source at some point? Just curious.
The accurate way of stating it is that it's about as possible, although not quite equivalent since, while it's true that the IRS can seize assets, garnish wages, place liens, etc, those all involve at least some cooperation with a non-government actor.
It’s not so much that we’re avoiding it, as much as we think there are more interesting things for us to accomplish. We could double down on hosting static sites, but that’s only one use case of the realm of possibilities of what we can achieve with compute on the edge with Workers. We’re excited for people to get their hands dirty, and see where else they take it.
The FAQ clarifies it as "a set of 10 different articles presented to the target 180 times over the course of three months."
So what are you saying? He agrees with Stallman? That’s even worse!
I suppose requiring a transition might be the problem in the first place. XFS and LVM are things that are in use now. Though they might not be the most performant or the most convenient at this time, it makes for a strong strategy if you can bring in new features without requiring users to switch over to something completely new.
True, but too much instrumentation is also a problem.

I'm into synthesizers, which run the gamut from bleep-bloop toys to movie-soundtrack in a box.

Mostly, synths are marketed like 'Not only can the Omnicron Neutron Wrangler produce any sound imaginable, it can produce more of them more loudly than the competition and audiences will surely be impressed by your mastery of its mind-bogglingly vast control surface.'

But the synths which end up being well-loved classics are not the ones with the biggest range or the most controls, they're ones with a decent range which is designed and calibrated well enough that it's hard to get a bad sound out of it - meaning they don't have too many abrupt phase transitions or nonlinear feedback loops that could cause you to suddenly lose control and turn an interesting complex tone into noisy garbage.
If memory serves, things usually drop towards MSRP within a month or two for AMD. Hopefully that'll happen with these.
Not fireable, for a rank-and-file worker in an organization? Sure, I can see that.

Not fireable, for the public role of leader of an organization? They're held to higher standards of conduct, whether we like it or not;

holding forth in public on opinions that 1) run counter to mainstream society in a way that's going to piss off a lot of people and 2) have nothing to do with the organization are a distraction, and a sign that leader's losing the thread on what their organization goals are and how to accomplish that.

In short, you can lead a software advocacy organization, or you can publish your opinions on aborting fetuses with down syndrome and your skepticism about pedophilia harming children, but you can't do both for long. (Unless you're stallman, then you can do it for decades before someone says, "hey, this guy's making the free software movement look bad".)
Surgically Busting the Docker Cache
Yeah, I've waited years for this machine, was excited when it came out, and in an epiphany last night, will probably pass on it and opt for a beefed up Mac Book Pro instead. It will be cheaper and fill my needs.

I'm a programmer. If I want to prototype a multi-component stack, I've got a Raspberry Pi Cluster running K8 for that. If I want to play around with deep learning, I'll just spin up EC2 instances. Games? Let's be honest. That war was lost decades ago. I've got a good PC rig for that now. The days of a general machine to do everything are gone.

The only issue is the storage space, which I can get from a multi-bay drive enclosure.
I'm only one sample, but I will not work for FAANG so long as I can manage not doing so. One reason I didn't move to SV a while back is that I concluded once factoring in CoL, I'd be taking a pay-cut working anywhere but FAANG. Where I live is cheaper than SV, and NoVA is cheaper yet, so competitive pay in that area would be not too terrible.
Your computer probably consumes about 100W when idle. The difference between on and off all year is https://www.google.com/search?q=100%20W%20%2A%201%20year%20%...
But the weekends would just be $30. If you have reasons to log into your machine remotely that are worth more than $30/yr, then it's worth it.
> Is there such a thing as an objectively small government i.e. not attached to a political ideology?

Many local governments are like this, with explicitly non-partisan elections (although partisanship may be implicit). More likely, the powers and resources of the local government are limited such that there's no "slack" for partisanship, and they are literally just trying to keep the lights on.
I don't wholly disagree with you, but I see !! in the wild a lot more than Boolean() and !! is still a JS idiom even if it's not a great one.
They're definitely easier now. Msot of the "don't try to create your own MMO" advice comes from mid 2000s. People were amazed by the concept of games like World of Warcraft (and the $$ they brought), so they wanted to make their own WoW without being aware of how complex such games are. And this was in times before Unity and other game engines.

It's easier to create a game like this. There are even MMO middlewares available. Still, when people say MMO, you can never tell whether they just mean a persistent online world, or literally a world that can fit thousands of players in it at the same time.
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/27/20886788/elizabeth-warren..., which doesn't seem to add any information.
My guess they're setting ad preferences cookies for certain ad networks that are then used by various sites as pay-per-click revenue for the hosting sites. So when you'd see an ad served from Google's* ad network or Outbrain* or someone, it's as if the target had told those ad networks what kind of advertising interests them more than others.

* These are named as examples of ad networks and I don't mean to imply they are used in this scheme and definitely not that they would be complicit or cooperative with it.
Kudos to whichever HN reader decides to DDoS this site out of existence ;)
Your 2016 reference states Clinton 500, Trump 28. (plus 30 "Not Trump") Not sure how you get 69% from that.

>> What is your source for this?

On an individual level, more than 90% of journalists' personal donations went to Clinton. $382,000 to $14,000. https://www.cjr.org/covering_the_election/campaign_donations...
Specifically it's the argument in the article that large disasters often have multiple causes. "Perrow says, Murphy's Law is wrong—what can go wrong usually goes right. But then one day a few of the bad little choices come together, and circumstances take an airplane down. Who, then, is really to blame?"

But that's exactly what's disingenuous about the GP's claim. Many disasters do indeed involve a sequence of mistakes of different sorts but that's not really the case here. The situation with 737 max was one terribly system and the pilot's complete inability to stop this - inability that could have been anticipated and which was the product of the original bad design.

"His point is that these accidents are science's illegitimate children, bastards born of the confusion that lies within the complex organizations with which we manage our dangerous technologies."

This kind of disaster certainly can happen but the situation with the 737 Max was Boeing pushing an old design far beyond it's limits because of the threat of losing market share and regulators allowing this.
You sure? There is more than one way to clear funds between banks. I remember banks using Fedwire between each other.
Wage garnishments! Nobody mentioned anything about wage garnishments! :washes hands:

Heh, I beg your indulgence for my cheeky comment, I of course know nothing of this matter, it seems easy, as all those task you mentioned can be converted to single rules. Not a weekend worth of work, but perhaps 20 weeks worth of work for a prototype?
I recently booked a flight on Alaska Airlines that turned out to be their version of United's "basic economy". But somehow Alaska managed to avoid having an asterisk next to their flight listing in Google Flights (possibly because you can bring a carry-on bag, you just can't pick seats and are in the last boarding group — where you likely will be forced to gate-check your bag). United's "basic economy" flight had an asterisk, so I knew to avoid it.

After buying the ticket, I was offered the chance to actually be able to pick my seats, for $85 or so. I decided to do so, and was then taken to the seat map, which showed 3 middle seats available. What's the point of picking your seats if you have to pick between the 3 worst seats on the plane? And how did Alaska thread the needle so their ticket prices don't get flagged as being not-real-economy-tickets?
For those who find this horrifying, the [typically unstated] assumption is that it works. I'm pretty skeptical of this. Think about it: what do you imagine the effect size is of seeing 10 articles like "4 Secrets to Losing Weight and Feeling GREAT While You Do It!" in your Facebook feed? I'd bet it's essentially 0. If seeing these kinds of articles is all it took to improve our body composition, then we'd all be absolutely shredded.

I'm not trying to argue that advertising doesn't work. Clearly it does. But there's a huge difference between being exposed to tens of thousands of Coca-Cola ads over a lifetime, and being exposed to 10 spam articles over the course of a month.

I'm also not trying to argue that this isn't creepy. Clearly it is. But the real 'target' of this scheme is the person buying the ads. I doubt this has any real effect on the person who sees them.
They branded Artemis as part of a larger "Moon to Mars" plan, with logo and all. https://www.nasa.gov/moontomars/
Their FAQ says it's legal! ...In the same section that says users are required to show targets the terms of use and privacy policy.
I can't recommend Effective Java enough. Even if one hates Java with passion. I haven't managed to find a better book on how to design an API in any language. It learned me to think about the consumers of my code all the time (even if I'm the only author on a given project) The chapters on exceptions, defensive coding, generics are brilliant. The whole book is written in an effective manner. Dense with information, short and still readable. The second best: Eloquent Ruby. Brilliantly written and mature. Instead of hyping everything up, the author elaborates the downsides of each described technique and power tool.
Citizenship requirements, criminal background checks, and drug tests, for example.
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According to The Spinner's terms of use, if the initiator of the Spinner service (i.e. the party that ordered and/or paid for the service) sends the 'targeting link' to any user via any digital media, it’s the initiator’s responsibility to refer the recipient to The Spinner's terms of use and privacy policy.*

Uh huh.
You can do the same exact thing with facebook advertising. People have done it (job ads, apartments, etc.). This is just targeted at banner/Web vs. social media.

Doesn't make it any more or less icky, just saying that it's not the only method/it's happening already.
Isn't "before the device turns on" a perfect time to display a security warning?
My suspicion would be that at least some of the plastic particles are coming from the bottles themselves. Plastic degrades over time, so this would not be too surprising.
I definitely agree with the sentiment, as well as the fact that the people writing (or at least green-lighting) the laws and regulations are often not at all equipped to do so. That said, what would prevent this "army of nerds" from operating as lobbyists for the government that hired them?
Ask HN: A feasible way to collect dollar payment?
I run https://extracttable.com for which I charge 0.0145$/credit. The motivation behind is making it easier to extract tabular data from images, AND not needing to pay for what you do not use.

I want my users to buy credits as little as possible AND service usage charged per transaction(1 transaction @ 0.0145$ != 14.5$ of 1000 transactions). Currently, I'm asking my users to buy a minimum of 100 credits (https://extracttable.com/#pricing) costs 1.45$ - after PG(PayPal) processing I receive a mere 62% of what user paid.

Do I have any recommendations from the community on improving the situation matching my with requirements.

TIA
Like Wal-Mart?
While less common, San Pellegrino does come in a plastic bottle. I’m curious why they didn’t include the packaging in the graphic of the brand breakdown linked elsewhere, seems like this is a super relevant variable.
USPS has been scanning all mail going through sorting facilities with cameras for years now. All mail is photographed, image goes into a database, image is OCR processed, etc. This is only in recent years, but still. Interesting stuff:
https://www.newsweek.com/postal-service-photographs-every-pi...
Its not some kind of reverse psychology. Having one bad employee can ruin years of work by a team to build trust and goodwill. Having to rebuild trust after someone burns an career executive because they were disgruntled about pay or working conditions can take years. If you know you are motivated by pay or working conditions then don't join, you won't be happy. This is the same thing I tell people who are thinking about joining a startup, if you are just in it for office perks go join Facebook, they have great BBQ.
How about an anechoic chamber (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXVGIb3bzHI) painted in this stuff?
oddly enough, some extraction methods can actually make moldy/unsafe material safe, or at least get it past testing and onto the market. SFE apparently kills mold and pests. so you are taking flower deemed unworthy of human consumption into oil that is now claimed to be of dubious safety...hmm.

there are actually companies that specialize in buying test failing lots of flower and extracting them.
The V sign with palm facing the signer in British English means something like 'Fuck off'. All sorts of quite likely spurious history about archers insulting the French at Agincourt is used as a kind of etymology.

With the palm facing the viewer it means peace now but it's rare to see it referred to as a V sign in the UK with this meaning.

In WW II Churchill used it to mean Victory not peace but apparently started out used the insulting version and had to have the difference explained to him. Not sure if that is true or just apocryphal.
I received an email from the power company last month, announcing they were moving to a time based tariff.

It's not a new idea for me, my previous country has had this for decades.

But the email suggested setting the dishwasher to run overnight, and charging my phone and electric car overnight.

One of these is not like the others. The saving would be a about 40¢/year.

The phone example had been removed from the website, so at least someone noticed. But someone working at the power company wrote that email...
An interesting story about a one man MMO project (well, he enlisted help of his wife along the way), is the postmortem for Eternal Lands. It was a popular read on now defunct Devmaster.net website.

It's available through Web Archive here: https://web.archive.org/web/20110303214710/http://www.devmas...

It's an interesting throwback to the era before common availability of production-grade game engines like Unreal or Unity, back when everyone worked on their own Direct3D/OpenGL engine.
Firefox will block all the tracking cookie! So can not apply to me! ;)
Has a similar study been done to look at sandwich bags? Grocery bags?
Yeah, it comes off as more as a way of taking advantage of desperate people willing to try anything.