skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just shamed but also punished by law. This needs to be taken before a judge. They're violating the terms of their own agreement in the name of greed and trying to pass the blame on their own customers. What a gross business. I've never used them before and now know for certain that I never will.
> There are plenty of successful applications with bad UIs.

Because data >>> UI >> code.

> Also, business logic is encapsulated in code - if that's borked, no amount of UI will save it.

The assumption here is that the bare minimums are fulfilled. If the software doesn't work at all you have none of the above.
I use Booking.com because it actually has worked very well for me for many years (including things like getting me a refund for a non-cancellable booking, which I wasn't really entitled to and I didn't expected to get... saved me a good chunk of money). But indeed, in the last few years the sales techniques are scummy as hell.

Go look at a hotel in the middle of nothing in the most off-peak season, and it will still tell you that several rooms have been booked in the last few days and there are like 4 people looking at that hotel right now so you should book NOW! And of course everything is a one-time bargain. It's so blatant I don't even know how anyone can believe all that.

What annoys me is that as I mentioned, when it comes to the actual product (hotel bookings, their management, and customer service), it works great (at least in my experience). It's far from being a scam. So why they have to resort to that cheap, misleading sales tactics, probably hindering their image, is beyond me.
I’ve seen articles about teaching prisoners to code and coal miners to code. Learning to code is being framed as a panacea for all social ills. It’s become rather comical.
This is pathetic behaviour by Cerberus. For a security product you really want a trustworthy company to deal with.

I could maybe accept it if they gave their users plenty of notice, a grovelling apology, and so on, but this seems like an exercise in how to most quickly alienate your customers.

Can anyone recommend a good alternative to Cerberus with similar features?
ISTR the acceptable risk statement for the Apollo program was that there be no more than a 20% chance of losing a crew.

NASA lost the Apollo 1 crew in the pad fire, nearly lost the Apollo 13 crew, and lost a bunch more astronauts to plane crashes in the early days. They also nearly lost the Gemini 8 crew during the docking accident, and nearly lost Gus Grissom when the hatch cover pyros blew unexpectedly after his Mercury capsule splashed down. (On the other hand the attrition rate among test pilots in the 1945-1975 era was sky high.)

Then there was the Shuttle, which was supposed to have a less than 1% chance of losing a crew and managed to kill 14 astronauts in 130-something flights (and had a couple more very close calls).

Even the best/safest crew launch vehicle to date -- Soyuz -- killed four cosmonauts (on Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11) and had a couple of extremely hairy launch aborts and uncontrolled ballistic re-entries.

TLDR: nearly 60 years after Gagarin's flight, human space vehicle launch and re-entry is still extremely dangerous. (Living on a space station: somewhat less so, but still not as "safe" as the crew of a nuclear submarine.)
You are conflating immigration policy with the H1-B. The H1-B process is specifically designed to shackle the immigrant to a company for a period of 5 years no different than Central Pacific hiring chinease to build the transcontinental railroad.

When Messi and other star talent come to America, are they piped through intermediaries like Infosys, Cognizant and Tata and given roles such as QA Analyst and Data Analyst? Of course not. He could freely negotiate with any club teams he so deserves because his level of skill and accomplishment commanded such attention.

You seem to be conflating my argument that I am anti-immigrant or I am naive to assume that immigrants don't grow the area. That is not what I am arguing and that is not what the H1-B Visa is designed to do. I'm sure you believe that is the intent of the program but that is not what it IS doing and that is reflected by the volume of workers and median salaries. You can even see this spread in the salaries s of just Software Engineers. Some area as high as 220,000, others are 109,000.

Do you're own homework though, research: "Why Are Wages Not Rising Despite the Labor Shortage?" It is textbook economics but people associate it with racism or xenophobia and nationalism and corporations are all too ready to profit from this sentiment because of course they are. Why would they invest in employee development, Training, interviewing, blah blah when the answer is to just increase the pool via programs like the H1-B especially when so many arrogant engineers believe that being a software engineer is somehow an innate talent that just needs to be discovered and unlocked in special people.
> Second, massive inequality between rich and poor is a signal that something has gone horribly wrong with the distribution of wealth generated by society.

Is it? It seems to me like a world where a small group of people can improve the lives of a wide swath of the population (as measured and evidenced by that wide swath of people willingly giving them money in exchange for goods/services), that it’s fairly natural and even desirable for those creators of value to retain some of it for themselves.

Perhaps the relatively new capability of efficient global transportation and widespread Internet communication allows small groups to improve the lives of even larger groups than they could 50, 100, or 250 years ago.

We should celebrate that lives are improved broadly rather than excoriating those who are providing the improvements in exchange for money.
Hah! My wife just found a donations envelope that never got sent in addressed to Electric Cafe - THAT was the name of my first BBS... Internet Cafe did seem close but too generic.
Libertarianism is a philosophy only the wealthy and safe can afford because it is so ill suited for the survival of a nation due to the extreme stupidity of individual members of the human race.

Please explicate how you believe millions of people will die by virtue of shutting down foreign coal plants?
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I have never had a stroke, but I have had a serious heart condition that lead to hospitalization. When I got out of the hospital, I had some issues. Mobility was a huge one - I will never forget the first day of 'rehab' when I decided to walk about two kilometers home from a coffee shop. About halfway, I heard these two older women coming up behind me. One used a walker. I tried my absolute best to keep up with them but I couldn't. They passed me like I was standing still and the effort of trying to beat the woman on a walker was so extreme that I had to sit down. Hell, I almost called my Mom at work to get her to come and drive me the rest of the way home.

There I was. 40 years old. Lying on the fucking grass on the side of the road. Genuinely asking why I had to survive if this is what life was going to be like.

I had to rehab two things. I had to rehab my body, but first I had to rehab my brain. I have never and will never forget the feeling of 'used to' while I was rehabbing my body. I 'used to' be able to run. I 'used to' be able to walk faster than little old ladies on walkers. I 'used to' be able to eat whatever I wanted. I 'used to' be able to mow my fucking lawn. I 'used to' be able to walk up a flight of stairs without taking three breaks on the way. I was paralyzed by 'used to'.

You're his friend so honestly, the best advice I can give you is to encourage the hell out of him. It sounds like he has come a long ways. I have no idea what rehabbing a stroke would be like, but I assume that it's significantly worse than rehabbing a heart. If it is actually worse than rehabbing a stroke, your friend is fucking hardcore. Seriously...this man has come an incredibly long ways and deserves some serious praise.

I'm a sample of one, but that kind of praise really helped me. Every single thing about rehab sucks. Praise makes it suck less.

Edit - I'm much better now. Hell, a few weeks ago, I told my psychiatrist that I was in serious danger of qualifying to run the Boston Marathon by the time I'm 45.
"Hate selling" as it was dubbed by one of the trade magazines (over 4 years ago)

https://skift.com/2015/08/10/travel-brands-stop-hate-selling...
booking.com is like shopping in Times Square, and gives me a headache. But just like Times Square, many people seem to enjoy it.

Edit: in the spirit of Hacker News, what I always think about is how financially successful booking.com is, given what I think is the worst experience in the world for reserving a hotel room. I use it to remind myself that very few people think like me, and making things to my liking (straight and to the point) will get me nowhere.

Still boggles my mind that people prefer to patronize businesses that show a high price with a nebulous x% off, rather than just a simple price.
A lot of people, maybe most it doesn't work on. But that population probably won't avoid booking because of the sleezy tactics if the price is right.
Tesco charity cards ‘packed by China’s prison slaves’
Mostly to keep the signature for replaceAll in line with replace. You _can_ call it with a regex, but then you'll have to make sure it's a regex that uses the correct syntax for "replace-all" behaviour. If you don't, now you're doing something so weird that an error is the only appropriate response.

<<There is no way you would write replaceAll() as a mistake when you actually just meant replace(). >>

Have you ever reviewed the daily work of colleagues or contributors who haven't used JS day in day for the last 2 years? That's exactly the kind of mistake that happens _all_ the time. And people new to JS are more than happy to reach for regex well before there's a good reason to use them.
Yep, thanks, you're absolutely right.

Though the numbers are only for the US, total number of empty beverage cans produced and shipped in the US and US-controlled territories in 1960 was 9.700 (billions or tonnes, I'm not sure, the unit is not in the table) and in 2010 it was 96.457. So there's been a ten-fold increase of production for an eight-fold decrease in aluminum used. Note the numbers are for total cans, which I think includes steel, but there's only aggregate data up to 1979.

Data from this table from the page you linked:

http://www.cancentral.com/sites/cancentral.com/files/public-...

Fortunately, it seems that for other types of cans production went down. For example, total number of food cans was 34.600 in 1970 and 28.432 in 2010.

This table:

http://www.cancentral.com/sites/cancentral.com/files/public-...

Again thanks, I should have looked it up myself :)
In erlang based systems stateful network protocols and concurrent user stories are all modeled with actors and one million connections per node for websockets is a thing.

I deployed an actor-based system model to completely rearchitect and replace an inefficient stateless python system. There have been zero runtime or concurrency errors since I deployed (unfortunately sometimes the hardware the actors are modeling fail us) but patches to work around the hardware failures are simple.
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Where's their $100+ million fine though? Why aren't they getting fined like the US-based tech companies?
> the single system default sans-serif and single system default sans-serif-monospace fonts that all websites MUST use, period, no discussion.

The web standards allow a website to use any WOFF (or WOFF2) font they wish to use. Please see https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/
Apple does support upgrade pricing, though mostly as a hack using App Bundles and the Complete My Bundle pricing. For example, upgrading GoodNotes: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000124915...
Unfortunatelly there is still no way to run CI file locally which is major turn down. Deprecated `exec` command is hell to use.

I should be able to install runner on developers machine and just run and debug pipeline there, with or without Gitlab server present.
Rapid Decision-Making: What it is, why we like it, how to get the most out of it
Yes, that bit about the cans was a very suspect statistic to quote so out of context.
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Water is people, and glass is the planet earth, with its limited natural resources.
There is enough of everything including food for all the world. If not killing the planet requires a transfer of wealth so that foreigners can both eat and help us achieve our goals I don't see why this would be an extreme barrier.
Isn't this just temporal tables in SQL Server?
Things go badly when children design
> there's a point at which continuous work requires continuous pay.

The majority of software has been pay-once (not counting major version upgrades) throughout the history of software, and still is. I just mentioned some major examples: Pixelmator and Affinity, along with Astropad, CrossOver, DaisyDisk, Duet, Final Cut, Motion, Path Finder, Pixen, SiteSucker, Textual, Unarchiver, to name a few from my Applications folder, and also the vast majority of games.

> That's a good model, but AFAIK no appstore caters to it.

Acorn 4: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acorn-4-the-image-editor-for-h...

Acorn 5: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acorn-5-the-image-editor-for-h...

Acorn 6: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acorn-6-image-editor/id1233861...

You may not be able to view the product pages for Acorn 4 & 5, but they show up in my purchase history and I can still redownload them.

There are other examples like that.

If a company chooses to keep its older versions on display they could.
Fair enough. Though two of the "read" are "reader" and "Reader" and you can tell them apart easily from the capitalisation. But I don't completely disagree with your point.
> The company would also stop presenting offers as having a time limit if the same price applied after the time limit expired.

Now I expect them to change the price slightly in order to continue with the time limits.
Your comment is literally explaining that you are asking "in bad faith".
That's quite cool, thanks. Documentation for the temporal chaining features in case anyone else is curious: https://goldmansachs.github.io/reladomo-kata/reladomo-tour-d...
A/B testing gone horribly wrong is my guess.
Oh I read this as a joke...

Like, don't encourage your SO to find someone better than yourself.
If self-driving tech has become so advanced, I wonder why Waymo is not delivering anything? I wonder why is Tesla taking forever to deliver self-driving, why Uber discontinued its self-driving program, Why Apple ain't serious about Apple car yet?

Does this demo hide something that we should know?
Yes, probably so. But I've lived 9 years in China now. I have friends across a wide spectrum of society. Anyone who actually doesn't like it still only say things like, "He should have known he would be punished for it. You shouldn't do things that put you in jail. You have responsibility to take care of your family and yourself first. You shouldn't be stupid."
Your friend sounds like a candidate for speech-to-text software. I did work for a woman with MS who was paralyzed from the neck down. She used the Windows 7 accessibility that's built in as her only interface to the computer. Despite her difficulties and advanced age, she was able to make good use of it not just for typing but for overall computer control. I'd hope that the W10 stuff is better yet.

If he has any use of the keyboard, then some hotkeys/macros with AutoHotKey may make his life easier as well. I once used AHK to disable the right mouse button for my grandfather, who before he passed, lost dexterity in his hands and was whole-hand clicking rather than just with his index finger. Disabling the button was easy, and I just re-mapped it to a key he never used (NumPad+).

I hope this helps your friend!
It hasnt surfaced. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/equifax-mystery-where-is-the...

Conjecture is it was a nation state.
Most likely a developer on the website using test data and forgot to remove it.

We've become so biased, the last time I saw this posted on HN, people were commenting on the administration somehow actually doing this intentionally.
OK, men, you're about to service a fully fueled Saturn V rocket that is spewing all sorts of nasty gases and is an active spark away from blowing up itself, and you, over a 5 mile radius.

Do you all have your plastic safety helmets?
You right. We should have Javascript2 language.
Very similar to something I crafted up back in maybe 2003. The site was slow to load due to a bunch of sql queries on under powered hardware. Updated it to take a "snapshot" of the front page ever 10 minutes and make that the live version. Serving static content was so much better of an experience.
SQL Server supports only half of the SQL:2011 temporal features – it does system-versioned tables but not application-time tables. When I asked MS engineers about it at Build 2018, there were no concrete plans to implement application-time.
This is extremely sweet, quaint, and I absolutely love the concept... but... what RSS? Where's the privacy policy? Support via twitter? Who's project is this and what else are they doing with my data?
Man arrested in $24M scheme to sell bogus laptop batteries
So, this raises a question I've been wondering about. It seems like lifetime licenses, i.e. one-time payments for a lifetime of access to upgrades, it seems like there's been a number of cases where this backfires, either for the company or the user.

I also dislike subscriptions, either paying for them or charging them, I'm a traditionalist, pay for the software and you get point upgrades for free.

But my question is, is anyone doing this traditional model with web services? Pay for access to a specific version of a web application, and you get that for a lifetime (maybe with some small maintenance fee for upkeep)? But if you want to upgrade to the v3 of the web application, that's a new fee?

Is anyone doing this? Is this workable? I might want to try it for my next project but am wary of pitfalls.
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I like this idea, especially using git to version the store. With automatic commits, you could roll back to a particular date to see the page versions then. A personal "archive.org" sounds very awesome!
Appropriate hunting and other wildlife management are helping wildlife, given that the only other alternative is extinction.

But it's still a weird definition of "help". And I would argue that, if you look at it holistically, in many cases it is little more than a temporary holding action.
Great answer, but one thing we need to know before we can offer a split is how much "skin each person has in the game".

The OP stated that they have been building product while their partner builds an audience. That could be a 50/50 split for sure. In fact, it could easily be a 20/80 split if the time invested in the product was minimal compared to the time invested in customer acquisition.

Additionally, validating the idea is not the same as having or presenting or articulating the idea.

To determine a split you should jointly determine the true value that each partner has invested at risk.
Better than the Porsche Taycan though, to take it somewhat more apples to apples. So there’s that. While having near double the range, a lower price, air suspension, frequent free updates including for performance and handling, seating more people when off track, having a non-vaporware fast charging network... it’s almost an unfair comparison against a one trick pony toy car (I’m sure you can cherry pick some special racing-only case where the Taycan steps up).
- boomers retiring

- overpopulation

- immigration

I am not sure if "solving specific problems" is a fruitful strategy though. Attacking problems head-on often does not work (faster horse etc). The solutions almost always come from side channels.
Hell, when one half of my brain has to remind the other half not to be rushed by all the "only one room available!", what hope is there for your mother?

The most blatant piece of evidence for what they do is how they say "ONLY ONE ROOM LEFT AT THIS HOTEL" but when you go back and request two rooms, this changes to "ONLY TWO ROOMS LEFT AT THIS HOTEL" immediately.
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A couple traffic cones out in the street could direct this thing onto the sidewalk, where it would drift over pedestrians or slam into a brick wall without hesitation. There's a big gap between a car that can drive on a closed course and one that can navigate the real world for millions of miles without killing anyone
Not lying about what you're selling seems like it ought to the norm without requiring legal intervention?
I am lucky enough to have not have needed such software. However, this also means I can’t vouch for much of this first hand for your use case.

Dasher is designed for text input with limited movement. You can try it out online: http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/
The neighboring comment is dead, but that is basically what Windows does IIRC. When you set it, it prerenders the image at the screen resolution and caches it.
voting becomes weaker as the government gets bigger because you end up with an enormous not elected bureaucracy that in many cases is answerable to no one, especially the voting public.

worse it is self perpetuating , growing with each cycle, and siphoning off a lot of wealth and energy that could be used to make things better. in the US there are nearly eight million full time employees of federal, state, city, and local, governments. A good number wield no real power but you get into the administrative levels and then you find those who do wield it.

voting is like choosing what flavor icing you want on your cake but you have no guarantee of a cake. to truly make voting impactful more of the administrative state needs to turn over each cycle as well. hell some government agencies have their own courts
Would this work over larger distances - e.g. remote sensing from space?
But they cache them as a GPU texture, don’t they?
Status quo is a powerful thing. Lord Vetinari was onto something when he claimed people just want the same day follow the day before.
There's also genetic predilections for suicide.
Indeed, that's true. I just think we have more to gain by talking about what we're doing and seeing what the community thinks about some of our approaches rather than keeping it all private for the next year.
iOS voice control:
https://youtu.be/80AyUCjZYZM?t=55

Eye tracker + app:
https://www.tobiidynavox.com
My boss used to have a poster that read "Good, cheap, fast. Pick two."

For all these fast projects, I wonder what the resulting costs and quality were!
Was hoping there was a “who is your daddy and what does he do?”
Same here, I do a lot of CG and I feel like taking on this project to show how trivial it is. Lol, what's the difference between recreating and creating?
I've seen this play out in some heavily funded (mechanical engineering) organizations as well.

Some are incredibly top-heavy, with decisions being flipped from the experts to the administrative staff who have at most 3-5 years of experience at the company and industry, but often less.

The organizations that are self-funded from selling specialized products and not either government bids or wealthy backers are usually much more bottom-up organized.
“It almost like as if we did some math for this.” lol, awesome.