skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh the good old "conversation is a state machine" pitfall.
Even linguists I work with do that sometimes, I guess it's how the simple models that we're taught with work.

Wanna have the simplest parser? Finite State Automaton to the rescue!
So people automatically assume that a the simplest approach yo conversation is also something like a finite state machine.

Here's the thing. The only reasonable FSA would be a clique.

You can always move between nodes.

A much more feasible approach is the "actions competing for repelevance" one.
Where you have global state manipulated by actions, and all the actions generate a "appiccability score" for the given user input.
The system then chooses the most appropriate action, and it does it's thing.
And on the next user input the cycle repeats.
It would be nicer if the tooling was better, but at the same time:

1. Everyone else can apparently do it properly.
2. They could have caught this problem in testing.

It's just a case of a non-software company adding on an app as an afterthought.
privacy.com looks great. I think the only disadvantage is that you lose all the 2-5% cashback, travel benefits and so on. I wish they could produce card while keeping these benefits but still its good card to have for shady websites.
well you specifically said 2:30 tomorrow.. it sounds like it triggered at 2:30 next day

And never-mind the literal interpenetration of the command - it's far more usual to set up an alarm very early in the morning (got to catch a plane, unusual event) rather in the afternoon.
Show HN: Hacker News comments for your blog
iOS bug “This app is no longer shared with you”
I never said the net outcome wasn’t favorable. I said certain categories underperform other categories by a wide margin. You are assuming the goal is to maximize RPU when he actual goal is to maximize the delta between purchase price and resale price.

My whole point is that a lot of what goes on in rental doesn’t make sense unless you view it at as a business that generates used cars.

However, I doubt you really care and were more interested in making a pedantic point about how contracts are voluntary agreements between rational actors.
I've read several of your, "I'm sorry you..."

How about an "I'm sorry I..."

Take responsibility for your own actions.
So this is Lyft?
I’ve seen customers get denied by their auto insurance and 2 credit cards. Just because a credit card provides coverages it doesn’t mean it covers everything. Insurance is complicated and you should never assume you are covered.
Cancelling my Economist subscription was the biggest hassle.

You need write an email with order date, current billing cycle, reference number and more.

All the while there you can manage parts of your subscription through a portal. They just try to make cancellation as laborious as possible.
What to Do When Your Video Game Gets Co-Opted by Neo-Nazis
I'd imagine "40 years of laser research" is exactly what has happened this time around.

You can already buy lasers off Amazon or Aliexpress that can set things on fire. I'm giving it 10 years tops before we have lethal man-portable laser rifles.
"How did they plug all those holes?"
Anatomy of a hit
Why have you capitalised “zombie users” like that? Is this a reference to something?
I am curious, why will you not use OAuth 2 userinfo endpoint which can serve a lot more detail and keep claims in JWT simpler and lightweight.
The Data Matrix: Perils of Data Network Effects
Not sure if the same issue, but Android 9 takes a second to load your contacts from apps. Want to send a link through SMS? Tap Share, and Messaging is at the top row. But if you hesitate for a second, your Whatsapp contacts will load in and suddenly you're sending a link to someone that shouldn't get it.
What benefits aren't we seeing?

End-to-end automation still isn't done in most places and it's considered hard.

Having made a significant automation investment, I can say that it's easier after you've put some of the work in. It trends towards easiness but up front cant seem insurmountably hard.

Caveat: Our infrastructure bill is stretching about ten million yearly and our team is small (avg. about 1M being managed per person), size your expectations appropriately.
Tulsa, Oklahoma Unveiled a 7-Story-Tall Statue of Elon Musk
Using Q Learning to simulate fight between Captain America and Iron Man
Elsewhere in this discussion, a Microsoft employee working on the new terminal was completely sure that the data it collected wasn't sent anywhere, until they looked into it again and discovered that it actually was being picked up by some part of the inscrutable telemetry machinery and sent off to Microsoft.
The argument that Sweden has escaped the economic slump while it is still amidst the pandemic crisis is meaningless. You can only say "...SO FAR". It remains to be seen how the country will come out of it when it is over and only then.

This article wrongly implies that other countries should have followed suit by not imposing lockdowns to save the economy which is a disastrous advice.
I'm in part going off comments made by employees about her attitude.

I mean, I have little idea. I'm not claiming that the negative take is the right one, only that there is some oversight in the author here leading to this article.

I'm very sceptical about an HR on-boarding process, so-described, being a redflag for anyone. As she claims, it's an irrelevant/missable process anyway. The idea its some lens into the company, on this occasion, doesnt stack up.

However you interpret the motivation for writing, I dont buy the "redflag" one.
Why does the thermometer require an embedded WebView? Couldn't they, you know, use a View?
I'm super excited to introduce hnDisq to all. I have a blog website, and I want very simple and no manageable way to add a commenting system to my blog. The idea clicked why not I use Hacker News comment in my blog. Checked their API, and here I'm launching hnDisq.

Check out https://hndisq.xyz and feedback welcome.
It also lets you copy and paste directly, very cool.
Not necessarily.

But what if you didn't have one yesterday, but you do have one today? What if you have only worked for one employer since TripleByte was founded (2015)? What if the only place you've worked is a startup of which you're a cofounder?

If you can't think of a way in which a privacy leak can have consequences, that doesn't mean there aren't any.
Check if your local library offers ebooks and emagazines it might include The Economist. I am member of the Westminster Library here in London and they have The Economist for reading via RBDigital:

https://www.westminster.gov.uk/ebooks-emagazines-and-audiobo...

Have to admit RBDigital ain't the best reading experience but good enough to read The week and The Economist for free :)

I even have PressReader access so many magazines to read :))
RH doesnt really have competitors at the moment. None of comparable size anyway, and that's prior to IBM. Microsoft seems to be interested though.

Go big or go home?
> You shouldn't have to ask for a desk, it should be there when you start.

If the author decided unilaterally to skip the onboarding process and appear unexpectedly and unannounced at somewhere she assumed would be her workspace then she wasn't there when she was supposed to start.

Would it also make any sense if the author whined about the company not providing her with a computer if she happened to also skip that part of the onboarding process?
You forgot "slow as molasses".

That said, it made the tor-specific sites simple not just because JS was banned, but that's not video chat, isn't it?
Pirate Bay, SciHub and Libgen are used mainly on desktop computers with an unlimited broadband connection. They are niche communities for enthusiasts (whether the dwindling pool of torrent users, or academics/bookish people). The general public now consumes its content on mobile, and as the GP mentioned there are significant bandwidth and battery costs to trying to provide distributed content over the mobile devices we have today.
Correct, unless you give your phone to a third-party - for example, to get repaired:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/geek-squads-relationsh...
Let them come after you. Just cancel the service in the same way you signed up (send an e-mail if you've signed up online), and then stop paying them (or block the direct debits, or reverse the credit card charges). I haven't had any company that actually bothered to send it to collections (or even sue me). Only once I got a mail that I hadn't payed, and when I replied with the cancellation e-mail attached, they said "oh, ok" and never bothered me again.
#Amazon.com : #Buffalo #Blizzard #Split #Blocker #Winter #Cover
To be clear, the UK is undergoing a clinical trial with hydroxychloroquine. Hopefully it works, but as of now it's not known if the harms outweigh the benefits.
I never use PayPal as they still keep over thousand pound due some bullshit reason and don't want to release it. And it's pain to get to speak to a human. Currently, it's at the Financial Ombudsman
Note, I realized I did my math based off the deaths per 100000 number, meaning it's .01% of people commit suicide each year not .01% of deaths. It's still low enough to make statistics misleading, but I called it the wrong thing.
UDP hole punching could still work with a stateful firewall that follows the proposed "best practices for home routers for v6"
Awesome news. This part caught my attention though:

>Unlike the Windows and Steam store, we don’t ask for money for Krita in the store, since it’s the only way people can install Krita on those devices, but you can buy a supporter badge from within Krita to support development.

I don't know about the Windows store because I don't use Windows, but doesn't the Steam store allow you to put up free tools? Godot Engine is available for free on Steam, IIRC.
This is really really exciting. Thanks
Which fails again as an example, because legally is not the same thing.
Humans have visual processing which converts the signals from our three types of cones into tens to hundreds of millions of shades of color. Mantis shrimp don't have this processing. Mantis shrimp can only see 12 shades.

Human color detection is about six orders of magnitude greater than mantis shrimp's.
There were 2 things about asyncio that I really didn't like:

1. the library constantly changed under our feet and that also meant that Stack Overflow articles were all over the place between Python 3.5 and 3.7.

2. I don't think I've ever successfully mocked an async function in python. This made testing async code in python, especially mocking responses from an async web call (an obvious use of async in python) very difficult, if memory serves me. It's been several months since I've used async in python (job change) though, so maybe it's gotten easier or maybe the exact mocking test case issues I had are different drom what I think.
support@triplebyte.com is probably for clients.

Source: Candidate, has a very specific marketing meaning, of you being the product.
This ruling has no impact on the laws related to border searches.
On the Observability of Pauli Crystals in Lithium
This is a great long read (if you like log graphs) on how solar prices have dropped more than anyone predicted: https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-c...

> This incredible pace of solar cost decline, with average prices in sunny parts of the world down to a penny or two by 2030 or 2035, is just remarkable. Building new solar would routinely be cheaper than operating already built fossil fuel plants, even in the world of ultra-cheap natural gas we live in now. This is what I’ve called the third phase of clean energy, where building new clean energy is cheaper than keeping fossil fuel plants running. Even in places like Northern Europe, by the later 2030s we’d see solar costs below the operating cost of fossil fuels, providing cheap electricity in summer months with their very long days in the high latitudes. These prices would be disruptive to a large fraction of already operating fossil fuel power plants – particularly coal power plants, that are far less able to ramp their power flexibly...

(hat tip to the Forge the Future newsletter: https://forgethefuture.substack.com/?no_cover=true)

I predict a lot of fossil plants will convert to simply providing inertia for grid stabilisation and charge for the service. They won't burn anything any more and may even demolish their stacks and cooling towers. They will just keep their generators and turbines connected to the grid as a big virtual flywheel to dampen spikes in demand / supply and maintain the AC frequency within tolerance.
You obviously understand payment systems more deeply but to me this is like someone explaining why I need to deal with mainframes with tap drives in 2020. Many of us don't even need credit cards, we just need a way to transfer existing money from our bank account on agreed upon transactions safely. There are far more modern ways to electronically "agree" on a transaction then to use exact same 19 digit number for every single transaction for every single merchant everywhere. We need certainty for protection against frauds. Transactions should literally be instant but undoable change in bits in electronic databases without having these arcane settlements and authorization non-sense. Even if there are edge cases like offline merchant in Africa, credit card companies need to be able support all of below and there are exactly zero technical reasons why they cannot:

1. Consumer should always be able to blacklist a merchant or provide a whitelist

2. Consumer should always be able to set limit how much a given merchant can ever charge him/her and during what time windows

3. Consumer should always be able to set total limit of charges he/she wants to have at any time

4. Consumer should always be able to get phone number, mailing address and correct full legal name of any merchant who puts charge

5. Consumer should always be able to generate new electronic card number for online usage and dispose off any previous one at will

"Check your statements" is an useless advice. My experience is that even when you find out bad charge, you have to go through hoops and appeals which may take weeks or even months. There are zero guarantees same charge from same merchant won't happen again. The only single case when CC companies are willing to take off charge immediately is when you say you don't recognize merchant at all and its 100% fraudulent. If you say you once authorized that merchants a decade ago, its suddenly your fault and you are looking at writing up justifications which will likely get rejected any way.
Looks like that David Beckham prank statue to me.
I read that a few days ago and just realized why Figma runs better than Miro/RealTimeBoard. I wish the Miro team is also looking to port to WASM/boost performance. I don't think it's easy though; Figma's effort started in 2017.
https://resistant.ai looks pretty sci-fi. They basically protect AI systems from AI-enabled attackers.
We have that in the EU.
If I have to give out my card details anywhere especially for a subscription based service I look beforehand on how I can cancel it. Companies have no shame in leaving you forget a subscription going on forever. That should be punishable by law.

Also my main bank is now Monzo (based in the UK) and there I get a notification on my phone for every transaction I make. I also see a list of all the committed spending for a month which includes all subscription based services I have (some of them I had to mark myself as such because Monzo can't distinguish if they are recurring or not). To be honest I think every mobile bank application should offer this out of the box. It's 2020...
I only had mild sleep apnoea (according to a sleep study). Meditation (maybe not yoga) did reduce symptoms for me, but there are many contributing factors, and for severe cases CPAP is often necessary. Based on my limited anecdata, I think meditation could help other reduce or manage their symptoms, and I strongly doubt it could be harmful.
Why isn't that possible? It doesn't sound like it would be that hard.
Uh... what?
Wait you pay and they still lock your account due to inactivity?
“Fake it till you make it” strategy works when you know how to make something but haven't made it yet. The strategy falls apart when people try to fake having solved hard open research problems.
Jaywalking has increased in SF and probably other cities. This contributes to the per-mile death rate.
The whole point is that they shouldn't have to ask...
Yes, what they mean is that on windows you can get krita for free outside of the windows store or steam. While on Android most users are stuck with the Google Play store because it's very difficult to use another store.
This is absolutely ridiculous. As a profitable company the duty of the company is to make money for the share holders and board members. The customer is a dumb expendable resource to be exploited. Netflix stock price is down because of this. Not only should Netflix not do this, it should charge pregnant women extra because they are watching with an extra person /s
Only if you don't specify your terminal as a dev tool
I had put off upgrading for a long time because nothing good can come from running the latest stable release. They've never been stable. But Apple sort of forced me to update recently since wanted to back up my phone, which I wanted to do before switching to a new one. I imagined that it would be better after a year. Boy was I wrong, and I regret doing it much. It has been a constant pain ever since, bluetooth is completely broken.

- My external trackpad isn't able to connect, at all. Audio devices require that I kill coreaudiod before connecting, otherwise they just disconnect after a few seconds.

- I can wake the laptop with a bluetooth keyboard, but when it's awake the keyboard stops working. Flipping the switch on the backside of the keyboard lets it reconnect again.

- There are transitions that you cannot disable that makes your laptop feel super slow. In Mojave you could disable them, in Catalina you can't unless you want to run with SIP disabled.

- There's also a super fun bug with mobile hotspot failing to activate, and there's no way for you to just manually connect to your own hotspot, it has to go through this bluetooth activation, even though your mobile hotspot is visible and connectable on all other devices. You end up in situation where you connect to your friends hotspot and they connect to yours, since neither of you are able to connect to your own.

I've given up. The quality control in Apple is down the drain, and have been for quite some time. I'm fixing to downgrade to Mojave this weekend, hopefully that will make it more stable. But I'm not holding my breath. To add injury to insult I'm on my third broken keyboard now. Next time it breaks I might just use the consumer laws and make them refund the laptop so they'll have to take a big loss for creating such a flawed device.
I’ve no idea if this is still the case, but yes, that was the situation.
It would be interesting to see a credit card company differentiate on this. Have an internal team which works through the various companies (presumably in order of popularity) and does the leg work of figuring out how to subscribe. So the customer would be presented with: Go to these locations and upload this information. Or even: Enter your username and password and this information and our scripts will unsubscribe you.
I use a separate credit card for paying on dodgy services. Restaurants and small stores abroad, online payments not via PayPal, things like these.

Relatively few monthly statements on it make anything funny stand out, and it's easy to just report/cancel the card.
Antipsychotics and the Gut Microbiome
I have a feeling this and the comments will get quickly shodowbanned once the debate in the comments becomes political
On desktop they went with free installers from their website and paid versions if you want the convenience of a store. That’s a way to support the project.
Silicon Valley is a very small dot in the global scale.
20% is low for a typical test.

A clever insider can get that to 100%, say with "Benefit Plan Updates." lol
I work for a company that managed to keep an older and very incompetent guy for 15 years doing almost nothing; the guy was an IT technician coming part of an acquisition and they promoted him as manager at the time of the acquisition. I know him very well, I was probably his closest friend in the company: he was a very decent technician and a very nice person (that part explains the friendship), but not a manager, he did not ask for that and never wanted it, but due to legal constraints we could not demote him to technician, so he retired after being passed from one team to another every couple of years.

The same company, the same IT department, for 10 years no men was promoted but over 10 women were promoted. This is because we don't care about age, only about "diversity" so we don't hire and don't promote men. We have even cases where women in maternity leave were promoted (they were not active at that time, not even having a company laptop anymore) and also promoted someone who left the company after the announcement was made, so that the statistics of the promotions for that year would meet the targets. Strange thing, the 2 biggest pushers of these actions were 2 males, they had targets from above and did anything possible to exceed the targets (I heard them say they want 70% women in IT, we are just at 60%).
I wish more parents bought their kids drawing tablets. Kids try out all kinds of things, but it's hard to try out something that you don't have the equipment for. Sure, drawing on paper is a possibility, but it's not quite the same thing as digital art that tends to be much easier to share and get feedback on.
Yeah that's a common myth. Svelte isn't some fringe alternative JS framework. It performs exactly the same functions and same structure as any React/Vue app, but does so with far less code and runs far faster since it's a compiler.

You're not going to find many brand-name companies using it because the PM decision-makers at large enterprises are always going to be many years behind and going with the "safe" JS framework leader at the time.

Well-known companies currently using Svelte: Apple [1], New York Times [2], Spotify [3] and GoDaddy [4]

1: https://twitter.com/mansur_ashraf/status/1204542852581273600
2: Svelte creator Rich Harris works for them
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/f18n33/companies_...
4: https://svelte.dev
Don't worry fella I'm assuming you havn't woken up and had your first coffee of the day :D
CDC Reporting Error Leaves Epidemiologists Baffled
The tiktok I watched was something similar to daily VLOG so I am pretty sure it is not a demo or trial product but a general purpose one.
That’s just insane, other than trying make cancellation harder there’s no reason that your supscription number shouldn’t be sufficient.
Ooohh, I got lucky. After I evaluated the platform a few months ago I asked for my account to be deleted, something about the whole platform felt off. They don't measure so many of the most important success factors for good engineers.
Not sure it’s more efficient given how sluggish most AV software used to make my machine...
Budapest, 75 years ago and now
At a place I worked at they did something similar with the most obviously fake email possible.

Seemed like a pointless box ticking exercise.

Funny enough IT sent out an email about a Windows update rolling out (upgrade to a new version like 1709) that looked ever dodgier than their fake email. That had people reporting that as phishing.
Terraform alone just does infra provisioning, but it can call a script for application setup.
This should be a never-ending list but hard to moderate with current overflow of misinformation. Atleast wikipedia is still one of the last few you can trust because it doesn't depend on ad revenue and clickbaits.