skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience they may be a little more careful when it's a large price difference. There are legit concerns that it may not be the same model/quality/etc.

Also TBF Sandisk makes this worse considering how often even inside best buy I'm scratching my head over why they have multiple items that have the same U/Class rating but different packing on the shelf.

I've had decent luck with BB Price matching since around 2010 or so, when they started worrying about Newegg/Amazon and were to some extent proactive about shifting their business model. On the other hand the types of items I've price matched tend to be specific enough that Part number shenanigans aren't a concern.
I probably spend as much as you -- though in the past year or so, I've been shopping elsewhere.

There are some products that are "safe" to buy and you won't have to worry but there's a ton of stuff that will randomly be counterfeit. -- even prime stuff.

It's also common for me to order something several times -- and then suddenly get a counterfeit product.

I honestly recommend people use eBay instead or BestBuy :) or Newegg or anyone else essentially.
tl;dr - a new CEO actually listened to employees and eve gave them back a discount program, embraced "show rooming" by price matching Amazon and (the vaguer part) builde relationships with customers.

But we on HN think the biggest problem Amazon has is fake goods, not Best Buy
Curbside has been really excellent. I buy a thing online and less than half an hour later I'm back at home with the device. Makes me realize how much of my amazon shopping was because of the fast delivery.
Why would we make such costly changes for a blip in the history of the planes? Almost nobody is going to want to keep up this horrid lifestyle after the virus is over.
Tiring test requires interactivity. Otherwise you could just run “cat moby_dick.txt”, and paste the output.
A company built on a caricature of real social interaction... perhaps this is a trend, where profits are extracted by taking some basic human activity and creating a facsimile that exploits our worst characteristics. Fast food does this for food, tinder for romance, facebook for relationships, twitter for conversations. Second order effects come in, instead of living you can pretend to live and vlog it on youtube. Instead of doing anything (exercise, woodwork, cooking, gaming...) you can watch others doing it with fancier equipment and guaranteed success.

It isn’t a ‘conspiracy’ but it does feel like humans are being diminished so their time and attention can be commodified.
Microsoft Edge crashing when using Google as search provider
Let's invest in a high speed national passenger rail system!
The complaint about "oarsman" and "regatta" is nonsense.

Supposedly it was racist. Supposedly the white kids are all out doing yacht races, so they alone would know the vocabulary.

That is ridiculous. The portion of the population of white kids that go yachting is minuscule. Practically all white kids don't even know a person who does that. Practically all white kids have never even been on a yacht.

The question was fair. It, and others like it, are a test of reading. If you read well and have read a large variety of books, you'll know the words. The whole point of the test is to see if a student has that sort of college-capable ability (Can you read very well?) so of course the question belongs on the test.

The same goes for polo. Nobody does that. The same is nearly true for golf, and I think the desire to watch Tiger Woods might flip any advantage toward the black kids.

Really, it's about reading.
You can test it yourself; head on over to aidungeon.io, give them ten of your hard-earned dollars, and enable the Dragon model.

I don't think I'll pay $10/month indefinitely, but it's definitely worth it to be able to play with GPT-3 for a few weeks.
Our technology stack is very gRPC friendly, so developer experience is actually better with it, than without (though this is very subjective.)

As for the middleboxes, using gRPC-WEB[1] allowed us to switch Desktop Client App to gRPC even behind firewalls/IDSes that do not speak HTTP/2 yet.

As for the HAProxy, Dropbox used to use (circa 2013) it specifically for loadbalancing, but we eventually replaced it with our Golang proxy. That said, recent HAProxy improvements (v2.0+) make it quite an awesome dataplane and an excellent loadbalancer!

[1] https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web
I do not agree with the premise that the best way to hire engineers is to follow the hire—chef model of restaurants. I don’t think it’s fair in any way to ask someone to work for free for few days, while you keep the candidate guessing whether you will give the job to the candidate or not. Also how can one plan to hire engineers who already have day jobs? Should the engineers take 3 days leave from their employer every-time they try to interview?

This kind of model is way too biased towards employers and gives them too much power to exploit, in an environment where employers anyways have a lot of power as compared to one employee (prospective candidate in fact, not even employee). This reasoning works well for companies whose job is to recruit or help recruit engineers. After all, they are being paid by the employer and not the candidate, so they want to make the process optimal for the employers. But as much as I like the doing the right thing for customer attitude, this seems like taking that to an extreme and exploiting everything that isn’t paying.
> Hope you enjoy the stock grants!

If I thought my work at Google was making the world worse I wouldn't do it; see this discussion a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617291

For example, I'm currently exploring whether https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainers/su... can increase the security and privacy of ad loading and rendering.

> bundling IE is more ethically problematic than...

I don't think bundling IE was at all the worst that Microsoft was doing in the 90s. Their efforts to kill the web, Java, and Linux, all threats to their strategy of a Windows monopoly, were much more of a problem.

> building massive surveillance applications to sell ads

Ads fund an enormous number of sites, and without them the web and information in general would be even more centralized.

If you oppose ad personalization and targeting, trying to convince individual adtech employees to quit is a terrible strategy. Instead you should advocate for legislation such as the GDPR and CCPA that set out what sorts of behavior are acceptable.
There are certain items that are more susceptible:

- kids toys

- any kind of supplements/protein powder/etc.

- cheaper electronics/cables/etc.
OEMs have done this for a long time. When Circuit City was around it was very rare for the laptops to have the same model number.

Of course, often they'd do other little things too, like maybe a smaller HDD but a better CPU. Just enough to make it not really the same Laptop, but close enough you picked up on the trend.
Deno vs. Node.js: Simply Explained
If you're interested in this topic, you may enjoy James Fairbanks' talk on Catlab.jl, which is an applied category theory software package: https://youtu.be/7zr2qnud4XM. Petri Nets are one of the examples.
I own a Tesla, and there are not card readers at superchargers.
ipads for education, mac's etc. working from home can drive sales, as folks need mobile equipment. and most sane companies are able to let a user choose equipment. in the small to medium shops it's less costly to run mac equipment than windows in the long run due to saner security requirements etc.
I picked up reactjs as the framework, and firebase services for the backend. Life becomes much easier. I tried Vercel & Render, both are good alternatives.
Depends on the number of customers and sunk cost of marketing. I have an LLC and I would rather change the name than hire an expensive lawyer, especially if the outcome is not certain.
The article references made up history like “GPT-1 by DeepMind” or “Global Data Net.” It is clearly confabulated and contains multiple non-sensical contradictions to the astute observer. I’m not surprised if it was output by GPT-3. A more lengthy response to your reaction is here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019...
How would you know if you had authenticity issues or not?
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Insync solves a lot of Google Drive issues (not all! - the fundamental organization (and ability to search - at Google!) is horrible), Box.com is not bad for auditibility and observability, but One Drive keeps trying to suck you in (You think you are out! But you are not!),

For the extra buck-or-two per user per month - I just like the fact that it "just works" for most people and little tech support. (Although I do miss the RSS feed on events that they removed that helped me keep track of all of the "stuff" "the people" were doing with "all the files". I'm sure there was a reason - but that was actually the only feature that made me think that they and Box.com might be comparable in that area)
Same with Target. I’ve switched nearly all of my household buying over to Target because they have an awesome app, good shipping, and no counterfeits.
My rough understanding is that the focus is not on who is using the language, but rather who is funding the language, which of course is a huge distinction.
If the landowners aren't using the land, and they're not letting anyone else use it, then no one is making any money–least of all the landowners, who also have an ongoing opportunity cost due to the capital they've tied up in the land itself. That's hardly productive. Or rationale. There is no profit in leaving land idle when it could be put to productive use without impairing its future earning potential. Are you claiming that landowners would maliciously prevent the land from being used, at their own expense? Please be specific.
The collapse of AI research in the 1980's directly caused a decline in Lisp research.
If you woke up tomorrow as a brain in a vat with no sensory input, you'd expect to be conscious, at least for a while.
I'm actually quite worried about its abilities and effect it may have on the internet in more anonymous settings. It can easily trick humans not really paying attention and looking for issues.

How can you tell what is real and isn't without taking time to really look at everything thats written, more than just simply reading the text in full? I already have this problem, and GPT-3 honestly breaks the entire internet of discussion for me. It's great technology, but I worry we'll know even less is real.
You mention that you have enough saved up for 4-5 years (8-10 years if conservative) - and then you also mention "quit my job for a few months".

So my suggestion would be to get clear on the timeline you are looking at for your break. For example, i am taking a year off no matter what.

Once you are clear on that, moving to the next aspect of your story is that, you have everything that a typical professional would aspire for "pay, great boss, good work" etc. So when considering this, it could also be that your mind is playing some tricks on you.

Give it a few more months (maybe 6 months?) and see if you feel the same way. If you think you won't be able to push that far, then you are ready to quit.

Obviously, quitting during a pandemic (and with no clear signs of when the economy would recover) is not ideal, if you think you might change your mind later and would want to get back to work. Since the unemployment rates are high right now, your place will be taken up by someone else pretty quick, and you would have to wait for openings etc (which could get frustrating)

But if you decide on the time you want off, you can always plan around that. 6 months to 1 year off and things can start recovering by then, and jobs will be available etc.

Honestly, if you have enough saved for 4-5 years, you can take a break. But decide what you want to do after you have quit. Since you cannot travel much during these times, so you would be pretty much stuck at your place for most of the days, and during a pandemic sitting at your place with nothing to keep you busy could quickly drive you nuts. So that's there. So have a plan like the non-profit project after you have quit.
I don’t think many people will be driving from say NYC to London.
Recently I was able to finish a working prototype for a tiny side project and I skipped a few things that I would have considered "the right way", like even a good code structure, it went well and you know what, at the end, my code was a bit better structured, it was closer to the "right way" than I thought, it works well and each time I works on it, it get a bit closer to the "right way".

It made me realize that the "right way" is also a question of circumstance. The "right way" exist for one thing, avoiding some kinds of issues, but a side project is often quite simple, and most of theses issues won't happen, you most likely won't gains anything doing theses, so is it really the "right way" then?

It was hard to write that badly at first, hell my server side code is still mostly a single file, but most of my code took only a few hours to write, it's so easy right now to just erase a part of it and make it better. The frontend is using React, and at first it was a single big component, again the wrong way, but that component did something and it was working. Once I got some duplication in it, well I moved some stuff to another component. I could have done that earlier, I knew I would have duplication there, but I would have lost time making another component if I had abandoned the project (and I would most likely have if I had done everything "the right way").

So yeah, I'll keep doing it that way for now, doing it the bad way until I actually need the right way.
some common engineering things that leetcode doesn't test for

- using http apis and transforming the resulting data
- using database queries and transforming the resulting data
- navigating a large codebase
- figuring out what tasks are important to accomplish
- researching things you don't know
- debugging a complex issue
- evaluating tradeoffs
- general engineering intuition
If you take out "music", it becomes, "Study finds learning won't make children smart".
Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows (2013)
If a company would market a printer which is actually not cheating you - and people would believe it - you would have a pretty outstanding feature in a market, allmost everyone hates.

It is just, that probably no one would believe it.
I almost get the chills. But then doubt takes over. I don't even believe this. It's too creative, too good.
I’d gauge luxury on necessity, not commonness.
Yep, and that’s why I’m advocating a “land value” tax instead.
400GB/s is about 35 PB/day

not quite as big a difference
Rail has much higher initial and fixed costs than air travel, and high-speed trains consume more energy than aircraft on long-distance routes (as airliners travel at high altitude with low air resistance).

The literal footprint of a rail system is also very large; clearing and grading rail lines across the country would have a significant environmental impact.
Not only is it real, you can go sign up for paid aidungeon.io right now. Flip the settings over to the "Dragon" model. Prepare to be happily shocked.
I'm not sure that a cross-platform GUI (Flutter) really counts as an innovation given Qt, wxWidgets, Tk, Dear ImGUI, and the innumerable largely-unused other GUI toolkits, but I assume the parent is talking about monetized-innovations. Google is doing a great job in CS research but I can't think of a revenue stream that uses one of those. The closest I can think of is voice recognition, but they don't seem to be getting revenue from it.
My pet peeve is when you have to have places price match themselves (in store Vs. online).

I was recently at Lowes, I had found a Saw Horse online at their website for $80 off, and tried to price match it to themselves but when the cashier looked it up it came back the store's price (even though I still had the page open on my phone, and at my home computer at home).

Then got treated like I was the one trying to pull a scam, rather than them discontinuing a sale mid-way through a work day, and me being caught by it.
When we are comparing C, Lua (Nginx) and C++ (Envoy). Yes C++ is better :).
They can be electric and carry far more people than airplanes. There is no comparison. Planes are worse.
I'm not saying it was factually correct or internally consistent, just that it's miles ahead of any computer-generated text I've seen elsewhere.
Godwin: Lessons for Congress from the Big Tech antitrust hearing
As I said - Venona data collection stopped in 1945 (although analysis did not). The analysis efforts were what was wrapped up in 1980.

Insofar as other efforts, there was wiretapping in Berlin ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gold ), undersea cable tapping ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells ), the Gamma Gupy monitoring of Soviet leaders car phones etc.
best buy has real problems with fraud too, on r/datahoarder you can read on an almost daily basis about people finding drives that have had the original (expensive) drive removed, replaced with some crappy 500GB drive, and repackaged.
That’s a bold
Claim. What proof do you offer?
I looked at the spec's it's 2.55 meters wide or about 8 feet 4 inches. Definitely not over wide compared to a lot of delivery trucks. Also about 30 feet long.
> any kind of supplements/protein powder/etc.

The severity is bad if counterfeit but isn't this unlikely to happen because anything edible can't be commingled?
Exactly. I'm completely baffled that some folks seem to think that our short term responses to Covid, which as you say are pretty horrid, will stick around after the pandemic ends. I agree there are some instances where Covid has accelerated changes that were already in motion, but I've seen too much "introvert fantasy fiction" ignoring that the majority of people are itching to end these restrictions ASAP.
> Presuming there's an Uber and you have a driver's license(they're not free you know) and a car.

Uber is just to illustrate. It's just an example. If you're in the wrong area, or the wrong time for that matter, then it's something else.

Either way you're (and were) spending that "free" time looking for jobs, quick jobs, whatever jobs. They used to call it pounding the streets or getting on your bike. Even going door to door.

When I was young I did it myself, literally going from door to door asking if they had any work.

> There were coders for hire sites for a long time, but that paid complete crap

That's why I mentioned Fiverr, as an example, which is a version of the coders-for-low-pay thing generalised to other kinds of work.
Thanks for saving me a click. :)
The Rig is a fully electric, all-terrain off-road wheelchair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail for the costs side.

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/drageq.html for the drag side.

There are also a huge number of fuel consumption, economic analysis, and environmental impact studies, but I am sure you can find those easily if you're interested.
Ballmer says/did some stupid stuff and it gets (rightfully) flamed for it but he guided Microsoft with many correct decisions during his time. Even Satya says so: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/satya-nadella-credits-ballme...

Ballmer pushed hard for Xbox, was a big proponent of cloud and, most importantly, placed a huge emphasis on enterprise customers. A lot of the fruits of his labor were reaped under Satya's tenure.

More interestingly, it could be argued the biggest cloud evangelist in Microsoft at the time was neither Ballmer nor Satya, but rather Bob Muglia (the SVP of the servers and tools division). Muglia was notoriously hated by Ballmer and prevented his probable rise to CEO (he was fired by Ballmer and his position was filled by Satya).
We’ve been using chisel, but SiFive’s creation tools mean you don’t have to write anything. Before we went the SiFive route, we were generating CPUs with rocket and getting frustrated when there was no documentation.
I've lost more faith in the US government. I've lost more faith in humanity. I think the stressors of COVID combined with the issues facing blacks/minorities/the poor (esp. at the hands of a subset of cops) and caused a shitstorm where you cannot have a discussion.

What we need is open dialog backed with well sourced data on both of those fronts. But this can't happen.

If you ask, "what existing law allows the state/fed govts to do what they are doing?" -- you are not someone looking out to protect rights and freedoms, you are trying to murder someone's grandma.

If you point out that data suggests masks have little to no effect (and that it is backed by orgs such as the new england journal of medicine), you are trying to murder someone's grandma.

If you say _anything_ not in line with BLM, you are a racist. You can't honestly ask questions, dig at points, are give counter evidence.

If you don't support rioting, looting, vandalism, and violence, then you must be a racist. No room for talking through things, only room for action!

The mob mentality of strong. Twitter and Facebook are worse for society than I realized.

I think there is the real possibility that we've pushed back race relations and willingly sacrificed civil liberties and we are ok with it.

I had a lady at work I look up to. She tweeted something celebrating the firing of an accused racist. Later, in a private slack with current and old coworkers, I said I had heard that darker skinned people might be more negatively affected by COVID due to vitamin D absorption issues at higher latitudes. I was lambasted for bringing that up as the only obvious reason more darker skinned people are getting COVID more is because they are more likely to be frontline workers (racist society) and I must be a racist, right wing fascist for even bringing that up. With that same lady in that chat, I realized that I cannot defend myself, I cannot be inquisitive or bring up things I've heard, etc. I was given a link on how to be anti-racist by switching my buying and reading habits to african american business owners and authors. If this same person celebrated an accused racist's firing, and here I am being accused of racist leanings with her in the channel, I have no choice but to remain quiet. This is not how you move forward on a social problem. Open dialog and discussion, not suppression.

I'm sure some readers have already concluded that I'm evil, far right, and a bad person from reading the above. Nevermind that that is all untrue, but cancel culture is a real thing.