skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the implementation. My parents samsung tv has become unbearably slow and a factory reset doesn't fix it. I assume updates are to blame. Others are also reporting that their smart tv started showing adverts after years of owning it.

Since the panel is expensive and the brains are cheap, it makes more sense to have them split.
I say it more as an alternative to YOLO. Ex. a friend is in town for one night, and I've got a 7am meeting the next day, I say "eh, I'll sleep when I'm dead".

Because 50 years from now no one is going to say, " man, remember that time I got adequate sleep before my meeting?" But I could very well say, "man, remember that time you visited and we had a blast?"
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> But the fact is that beyond a couple of weeks the mother's "loss in productivity" is just as artificial as the father's

Yes, this is true. Neither the actual mother nor the actual father is required to care for the baby after delivery. Believe it or not, this is how adoption works. That is one half of the point I've been making this whole time.

But now, if you go back and read my original comment, you will see the bit about how extending the leave of someone who is already on one is much easier than setting up two leave-of-absences. This has nothing to do with sex/sexism and "believing women should stay home and raise the kids" and everything to do with the fact that this is just the reality of replacing someone with actual responsibility. If you've never been responsible for replacing someone who quit/took leave, then this might not be obvious to you, but it takes much more time and effort to replace two people for T/2 amount of time (each) than it does to replace one person for T amount of time. Hopefully you can see how this then relates to maternity/paternity leave.

And that is the second half of the point I've been making since my original comment.
They want to provide the outward appearance of providing customer support.
No, AFAIK you can disable Issues, Projects, etc. but not PRs.
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This is wisdom right here that I need to apply. Thank you.
> To be clear, myself and my fellow maintainers did not ask for this. This is not an opt-in situation.

I was under the impression PRs only applied if they fixed an issue tagged as “Hacktoberfest”. Is that not the case anymore or am I missing something?

Edit: looks like the rules changed at some point and now it’s any repo. I wonder if they should stick with labelled issues only to resolve this problem?
Maybe Google could record your real voice saying "uhhh can you hear me? hold on how about now? yes i can hear you"
or some random garbage filler words like that, and play that to the customer service rep while the phone gets your attention to get back to the phone. Hopefully you'll be back just in time before your pre-recorded fluff finishes playing.
The relative ease of ending the relationship means the effect of that leverage is greatly reduced.
I agree this can be annoying when you have really large windows, but personally I don't mind it. I don't think it's hard to resize a window, and I _have_ been frustrated when sites (like the new Reddit) force a narrow window when sometimes you need to see more at once.
They could, but google could pretend to be you and answer basic questions until you pick up. Or just pretend to be your secretary. We're at a point where it becomes impossible to tell if you are talking to a human or not, at least for the first 10-20 seconds. I don't think those companies/call centers can win here, they will have to adjust sooner or later.
can you comment on the vision that gitlab as a product would have in the future for integration with gitter/matrix?

We're running a decent sized gitlab+mattermost instance now, we're using mattermost guests to pull in collaborators from upstream. It would be overall a lot easier if we were using something like matrix where it's federated and we can bring people in to our homeserver without having to make accounts for them.
In MLK's book "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community" he talks about some of the internal battles within the civil rights community and how they explicitly tried to forge alliances with other groups. That's when I learned just how brilliant MLK was in this political / social sense.
It was theoretically more resource efficient but practically worse and harder to optimize. A state of affairs that VMware has exploited for a couple decades.
Our efforts (and by "our" I mean "the human species'") were absolutely unfocused. If we had spent the same amount of effort on getting the most vulnerable (mostly, the elderly) well away from the urban areas, we could have done a lot more good.
Hopefully they don't copy the Apple TV app's bugginess and unreliability too. While the Apple TV+ content is great, getting there isn't.
Doing the math on your numbers, 2% of 1.1 billion is 22 million, which is tens of millions. The 1.1 billion appears to include TVs with included “smart TV” software, which explains why it’s such a huge number.

Back in 2015 Apple said they had already sold 25 million: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

Anecdotally they’re common in households where people have iPhones. IMO, they currently have the best user experience to control a TV.
I enjoyed the press coverage of Political Detox Episode 1.
>Not to mention that implementing such a spite-based policy would require a massive conspiracy that crossed state boundaries and political ideology, and many of the policymakers themselves would be among the elite that were supposedly targeted

I think this spite based ideology and policy already exists. It started when we changed goals from economic prosperity to economic equality.

Once the public believes that they don't and haven't benefited from the overall economy, there is no reason to keep it healthy.
> So I quickly packaged them, uploaded them to Gumroad, and embedded them on a Notion site using Super. All of this took about two hours.

Love the software stack. Is this the norm these days? Am I out of touch with web tech?
I'd consider how much software adoption there is for Google Cast (nee Chromecast). A good number of web pages have dedicated cast support (better than browser's built in support), for ex Spotify. Most podcast & audio apps on Android have Cast support (pocketcast, spotify, &c).

While there may be more appliances out there, & some popular ones, they are kind off all off on their own with some random native apps cobbled together out of whatever random sdk the hardware has. The apps almost never coordinate very well with your phone.

Cast is absolutely dominating. Playing a far better game than everyone else. Easy for developers to work with (so easy with the web platform support being built in). Software adoption within a web page makes all the sense & is so easy & flexible. We haven't even seen multi-phone "multiplayer" cast apps get popular but it's easy to do. No one else can compete.

Please let OpenScreenProtocol start getting some traction so we can continue advancing these capabilities & start freely building systems that can work together.
it's not unheard of for an email address to be blacklisted by a transactional email provider or put on a suppression list. See if you can raise a ticket and troubleshoot why you can't get password reset emails.

I'm not sure why you're expecting a phone call though.
> Would I need a hierarchy of durable objects to store a 100kb collaborative text document? What about 10MB?

The bottleneck is going to be more CPU than memory or storage size. So the question is, how many users are editing, what rate of events does each generate, and how complex is the event handler?

Let's say it's actually a plaintext editor, with the 10MB text file represented in memory using a reasonable data structure allowing O(1) insertions and deletions. Clients send a stream of keystrokes to the server. Server writes document out to disk periodically, not on every keystroke. Then I would expect each keystroke to take less than 1ms of CPU time to process, therefore at least 1000 per second could be processed by one thread. Let's say people type 10 keystrokes per second, then you could have 100 users actively typing at once? This is just my intuition, though.

> and then it might be better to just use a single point of failure like a database..

Incidentally databases will also hit scaling bottlenecks if you have too many requests hitting the same row. Under the hood, the database has to do exactly what Durable Objects do -- the row will be owned by one "chunk" which has to serialize all changes (making it effectively single-threaded).

So "use a database" doesn't necessarily solve your scaling bottleneck. In fact, it's likely to be worse, since the database chunk is not running app-specific optimized code.
Waiting for Google TV+
The company wants problems to go away. Fixing them or making it so people don't bother the company about it are both ways to accomplish that goal. And as long as the lack of support doesn't impact sales, it doesn't hurt the company and saves them money in not having to pay for more/better call center staff.

Also in more benevolent companies, providing support over the phone is the most expensive way to provide support. So as much of that that can be shifted to automated systems, better products, etc the better because it avoids the high cost of a call center.

While a call center employee may be paid by minutes on the line (though I think that is rare), they would be penalized for taking too long on a single call or helping too few customers. There's little incentive to spend time on longer more difficult calls when you could just focus your effort on solving many of the simple calls instead.
How often is the other job driving for the other company? (only half joking...)
Even though this is not related, you may have missed Google Play Music which was Googles Spotify competitor. It's getting axed in favour of YouTube Music.
Looks like that repo was made pretty much when the last hacktoberfest ended, which would be too early to tell IMO. But yes indeed, good datapoint to look at a year after (especially since PRs that take a longer time to merge are, I would think, likely to be higher quality PRs with a higher rate of dev conversion into contributor)
Anecdotally, I'm getting a lot of obvious spam on my repos that are >4 years old and less spam on other repos. Also, my "org account" (from before orgs were a thing / fully featured) got more spam than my personal account (which I don't use often these days but does at least book a commit or two most months).

So, the spammers are probably intentionally targeting repos where folks aren't likely to bother marking as spam.

On a separate note, I do not understand why people care so much about mid-quality t-shirts...
$210,822 in 9 months
Which one is it then? Bad online learning or bad reopening plan?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/the-woeful-ina...
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Include the full sentence.

> Of the 483,127 PRs submitted during Hacktoberfest, only 23,299 (4.82%) were identified as spam, with 19,587 (84.07%) of those being in a repository that the Hacktoberfest team excluded from the competition for not following the shared values and 3,712 (15.93%) being labeled as "invalid" by project maintainers.

Spam submissions were sent to spam repositories, that hasn't been known for years.

From the article, they act like it's their burden alone:

> Their solution, per their FAQ, is to put the burden solely on the shoulders of maintainers.

But, as a contributor, I see plenty of links for me all over Hacktoberfest to report repositories that are also trying to skirt the system.
Yes, from the article:

> * Every business’s hold loop is different and simple algorithms can't accurately detect when a customer support representative comes onto the call. Hold for Me is powered by Google’s Duplex technology, which not only recognizes hold music but also understands the difference between a recorded message (like “Hello, thank you for waiting”) and a representative on the line.
That’s not what most people do. Most people are watching movies on their TV. The Netflix recommendation engine is a huge driver of what people watch. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and YouTube are the big four. I’m not sure how many people are actually watching YouTube on TV though.

You turn on your average smart TV or device, it’s also allowing you to buy movies on the device.

If you are binge watching TV, your TV knows. It knows what you watch, when you watch, etc.
Up until 2005/2010 (the start of ITER), it was more like 30+ years away (ex: https://imgur.com/3vYLQmm ). 5 years is a while but 2025 has been the target for CFS for several years now.
Git Extensions works nice on Windows: http://gitextensions.github.io/ (and they claim other platforms with mono, but never tried)
Are you trying to push people to suicide? Because I'm not going to endure this hell for years.
I think Super is the author’s own product fwiw
1) kitty +kitten ssh myserver

That solves that.
Worth asking where the gesture & other potential touchless interface experiments are. Project Soli was supposed to be the high tech radar option to let one gesture above a phone to control things, but just picking it up & using it like a wand would be not-hard to experiment with.
combined total of transcontinental aviation, offshore ocean, oil and gas offshore is considerable. inmarsat had revenues of about 1.5 billion in 2019.
I found the issue, and it should hopefully be fixed. It happened if your IP address couldn't be used to predict your location.
> if the company wanted to provide customer support then they would want to be able to fix customer problems

You've clearly never had to deal with a company in a monopolized industry like telecommunications. The call center needs to be there on paper, otherwise it will give people the option to cancel their contracts or even initiate lawsuits because something doesn't work and the company is unreachable.

The call center doesn't need to provide quality support however; as long as it is there on paper it is all that matters. In reality the call center is costing the company money and they'd rather not have you on the phone as long as you keep paying your bill (and most people will keep paying even if they receive subpar or lack of service because of the lack of consumer protection laws in the US, forced arbitration, the fear of a hit on their credit report or the lack of competition).
Obliterating commercial real estate and surrounding industries will have huge impacts. No business is going to maintain an office presence to keep the lights on 2 days a week. Service industries will disappear.

It would allow plenty of space for expanding the Tenderloin management model. Very dystopian.

Just mandate a 4 day work week and tell businesses what day they get. Then add a 1-day work from home. That should reduce daily traffic by 25+%.
Well Belarus' government has its issues, for sure. But I notice that the (very real) issues of reporting, only get noticed when they point the "wrong" way (whatever that is for the person speaking). When Japan had fewer cases than South Korea, the widespread explanation was that Japan must have bunk data. Similarly when China's cases dropped.

I don't claim that Belarus, China, or even Japan have perfect data. But they are not North Korea, and if they had widespread devastation their neighbors would be able to tell. I don't think Belarus' data is particularly less trustworthy than Russia's. Both were willing to report cases going steeply up, when it was true.
So, in your opinion, but with ancient information? What is that opinion supposed to be worth?
Oh no I just bought this but then I looked at the instructions... It's not for the faint of heart to do this for every app.
he seemed extremely reasonable to me. he explained that

* the spec said bold text and bright colours were two different attributes

* the fact that some terminals rendered the bold attribute as bright colours prevented applications from actually using bold text

* he did not want kitty to be part of the problem

furthermore, he explained that in a way that respected the person opening the bug - he didn't patronise them or say that it was his decision not to do that because he didn't care to and they could take a hike; he actually detailed his reasoning and why he was philosophically opposed to it. i might have read through that and decided that okay, kitty was not for me, but i would not have felt the author was being unreasonable about it.
I used to subscribe to a model aircraft magazine. The core of the thing is ads: they try a model, see how it builds, feel how it flies, write a nice article with pretty pictures. Then I read it, and dream.
The system doesn't unmute you immediately:

> Once a representative is identified, Google Assistant will notify you that someone’s ready to talk and ask the representative to hold for a moment while you return to the call.

So you can go use the bathroom while you wait (if you're quick about it, or you're willing to risk the representative hanging up on you).
Thanks for the reply.

We can pre-populate the DNS of 441234567890.num.net with useful info until the rightful owner claims it. Which as I see it, is better than what we’ve got now - which is that phone numbers are not resolvable on the internet except through closed APIs and even then in limited examples.

The long term plan is to use a TLD for this eg .telephone (or whatever) but the bigger picture is that if you own a phone number that’s a unique identifier - it needs to be represented on the internet so we can interrogate it and then find WhatsApp / Skype / Zoom alternatives.
I had to stop reading here:

> War justifies terrible behaviours: who cares about you being screamed at when you're at war? Who cares about your family life, when you're at war? What are broken principles and despicable means, when you're at war ?

As someone who’s been in the military and to war, this is just wrong. Families and friendships mean the most when you’re at war. You can never be closer to another human being than being at war. I’m not romanticizing it, war is a dirty, nasty thing.

It’s about strategy and fear, about trust and sacrifice. How many people do you trust with your life, how many people would die for you, or you for them? I could count them and since leaving the military, I haven’t counted another soul.

War. It’s a shitty thing to be used as a political pawn. It’s a shitty thing to be hated for it. It’s a shitty thing to be stomping all over someone else’s country without any say in the matter.

War doesn’t justify terrible behavior. It IS terrible behavior incarnate. But you know, I see people do shittier things every day. I see people walk past homeless people like they don’t exist, or walk by a crying person without even caring. I see people who only care about themselves, and that, that is worse than war.

War is a mechanism of rules. You can’t just shoot someone for giggles, that’s murder. You can’t even shoot someone when they point a gun in your face. And if you do shoot, make sure they shot first. The cops have it easy, they just have to feel threatened.

War is shitty, but there’s a humanity to it. An acknowledgment of the shit we are all in. We make the best of it. But when I walk down the street, I see less humanity than I did in war, and that sometimes brings tears to my eyes.
WolframAlpha actually has this data but doesn’t understand the question

what country produced the greatest amount of wheat in 2012

If you ask the suggested

country produced most wheat

You do get the table you talk about.
Exactly. The only question here is can Uber/Lyft operate in an npv positive manner under these new regulations? If so, then they will and the regs hurt their margins in order to serve workers and that’s fine. If not, they’ll leave, and these people won’t have driving as a source of income.
It opens up a whole can of worms though. What's "political"? Nowadays anything uncomfortable is brushed aside as political? Racism? Political! Gender inequality? Definitely political! Wealth in... you see where I'm going with this. So what that screams to me is this will to bubble up Coinbase with people happy in the current status quo, whatever that is!
Does anyone else find this to be a pretty hilarious example of a tech arms race? It solves a real problem, assuming it works, but what a strange, rube-goldberg-esque use of technology.

Service Provider buys voice recognition software and sets up complex maze of phone tree options to drive users away from the human support agents (even though the users can't solve their problem without human intervention - if you don't want to pay for enough support agents for your call volume, wouldn't it just be simpler to let me cancel my damn account online??).

Now user can deploy their own speech synthesis bot to wait on hold, with what is presumably a complex system of AI decisionmaking to be able to navigate the maze and find a human support agent to connect you with.
Almost always the message was 'maybe you should try something besides calling us.'
I agree that it is wild that wanting to be "apolitical" is controversial.
Sadly though, I think that it has become almost impossible to be "apolitical" due to how politics has creeped into every facet of life.

What is more wild to me is that statements like "black lives matter", "climate change is real and a problem", and "the coronavirus pandemic is real" are political. These seem like they should be commonly agreed upon facts.
If those statements are political then it is much harder to be apolitical.
It's such a common inside joke that people even make variant jokes in reference to it, like maybe: "Subject: An update on evmar / Body: No, I'm not quitting, I just got a new puppy!"
I guess they're the only one using the .google domain
I switched to Kitty as it was one of the few terminal emulators that supported font ligatures. So far I'm quite satisfied. It's smooth and fast.
There are things we enjoy together like hiking and traveling. I just wouldn't be able to talk politics or philosophy on a deep level with her for example.

Amen that parenting is no joke. She's a trooper with our kid and is way more patient and persevering that I am. I'm very thankful for her.

Thank you for your sharing and advice. I have this whole subthread bookmarked.
It's a challenge to make music sound nice on the phone. From Apple, I'd expect they'd try to get their hold music setup for 'HD Voice' which would help, but just stuffing it into POTS is going to be pretty icky.
HBO and twitch
Larger open source projects tend to fare better; especially well-documented projects with many small components. I can think of projects such as Django and Wine, both of which very often get small-to-medium contributions from drive-by devs who want to fix "that itch".
It's significantly less forgivable when it's another project in the same category of software.
Most industries using call centers as their primary contact are indeed captive markets where they know they can get away with it.
Don’t worry about health problems in the future.

Be here and now. I’m of similar age, have health problems, and realize that no worrying about having health problems in advance would’ve made me any more prepared.

Am I dying? Yes. Aren’t we all? Yes. Does saying that make me feel better? No. Does that matter? Yes, so I’ll not worry about it.
Thanks I missed the little dropdown arrow