skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting! What is the conviction rate of corrupt politicians in the US?

Edit: Also I don't follow why the nuclear industry would be opposed to the app.
Oh? Do you thinj companies like fox media corp or Raytheon are places where you can push for liberal political activism? Because I can tell you you would be incorrect. Those companies have a clear opinion on those matters and will not be kind to liberal activism.
How do they do those movements in the site? Like which framework or vanillajs?
You are brilliant! Is this opensource? Would love to contribute!
Phone tree systems are such a jumbled mess of garbage, that I wouldn't doubt the agent wouldn't know whether the please wait message came from their own system of from the customer's side.
Ouch - that's _nasty_...

Exactly the sort of behaviour I'd expect from a company that considers "brand interactions" to be a thing.
From the corporation with the worst customer support ever. Oh, the irony.
Both sucks.
I think I understand the intensity of emotion here. Open source is a really high trust community, more so than a lot of real-world spaces. Yet, it's adjacent to some other areas where poorly tuned incentives cause bad behavior. Spamming for free t-shirts is a relatively harmless manifestation. It's just some attention, though attention is our most valuable resource. I'm also reminded of cases where people take over undermaintained plugins to insert malicious behavior; it's the same kind of thing, just farther along on the badness scale.

I'd love it if we're able to preserve the high trust nature of open source. I also wouldn't be surprised if it starts eroding. If that's the case, this kind of thing is the tip of the spear, and in that light it makes sense to get pretty upset about it.
I scrolled all the way through that and don't know what it does.
I used to catch a Delta flight back and forth from sjc to sea, that was consistently about half full.

I would always wait until everyone boarded, then move up to comfort plus or whatever it was called. On my last flight the attendant told me to move back since it wasn't fair for the suckers, no offense, that paid for it.

I offered to pay a nominal amount for the seat. The attendant pulled up the little register stick and said it would be $75. I said no thanks and moved back to my empty row about 3 rows back.

I guess some airlines do it differently.
> from a government/society's POV, there's no difference between a citizen not making enough money to survive (aka a "living wage") and making $0.

From a free citizen's who wants to eat point of view, there's a huge difference between making $50 one evening when you have free time and making $0.
Both still in very heavy use. In 2014, anyway, every single IBM employee had to keep a Lotus Notes window open. It was hellish.

Dunno if that's changed since Red Hat took them over.
If they want to go that far, why not just charge you a cancellation fee? Making you wait is already a way of extracting a fee in the form of a proof-of-work; but, unlike an actual cancellation fee, a cancellation proof-of-work can't be spent.
There are two core issues with public schools in USA:

(a) the funding is based on property taxes from school's neighborhood. This just fuels inequality loop: bad schools -> low property values -> low funding. Instead, the state should collect property taxes, not counties and distribute funding proportionally to students' population

(b) It is close to impossible to evaluate (and fire bad) teachers in public schools

Until (a) and (b) are addressed a very tiny fraction of public schools can be of acceptable quality. The pandemic just amplifies things and makes problems more urgent to address.
It's not that bad when you employ a competent architect. Much of Lisbon was built under Salazar in the 1960s, it doesn't look half bad and 50 years later it's holding up extremely well.
Revisiting DrupalCon Global: Introducing Drupal Test Traits
> "I just wanted something that is small and works like a normal HTML element"

My first stop when looking for a web component is always https://component.kitchen/elix because of their commitment to the Gold Standard (https://github.com/webcomponents/gold-standard/wiki), which is basically to imitate native elements wherever possible.
I've seen private schools here (PA) for $5k-10k per year with a reduction in price for each subsequent child.
Tired look, red eyes and zombie walking is not a uncommon effect after a new baby arrives at home.
Obviously, there should be a SaaS API for sending templated physical-mail cancellation letters. The company could even keep a notary on staff to notarize everything they send at no extra cost.
I'm interested in exploring how education might be made unrecognizably better. So I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on how to scale this.

With some things, we can see what's needed, even if we're not set up to attempt it. Education content could be transformatively less wretched, even with current tech. Critical concepts and misconceptions could be punchlisted. Support networks could be thicker, deeper, and non-local. To avoid so many falling though such large cracks.

But embedding in an excellent culture like this? There's some work from MOOCs. But especially for young kids, something more immersive is needed. We could be waiting years for child-compatible AR. And for humans-plus-AI-NPCs local-plus-remote collaborative learning communities. Is there anything beyond "well, there's the daily triage struggle towards slightly less toxic cultures, but really, unless you have an extraordinarily outlier family, you're just bleep-out-of-luck until mid-century"?

Which isn't intended to disparage everyone's day-by-day efforts. But if something like this family's environment is to become norm rather than outlier... we also have to be thinking and aiming bigger.
The market always prevails over the state. Private schools can only charge as much as the demonstrated quality of their product while the state as the default option is not accountable to anyone because those who can afford better can escape them.
Agreed, if people start actively contributing to this codebase, it may fix defects in Windows 10.
Not in the US, at least. I only learned of Mafalda because of my wife (on a trip to visit her in BA prior to getting married).
I’m sure your being sarcastic but Soviet housing at least incorporated parks and shops in efficient distances to walk to from housing blocks.
The LS50's are a little large, but the others I would consider semi-portable. Look at the below image, the Reactor is the size of a small toaster and you just need to plug in a power cord. You could easily move that to different rooms, plug it in on the terrace, bring it to a friend's house, etc. If that's not at least semi-portable, I don't know what is.

https://i.imgur.com/V1fEu7h.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7dSAtEY.jpg
So since global warming is more or less a political statement these days, would advocating for climate change mitigating philosophy being built into the company's DNA be political to you and therefore not allowed? Say it's a company that makes widgets that are completely orthogonal to climate change.
Holding our society back from what?
Coronavirus: One million breast screenings missed because of pandemic
Yep. Surely the phone system costs for AT&T calling their own customers is so close to zero as to not matter even at telco scale, compared to the minimum wage they're paying the people on their end of the call.

(Also, isn't there some weird thing in the US where cell phone users get charged for _inbound_ calls? They might even make money on these...)
Thanks for the reminder about why I don’t use Android. I definitely don’t want to be screwing with my phone more than I already do.
It's just your typical government incompetence, unfortunately.
If there isn't another better job available, does it really make the system better to take away what many people find to be their best option?
Try criticizing the people with actual power (military, police, entrenched big biz) and see what real "political correctness" really looks like.
Although your world wonders me
with your majestic superior cackling hen
Your people I do not understand
So to you I wish to put an end
And you'll never hear hold music again

The problem is not the music. The problem is the hold. What’s on the other side of the line is celebrating the absence of music as if the music is the problem. It’s on the other side of the line because of how many people had to buy into the idea of “no music” messaging. The proposition that music is the problem and how Google solves it.
This problem is much less problematic with chat-based support, as you can hop between a few separate conversations without leaving customers waiting.

My company has maintained <60 second response times on our support 24/7 for a few years now, and although obviously it does require some level of additional staffing to cover peaks in demand, it's significantly less than you might imagine - I'd say maybe 1.5-1.7x.

We did optimise this by filling the lower demand periods with other tasks which can comfortably be completed more slowly - eg reviewing identity documents for KYC, etc.

I see it as being that the overall bandwidth you need being pretty close to the same, just choosing to have very low latency for specific tasks, and making sure constant context switching is manageable.
"most projects never get close to the point of real suffering due to inefficient serialization"

Individual projects are fine and no you don't personally need efficient anything. But as an industry that serves a wide range of need (people from the 3rd world, embedded systems etc), we do have the need for things that become standards to be efficient, call that lowest common denominator.

Why build efficient cars or batteries if we are currently fine with them? Why go for 5G when I can do everything just fine on 4G?

Could it be because when inefficiency becomes standard it compounds? What if you can have 5G perceived speed right now if all Internet protocols were binary?
Unlike the playbook, though, this is a observable behavior that can be documented.

If I were writing an utopia, class action lawsuits would rain like fire and brimstone.
The concept of ULID is interesting, but the spec is a bit weird[1]. If you want the benefits of ULID, I'd highly suggest checking out KSUIDs:

https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid

https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/

Same advantages of ULIDs, but I prefer the base62 to the base32 encoding (more compact; no need to bikeshed about upper versus lower case), it's been tested at scale, and the decisions made are sensible.

[1]: Specifically, they try and guarantee absolute monotonicity. The way they do this is that if you ever try and generate more than on ULID per millisecond, you increment the least significant bit of the random component. In other words, we have a key that's basically <timestamp>-<random-int>, and if you generate more than one key per timestamp, you just increment the random number. If the random number would overflow, by the spec, you have to just throw an exception; no wraparound. There's a lot of issues here. For one thing, none of this can possibly work if you're generating your IDs in a distributed fashion; it assumes a single, central, consistent key generator. For another, our key generator now has state, since it needs to know if any keys have been generated earlier, and if so, what they were. Doable, but...potentially a lot of work depending on your environment. Also, why are we even trying to force strict monotonicity? What does that possibly gain you? Why would we want a spec that, by design, has a chance of sometimes not letting you generate a key? The whole thing feels like the result of someone really wanting an auto-incrementing primary key, hearing that UUIDs were cool, and trying to make a auto-incrementing primary key that looks like a UUID, ending up without the advantages of either. Of course, you could ignore the spec (and several implementations do), but at this point it's worth asking what you're gaining from ULID. It's a weird feature that basically only works if you don't need it (since realistically, anyone generating many keys per millisecond would of course need to generate the keys in a distributed fashion).
Google is once again acting as if the world outside of the US doesn't exist.

So this will have support for Russian in 10 years, I guess? Or am I too optimistic?
Liquidity service provider
I'd argue those two things are one and the same
It’s hilarious that Google think an agent in a call centre that’s working to a revenue target will wait while you answer the phone.

Almost as hilarious as the Duplex demo when Duplex called the hair salon and booked an appointment.

How it actually would have gone:

Duplex: dial +15556789012

Salon: Hello, how can I help?

Duplex: I’d like to book an appointment for next week, what times are available?

Hair salon: who do you normally have?

Duplex: Melanie

Hair Salon: Melanie’s amazing isn’t she, she has so many clients. She’s off at the moment because she’s in Bermuda with her new boyfriend - he’s so hot, hey Natalie is taking on her clients, you might have met her - she usually does blow dries.

Duplex: [ERROR] I’d like to book with Melanie.

Hair salon: She’s in Bermuda. I just said that, Natalie can fit you in at 3:15 on Thursday. Is that ok?

Duplex: is that with Melanie?

Hair salon: No.

Duplex: ok, bye.
haha thank you! SIGH
I think not, also some of the jokes might lose sense in english.
Edit: From the article "Mafalda's wit and her sharp observations of the adult world ensured the comic's popularity, which was translated into 26 languages." So you might be able to get it in english.

From amazon, searching Mafalda and setting the book language to english:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mafalda&rh=p_n_feature_nine_brows...
You're concentrating on the output (what the building looks like and what people living in them think), but the actual opportunity is on the input side: what components go into those buildings, and the construction company margin achievable if they can be more standardized and mass-produced.

The big boys are well aware of the potential though, and are already in on the act: https://www.lendleasepodium.com/construction-and-development...
Looks like I was simplifying. Uranium prices peaked around 2010 for $135/lb., and today is only $35/lb. The break even point for mining uranium is about $50/lb. So the problem in 2010 was that uranium was crazy expensive, but the problem today is it is so cheap, it can't be mined for profit.

But you raise a decent point about what metric we should choose... I meant the cost of the stuff, but there are other metrics, such as clean up costs, because mining uranium is not clean. There is also a human health cost to populations within the proximity of the uranium mine.

French electricity is likely cheap because the French tax payers already picked up the cost of constructing spent fuel storage facilities and power plant construction, and they will ultimately shoulder the burden of the cost of decommissioning. This is just an educated guess, because that is usually how nuclear economics work. Otherwise, the investors that run the plants and sell the electricity would not be interested.
Ah OK, after reading their docs I see they've changed what "slots" used to mean in Dremel (internal version of BQ). It used to be that slots _guaranteed_ capacity, but did not limit it. Meaning that you could rely on having a certain number of workers in the cluster when you issue a query, but if Dremel had more it'd give you all it's got. Obviously this is not viable when people have to pay per terabyte read, because a ton can be read.

What they have now strikes me as an even better solution to the problem of bankrupting someone with a query IMO. Not sure how pricing compares to redshift et al, but pricing is the easiest thing for Google to change.
But I have the mindset that icons aren't worth a god damn dime yet 100k.
Why is this better than RAII with a destructor/drop being called whenever the block is exited? Also, this mechanism is already present in C via __attribute__(cleanup).
More detailed CPU benchmark shows that single core performance is increased and multi core performance is a bit increased. It should be "upgrade" for most users because single core performance is mostly matter. It should be upgrade for CPU. IMO high-end SoC's GPU is mostly for gaming.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/3926726
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/3970865
I think it's a yearning of simplicity. Software engineering today is complex, slow, and extremely removed from the machine. Forth is one of the simplest environments you can build that allows you to build complex software.
Yeah, I think these non-verbal strips have a similar feel to it. Mafalda is more like Calvin and Hobbes IMO as another user pointed out.
> Instead, the state should collect property taxes, not counties and distribute funding proportionally to students' population

This was done in Kansas. Here's what happens:

1. Taxes are driven into the ground (...why would wealthy suburbs vote to tax themselves if that $ is just going to be redistributed away from their schools?).

2. Districts in wealthy suburbs run fundraisers that haul in six figures for breakfast (literally, and regularly). Those donations then pay for additional instructional staff, materials, books, etc.

3. Schools that can't make six figures on charity brunches for the band, golf house galas for the football team, and dinner parties for the STEM teacher are screwed.

This isn't a systems problem, it's a values/morality problem. If you change the system and don't change people's values then they will find a way to route around your system.

> It is close to impossible to evaluate (and fire bad) teachers in public schools

It's possible to fire bad teachers. Harder than it should be, but absolutely 100% possible. Evaluation is the more difficult problem, but I'm not sure source of funding has anything to do with that.
Good reminder that non-profits, rather than, say, pharmaceutical companies, auto manufacturers, agro-chemical companies, logistics companies, etc. etc. have been the source of the leaps and bounds improvement in human welfare over the past two centuries.
The grandparent comment is disputing just that.
Argentina, the country that if you leave for a week, everything changes, if you leave for 20 years, everything is the same as you left.
This looks like complete BS

https://blokable.com/solution/

The construction of hotels and apartment buildings is already very well understood and highly modularized. Nobody needs this pie in the sky solution.
Dang!

9 years ago we announced an app that did this right here on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285594

How we did it: We hired the AT&T lady to make a recording that said, "Press 1 for your next caller". We played that on a loop for operators. When we detected a DTMF "1" we'd call your cellphone and connect the calls. We had most of the big companies in the app, but failed in the end because we couldn't find a business model. My first VC-funded startup. :)

Site is still up! (But not longer mine) http:/www.fastcustomer.com/

What I'm up to now: http://www.happymonday.com/ (helping people find work based on mutual values, priorities and functional work culture fit.)
Far and away the biggest cost for housing in the West is land. It's almost 2/3rds now. We could all live in pre-fab boxes and barely shave 10% off.

See Josh Ryan Collins
https://youtu.be/RX-AzKgUEWk

https://www.ft.com/content/ffa66898-fe7b-11e6-96f8-3700c5664...

My tldr on all this - since 1970 humanity has doubled in size - something comparabke only a couple of times in history (17C, 19C etc). A d the massive growth economically had wide ranging effects. One big one is there is a change in governmental models (autocracy to parliament, parliament to democracy)

The most obvious other effect is that land prices go up as cities grow. And 80%+ of increase in house prices is increase in underlying land.

This is of course massively unequal and negatively affects incentives for business and production.

So to change society direction create a long term (land) wealth tax (say 75 basis points a year) and plough that into education, entrepreneurship support and industrial banks greeen energy subsidies etc.
Is it me or is the decision to use the URL tv.google instead of google.tv a seemingly pretentious one?
I hope there is someone you could talk to?
Like it or not BLM -the organization- does have some pretty leftist ideas that not everyone is fond of (Marxism for example espoused by some of the leaders of the movement). Some of them involve completely dismantling police forces as they're traditionally formed. However BLM the concept of equality for blacks and equal treatment under the law that is something 90% of the population can get behind. I think there is a lot of nuance to this stuff and companies need to be specific and careful about such things.
Hmm, do you know spanish ? Mafalda has a lot of good jokes and smart criticism.
> On mobile it's just undifferentiated screeching.

Maybe the caller was a Norwegian death metal fan? ;-)

"What's that awesome track you were just playing? I tried Shazaming it, but it just came back with Beyonce. I can't find a death metal band covering any of her songs?"
because a lot of public schools are horrible. All you need to know about my neighbourhood's elementary school (Bay Area, 20 min by bicycle from Apple's new campus) is that it has metal detector on entrance.

Why? Gang activity. In freaking elementary school. School rating is 4/10 if you are curious.
Great work and great guy. He will be missed. RIP Quino.
Probably ActiveState.[1] Microsoft had surprisingly good support for Perl back in the day, and I remember running into knowledge base articles or documentation that had Perl snippets in examples of how to automate some things.

1: https://www.perl.com/pub/1999/06/activestate.html/
> Many modern web UIs are on par with native apps

I strongly disagree.

Form/<input> fields are one of the areas that a native app can slaughter HTML, even if using a WebView within an app. For example, just showing the correct keyboard layout is a nightmare, and heaven help you if you need to do something slightly custom. Another example: browsers do funky shit with scrolling and zooming on input focus. Try using the best HTML code-editor from a tablet: the editing experience sucks.

Another example is swiping, where browsers like Safari Mobile (and the old Edge) decide to navigate back/forward if the user happens to swipe from the edge by mistake - killing page state. Overriding pinch-zoom for say a photo app is doable, but sometimes ends up with invalid UI states (especially if you mix in viewport sizing changes due to orientation/ua-zoom/virtual keyboard show/tab bar show).

Disclaimer: I have spent many man-months working only on making user friendly custom <input>s in HTML, and the experience blows chunks. I have developed a custom Web UI that required too many compromises in UX.
Yea I think it did briefly bc I’ve seen several sears homes around my town and they’re pretty stylish compared to more recent homes. I wonder what happened
This is literally what a custom element is. Assuming your @event decorator is built upon the EventTarget interface:

class MyComponent extends HTMLElement {
// lifecycle event/method
connectedCallback() {}

// lifecycle event/method
disconnectedCallback() {}

@event("mousedown")
onMouseDown(evt) { }

@event("click", "button#submit")
onSubmit(evt, button) { }

@event("change", "input.name")
onNameChange(evt, input) { }
}

That said, custom elements don't cost $310 for an indie license. Instead, they are free and available in every web browser.