skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I use vrbo.com, as I will never ever give my ID to an online platform to "scan" and "verify".

Regardless of statements of "But we delete it after" and "it's safe", time has shown me, again and again, that these statements cannot be made reliably, no matter how much the company desires it.

Even if the platform is 100% safe, patched, security is iron-clad, you still have rogue employees stealing and re-selling IDs. It's a game which cannot be played safely.

So, VRBO it's been for me. And that said? It's overall been a reasonably good experience. They do have this:

https://help.vrbo.com/articles/What-is-the-Book-with-Confide...

And, I've used it once to fight a minor issue. A renter decided they wanted me to sign a 'rental agreement' after I booked, paid, and was 24 hours out from arrival.

Nope. VRBO quashed that. Their statement was "If you cannot get in when you arrive, and the renter cannot be reached/won't allow you in, call us. We'll relocate you / fix it."

Problem went away.

I also have had no issue getting in touch with VRBO, with a human being, whenever required. 5 minute wait is typical.

Of course, I have absolutely no idea about how things are now, during/post pandemic. Lay offs? Confusion? Less revenue? I really do not know.

So it could all be different now... sadly.
Not so "dead serious": As an alternative to the "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" the "Church of Lambda" could be founded (see https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/churches-religious...). To find believers and members should not be a problem, one might think.
It will be the same day of the week.

$ LANG=en_US date -d 'now+10000years'
Sun 06 Dec 12020 01:34:36 PM EET
> How will issues and PRs work?

> Social collaboration features (i.e. bug reports, patches, discussions etc...) are all on the Radicle roadmap. They will work very similarly to the experiences we have now, but will be local-first and cryptographically signed. This means issues, PRs, and discussions will be more secure, available offline, and stored on your machine as git objects — not on a central server!

Consider using an existing solution like https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue or https://github.com/neithernut/git-dit or https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
How MS crushed Slack. The same way they crushed Netscape. By exploiting their dominant position to eliminate their competitors.
Still not as bad as Microsoft under Gates.
Only 500 people have died of Covid in the under 24 crowd since Covid started.

They have virtually no risk and they don't crowd hospitals because their symptoms are minimal.

Maybe if the old people who are actually vulnerable to the disease stayed in quarantine instead of going to Starbucks...we could keep the economy going and keep deaths to a minimum and hospitals from overflowing.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
Please, don't call it "bad science".

Science was never meant to happen here, this is just plain exercise in dishonesty.

"Bad science" is a real thing which happens when somebody tries to "do science" but fails.
True. Even Dr. Michael J Burry who predicted the 2008 crisis intended to short against the banks.
LinkedIn to me seems full of recruiters, self promoters and narcissist posts from middle level manager types.
I'd say pick mostly boring technologies but step out of your comfort zone once in a while. That way you take on some risk but not a lot. Worst case you have to change your plan but you always learn something. Best case your bets pay off and you end up with something that provides you some benefits. And you learn something.
This could have been interesting. But search for anything and it’s clear why people dropped these domains :/
Hell, give them a Nobel Prize.
well, what about a m1 mac mini then and the LG 27" inch 5K screen?

or for now, buy a used iMac?
The journey of the electronic plastic bottle
I also come down staunchly on the side that freedom of speech should be broadly and zealously protected.

However, that doesn’t mean to me that speech should be free from consequences. To do so, you’d have to make it free from side-effects (including changing others’ minds) which would make it pointless.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
Rucking? I call it going grocery shopping...
Great one. I was looking for that the other week but could not for the life of me google it, having forgotten its name.
I like to think of it as having a budget.

Just like you have a budget for the amount of money you can spend, you will have an amount of complexity/uncertainty your team can handle.

If you go over budget, the project will fail or slow to a crawl.
Thanks for reading!

>I like this post but “unscrupulous merchant” seems harsh for a company that may have changed their policies and didn’t realize they had to inform the referring agent of those changes.

Even giving them an extremely generous benefit of the doubt, I can't think of a way to describe them as anything better than "unscrupulous."

If it truly was an honest mistake that they forgot to tell affiliates they changed policies, their reaction upon finding out should have been, "Oh wow! Thanks for telling us! We owe hundreds of people money, so we'd better review our transactions and pay everyone what they're owed." But instead, they (as far as I know) only paid me and never informed any of the other affiliates.

Also bear in mind, that you can't just "forget" to tell people that you changed the terms of your business relationship with them. If I hired hundreds of employees by advertising a $20/hr wage, I can't just privately decide that their pay is lower and secretly reduce their paychecks until one of them notices.
I find it pretty amusing that your last post was advocating for why we should hire you :D
As long as you don't lie on the CV and the application you send in, it should be at least not illegal. Also, if you don't take a job. Would still get you fired so, I would assume. Not that OP has any of these risks, so.
As a two phone user for years now, where I actively carry and heavily use both phones (iPhone Max and Pixel XL), my personal opinion is that both have their strengths and their weaknesses.

This article is heavily biased towards what the author is use to. I've done enough comparisons with both phones over the years (even as I upgrade iPhones and Pixels) and have repeatedly done them side by side (including how apps are built slightly differently across both phones) to tell that there are strengths and weaknesses on both side. Of course I have my own biases but I also recognize each has their own strength.

This article unfortunately leans towards the author's prior Android experience and what they are use to and not approaching the iPhone and where it shines.

Another way of looking at this... my own opinion is that Mac OS is superior to Windows (having used both OSes). But if you are coming from Windows expecting Mac OS to behave like Windows as your barometer for why Mac OS is great or not, you're obviously going to be disappointed. That analogy plays out here.
It's not true that they haven't succeeded. BioNTech has used mRNA vaccines to prime the immune system of cancer patients. The difference is that these vaccines are individually tuned to the genome of the patient. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23003
Very impressive work!

I remember that Joystick dialogue box from years ago -- maybe even Windows 98 days. Surprised it's not been updated, but I suppose it serves it's purpose.
Shouldn’t be hard but still can be. It’s like misinterpreting signs of interest from someone until that conversation on the elevator ride down after work on a Friday. Thoughtful, private, polite, direct and final.
I don't like this sentiment, because it assumes you're running just-like-the-other hip startup that ships some sort of bullshit web-app with DB, backend, frontend and all that crap that media nowadays calls "tech" that caters to that mythical "user" that demands features and releases like oxygen.
There are, though, many cases of _technology_, like serious number-crunching simulation engines, where using "boring" "standard" technology would mean that you would spend 80% of your efforts battling limitations of your stack and 20% developing towards your goal.
I often copy-paste names to avoid typos and to don't insult people unintentionally, so your idea about emoji-filter is not perfect :)
Hi, I am the author of dotcomagain.

With dotcomagain you can search through recently dropped .com, .org, .net, .biz, .cc, and .tv domains. I check the .com, .net, .org, .biz domains daily, to make sure they are free. The .tv and .cc are not checked currently, due to technical reasons.

The nice thing about dropped domains is, that many have been bought with a business in mind. So, not only are these domains free for purchase, many are also spellable and "make sense". So, find the domain to your next idea here or just be inspired or amazed by what people previously bought.

If you have questions or feedback, feel free to leave it here or in the feedback box on the website :)
Reminds me when I managed to figure out what was causing hard display freezes on my system in weird 500ms patterns.

It was GeForce Experience.

Sadly I didn't go down the rabbit hole of actually debugging it, thus I uninstalled it and went on with my life.

I do love seeing Ghidra and x64dbg being used though, as it's been useful to me for other projects.
Make Lots of People Do Almost Anything but in a Cool Way
“Wes! These mind control techniques are too powerful to be giving out to the public. I used these techniques to start making $70k per month in a business that requires less than 3 hours per week from me."
The latter issue for me is always caused by having one too many browser + CEF/Electron app open at the same time. Killing one of those usually fixes it.
Roboto Mono and they're not screenshots.
> That is a funny thing about young people. A lot of the time they want to find a silver bullet in area that they are interested in. It is not bad of course because maybe they can.

I agree with this; once upon a time, I used to be one of those young people. And I think, this unsubstantiated confidence is a good thing for young people. That was an important source of motivation for me when I was jumping into waters that were way deeper than I envisioned. If I knew "better" I would never do that. But I'm glad I did it. I did not discover a new continent, no, but if I did not have that courage (the courage coming from "ignorance", if you will) I would not have learned what I have learned along the way. I am no longer that courageous young man, but I'm mostly happy he did what he did.
"In short, if you’re in search of generalizable knowledge that compounds exponentially over time, then blub studies looks like the crap you have to wade through to get to the good stuff. So it’s easy to see why people give up on understanding all the blub they’re surrounded by, except what they need to get the job done."

This part ringed particularly true for me.
I see, thanks.

I like the way they made provision for everyone to get some equity, and 12 months healthcare, and keep their work laptops.
You are right, species are discovered when in reference to our defined concept of what it means to be a spiece, that is a structure with all other spiecies. However it's name is an invention, as all definitions are invented.

Yes the song example can be put on a scale, but even the most plagerised of works can call it an invention to an extent when referencing a newly created title.

On a side note, since we all share the most primitive source of information, all behaviours are indirectly stolen on one level or another. But that idea doesn't contribute alot of practicality
Good points. I'm really happy with the name and domain, but if they don't emit the right vibe, they're wrong. Thanks.

Any pointers as to what puts you off? From your feedback, I get that you find the name and domain too much hinting at a social network?
You're optimistic about a policy enforced on the world to get humanity to be reduced by 93%?
> Why are you suggesting the #foo header have a link to itself?

This is already the way that page is set up; grandparent was merely explaining a better way of doing it.

As for why you would want to do this – it’s very common for headers to include links to themselves so that readers can easily obtain a link to share with others. But as grandparent points out, it’s more common to do this with a symbol next to the heading rather than turn the entire heading into a link. This technique has been in use since about 2004:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/29/PurpleNum...
LinkedIN should redefine it's connections definition. In my network I have people who 1) I know personally, close friends 2) professionally, where a friendship lasts as long as we work together 3) also people who I've seen on meetups etc., we both know we work in the same area of expertise, but never had a chance to talk 4) and people who look like we could do business together.

I think it's good thing to keep up with all of them, but it also obscures professional network for all of us.
If you would manually copy the name you would leave out the emoji, a script won't.
Java is mature to the point when legacy is considered a best practice even when it’s not (e.g. JavaBeans style getters and setters). Old and mature may sometimes mean that you will work with the efficiency of developers from 20 years ago.
I personally prefer an approach with controlled risks, doing as much experimentation as possible on a solid foundation. Scala won’t fit here as it pretends to be a platform, but this allows to avoid J2EE quagmire with smaller or better designed frameworks and libraries.
You’re still creating a profile on a site where you admit is full of nonsense. You’re just saying you ignore it as best you can.

That is still a situation where you’re using something even though you realize there’s a lot of nonsense because there’s value to you. LinkedIn still takes advantage of this dynamic whether you choose to ignore it or not.

I liken it to the fact that porn sites can get away with extremely intrusive ads because people demand their service and have little alternative. Whether you try to block or ignore the ads as much as possible isn’t really the point.
Yes, but 99% of software written is CRUD apps with custom process & business logic.
Is the preprocessor still needed in C++? (2017)
I hope this is eventually upstreamed and binary wheel packages become available.
Blue Light: Beware the Ways It'll Damage Your Sleep
I don't understand how this theory about Alpha and Sunway originated. Even if numerology suggested the Sunway chips were Alpha-derived, Dongarra[1] refutes it. TaihuLight is memory-constrained. The Alphas we used had enough cache to hold a crystallography image, and more-or-less a whole dataset in main memory. If people hadn't insisted on using PDP-11 software designs, visitors would have been even more impressed how fast they were.
1. https://performance.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPER...
I'm in operations and I also loved "Cheaper by the Dozen" as a kid. Have you ever read, "My Forty Years with Ford" by Charles Sorensen? He was the first COO of Ford and he talks about building the first modern assembly line, dealing with his difficult process engineering problems (for 1910) and creating one of the first continuous improvement programs. I really enjoyed how everything he described is still relevant today for operations and his seemingly intractable problems are now considered simple today.
I think in those scenarios you need to isolate the risky and exciting bits through APIs etc and build the rest of it using boring tech. I know of a company who failed miserably on delivery after they completed their ML risk engine and blew the budget trying to get a piece of shit Angular and nodejs front end for it working.
Thanks so much for showing me this service, it's great!
What a ridiculous response to a genuine concern.
I believe other programs like OpenBroadcast (OBS) can use NVENC so there are less user-hostile (and buggy) alternatives.
96.7% of statistics are made-up on the spot..
and this is a very broad generalization.
Arch Linux's pacman preparing 6.0 release with parallel downloads
Someone's spending too much time on Twitter
The article that inspired the article above (it links to it) is “ https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology “ and it includes the idea of “innovation tokens”
Happy Silver Jubilee to JavaScript
The presence of bugs doesn't necessarily indicate useless software. If tests are failing (or flaky...), that's probably something to look at at some point, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the highest priority to look at. In most places where CI gets deployed -- at least in commercial environments -- there seems to be a goal of making test failures a non-maskable interrupt.

I did admit this was controversial! But it fits in with a more general view that there are a lot of tools which make good servants but poor masters. Auto-builders are a good thing, partly because (as you say) they can help to clarify what is required to make a build, and partly because (especially for dependency-heavy software, which seems to be the norm nowadays) they can help catch things quickly when the dependencies shift beneath you. Making them a hard gate on releases seems a little too close to making the tooling your master, though.

(Somewhat separately, I also worry about CI acts as a hiding place for complexity. Sometimes it reaches that point where nobody knows how to make a build without the CI tool any more. Then local testing and debugging becomes difficult.)
ZaReason Linux PC Vendor Closes After 10 Years Selling Linux Hardware
Reminds me of the conversation recently about the amnesia project. As jacquesm said in the top post: Anonymization is a hard problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275637
Are? Don’t you mean have?

I grew up in a Microsoft classroom. “Computing” was excel and word.
Yes, this looks like an article for people who never move at all.
Your demo looks nice. This is what I’d expect from browsers’ default stylesheets if these were not a tasteless disaster that nobody can stand.
I read some people expand slack as "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge"
> IPFS is trying to bootstrap some cryptocurrency to fix that but they seems to be taking their sweet time with that

AFAIK, Filecoin is live now, and seems you can use it now for getting peers to host your IPFS data.

But, I'm also unsure that incentivizing peers with actual money is the best and/or only solution. BitTorrent works today for free, many peers are seeding content just to be seeders. DC++ worked yesterday, where people shared data just to share data.

While probably offering money for storing data will get more people onboard to store others data, it doesn't seem to be the only solution we have at hand to get free sharing of data.
Nice collection! How come the TOC links don't work? Nothing happens when I click them except the URL changing.
In my experience, the main reason these companies fail and especially why acquisitions don’t turn out well is the assumption that the way you do business and the people you have are just successful in their own right and will just take in the new sheep and keep fleecing the larger flock. It doesn’t work like that.
It's unfair to say that they haven't been succeeding until now. Plenty of trials with mRNA vaccines have been finding positive results in humans. However, the appetite for new vaccines is generally pretty low, aside from pandemic situations.
Java is a mysterious one really. It’s probably the most complete stack of all but you’re right about the legacy. I find it difficult to evaluate which technologies are risky with it now because some of it is throughly abandoned.
One Way to Bring DPU Acceleration to Supercomputing
> ... on a landing page? Who cares.

I care. Wasting other people's resources is bad manners and contributes to a culture where waste is acceptable.

> waste of my time :/" is really toxic.

It was honest feedback. If others feel the same way the product marketing team is making a potentially serious mistake. Give me info, not anime android animations. It wasn't toxic.

> but you couldn't even get past a landing page because it had some gifs is really just your loss, not anybody else's.

If other people feel the same way, it very definitely stops being my problem and becomes the product's problem as people get turned off it. That was a core point you missed.

> could have linked you to https://docs.radicle.xyz/docs/what-is-radicle.html.

Why in your view was this not on the front page at the top?

(edit, and see this link & earlier reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25321788)

> but your comment ... but they aren't doing you justice

Thanks (genuinely) but I stand by this. It said what was wrong (IMO). it said what I wanted (again IMO), it was honest if blunt feedback the marketeers could use to decide if my point had merit (if they can admit they might have been wrong).

We differ but I appreciate your constructive feedback.
Is there a good way to contact an online business directly and say "It seems you pay a 20% affiliate fee. I would like a 20% discount?" Amazon kinda does this with smile and donations, even though I don't use amazon anymore.

I go out of my way, with link strippers, cookie removers, adblockers, to the point of often manually copy and pasting links into a private window if necessary, to avoid affiliate links. When I do this I usually feel like I'm supporting the online store, but there are some cases (e.g. I'm looking for an oversized mattress) where I know the whole industry is corrupt and I just want to pay as little rent as possible.
It probably depends on many factors. Complexity for example. I’d always chose Jekyll over Gatsby for a simple static page. Sometimes though, trying new things is great too, for example we choose Vue over React 5 years back when vue was very new. I am still happy with that decision.
As you are sharing your work online, I was just giving you ideas on what is currently missing / not done well in other online resources, in an area that is quite close to what you have done. There is a real need for a good style sheet for responsive web. If you were to create it, and I’m sure it will be easy for you to do, you could get a very popular product. Sorry if it is unsolicited, no need to listen to it, it is given with good intentions after spending over 50 hours myself on getting up to speed on doing a responsive web site from scratch.

Reset / normalize may not be the best terms to use, but effectively that is what you are doing. I’m not going to go into more depth on this.

Sorry if I’m being harsh, but I rather be honest than give some cursory congratulations. As I said earlier, your documentation is very well done but there isn’t much this style sheet does otherwise.
> I don't think the beacon "transmitted location" and the headline seems accurate.

From TFA:

> The capsule then began transmitting a beacon with information about its position.

It reads to me like it absolutely was transmitting its location (why wouldn't it? I have a GPS receiver in my watch with 1-metre accuracy). It just took an hour or two to retrieve it because they waited until it was light.
Thanks for the feedback. I made the opposite experience, that’s why I build the website for it. Of course, you will wade through some trash, but I did find a lot of interesting domains
Even the Swiss Financial Ombudsman are against the customer in Switzerland but getting a lawyer involved helped a lot
I disagree that “unscrupulous merchant” is harsh. If only for the fact that they create a referral that's not for their flagship product and not for promotional products. Which they then go on to blast the visitor with.

I cannot read that scheme and not agree with “unscrupulous merchant” as a apt description of the company