skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside, Audible is pretty scummy. Consider a less scummy alternative like Libro.fm.

- Audible's "Cancel membership" flow is multiple pages long and makes you think you've canceled it when you actually have to keep progressing through additional "I want to cancel" clicks. I thought I canceled the free trial when I hadn't. When complaining to some friends of mine, they also made the same mistake.

- When you finally cancel your membership, you've only put in a request to cancel it. The actual cancellation will happen in 30 days. This means you're always billed one more time after cancellation (I couldn't believe this when I saw it).

- When your membership is finally canceled, you lose all of your tokens (you get one per month). So if you have 5 tokens saved up and you want to pause your membership for a couple months because your bank balance is low, too bad. (Note: I've since realized that Audible lets you pause your membership once per year for 1-3 months, but this is an unsatisfying solution and I only discovered it in their support forum. I didn't even see the option while canceling twice.)

- Because canceling your membership has a 30-day delay that charges you once more, you're basically buying one last token that's going to get immediately deleted. This means that if you're billed on the 1st of the month but you cancel (ahem, submit a cancel request) on the 2nd of the month, 29 days later you're going to be charged one last time and receive a token that is deleted within 24 hours.

I haven't used Libro.fm yet (have a sour taste in my mouth from Audible), but their tokens never expire and canceling ("pausing", in their language) membership doesn't delete tokens.

I want to write a blog post that makes these points more eloquently, with evidence, but I haven't had the energy.

"Wait, what if we charge people once more when they try to cancel our service?" is one of the most ridiculous experiences I've ever had. Even worse than that one time I had to cancel a cam-site subscription by uncommenting-out the <button>Cancel</button> in the html.

The world is only as good as the things we choose to tolerate.
Could crank the ac if you have it. Helps me.
chad knows!
:-) I only have one. And we think we'll have a second and leave it at that. Partly for the reason of not wanting to be outnumbered.

But also partly from a social/environmental point. Two kids means we replace ourselves when we die.
I don't think very many people actually like Pocket. I wish it would die. It makes Firefox look like it's no better than any commercial browser -- not even Chrome installs that kind of stuff in my toolbar by default!
Comparing compensation of cashiers and police officers is unfair in my opinion. Police officers risk dying in line of duty. Would you play Russian Roulette for say $100k? I wouldn't.
The full title is, “The terms simp, virgin, and incel will all be banned on Twitch when used as insults,” which adds some nuance. But it’s interesting because now apparently the intent behind the usage matters. Maybe it’s not so easy always figuring out the intent but I suspect censoring those words even when not used as insults won’t be missed too much. Every generation adds its own curse words and prevents them from future use, the English language will go on.
> At the bottom of the article, they mention a number of articles including the posted one by Doug Crockford, as well as the (excellent) article mentioned in a sibling comment, by @munificent.

The sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448594 .
I have observed others with a similar impression so I suspect it is a common misconception. Good on you for having the courage to acknowledge it.
15 minutes at bedtime every night, plus any time I'm commuting. I think having an e-reader with back light helps, because you can read without disturbing anyone else in the bed and they are thin enough to carry anywhere.
Interestingly, she is also responsible for the currently fashionable idea that gender is distinct from sex, and that one is not born with a gender. This had no basis in science of course, but people repeat it now under the assumption that it has always been the case. They have always been synonymous and she literally just made it up and started telling people that gender is performative. Judith Butler latched on to this and took it to extremes with Critical Gender Theory and attacking the “patriarchy”, and started teaching it at Berkeley, which popularized it in the 90s and 2000s. Why anyone listened to these people is a mystery to me.
Those studies are silly though—-the “reduced” schedule is often still something like 24 hours on-duty (vs 28).

Hand-off is also something that could, in principle, be improved whereas long shifts are just butting up against the limits of human physiology.
Yes and it's mind-blowing that municipalities are still trying to enact that crap. Most recently:

Nearly half of Seattle’s helmet citations go to homeless people
https://crosscut.com/news/2020/12/nearly-half-seattles-helme...
For what it's worth, Privacy Badger is currently one of the top recommended add-ons for me in Firefox for Android. I just installed it and it seems to work fine.

Not sure about the other two
I mean, I hate to say this, but have we considered that a big part of the reason RedHat has been profitable is because it doesn’t care about the desktop? And no, Fedora really doesn’t count.

Ubuntu’s big thing back in 2004 was that it was a well-heeled founder (and company), coming in to actually put time and money into the desktop experience on Linux in an opinionated way (obv. not everyone agrees with those opinions, but I would argue that being as opinionated as commercial/proprietary software was Ubuntu’s biggest strength in the beginning). Over the last 16 years, nearly all of the big bets on desktop development have failed. Ubuntu One (the cloud personal cloud service)? Failed (though in retrospect it was a really good idea. Too bad users didn’t pay.). Ubuntu Software Center? Failed and discontinued. Unity? Failed and discontinued. Ubuntu Phone/Touch (and Canonical had invested massively into mobile)? Failed and given to the community. Mir? Failed, probably for good reasons, but failed.

Where has Canonical made money? Enterprise and in the cloud.

I totally understand the attraction to Linux on the desktop, but every company that has approached it in a way that is focused on end-users and not the enterprise in a way that isn’t either volunteer driven or as a very small company has failed to make it any money off of it. I imagine Canonical will continue to deemphasize the desktop even more as time goes on.
Thomas and Alito went out of their way to say that they thought Texas had standing but would still not grant further relief
> That...doesn't seem unreasonable?

Financially, no it isn't unreasonable. But it's an added bit of friction to a decision we are already on the fence about.

I think that's the entire point of the article. Adding friction to the decision on whether to have more kids leads to people having fewer kids.
Also, because this is the US, and Seattle in particular, police discretion means that some populations get the brunt of enforcement.

Nearly half of helmet citations in Seattle are against homeless people. And that was where they could corroborate homelessness using easily identifiable records (noted in press, police reports, or the address on file was a homeless shelter) https://crosscut.com/news/2020/12/nearly-half-seattles-helme...
Both my undergrad and grad education did not train me to program. I did learn computer science though. Even then... mathematical and algorithmic proofs are in a league of their own. CS has always been applied math as much as physics is.
Material from a surgical mask is taped over it.
That’s a very interesting read, thank you!
When you finally cancel your membership, you've only put in a request to cancel it. The actual cancellation will happen in 30 days. This means you're always billed one more time after cancellation

Simply not true.
It is good UX to let user immediately know if they enter a typo or an e-mail that is bound to fail. It is a real waste of time if user enters wrong e-mail and keeps refreshing inbox and spam for the following 5 minutes and still unsure afterwards whether they put wrong e-mail or the server just wasn't working correctly.
I see the anti-side as more arguing that they're middle class. People wealthy enough to afford to not bicycle or take the bus, but of modest enough means that taxes can mean putting car ownership out of reach. The "Liberal elite" is putting a very manageable burden on the rich, actively promoting means of transit that help the poor, and is expecting the middle class to just suffer through the requisite sacrifices. It's a compelling narrative so long as you don't expect to live another 50 years in which case it's a rather dense one becuase you will actually have to pay the interest on your choices today.

What truly baffles me is people who are anti-immigrarion, anti-migrant, and anti-refugee but also against any form of regulation on carbon emissions. As if they don't quite grasp that if your goal is to reduce migration than environmental policy matters more than even immigration policy.
And, of course, Rocky and Bullwinkle.

I want Bullwinkle Linux.
I'm pretty confident you're wrong.
FWIW lots of DARPA stuff becomes commercial/consumer grade. Exhibit A is probably the entire Internet but close behind would be high bypass turbofan engines, LiDAR systems, laser range finders, "space" blankets, etc. There is a long line of these things.
The Year of “Homework”
Yes (you can do either or even some bags have a strap on top for hanging on a hook and you can clip the helmet to that) and yes it bangs into you when you walk.
Okay, boomer.
In answer to the post's lament that popular & well-regarded languages seem not to emerge from academic work, I'd like to point out that the Julia programming language (released in only 2012, around the time of this post) whose core design formed Jeff Bezanson's PhD thesis [1]. Getting the dissertation done was also considered a high-priority issue [2] for the language development project :-)

[1]: https://github.com/JeffBezanson/phdthesis/blob/master/main.p...

[2]: https://github.com/julialang/julia/issues/8839
It's common practice in the advertising industry to exploit people's feelings of inadequacy. This is an industry that doesn't think twice about making an emotionally vulnerable teenager feel like a loser if they think it will help them sell some shitty product as the 'solution.' This is directly harming people's health.
We are incrementally replacing human reasoning with computation in the present day. For instance, most static type checkers are weak but fast theorem provers, and type inference replaces some of the human reasoning involved.

Granted, static type checking is a very minor corner case, but manifold small incremental changes add up. It's untrue that human reasoning has never been replaced with automation, and it's untrue that human reasoning isn't currently in the process of being further replaced.

I agree that total replacement of human reasoning is likely any time soon. However, I'd argue that total replacement of human reasoning implies removal of human desires from the input. (What are programs, if not incredibly formal expressions of what humans desire computers to do? How can we divorce human desires from human reasoning about what is good/desirable?) Science fiction provides numerous examples of how a complete decoupling of computers from human desires can go terribly wrong.
It was just like any startup really, a great team of really smart and dedicated folks trying to disrupt an entrenched industry using new ideas. Lots of simulation, lots of practical prototyping, lots of test rig time. We spent so, so many hours in test chambers observing how a particular engine type behaved with incremental changes to its design, changes which were backed up by simulation. The resulting data was used to strengthen the simulation and we repeated this loop many times. The challenge with this is that there are seemingly infinite different parameters to observe and control in each loop in both the physical and simulated engines, which must be done with high fidelity to learn things.

My understanding of thermodynamics was routinely humbled by my coworkers. I remember one time rolling into the office in the morning to find my coworker twirling with excitement and saying something like "I had a realization at 3AM and came to the office and figured out my enthalpy problem!"

Working with your buddies to create a working engine from scratch that is unlike any engine that has ever been created before it is a real rush. I recommend it for anyone.

Here's a slo-mo video of combustion inside an LP engine. We bolted a thick piece of quartz onto the engine instead of one of the side pieces. https://vimeo.com/111796558
Thanks for bringing my attention to this. A blob-free wifi and ble risc-v chip? Hell yeah!
The setup seems to differ in what security mitigation options are enabled in the kernel on wsl2 and Ubuntu. I wonder if that's where the difference comes from.

Having a system in a VM outperform similar kernel on bare metal is a bit weird.
This is my solution. 15-30 minutes before bed and maybe another 15-30 minutes in the morning on the weekends before the kids rush our bed around 7:45am. I'm using a Kindle Paperwhite.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
My guess would be the Passat.
According to Chertok, GULAG workforce wasn't used at least when Baykonur, a significant project, was being built. It was direct involvement of Army corps used there.

Imprisoned labor force was used in WWII time Soviet aviation and rocketry development (Tupolev, Glushko, Korolyov). Other large projects were possibly too technical, challenging to employ forced labor?..
* The free download is only "for Development Use".

* Debranding is much more work than a single RPM. https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8

No you can't just "sed s'/Red Hat/CentOS/' (someone always offers that)
There are times when you do replace and times when you don't.
I assume these are a result of bad UX, at least in my personal experience.

iPhones used to/will(haven't had the pleasure in a year now) bother you quite heavily if you're at your iCloud storage cap to either upgrade or clean it out. Not a stretch that some users might not think long enough about the consequences.
Moving from one toolkit to another is an expensive and tedious process. Speaking from experience, those who need to do it tend to do it once and they do their homework to make sure that the toolkit they choose has a sane API development process.

So yes, jumping from dependency to dependency is not a viable option long term. Luckily you only need to jump away from GTK once.
If cops are required (maybe by mechanical/tech constraints) to record via the body cam, that does remove some of the incentive for them to tell others not to record them. There's already a record of them.
This was about a ban on secretly recording the police while they’re in public, which implies the on-duty police have fewer protections than normal citizens.

The other case was about a law attempting to give police more protections than normal citizens.
It's in the Ultimate Geography pack. Coincidentally happened to be one of the first cards in my case.
I am not at any skill level, but I do think that after some time studying endgame patterns, I could easily apply them in finally forcing the mate in end games, whereas studying openings seems more abstract and unclear how exactly it is going to benefit.
Someone above posted https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5f6086e9bbbabd41a20f2984/5f6... which gave me a much clearer sense of how this is an "inside-out" Wankel.
I can't remember this one... Did he get more clueless/gullible over time? Or getting more women?
The judges-at-lunch thing turned out not to be a good “natural experiment” because the prisoners were systematically ordered.

The parole board considered cases from one prison at a time. Within each prison, prisoners representing themselves went last and they tended to fair worse than those with attorneys. The judges tended to take meal breaks between prisons, and....poof, there’s the result.
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Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks
I have the exact same issue. If it’s video, my eyes (and brain) are occupied and not easily distracted. But audio alone, unless it’s like radio where you don’t care if you miss something, has been difficult to keep attention on.

Unlike eBooks, where you can easily go back by scanning with your eyes, audiobooks can only provide you a way to quickly go back in time, not context (unless the context is directly related to time, like rewinding for 10 or 20 seconds, for example).

I’ve been thinking of listening to audiobooks while doing chores and not bothering about missing some words or sentences. But I’d have to choose a casual work so that I don’t regret missing anything.
The alternative you end up living under is one the parents create. While likely more attainable, not likely fulfilling. You could change goals as you go... I did that. But if you’re like me, you have failure around every corner and you’re more ambitious than a thousand men. You will become jaded well before you’re 40. I was jaded before I was even 30. I gave up and tried again many times.

And now that I’m 30, I hate how much suffering I endured the last decade. Questioning everything every step. Wondering how long it’d go. Wondering if there was ever a payoff to anything and not just another stepping stone. Wondering if I was as strong as I used to be. Constantly thinking to myself, I was stronger then. I was better then. I was smarter, faster, etc. Somehow I feel like I peaked near high school and it’s been a decline since.

But, likely, it’s more that I just haven’t had a path as easy or clear since then. Thus, ambiguity leads to more ambition which leads to more suffering which leads to more feelings of inadequacy.

It’s a great time...
Either way, the title should not be "improved" according to HN submission guidelines.
Sounds like someone trying to spin a narrative to make their case sound more like a human rights issue. I’m not biting. What they did made perfect sense. They traded something they couldn’t use for something they could. cCTLD for internet. The majority of the websites that host under the .nu name have nothing to do with the country. The country should not have a right to potentially interfere with the online stability of thousands of websites using that TLD just because they suddenly want it back. If they wanted it, they should never have given up control of it to begin with. In 2010 I had 4000 bitcoin but traded it for a new graphics card online. Should I be able to claim colonialism and say that I was swindled and I demand my rightful bitcoin back in full? No that would be ridiculous. So is asking for anything back you sold or traded after having received payment, especially when the price of the item you are asking for back has gone up thousands of times higher.
Sorry, ruined by the intra-comment span surrounding the exclamation point.
Anyone know if Location can/will offer street view? With the new amazon trucks driving around they could grab a ton of updated images every day.
Similar rulings about recording the police have happened in the recent past too (past couple years).
I don't have a lot of daily errands; mostly just picking up coffee or food outside and to go. I don't talk to people for that (except to say thanks!), and don't wear the P100 because it's low risk.

Places I've worn the P100: an airplane, grocery store, train, Uber, medical lab for a test. I found the peace of mind alone was well worth the inconvenience in these scenarios.
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It will be available around when Covid-22¶ hits
That makes sense in some cases, but if you have been an emacs user for 15 years (!) then it is hard to imagine all of your text editiing needs being satisfied moreso by vscode on release. It's a great editor - I use it for webdev mostly, but nothing I have ever used will has come close to org... at least for my brain.
There are plenty of car seats that’ll fit 3 across in a CR-V. There are plenty that’ll go 3 across in a civic, although the lack of trunk space for strollers would obviously be an issue with three children. You can’t buy any random car seat, of course, but an ounce of up front research will help you pick one that’ll fit.

I find it kind of perplexing how many people pretend that you simply cannot put 3 child seats in a small SUV, it’s incredibly trivial to Google and find ones that will fit. This isn’t rocket science, I found a site that’ll list which seats will fit 3 across in which cars in the first hit on Google.
About 4 years ago some friends and I were taking an Uber out in the Hartford area. The driver had a sweet BMW 535 wagon. He worked for this company and we got to talking about how performant and efficient it was. Really cool to see the technology making big waves!
Present with extra steps doesn't entice me.

How about you come up with something else other than "-ism", then we'll talk (maybe).
Dogs trained using punishment show higher anxiety than using rewards
This happened to me after awhile, so I literally shifted to watching movies from a different culture. It’s all the same tropes, but delivered differently from a different cultural lens.

Ip-Man 4 is just a hilarious version of Chinese exceptionalism (as opposed to American exceptionalism ((hilarious as in woah this how ridiculous our version of exceptionalism must look like to everyone else))), if you’re looking for an English movie to get an idea of what I’m talking about.

90s Bollywood is great if you want to see how equally ridiculous Indian version of romance/marriage is idealized (as opposed how Americans idealize/romanticize their conception of guy-gets-girl).

The things they do really well are often pretty unique if you’re not familiar with their tropes. It’s very snobby and meta, but I can’t watch American movies anymore without getting bored.
Dont you run the risk of creating a super monopoly if Gmail, Maps, Youtube etc that are split dont survive. The only choice is Apple and maybe thats why they are so keen on this, because the govt hands them ultimate control
I'd love to see the source code on this. At least part of it is a language compiled to WASM (e.g. https://gacembed.withgoogle.com/blob-opera/harmonizermodule....)
Thanks for the answer!

I want to say I would fit more with Amazon based on the vibe I got and my personality/goals.

It's good to know that Google isn't totally out of the question though (provided I would pass interviews etc).

It really seemed like there was a "fiasco" every year or so regarding politics and that's sorta my worst nightmare in the workplace lol

As long as I can work in peace I think I'll be happy.

Thanks again for your response!
My head sweats a lot playing VR, I couldn't imagine the torrent of sweat mixing them together.
Are we talking about at institutions or at home? Corporal punishment is legal in all 50 states for parents.

Btw, corporal punishment isn’t a great alternative to dissing your kids. Both are terrible and should be avoided.

Just because some people beat the shit out of kids in Asia doesn’t mean Asia got it right.
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