skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
x% of support requests are of questionable nature - to mention just a few categories:

* people expecting to use a sophisticated tool (for doing complex business processes requiring special know-how) without paying for and spending time on adequate training)

* people unwilling to RTFM, google, youtube, etc.

* people whining when a general purpose tool doesn’t fit their exact workflow to a tee
This was common when I was in school, long ago. Also, codes may have had names, but more frequently than not were named after their authors. "I used so-and-so's code for this."

The problem is compounded today, by a certain contingent (okay, physicists) who enjoy referring to things by the most archaic possible name.
That's a clever observation. To put it simpler, a dictator is a magnet that aligns individual resentments of citizens. People can't align resentment themselves without an external guide. But loneliness isn't the cause of resentment, it's rather the feeling of being excluded. Without the anchor of inner philosophy, one can be easily manipulated into building up the resentment and directing it at a false target.
You just described just about every OS that isn't Microsoft of Apple. Good luck with that attitude.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rse_Stuttgart

What would you call it as?
Yep. Then nxnxnxnxnxnxnxnxnxnx.
Discard doesn't mean "remove" in this context. It will unload the tab, but still keep the state for when you switch back to it. E.g. suspend it.
I asked my dad (a practicing large animal vet at one point) if there was an equivalent to petting dogs... for cows.

He thought about it for a minute and said, "Well, I knew a farmer once who scratched their backs with a garden rake. They seemed to like it."

That put cow hide in context in a way other things didn't.
I see it. Thanks.

Still though, I'd like some alt text. It wouldn't even disrupt the layout.
Even then this is a strawman, the main use for BTC is not transactions, it is the store of value in front of inflation. Suppose 90% of users saved in BTC and only cashed out once a year, and 10% are frequently using drug dealers (pun intended) that would be a low number of legitimate transactions but BTC itself would be legitimately helping a lot of people.
Often I think anybody could make it, but only a privileged few have the elite social connections to make a career out of it.
They're using unsupported iPhones.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/ericmigi/status/1351934418961661959
This may be the starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
Yes, "Apple Silicon" is the marketing name for macOS/ARM64.

(Why did 3 other people interpret this comment as saying something about iOS?!)
Monzo founder Tom Blomfield is departing the challenger bank,says he’s struggled
https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-facilitates-money-transfer-f...

I don't know if there are any good analyses of the volume of this trade, but the general assumption is that it's huge, the reason being that it's a relatively easy way around government restrictions.
I don't know about volume, but Apple sure has more margin.

Outsourcing fabrication doesn't guarantee that you can choose the best fab, it just guarantees that you get to compete with Apple (and NVidia and, now, Intel) in a contest of "who can pay the most per chip."
It's likely the Firefox developers use more of its shortcuts because they are more familiar with the product and are more interested in optimizing their workflow than a typical user. Exploring, which includes backtracking, is the core of the web browsing experience so I'm not surprised people are doing that far more than, say, searching for a substring.

It's also worth pointing out there isn't a great opportunity to learn the keyboard shortcuts Firefox provides. Traditionally you'd learn shortcuts by seeing them next to menu items, but the menus are hidden behind the Alt key, and many actions simply aren't listed there. For example, "Find Again" / F3 is omitted.
Same here! Mark was like a hero to me back then as I was learning Delphi (which Game Maker was written in at the time) as a teenager. I even asked him some questions about Delphi but I don't remember if he answered.
Maybe the confusion comes from the fact that programming languages don't make a distinction between cardinal and ordinal numbers.

In English we do. For example, if you are nine years old, you are in your tenth year. If an array has ten elements, the last element is the tenth element, it is nine elements away from the beginning. We could do "int array[10]; array[10th] = x;" if we wanted to mirror that.

We could imagine a language that does the distinction, but I don't know what good it would do.
This type of programming is actually a subset of functional programming called point free programming. It's equivalent to programming using only combinators as the fundamental unit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming

All programs are actually pipelines of data flowing from a low entropy state to high entropy state with IO and state as the endpoints of the pipes-. Using the point free style or flow based programming makes this entropy and the pipelined nature of all programs more explicit.

Using OOP or regular programming the pipeline nature of data flowing to and from state and IO becomes less evident and more convoluted.
Quick, buy sesame seed futures!
Thanks, that means it accomplished the 'will of my soul' ;-)
The Bitcoin market cap is currently $653B. It's larger than all but 15 fiat currencies[1].

[1] https://fiatmarketcap.com/
This may have less to do with your location and more to do with overall trends https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insec...
Users do.

And since this isn't an attempt to squeeze out money from users there is little need to let users that mods find toxic stick around and it is also OK to slightly raise the bar (some instances ask you questions to verify that you are local or know the local language or something, something Facebook and Twitter could never do.)

Also users that are kicked can either create their own instance or find anlther were they are welcome.
You're not even wrong. With Taiwan being an island, any prospects of invasion are going to be bloody. Successful marine invasion are surprisingly rare in history. Usually, they are only successful because the defender could not set up a defense, or the attacker committed overwhelming resources. However, Taiwan's strategic position (it guards access to the mainland from the ocean) and the ideological accomplishment of having tied up this loose end might make it worth it. And in the event Taiwanese economy and its importance declines, it could become harder for the US to justify defending it.
He should note that the US has been committing genocide in minority households for decades....
Marketing Amidst Corona; the Bat in the Room
A guide from Swaymass about marketing amidst a global pandemic.
http://archive.is/7r0tX
From your profile it seems like you live in MA right?

https://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informa...

Your state has net neutrality.

https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tr...
Not much.

"Cost center" can be transformed into something else given both an understanding that support can and should contribute to future sales, and an organization capable of putting that understanding to work.

I have seen a similar scenario in manufacturing where various setup, prep, quality tasks are seen as cost centers and minimized.

Doing this kind of thing has ripple costs. Always.

In a perfect world, we make software, or hardware, and it just works and people grok it.

In the one we live in, these are fantasies and we can choose to understand, recognize the value, or not and get the benefits or not.

The users, customers, move from role to role, and support often determines their willingness to use the product again. That is straight up powerful marketing by referral.

Support often is the first to understand a user, customer needs an option too, or add on, replacement, preventative maintenance. Done right, these leads into lean, consistent sales.

"Cost center" to me has always been a bit silly in this way. There is opportunity to add value throughout the chain of people, process, machines, systems that are all necessary to properly conceive, realize and deliver something to others.

One thing often missed along with failing to understand value is failing to ask to be compensated for it.

Doing things in a robust, high value for the dollar way is not the cheapest way, in terms of raw product price, and depending, size of margin.

But, we do get what we pay for too, and the lowest price often comes with externalities paid by both the enterprise and its customers too.

Sometimes I see this all framed as a luxury. That is just as much of an error, and does come with unnecessary costs and or poor alignment with actual value.
This seems fairly trivial for anyone to get around.
Don't you feel sometimes that the amount of tax you're paying is not equivalent to what you are getting in return in terms of infrastructure, education or healthcare ?
Scientists surprised to find that electric eels sometimes hunt in packs
That's not opinion, this has nothing to do with App Store, you can tell by the first look. App Store never was about the UI for downloading apps itself, that's just the front face of the App Store service that moderates and verifies content, sets standards and quality requirements. Not even Android Market/Google Play is close to App Store, though closer than random web shops shipping JARs.
> At some you need to get your money into the banking system as government backed currency for it to be useful

At some point this will not be true. See Weimar, Venezuela, etc...
Stop the U – K. from exporting its plastic waste (A petition by a nine-year-old)
https://www.chainalysis.com/ is a company who has demonstrated such analysis is possible. Nation states have effectively unlimited resources. Any crypto exchange in a country with a financial regulatory system can and likely will be required to report transaction data.
I still don't quite understand how it works.

Or what it does.

A tutorial (maybe a Youtube video) would help.
Plenty of problems are solved. They may not be ones you care about, but they're not "really none". Anecdotally, the instances I know of take a much harder line on moderation of transphobic content than does mainstream social media, which is something desired by some communities and made possible by heterogeneous moderation policies; "no ads" is a problem solved in of itself; no QTs gets rid of about 70% of the "dunking on this bad take" posts relative to Twitter; lower stakes discoverability means people express themselves differently; content warnings make your feed more manageable; etc. etc.
Pablo and then Ronan for me. Dad (Claar) was the lead wildlife biologist for Salish & Kootenai in the 80s and 90s. Good to see a few of us here. Believe it or not we are in Georgia now and there are Bison ranches down in south Georgia...pretty sizable ranches and they do well here too. Which side Mission or Dixon side?
This can quickly change if demand stays high. TSMC have already increased prices. https://www.techspot.com/news/88006-tmsc-ending-discounts-in...
Most of HN wouldn't notice. https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tr...
Yellen warns of crypto currency for terrorism
The presidential pardon has allowed our country to move on from problems that would lead to decades of prosecutions and counter-prosecutions as power changes party. Nixon and the civil war are both examples.
Those are all sales and service opportunities, BTW.

Back in my support role for higher end software, I flat out hit numbers comparable to sales and generated a ton of great leads.

Fact is, people do what they do and they have their reasons.

Judging them and acting on that judgement by marginalizing an important and necessary part of the process has a higher net cost to the world, and often the enterprise, than just doing those things reasonably does.

Net happiness goes up too. True for the enterprise and users, people at large.
It's trivial to create a browser that's just a Chromium fork.

It's nearly impossible to create one that isn't. Firefox (and Tor) is basically the only one.

https://alternativeto.net/software/google-chrome/
It's just enormous amount of work if you want to do it from scratch. It is simply impossible to afford for any small business.
You are right, this has always been true with taking a photo of a screen and printing it out on your printer.

This defeats any truly end-to-end encrypted conversation.

I think you are also right to compare this service to malware.

It takes content intended for a secured environment maintained by one party and exfiltrates it into another.

This other environment is protected by an entity that is neither bound by the reputation damage of failing to keep the information secure, nor on the receiving end of funds that can be directed to keep it secure.

Since 100% of the iMessage content, text and photos flows through this environment, it is not like occasionally taking photos of conversations. It is the wholesale duplication of the data.

iCloud Backups are also encrypted, and are the security of that system is maintained by the first party the conversations were originally sent by.
its a mindset, lots of us find these chores either fun, or even relaxing.

Wife/kids aren't going to bother you while you're mowing for example, can't hear them while a chainsaw is running...
EHang to Provide UAM Services in Zhuhai, China
https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tr...

Your average HN user is probably from a state that still has NN.
It would be so cool if they did not just shipping to art galleries, but also mass produced it so you could get your own fedex shipping box art at home.
I like to think that US democracy is self healing in the long run. Assume for a moment that pardons are, on balance, a good thing. This time around it was a little "too good".

Net result: we rein in that power (hopefully). Dont get rid of it - keep it but instill rules and regulations like enforcing Justice Department oversight and review
I'd say it's weird because hardware like this is so much harder, but the benefit's also a lot more marginal. There was a time when you had to buy a new computer every 4 years or it would be cripplingly slow. These days, pretty good hardware that's 8 years old is good enough today if you have an SSD, 8GB of ram, and don't play AAA games.
If you did it as DIY, yes, but not all modern - really, contemporary - art is done by Important People who get magazine interviews. A colleague of mine at a web design shop had done his degree in fine art. He was into minimalism and Arte Povera, and his main work was a large ball of grey paint which he had kept with him for years. He would grind down stuff from his daily life and mix his own paint (which he named after himself) to add to this ball. It just kept growing and growing.... Weird, but fun.
Machine learning faces a reproducibility crisis
I don't. To be clear, this isn't an actual fix, it just turns off W^X enforcement altogether. It's certainly not something that should be merged upstream–the real fix should be to adopt W^X in the JIT (which is more complicated, as you may have seen).
If anything the socialist movement foundered in the 1920s in that internationalism didn't sell politically.

For instance, Lenin and Co immediately surrendered to the Germans because "it is not our war" and the Germans said "Great! Here's our list of demands!" and it was an embarrassment given that Germany lost the war a month later.

See the Chris Harman classic

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lost-revolution-chris-harma...

to see what went down in Germany afterwards.
We had a mild spook get into a herd coming down our path while fly fishing in Yellowstone. Cue ~20 bison thundering down a trail.

I was on the other side of a boulder the size of an Escalade, and still didn't feel entirely safe.

Some tourists do dumb things around them, but if you actually look it's very apparent they're both large and heavy.
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And in Apple's case, you can pay $99/year for the exposure...
genuine question: Is that dialabrain person an Apple employee or just a user?
A chat with Aditi Maliwal, Partner at Upfront Ventures
> … and point your finger to the space to the right of the leftmost item.

What if there is no leftmost item? Because you skipped the first step, essentially assuming that there was at least one item and including it in your initial condition, that process fails when the set of objects to be counted is empty. Humans are good at dealing with special cases like this; they'll notice the discrepancy and report "zero" instead of following through with the predetermined process. Computers, not so much. So instead we start with a count of zero and all items in the as-yet-uncounted set as our initial condition, and increment the count by one as we move each item from the "uncounted" set to the "counted" set, which correctly handles the case of the empty set.
> I mean actual actionable feedback that someone is able to work with

Is this not what “constructive criticism”, as I called it, is?

GNOME is not going to listen to an H.N. comment an change it's ways, and it was never my intent to reach them or otherwise inspire change in them.

My intent was simply to be humorous.
Not all sales and service opportunities have positive ROI
Last i checked (2 years ago), when it comes to linux, Oracle Database officially supported only RHEL and OEL. I don’t think CentOS ever made it to the various support matrices, although of course its close compatibility with RHEL meant it likely worked just fine.
Google's commitment to open source stops at their profit's edge, yet again.
>Slavery was absolutely one of reasons several southern states entered the war, but it was by far not the only. Most southerners would not have fought purely for slavery because most of the soldiers were too poor to have owned slaves.

It was still about slavery: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/why-non-slavehol...

>What concerned Southerners most about Lincoln’s election was his opposition to the expansion of slavery into the territories; Southern politicians were clear about that. If new states could not be slave states, went the argument, then it was only a matter of time before the South’s clout in Congress would fade, abolitionists would be ascendant, and the South’s “peculiar institution” – the right to own human beings as property – would be in peril.

As I said before, while there are other factors and while they are interesting and worthy of study, sometimes the core reason really is that simple. It's not "enlightened" to pretend that simple things are complex.

>Culture wars are useful for pushing narratives and keeping both sides locked in a relative stalemate. Coke and Pepsi both benefit from these antics (Are you a coke drinker or a pepsi drinker?), but it's not an appropriate framework for political decision making where you often need to find compromise and pressure points to move the conversation forward.

It's worked great for the Republicans for the last 40 years (Ronald was the original Donald) and there is no sign it will stop working any time soon. It's only ever the left who have to compromise. Name a time in the last 40 years where a Republican has compromised and been rewarded for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Watches_the_Watchers#Plot
1. SELinux. It's configured for all packages in RHEL distribution and it works. It's an additional layer of defense and think that's the most important denominator from other Linux distributions. I saw recent Ubuntu distributions shipped with AppArmor, but I'm not sure that it's as good.

2. First-class support for systemd. Well, I'm not sure that's a fair point.. But with Debian I'm always seeing some messages about sysv scripts, even when I'm using systemctl. It feels like some scripts were not fully ported to systemd or something like that. Some people don't like systemd, but I, personally, think that it's a good solution. AFAIK systemd development is sponsored by Redhat and its support is very good, all services are shipped with proper systemd units.

3. First-class support for NetworkManager, Firewalld. I think that those packages are available for Debian, but it's nice to have them installed and configured from the start, they're very convenient to use.

4. Documentation. Most of that documentation is hidden behind loginwall, but http://access.redhat.com/ contains plenty of information.

There are some drawbacks of RHEL. The major one for me is limited software selection. You need to enable EPEL even for some basic software like Strongswan, Certbot or OpenDKIM. And EPEL is not RHEL (although it's quite good).
It's a niche market with mostly a lot of low quality build products (and a lot of snake oil).

I have Sennheiser HD650s. They sound good, but they feel like cheap plastic, they require an amp to drive them, they have a 1/4" jack and need an adapter etc. The HD555s differentiated themselves from 595s by stuffing foam into the ear cup to make them worse (the drivers are the same).

I think AirPods Max will end up replacing a lot of this premium market because they're almost as good and they categorically win the other bits (wireless, easy sync with apple devices, nice build, etc.)

There will always be a small contingent that wants something different, but I think there are probably more people like me that want something better than your average headphones but the design quality that comes from Apple.
Ouch, sorry, and thanks! Wrote on mobile on the go and didn't manage to double check the link.
Income taxes didn’t really exist prior to the 20th century. The state has swelled in size since then, with predictably violent outcomes. It would be one thing if the money was spent in a responsible way that benefitted all members of society, but we all know that isn’t true.

I wouldn’t feel bad about moving to escape a tax burden at all. Getting used to a new country isn’t that difficult, in my experience, and you’re always a short plane ride away from your origin country.
Funny how you asked others to “use a single source that contains the numbers”, and yet you make arguments without providing any sources, as you did in your other comment I linked above.

How do we know your arguments aren’t “based on really really shaky data”?
If you are a business I'd check if in your country there is a body that deals with anti-competitive behaviour and make a complaint.
karma .... which is how it should be no? You do bad ..no matter what you do it will come back at you!
If we're talking about creating a browser from scratch, it's nearly impossible to implement one without a huge investment of both time and money. Browsers are unbelievably complex, and the new features are being added at such a pace that you need to run twice as fast just to keep up.

If we're talking about forking an existing browser, that is doable. But you still need a huge investment to understand, change and extend that code. Once again, browsers are unbelievably complex beasts.
Didn't AMD have contractual obligations to use Global Foundries for their high end chips from when they split, or something along those lines? I guess that turned out really well for them, though, since that might have led to the necessity of chiplet designs.
Imagine the level of corruption when you can build a house worth 1.350 million dollars (1.35 billion for Americans)!
They're using HalfShot's appservice bridge I think, which works entirely through the standard Discord API with bot users. IIRC Discord is very much aware of the project.

Discord's generally fine with anything using it's API/gateways as long as it's NOT logging in as a "real" user.
1. Its hard.
2. No one will pay for a browser.
Executive orders aren’t in the Constitution and the President doesn’t have the power to adjourn Congress.
There are only two problems in programming...

Naming things, cache eviction, and off by one errors