skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most cases, going through some companies dispute process will work 99.99% of the time. That is my experience buying from a lot of online shops (directly and via ebay) that they will in a grand majority of cases respond reasonably quickly and refund you or swap the item. That isn't true for every transaction and for every shop.

But most of the time a bad interaction can be resolved via the help line or a dispute process.

But even if that fails doesn't make the shop a scam. It makes them a bad shop. You can say so in your review since "bad shop" is a subjective opinion and not a statement of fact. "scam" is not only an objective fact but also something illegal so it's going to require some evidence to back that up.

And yes, that can be used against you in court. If the defendant had gone through the dispute process, it is more likely the court would have atleast partially sided with them, if they showed up in court (which they also didn't) and claimed to have been emotionally distraught or similar when writing that review over the cost or process of whatever happened.

This is the difference between freedom of speech as it is in the US and freedom of opinion more commonly deployed in Europe. Statements of fact require you to have some kind of proof. The level of proof will differ depending on what it's about, but insinuating that someone is a scammer will require you to show that to be fact.
Surely we can agree that for the specific case we're discussing: TSLA TTM, you would prefer the Roth version of that at every income level if it was available.
AWS without paying extra for support can still be fine for a lot of people. Where I work we use AWS, but not many AWS services other than basic virtual machines.

As far as what we run on the machines goes (OS, applications) we are fine dealing with that ourselves. It's what we did back when our machines were machines we owned at a colocation facility, and its not much different when its on a VM at Amazon.

When something goes wrong that affects us and requires AWS intervention, 99.9% of the time it is something that is going wrong for many other people too, some of those will have paid support and bring it to Amazon's attention if it isn't something Amazon notices on their own, and when Amazon fixes it that fix will fix it for all of us.

I can only recall one time it didn't work that way. I was trying to track down a problem with our applications that involved something whose processing involved steps on three different systems. I needed to rely on the logs from those three systems to figure out the order things had happened in, and it was making no sense. I checked the clocks, and found that the three systems had wildly different notions of time.

It turned out that the clocks on some of our instances were ticking at the wrong rate. They were ticking at steady rates, and normally the time code in Linux systems can figure out how far off the rate is and apply a correction, but some of the AWS instances had rates that were something like an order of magnitude more than the Linux code can deal with.

We found some other people talking about this in the forums, but it apparently wasn't hitting anyone with paid support. Someone finally bought some paid support and reported it, and it got fixed. (It turned out that it had only affected one fairly small instance type, and only an older version of it that you were supposed to migrate away from over the next few months, which made it so that only a very small fraction of VMs were affected).
This is bullshit.

1. Apple doesn’t track your activity across other company’s apps and websites.

2. Apple doesn’t require third party apps to request permission to allow personalized ads.

Apple is holding itself to a higher standard than it holds 3rd parties.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26075004 (and please don't submit multiple stories for one thing right after another)
I also find this preposterous, but it's what the article measured. For me it would be a replacement for my HP z-series workstation I use mostly to build C++ software.
One smart aleck but serious question - what precisely makes the naive scientific distinctions wrong compared to the philsophical argument?

It is overly literal and somewhat unimaginative to immediately answer theship of Theseus with "Did it sink or wind up disassembled in whole? If not then it is the same ship." But it is a consistent philosophical framework - it never was destroyed so therefore it is the same ship.

Is it convention and semantic akin to say "literally" being used as figuratively? While clearly bad for cross communication and a reciepe for confusion self-consitency is all that is needed for within subset communication even if it leads to cringeworthy constructs like "he actually literally exploded" for what was previously just "he literally exploded".
Yeah, the company doesn't put a limit on it but the IRS of course still has a limit. The IRS limit goes up with every passing year though, and thus the company contributions do too.
I don't understand why people have so many issues with Microsoft including Office 365 subscriptions in their Cloud revenue. If you have tried managing a tenant you would know that Office 365 subscriptions work pretty much like any other SaaS offering. They just happen to have desktop clients that are better than their online counterparts.
Show HN: Polar Signals Continuous Profiler – Systematic Performance Profiling
Hey HN! A few months ago I announced that I founded Polar Signals, and today we are super excited to announce our first product (in private beta) as well as a first publicly available feature! Polar Signals Continuous Profiler is a tool we wish we had in the past whenever we optimized code. We are longtime members and maintainers of the Prometheus [1], Thanos [2] and Cortex [3] projects, so we have optimized a thing or two, and we hope to share our experience of doing so through this product. This product is built on top of the open source Conprof [4] project.

Continuous Profiling at heart just means taking CPU/memory/IO profiles periodically and storing them to be queried over time. We have effectively created a purpose built time-series database to store profiling samples, that is based on the Prometheus time-series database. It allows us to efficiently scan over large volumes of data, to extract interesting insights from the profiling data. A common first question at this point is: How much overhead does continuous profiling have on the process that is being profiled? Our experiments have shown no more than 5% CPU/memory overhead, but typically within the 1000ths of CPU cores per process and negligible in memory.

We have many more ideas to explore, but we wanted to get this private beta out to test it with you, and get your feedback! If you want to try the private beta submit a request on our website, or send me an email (email is in my profile)!

The first publicly available feature we have is uploading and sharing pprof profiles for free! No more screenshots of profiles, without the ability to inspect the surrounding context when you have been sent a profile. Share them on GitHub PRs, on slack with your team or however you see fit!

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[1] https://prometheus.io/
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[3] https://cortexmetrics.io/
[4] https://github.com/conprof/conprof
Tesla is pretty cash constrained. They needed an equity raise to shore up their cash position just last year. It's trending better, but they've been cash flow negative or slightly positive.
What hacks? I mean the only difference between a VM running in Proxmox with cloud-init “support” and your physical host is that Proxmox can virtually insert a CD with the config on it with the label cidata.

As long as you have some method to get your config on the host it “just works.” We’ve used a USB in the past.

Check out the NoCloud datastore.

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasource...
When opensource version of cloud docs/sheets available. Then we will see AWS: X as a Service.

I don't think AWS tries to create any non trivial software.

Take open source software, slap AWS brand on it, and sell it through the ecosystem it has successfully created.

RDS, Document DB, Elastic, EMR and other countless services comes to mind.
While "critical thinking skills" are great in principle, empirically they are invoked almost exclusively by people practicing their very own brand of pseudophilosophy.

The core tenets of that particular groupthink are the rejection of the "mainstream media" as corrupt/"biased"/irrelevant (usually in favour of some guy publishing daily 60 minute rants on YouTube), an unhealthy obsession with IQs in general and its variability between races and/or genders in particular, and the unwavering belief that Flat Earthers and Holocaust Denialists are the result of a lack of information on the respective subjects.

"Self-Indulgent" is a perfect term here: these people expand the universe of possible sources to almost infinity, which is laudable, at least in theory. But in the necessary next step of cutting it down to the amount one can actually handle, they fail to preserve the diversity of the input signal.

From the rich buffet that is on offer, they pick 15 cheeseburgers.
Google to delete Play Music library later this month, emailing out final warning
When you're 1, a year is your life.

When you're 2, a year is 1/2 of your life.

When you're 3, a year is 1/3 of your life.

When you're 30, a year is 1/30th of your life.

Your frame of reference for time is changing every day. Each day feels relatively shorter than the day before.

Strangely though, some years feel very long. To me that's explained by how much activity is going on, day to day. Like how when work is not busy, everyone says "slow day." 2020 for example was less busy for most people (stuck at home), so it was a "slow year."

I dunno, that's my experience anyway.
Prgmr.com owner here.

While that copy is old, and our pricing reflects the hardware we run on today, the quip has now been updated to: "You get $5/month of support," which is the price of the smallest package we offer.

That wisecrack aside, the reality of the support we provide is more in-line with our byline: "We do not assume you are stupid." In practice, and with a hat tip to pera replying to you here, that means we provide what you might call peer support--we explain what's going on, what steps are necessary to correct it, and take responsibility when we caused the issue. And expect similar candor.

As you might expect, most of the technical support we provide is routine--with sufficient information communicated to both parties the problem is typically straightforward to resolve. But we treat tickets on their merit and customer reports do come in that admit more substantive investigation and resolution:

the LAN of 16 Million Hosts: https://prgmr.com/blog/2020/07/17/classful-networking.html

Possible Data Corruption on Debian Buster: https://prgmr.com/blog/2020/07/15/debian-buster.html

Debugging freebsd.org Resolution Failure: https://prgmr.com/blog/2020/04/23/debugging-freebsd-resoluti...

The people you talk to when you write us have the authority to investigate and--if correctable on our end--resolve your problem.
Not really; PHP had many features to make this easier; for example "safe_mode" and "open_basedir". These are not easily replicated in a stock Python by just "flicking a switch", even today (although the need for that today is a lot less than it was in 2000, and PHP even removed safe_mode). Not that these measures were perfect, but they were mostly "good enough".

There was a reason that in ~2000-2005 you could find PHP shared hosts for $1/$2 month, and that Python/Perl/etc. shared hosts were much harder to find and more expensive. People started using PHP bulletin boards and blogging platforms because at the time it was easier and cheaper to run, but that's an effect and not a cause.
Lol.

Reminds me how I once asked what's a good EU online shop for running gear on the running subreddit, and the top recommended post was about a premium priced boutique european manufacturer of clothes for "plus sized" runners...
Where did you purchase HyperRouge from? I thought it was open source and available.
Compression of text is basically never counterproductive as long as you use a suitable design.

Even a static huffman tree would help, and has no overhead. An entropy encoder would do very well and only cost a few bits to flush.
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I use FastMail for actual email but let my G Suite expire for a regular Google Account for the Docs, Sheets things because I couldn’t get over the lack of/weird support that pops up for a G Suite account on some Google properties.

I just barely use my Google Account to ensure I don’t get banned.

Also not sure what you mean by actual privacy.
Typically, you want to use the strict form of foldl, foldl'. The lazy version is susceptible to collecting a large number of thunks. See here: https://wiki.haskell.org/Foldr_Foldl_Foldl%27
> And I am still waiting for "celebrities" cry about this bad behavior.

They are. Google Colin Kaepernick.
Tesla Bets $1.5B on Bitcoin in New Policy
Distinguishing science from pseudoscience is called the "demarcation problem" and is surprisingly difficult and subtle. It would seem to me that the analogous "philosophical demarcation problem" is even more difficult and probably completely meaningless because of the open and fluid nature of philosophy itself.

The author believes that "pseudophilosophy," whatever that is, encourages confused and self-indulgent thinking and therefore must be separated from proper philosophy. But many people would level the same criticism at philosophy itself. Why then is it useful to distinguish between between the two?

I don't view this as a problem because philosophy is not science and is concerned with the "hypothesis generation" side of human inquiry. That is to say, the value it provides is in coming up with new, interesting, and diverse points of view that may or may not be correct but certainly broaden the mind. As Paul Feyerbend[1] argues in his book Beyond Method, "anything goes" when it comes to hypothesis generation and the more creative the better. Philosophy, chaotic and ill-defined as philosophy is, it certainly useful for hypothesis generation, and there are many famous cases of scientists citing philosophers[2] as inspiration.
Once we pin down a theory and begin to seriously question if it is a good model for reality we have left philosophy and entered the realm of science.

I personally don't see how it could be otherwise: theories and ideas don't spring fully formed from the head, but evolve piecemeal as vague ideas are made more coherent through criticism, and this activity is labeled "philosophy." To deny the human mind a space in which to play with half-formed ideas is to put an end to new ideas altogether.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Feyerabend

[2]: https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/HumeMach.pdf
Taking one sentence of Foucault out of context and then claiming it doesn't make sense. Come on now.
Machine learning generates realistic artificial genomes
> Going from a grammar to an AST is the first and one of the hardest step IMO

I can give some concrete data about this. I've been working professionally on a single compiler full-time for seven years.

I think out of all that time I think I've spent probably less than a week dealing with lexer and parser issues all together. I'd say in practice parsing is vanishingly insignificant.
A. Is this a big deal?
Yes, it is.

Carbon removal: taking carbon out of the ambient air rather than decarbonizing the system

Gigaton scale removal by 2030: 5 orders of magnitude beyond current capacities. That's only one order of magnitude less than Earth's yearly emissions (40 GT) and 3 orders of magnitude less than Earth's excess emissions (1,000 GT).

Solution agnostic: Whether you call it "natural" or "technological" what matters is it can remove carbon and scale without harming the rest of the system

If you prefer a video summary, here's my take:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNq8Hb7nSVY&feature=youtu.be

B. For those of you who want to work on this prize:

1. AirMiners - the premier community of 800+ scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, artists, hackers, and business peeps working on solutions to pull carbon from the air

http://airminers.org

2. Air Mining 101 - Guide to getting started in carbon removal, including links to the Carbon Removal Academy and other resources

http://coda.io/@tito/air-mining-101
I think cover letters make the most sense when they are really a letter. It feels strange to me to have a complicated hiring profile account, including basically rewriting my resume in little text boxes (though I've stopped doing that, but I still at least fill out companies and education), selecting tags, applying for multiple jobs in one go, and then including a letter as well.

When asked to submit a resume by email, then the body of the email is a natural place for a "cover letter".
In 50 years will you buy Tesla out of obligation to your elders with Tesla pensions?

Or will you buy from a new company with lower prices and better R&D because it doesn’t have pension obligations to pay yet?
I agree with your main point I just wonder if he's trying to avoid taxes, in particular get out in front of a wealth tax which was proposed in CA with his sudden "sell all my houses" position.
I’ve been feeling the same way about modern HTML/JS/CSS. The tooling has become too cumbersome and languages like TypeScript, SCSS and even Elm illustrate how the community needs a new frontend toolset. On top of that tools like React Native and Electron add even more complexity to the problem. I’ve recently started looking at Dart/Flutter - https://flutter.dev/ - which looks like it might have some potential to fix a lot of these problems. Has anyone here used Flutter and feel like it addresses these problems well?
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/05/google-to-add-app-store-pr...

Looks like Google wasn’t being entirely accurate when they spoke to the press about this a month ago.
Not really: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301436
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey
Maybe they don't like HN?
Breathing through your mouth is a terrible thing to do for your health. The nose does much, much more than just bringing oxygen into the lungs. Look it up.
Between Terreria and this Google seems very intent on not addressing bad PR recently and just hoping that it blows over.

Possibly could have worked during the trump era when the news cycle was like whiplash, but now people will hopefully pay more attention.
That's probably true; people are most likely to give feedback if it's negative; making the TrustPilot way of earning money even worse, as it mostly attracts negative reviews. Then companies with those negative reviews have to "buy them invisible" on TrustPilot.

I wish I could give TrustPilot a 1 star review right now :-)
It was mentioned pretty vaguely in the article, so its hard to tell. It mentioned it effects a hashing function. I'm not sure if it meant AES as a whole or a component of it.
r/politics is an influencer sockpuppet botnet
You will need land which don't encroach on agriculture or other industrial use land. Land which gets enough rainfall every year. Also planting is just one step in the process , you will need to maintain it, if the trees actually have to grow.
What is the state of 401k fees? Is it 1% AUM? The PBS doc "The Retirement Gamble" made 401ks look horrible.

===

Making some reasonable assumptions about a worker with 30 years to retirement, the 1980 version of the 401(k) tax deferral was equivalent to an additional investment return of 9.2% per year, an extraordinary incentive to save for retirement, even without an employer match. Using today’s numbers the benefit comes out to 0.6%, considerably less than the 1% to 2% in fees investors pay in typical 401(k) plans.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-21/401-k-...
You're right, I forgot that existed. Which is sort of the point: Office 365 is annihilating WorkDocs in the market, and that's important to note if you're doing a competetive analysis of the online office productivity market.

But that fact isn't really relevant to a discussion about whether AWS or Azure is capturing more of the cloud hosting market, which is what the headline implies.
I'm developing a big-pixel retro platformer game. Rather than the traditional power-of-two tile sizes, I ended up going for 36x36 tiles. It's much easier to draw repeating patterns when tiles can be evenly divided into halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, and so on.
Startups Are Acquired– (TLDR) Process Overview
Win98 shipped the IE4 "Desktop Update" webified-Explorer that was an optional install for Win95 IE4, then Win98SE was Win98 with IE5.
> ... real time ... embedded ... microcontroller ...

> ... that supports ... C++11 ...

Makes perfect sense.
Yeah. I'm not assigning or absolving blame, I just know if I'd designed this interface I would be losing a lot of sleep at night.
Don't mock lulz since that was the best part of the old web. When I think of lulz I remember stories like jobs and woz poking at&t in the eye blue boxing the pope. Today's guard rose to power on a billion laughs, but there's nothing funny about the criminality and extortion that flourishes under their watch as they focus their attention on banning people for vulgarity. OPM doomed us all.
"Cloud sourcing", I like that!
I don't get the backlash. Sure, I can see the platform imploding if they started charging for existing features, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt.

I'm pretty sure this will be more of a "Discord Nitro" or "Youtube Red" model. In other words: a couple of goodies that they dangle out to capture whales, whilst everyone else continues to use the platform like usual.

On the other hand, it could be less benign. Perhaps more like Reddit's "guilding" system, which has steadily developed into a major nuisance. The same thing on Twitter would create a major conflict of interest when it comes to moderation, imo.
Am I missing something, or is this basically an unmaintained snapshot of Aseprite from 2016 (when it was last released under GPL)?

Since Aseprite has come a long way since then, interested parties might want to check there instead. It's free to compile from source, or binaries are $20 on steam. (But it's not libre free - IIRC the only restriction is that you're not allowed to redistribute the source.)

https://www.aseprite.org/
Soft Skills Guide for Software Engineer
Didn't mean to be arrogant at all. I simply said it because I have created things in a variety of languages, and to tell whoever was reading and looking for a BE engineer that I have no problem learning new languages that I may not know. Now obviously since I haven't been exclusively a BE engineer, I'm not an expert in BE, but I'm more than happy to be given the chance to become one, which is essentially the whole point of the article.
Some of these books are so incredibly out of date that you will end up with almost no understanding of how actual compilers work. Use with care.
Yeah, this whole "people are stupid" argument is incredibly dismissive. Not surprising of tech people's giant ego.

Do people really want their doctor to invest several hours a week understanding the latest shenanigans and dangers of technology? Or should we just let our doctors be good doctors? Replace "doctor" by any other non-tech profession you respect, and you get my point.

This isn't even about protecting "stupid" people, it's about letting people be useful members of society even if they're not tech experts.
Canonical has their own dumpster too! Probably the biggest pieces in it are Ubuntu One and Unity.