skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the Netherlands, a country that primarily uses debit cards. I do have a credit card that I rarely use. Only when I buy something in the USA for example.

Some years back I moved to a different city. About a year later I wanted to make a purchase with my credit card. I found out it had expired. I rang the bank and asked for a new one. They promised to send it to me. It never arrived. Rang again, got the same promise, and still no card. When I called them the third time, the employee found out my old address was still in their database. Turns out the credit card department had a different client database then the debit card department (who had my new address).

To change my address, I had to log in to their site. They weren't allowed to change it on the phone. As soon I tried to log in, I noticed I forgot my password. When I clicked 'reset password', there was a new surprise: they send the new password by snail mail.... to the old address of course!

So I had to go in person to the house I used to live in and explain the situation. I asked them to ring me when the letter with my name on it arrived on their doorstep. Luckily the people who now live in my old house were very nice and gave me the letter!
The first comment?

Really guys?

Just, wow.

I was hoping we might get some elevated discussion about relative manufacturing feasibility between early 20th century America and early 21st century America. But here we are.
If you are a software dev, you should know that devs love to expend relatively extravagant effort and time to figure out an issue, explain it precisely, and fix it to avoid the possibility of it happening again.
You can do bunch of cool stuff on there too like view your profile

https://duome.eu/<profile-name>

compare yourself to other profiles ect.
I wish I met more interviewers like you.
I think I sympathise with companies hiring for a single position. It’s hard to organise timing with several candidates and recruiting is expensive. If they’re a large company, I see it as a signal that they believe the candidate has a good chance of finding a better offer elsewhere given time.

I think from the candidate’s point of view, I don’t think the question is whether an offer is acceptable so much as whether it is the best offer in their search. Just as a company might like to interview several companies looking for a good fit and make an offer to the best even when others are acceptable, a candidate might want to receive several offers and accept the best even if others are acceptable.

I think a company would be fooling itself if it told stories about selecting for passion or something. If you’re not seeing any competing offers in your hires, you should ask why they aren’t competitive? Maybe your offers are very good or so bad as to not be worth trying to negotiate. Or maybe you’re selecting for the most desperate candidates. Or maybe you’re good at finding hires who perform poorly under whatever interview conditions are most fashionable.
I mostly use 7zip but I've had a number of archives in the past that would simply not properly extract using 7zip and WinRAR had no issues with. 7zip is fine, however I don't see it as superior really in any notable way. I don't understand why everyone is crazy over it at this point. It's good, but so is WinRAR. Why is it sad for people to use one good program over the other when they both accomplish the same thing in about the same way? There's very little special about 7zip for typical day to day use.
I have to agree there was something off with the tempo of this essay. There were too many too short paragraphs.
I've gone through and answered the WaaS questions on several occasions, I think they are nicely focused and relevant. I would not do the same for other portals because they simply don't have the reputation that YC does.
If you’re saying things that can end your career instantly, be more careful about what you say?
If that person moves out, they are no longer a part of that household.
#1. Local backups are still itunes based on windows.
#2. Stateing everything is still not quite true. The OS is not backed up, since old versions cannot be restored. and unless things have changed since a few versions back, local backups deliberatly omit some data if it can be downloaded on restore. For example, the actually apps just have their names and versions recorded so they can be redownloaded. Which is not really a problem, except in those rare cases where an app has been completely deleted from Apple's servers, which typically only happens for malware or for legal reasons. (I suspect that any apps not in the store at the time of the backup are included in the backup, so hitting this case should be incredibly rare.)
> Everybody (who has a boss)

If you don't have a boss, you'll have customers, which also results in boring, shitty work.

Unless you can pass that off to underlings. Which means you have management duties. AKA boring, shitty work.
Not surprising that they discovered it, even if they weren’t aware of it - I’m guessing this is how it went: person tried to use his card number on some random website, but it kept telling him that his number is invalid. They scratch their head and double, triple check that number and then do a google search.
For those who use Vim bindings, and would like to try out emacs, I'd suggest trying Spacemacs:

https://www.spacemacs.org/

It has "evil mode" by default — the vim bindings.

I picked this up at Jane Street, where much of the internal tooling is in emacs. I still use it wherever I can't get a good vscode setup, and it has some advantages over vscode.
The title of the essay is "Write Simply." Furthermore, the second sentence is more general than the first:

> That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with it.

That is a general claim. I agree that it is often good advice, but there are caveats which Graham does not provide.
The following is hearsay based on a few people I know in that field, so take it with a grain of salt.

These days, most companies seem increasingly resigned/accepting of the fact that they're not going to find young, dynamic COBOL programmers in the wild. On top of that, old-school COBOL has a knack for creating idiosyncratic software architectures. Learning how some particular monstrosity was taped together is more important than the language itself, which is brain-dead simple. And there are few such COBOL codebases out there in the wild to read.

The result is a move towards hiring and training good programmers in-house, quite counter to the general trend in the industry. Which makes for good job security but also makes it hard to enter directly.
>Does Webex allow you to wait in a virtual waiting room until the meeting starts by now?

I believe it's a tweakable setting. Ours does that by default, it says "waiting for X to start the meeting" if you join early, and the client just waits. IIRC, you can also set it to allow someone else to start the meeting.

>The virtual background feature is woeful too and exactly as GP described. Barely enough to satisfy a check mark on a comparison chart, nothing more.

I would agree, it didn't seem to be a priority for them until covid hit. Then it was solid on mobile, and non-existent on desktop. I believe desktop is finally on-par with the last few releases but I rarely use it.

>Audio and video quality was subpar compared to the other alternatives too. It was a grating experience and I 100% ehco what the person you were responding to has said.

This one I don't quite get. Video for me has been far, far better with webex than the others. I've got a 4K camera as do a few of my coworkers and webex is the only one that actually appears to stream in something approaching 4K. Teams and zoom down sample like crazy.

The audio I had issues late last year but haven't ever had a problem otherwise. Zoom has been an absolute dumpster fire the last month with every vendor I work with - people just randomly dropping for no reason but zoom doesn't actually drop their connection on their end. People dropping and zoom just repeating whatever their last word was over and over and over on loop, etc. Teams is... teams. If everyone is coming in over the internet audio it sounds amazing, anything that transits internet >> phone is hit and miss with mediocre being the high water mark.
I'm fairly sure someone else suggested it as a possibility, because why the heck would a bank issued debit card number not work on say... Amazon.com?
Even so, https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/PDP_002d11_002dPseud....

9.34.2 Assembler Directives
The PDP-11 version of as has a few machine dependent
assembler directives.

.bss
Switch to the bss section.

...
I haven't used a it a lot but it's been a solid endpoint for backups.

I did some medium-intensity benchmarking a while back and decided not to put certain server data on it because I was getting a few 20+ second timeouts per thousand read requests. I can handle server errors, and I have retry logic, but this was something where I needed to be able to access the data within a second or two. Maybe it would have worked better if I set a very aggressive timeout, I'm not sure. Deeper testing is something I'll worry about some other time if the data actually grows past a couple hundred gigabytes.

This was mostly with the S3 API, I don't remember if I ever succeeded in getting the program to use the native one.
If you are banned from returning merchandise to Amazon, Home Depot, CVS, Sephora, Dick’s, JCPenney, Victoria’s Secret or Best Buy you are likely banned from doing returns by all of them.

They are all using a third party called The Retail Equation.
Most of the credit cards in my wallet are issued by banks that don't even have a branch. The last time I got a plastic card issued in person was a debit card I got when I was a child.
this is really neat! Now someone just needs to make this for video so I don't need to use ffmpeg to meet Twitter's video standards.

https://gist.github.com/nikhan/26ddd9c4e99bbf209dd7#gistcomm...
>No, I don’t think tobacco and alcohol should be illegal. I do think addictively sawing off your hand should be illegal.

Why should addictively amputating your hand be illegal, but addictively killing yourself by destroying your lungs, heart, or liver not be illegal?
Credit cards send updated card information to various merchants that you've used. Usually it's for things like subscriptions or bills so you don't have a gap in service. Personally I hate it because it lets smaller stuff slip through the cracks for longer.
Re: The reason given is it's getting difficult to find COBOL programmers

Cobol programming is a skill that is trivially taught. Any student with a Cmpt. Science degree from a credible institution, given a curriculum, can learn any programming language in a month with a bit of focus/appropriate curriculum. Can pick up the necessary frameworks in a reasonable period of time. Then it's just a matter of teaching them the line of business, and the practices and procedures.

I would claim that, given twelve months, you could teach a cohort of recent Cmpt. Science graduates all the skills they needed to be successful in any Insurance/Banking/Finance programing environment.

And these are developers that you can then pay a very reasonable salary - say, $150K/year - which is $75/hour, not $300/hr, at the cost of 1 year of salary as they come on board, come up to speed (say at an out-of-college salary of $100K/year.) - You need 1,000 of those developers - that's an up-front cost of $100mm, at which point you have your developers.

Compared to a multi-billion dollar transition cost off of a mainframe, I know which one I would chose if I were the PHB.
Twitter is making some changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416065
I'd like to ask the opposite question as someone who knows Vim but not Emacs. What am I missing if I'm only concerned with text editing?
"I cried into my keyboard forking out yet more money for a llama emoji that I probably didn't need."

Kudos to the author for such a fun project
A bit tangential, but I started using Chakra UI on one of my projects and I really like it. Performs much better than Tailwind probably because it comes with batteries included and I almost never have to touch CSS in any form.
I fucked up a truck and they covered it without questions, I guess their customer experience was highly variable.
That must have been so frustrating. We have advance technology but still not very good
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it antiquated/odd these days to add an email address for questions, instead of a Twitter or Matrix handle?
In Ukraine and Russia, your passport for ID and passport for travel may be two separate documents - паспорт and загранпаспорт, the former is probably what Griskha meant by 'internal'.
Oh yeah, totally, I just never saw anyone update a rec to suit. Maybe I just never paid attention. :)
The explanation of the service sounds like the rules for The Cones of Dunshire.
How many credit cards do you have? And if it's 3+, then why do you have so many?

Just curious.
I believe MUSHClient is cross-platform nowadays, or at least I remember running it on Linux for the nostalgia. Definitely should run fine under Wine.
What's your FIRE number, if you don't mind, and what area do you live in (HCOL/LCOL, urban/rural, etc.)?
> Fuck you money is reserved (or should be) for much more egregious offenses

Why?

I'm not saying that once you have FU money you are entitled to be a primadonna and expect everybody else to bend over for you. Of course not.

But if there's anything you don't like about your current job, it enables you to discuss it without fear of not being able to meet your financial obligations.

So, as long as you are not a jerk about it, what is the problem with taking advantage of the leverage you now have?
I've used vim for more than 20 years, but lately I'm finding that now that `prettier` and `black` can just reformat code wholesale, I don't have to care as much about the precise tiny edits that vim is so good at. And when I'm not worried about those things, I start to notice that modern IDEs have much smarter syntax checking and whole-project search than I've ever seen in vim, even with plugins. So I think I'm moving on.
How would they know who you are, if you're paying cash or not using the same card?
I like this idea, but this is suffering from too many buzz words that it's almost too difficult to understand. Embalmer, Curse, Archeologist? There's some pretty thin analogies to draw from. This won't make the system easier to understand, and it might actually affect adoption.

I once heard about a team that rebuilt a whole suite of micro services using names from Lord of the Rings, but the names didn't reflect the service's functions at all, so the system was instantly unusable due to the confusing terminology.

Keep the terminology simple.
If I remember correctly, Cozmo (https://ankicozmorobot.com) has, among other ways to program for it, a Scratch integration. Not sure that matches what you qualify as robotics though.
Yes, in theory. But I end up not liking having to sit at the desk for "everything computer". Sometimes I just want to work while sitting comfortably on the couch.
Any idea how the fats avoid becoming rancid? Jerky is made from lean meat to avoid rancidity. Is it the difference between dairy fat and muscle fat?
I think this was FB's secret sauce. We love creeping on people we know.
wouldn't this just be....

How to go from Vim to any other Editor/IDE and use Vim bindings ...
> competitor insurance companies share data about customers with fraudulent claims

I'm pretty sure it's any claim. If you want to see something scary request your lexis nexus consumer report.
> And yet— still the same ship, right?

Not necessarily. That's the whole debate!
If you're doing a return on a cash transaction, a lot of stores will ask for ID.

https://www.theretailequation.com/frequently-asked-questions...

> How does the system work?

> When a consumer wants to make a return, a retailer will scan the original sales transaction receipt and/or collect consumer identification (in certain regions that may be the individual’s driver’s license or government-issued ID card) to make an identification of the person and his/her unique return behavior.
The article should have been "Let's teach employers ergonomics and stop the 8 hour laptop insanity", something like: It's 2021, the first question in an interview should be: Can I work form home? The second should be: You don't expect me to work 8+ hours per day on a laptop - or do you?
Most ask for photo ID when you do a return.
A noble effort, but I'm certainly concerned about the use of a background check company. This is anecdotal, but I've missed out on a job before due to misreporting from a background check company. The amount of hoops I had to go through to prevent the mistake from happening again took years - and of course, the opportunity for that job was long gone by then.

Really, the only proper way to do a background check is via your local law enforcement. These companies should not be relied on. Ever. Even if they're right a majority of time, the cases where they're wrong are too damaging to be considered trivial.
My wife works at one. The horrible Oracle CRM* may be the least bad system they have.

*AFAICT, each keystroke has to be sent to Redwood City to be individually massaged and returned.
I also had this happen. I was pleasantly surprised. Apple Pay is easier than it used to be when it comes to registering cards too.
Not really a big issue to be honest. The market will sort itself out.
To clarify, I think (or hope) this is what you're trying to say; being transgender is not a mental illness. The effects of either pretending to be cisgendered, or attempting to live life as the gender you identify can definitely lead to mental illnesses (depression, low self-worth, anxiety, etc.). I can't think of one trans person in an unaccepting household who didn't develop a few bad coping mechanism for their gender dysphoria. Luck decides if that coping mechanism leaves you scared for life (physically, mentally, socially), or if you're able to eventually unlearn it after you've gotten away from your toxic childhood environment.
For example: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/merchant/cardrefresher.ht...
Presumably, this person that is on the move is still using the same device no matter where they go. Their login session will be the same, just coming from a different IP.
Sure if we gloss over the fact google invented those ML techniques.
I'm a bit pessimistic that it might become a public company.
Critics fume after GitHub removes exploit code for Exchange vulnerabilities
Grave of the Lady in Red
Russia. Until recently mail (of snail mail variety) was notoriously unreliable, and mailboxes in row houses are out of the owner's sight and easily breachable
valid point... we're in agreement, pretty much everybody has to endure at least some boring shitty work
I think an increase in entropy is a great way to put it. More energy from the sun is being kept in the atmosphere (and the oceans), more energy is going to effect a complex system like the Earth's atmosphere in complex ways. More energy means changes in air currents and ocean currents that could have a significant impact on local weather patterns. More energy means larger more powerful storms. More energy means more moisture in the atmosphere which means potentially more rainfall/snowfall in some areas.
That's the plan. Waiting on the official report next week and will present it to the city (again). If the city continues to refuse to take action then I'll have to move forward with a lawsuit.
Lol what the heck, the first one is WAY more snarky than the second! Unless you meant that the second is just not dripping in enough snark.
This is both hilarious and horrible. I think the FSF address (both old and new) is one of the most well-known address on the Internet. I have to wonder: how many junkmail do you receive from web scrapers?
Given that the parity can only lose 3 shards it's easy to show that a datacenter loss will always result in data loss, so there's no reason to distribute and we should assume that all 20 shards are always going to be in the same place.
I hope there is some way for drivers to appeal.
Sure, but “to compete with google” that is the skills you need... think about how they started.

If the solution is: “I know who to hire” then anyone is smart enough to compete with any company... just hire the same people from the competition.
The new browser-based puppeteer REPL, and how we built it
This is obviously a good thing from a safety standpoint, but I worry we are increasingly becoming a one strike society. Where one instance of bad behavior locks you out of significant parts of the infrastructure. Moreoever this happens in a "court" with no documented laws/appeals process.
Did the FSF use those coupons to advertise its philosophy?
I did not mean to imply that malaria is the only thing preventing Africa's development. African societies have various problems which prevent their development. Malaria is a common one.

Parents missing work leads to reduced wealth production. For the 65% of Africans who rely on subsistence farming [0], sickness at critical times (harvest) can result in drastic economic losses. Children frequently missing school end up with lower education levels and reduced lifetime wealth production. Malaria can also cause lifelong intellectual disabilities [1], which destroy lifetime wealth production.

> If a country cannot afford to administer its own healthcare and economic policy, that has nothing to do with Malaria.

This is a bold claim. Can you please explain?

It seems to me that a country's wealth influences its ability to address specific health problems. And when those health problems reduce wealth production, there is a vicious cycle. The question is, "How big is the effect of malaria on wealth production?" Gates Foundation says it's "billions of dollars per year" [1]. That is tiny compared to Africa's $2.6T GDP. I think Gates Foundation is oversimplifying. I believe multiplying effects exist, especially with education and childrens' health. This was seen with long-term deworming experiments [2] which showed that even the siblings of treated children, born long after the treatment period, also had higher lifetime earnings.

> is hogwash, ignorant and downright irresponsible.

Please try to disagree without insulting others personally.

[0] https://borgenproject.org/tag/subsistence-farming/

[1] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/what-we-do/global-health/mal...

[2] https://blog.givewell.org/2016/07/26/deworming-might-huge-im...
> Really, the only proper way to do a background check is via your local law enforcement.

What in the history of policing makes you think they're immune to similar mistakes?
Why are any of these things good for the consumer? All of these sound like DBs that should be limited if possible.