skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe she should have responded when they reached out to see what they could do to accommodate her. Throwing a tantrum should absolutely be punished.
I've kind of noticed this in general with MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations/Overahaul) organization suppliers in general, and any site that caters to procurement organizations or frequent repeat direct buyers. They tend to be very no-nonsense and streamlined, and very pleasant to work with. This might just be a cultural bias on my part, thought.

Interestingly, Far Eastern sites I've seen, even MRO and procurement-oriented sites, but especially consumer-facing sites, tend to be extremely information-dense. To my Western site-accustomed sensibilities, they feel "too busy", but after awhile I understood the aesthetic (calligraphic script languages tend to have a higher information throughput per unit area than alphabet-script languages, and this seems to bleed over into aesthetics as well).
I suspect it’s not really the public nature of Twitter that makes its responses better, it’s simply that internal procedures empower people manning social media to fix customer problems more effectively than the normal customer support channels.

I don’t have Twitter, but I have complained to companies via Facebook (which at this point I don’t notably use either, but still have an account) private messages, and have had my problem fixed efficiently after complete failure via multiple other methods of contact. (Those companies being Vodacom South Africa who kept sending me some customer’s invoices, and Uber Eats, which made a complete mess of an order in multiple ways.)
100%

Thoroughly commented code tends to end up a couple changes out of date. A separate file in the same directory ends up a couple major refactors out of date. A separate file in a separate system ends up a couple company-wide reorgs out of date.
The examples seem to say that fire helps fight NIMBYs?
I've never seen so many job opportunities in my life. Getting what you want out of employment right now should be as easy as filling up on vitamin D; just walk out the door.
"I'm not sure how something like that is supposed to effect my longterm mental health."

No one knows. It's one of the biggest and most interesting open questions regarding psychedelics: how and why do they work?

What there is a lot of evidence for is that they seem to help a lot of people with very severe depression. The people involved in such studies tend to be ones that have had severe depression for a very long time and have tried many different treatments without success, some including trying electro-convulsive therapy (ECT.. or what used to be known as electroshock therapy), and some of which had had multiple suicide attempts... and psychedelics have helped a significant number of such people -- not everyone, but many.

Another big open question is why it helps some people but not others.
I kinda get it. MS is looking at other tech companies that do this without any backlash and keeps wondering why they are singled out. If you ignore their history it is not a completely meritless line of thought. Why shouldn't they try if evey other company gets away woth it?
i can't believe im about to say this but dude we live in a society
Or in the case of megabyte vs megabit, it's in fact a 125ml bottle.

I understand what you're saying, but it's a bit disappointing that the company doesn't train their salespeople to understand the bullet points they're trying to sell. This isn't really CCNA-level knowledge.
related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQnKTyXqWx0
Oral evidence: Coronavirus: Lessons learnt, HC 95
Firefox is far from dead. I switched back to Firefox from Chrome and it’s been freeing. The extension migration was a pain, but I found almost everything I needed and purged stuff I didn’t.
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This all boils down to the question of how to reign in the administrative state, and the problem here is that no one really wants to reign it in, they want to control it and point it in the direction they prefer, that is, they want an extra-judicial, extra-legislative source of power to exist, but just not do any of the things they don't like.

But I don't think this is possible, once you have an administrative state, of course it's going to monitor and spy on everyone, it's going to arrest people and not give them fair trials (hello Assange), it's going to try to manipulate democratic processes and it's going to crush any force that it perceives as a threat to its own survival. In short, it will have a mind of its own, with its own goals, and by definition it will not be bound by legislative or judicial restraints.
Well, you're assuming that passing is an option. One possibility would be that if you're bidding first, since there's no prior bid to pass to, you must bid; you can bid 0, but you can't pass. The rules just say it's an auction; they don't even say that you take turns making bids (or that this occurs in the usual turn order, or who starts), rather than it being more of a free-for-all! Like I said, it's all kind of undefined.

EDIT: Actually, a better answer for how to interpret it -- all players passing is impossible, because if all but the last player passes, then the last player has won the auction (for $0) by virtue of everyone else having passed; they don't get to a chance to pass, because they win the auction before it'd ever be their turn to pass! This is actually a pretty natural intepretation and I think how some of the video game adaptations handle it.
The Mystery of 'Havana Syndrome'
I assure you that in countries where the metric system is used ordering a litre of wine you would expect to receive 1000ml.
Yeah, but why would anyone want to do that when credit cards already exist?
I love those sacrificial designs. I found one in my whirpool washing machine too; a hard plastic gear.
The first reference on the Wikipedia article is to a Australian university page, but then again, the link's broken.
NYT's GDPR compliance UI is hilariously user-hostile. You can't even opt out. There's no chance this is accidental.
Can you elaborate on "come after you"? I would definitely use this type of option for gym subscriptions when given the chance.
Amazon, not putting chat button against orders is a very good example of it not being customer focused. Amazon should not be taken seriously when it claims that it's the most customer focused company on the planet.
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My above point is was that cost is an example of an engineering tradeoff, not that it is the only engineering tradeoff.

Phone batteries are designed to be replaceable. They’re internal because of design considerations, not cost. In fact, nearly all cell phone batteries are secured with removable adhesive because they’re specifically intended to be replaceable.

Homes have circuit breakers (fuses haven’t been mainstream for a while) because the load is not predefined, and can be occasionally exceeded by the end user. This is not the case for a consumer appliance with a known load. An unexpectedly high load is an indication that another component has also failed. There’s some diagnosis that should be done when replacing a fuse on a system with an unexplained over current situation.
> Now it's ubiquitous. But that ubiquity will make it all the more easier for merchants to adopt crypto.

The point is that no-one needs to adopt crypto for payments because the existing payment platforms work fine, better than crypto. Making transactions immutable, requiring users to maintain perfect IT security, currencies swinging in value by 20% every time Musk tweets about them, etc, are regressions.
Please provide evidence for this assertion.

Note, not speculation in Bitcoin, usage of it as an actual currency.
Can you say more? The risk of account locks seems very similar on any of the major cloud providers? A brief search shows similar complaints on AWS, for example.
Man, I have such an opposite reaction. I know I could develop something like this if I tried but the thought of building something that would be used to kill someone, even a “bad” someone honestly makes me ill.
Yeah but fireworks are fun.
Thanks for this info. Yes, this is farther along than I expected!
While I dont think I'll have this tomorrow morning, you may like pan-fried steak and fried egg on the side, with OJ or coffee :)
It's literally in her contract that she has to do this.

Should it be? I dunno, but you can't say her job is just 'to be the best at [her] sport' when the contract includes talking to the media after the matches.

That's definitionally part of her job at that point.
Scrambled eggs on sourdough toast is my go-to. Quick and easy.
Do you expect companies to roll their own credit payment systems? Or their own shipping? Hell, everyone already uses greenhouse and such for job postings anyways, why not let them handle it for you?

If IBM wants everyone to use their shitty internal application system but also not del with local laws, that’s on them, not on Colorado.
If Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps refused to do post-race interviews, they're still the best in the world at their events, and their feats would still be covered by the media. Caveat: opting out of regulations directly connected to competitors' athletic abilities (i.e. drug testing) is different.

Competitive sports are slightly muddier than individual events, but the principle holds. It's called "sports entertainment" not the other way around because without the top-tier competitive sport aspect, it'd just be Survivor-like entertainment shows.

And the movie star thing is different because they're literally hired for marketing purposes; the whole point of "star power" is that I'll go see any movie Tom Hanks is in.

Separately, I take issue with the notion that just because you're rich, mental health should be a non-issue. That's like saying that since you can easily afford burn victim treatment, you should stop complaining and walk into the burning building.
Thank you, I was confused by that. If a $40 Victorinox is high end, what does that make stuff like Wusthof, let alone Takeda?
The map appears to show the route as being mostly highway, with the destination being the airport. Depending on the time of day it wouldn't be unreasonable for that to average to about 60mph.
I work in semi heavy industry. The industrial grade consumer items are great, but usually heavy. The latest example I have is buying bookcases from Uline. Not cheap, not light. But full steel and can hold binders easily. Getting more shelves and another matching one down the road is also easy.

Flea markets are also another great source for well built items. Have had great luck buying industrial grade tooling and electrical test/measurement equipment there.
Alas, a lot of capitalism is about who can be more parasitic than the other.
Terra macros are hygenic in the sense that they follow the Lua scoping rules. So if you do:

local add1 = macro(function()
return `x+1
end)
terra()
var x = 12
add1()
end

Then this will give you an error because x is not in scope in the add1 macro.

Instead you'd have to write:

local add1 = macro(function(y)
return `y+1
end)
terra()
var x = 12
add1(x)
end

Note that I changed the variable name to clarify that only the lexical scope matters (i.e., "x" is a symbol passed to the function as argument y).

You should be able to create towers of languages in Terra. I'm not sure if anyone really does more than 2 levels in practice, but most of the common Terra DSLs are basically written as code generators on top of Terra language expressions.

See e.g. the Regent code generator. Here's an example of some nested metaprogramming---not with a nested language or macros, but with an escape that calls a Lua function to generate more code based on the type of the argument:

https://github.com/StanfordLegion/legion/blob/0cf9ddd60c227c...
Perpetuating the fear of deflation is the greatest feat the Fed has ever pulled off.

Deflation is good. Every wage earner becomes more wealthy as their rate of pay buys more. Sticky wages arent a problem with deflationary money. Hell, at least half the complaints about the modern economy are the result of inflation. But, no, deflation would utterly destroy the economy.
States are also cartels but we just call the overlords by different names (Police, Mayor, Military, etc). Both commit obscene amounts of violence. Just look at the military history of United States for instance.
> it's not even useful to know that phabricator is software

For some unknown reason you seem to assume that any and all information, however useless, is "better than nothing". Go enjoy your cage on wheels.
I'm not at all sure blockchain tech will change how we do finance. Literally every finance or finance-adjacent company has been trying to figure this out for the better part of the decade, and it just doesn't add up.

Ethereum is very cool. Aave and Compound are very cool. But today, the whole ecosystem is super insular. Crypto loans and derivatives have to be overcollateralized with cryptoassets, and so the only use case for them is levering up cryptoasset exposure. Flash loans are a unique aspect of DeFi, but they're only really useful for arbitrage of cryptoassets.

There remains a huge disconnect between cryptoassets and the real world. Things like NFT attempt to bridge, but it's basically just pretend. Owning an NFT generally provides no actual control or rights over the asset it refers to.

Until institutions start creating assets natively on the blockchain, none of this stuff has any impact on the outside world. And it's not at all clear to me that this is going to happen, because there are potentially insurmountable hurdles in figuring out how to harmonize law and the blockchain. This entire ecosystem may turn out to be a dead end, outside of the clearly demonstrated use cases of speculation and crime.
Regarding the dead sibling comment, it's never RICO.

https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-...
> It's a consumer being able to unilaterally say "give me my money back" and the merchant basically being stuck with the tab.

The merchant is stuck with more than the tab. There's also a chargeback fee, which can range from around $15 to several times that depending on who they use for payment processing.

> Doing a chargeback means the relationship between consumer and merchant is ineffective that they can't resolve their differences normally.

Sometimes it means that the customer didn't even try to resolve the dispute. At one place I worked we always gave a refund when one was requested, with no hassle. Some customers, though, would not ask. They would go straight to chargeback.

I think that because some companies make it a major hassle to get them to issue a refund, some consumers try to do a chargeback first and only call the merchant if the bank requires them to try to settle the issue directly first.
Why is everyone so concerned that the earnings was a negative amount of money? Instead of being charged, the driver only got paid $0.01. Would that be okay? In a way the driver is still getting charged because the gas alone is more than that. If this is just one example, imagine all the drivers who don't get a negative earnings but end up spending more than they make. The real question is what number is okay and how do you calculate it.
AES+HMAC is harder to screw up than GCM, which is notoriously brittle. In particular: AES-CBC + HMAC doesn't fail catastrophically if randomness fails somehow, and GCM does.
Since this is HN, I'll throw it out there -- I store my photos on Amazon S3 and I use signed imgix urls to share them with people and use imgix to generate thumbnails for galleries.
Note that there appears to only be only one register.
Wow, that's great to hear the taxi company stepped up, but I'm completely shocked by it! In the decade of taxi experiences prior to Uber/Lyft/ridesharing almost every taxi experience was absolutely awful. Driving erratically, on the phone, can't (or won't) take cards, won't take the route I said, literally kicking me and my spouse out of the cab and yelling at us for saying they needed to make a left turn instead of right (we lived in the area and knew where we were going). I'm convinced that a taxi driver has to literally kill someone before any action will be taken against them. I've found that Uber/Lyft usually tends to side with the rider but, like you shared, that's not always the case. The mutual rating system is a net plus IMO. Every cab company is different I guess, but I will never set foot in a cab again out of principle.
Or the least practical packaging as with a CSA.
I would never use or recommend Flickr. They lied to me. As premium user (for many yars) the promise to me was that photos uploaded will be kept free forever as long as the service exists. Even if I stop paying. Then they went back on that. They may have a very good reasons, but the trust was broken.
I think it will lead to more collaborative efforts to curb drone use, extrajudicial killings against arbitrarily created categories of people such as "non-state enemy combatants"

Very akin to bans on mustard gas or nuclear proliferation
Havana syndrome: microwave weapons and project pandora
That's the sad thing in the US. Everything medical is obscenely expensive. Just wait until psychedelics become accepted for therapy. they will probably also charge thousands for a trip.
Why? If you test it and have the same dosage it seems to be the same thing? isn't ketamine treatment just taking it and letting the chemical work. Why would your supplier being any different matter?
I use the software W10Privacy[1] to change my settings from all the nagging implemetrations. With it, you can (not) completely uninstall Edge, but restrict it so much that it no longer bothers you.

This can also be used to display the internet advertisements, the "important" notices and other hints with which Windows wants to promote its not-so-good products.

[1]https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/
That’s too vague. That could mean some money goes to MDN (enough “to make it self-sustaining”) and the rest goes to other Mozilla stuff.

I would believe Mozilla if they said “100% of the funds will go to MDN” but they don’t say that.
I have been looking to get rid of Google Photos from my toolset for a different reason. I don't mind paying for valuable services. I have been on the 2TB Family plan of Google One for a while, as I thought I would use it as the backup for my Photos.

The second reason was that I could have a single photo collective for the family. Apple Photos do not make it easy to have an all-shared family photo pool.

Unfortunately, it is tough to manage the storage between drive and photos. There is no easy way to keep the ones you like and the ones you want to delete to save space. There is no easy way to escape Google Subscription hell once you get in.

And they have hidden the one thing I love about Google Photos -- ForYou. If you have kids, you will love this one. https://photos.google.com/foryou

I'm just an amateur and family photographer, but doing that for the past 20+ years has gotten me quite many photos. I'm on the highest additional storage possible along with the Apple One subscription, and I'm struggling to find a better storage solution for my photos. I have few ideas, but I'm on the lookout for choices.
When you use a template language, how do you JIT the code so you can run it in the same process?

How do you parse C/C++ header files so you can introspect their types or functions and take actions based on the results?

How do you write clean abstractions for code generation? Do you build your own C++ AST abstraction entirely from scratch? If not what do you use, and how much power does it expose (and what tradeoffs come with the level of power that you get)?

Terra lets you do all of these things in a clean way with well-defined, predictable semantics that don't leave you scratching your head when you get to 4 nested levels of macros and complex dynamic behavior that depends on program inputs.
stainless steel serving pans and steam table trays are great roasting pans; abusable, scrub clean easily, stackable, etc. "consumers" get enameled oval pans that served our grandmothers as poorly as they do now.

Also caught some lovely cheap "disposable" paring knives that have served in our kitchen for several years and still going strong.
Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?
> out of the 22 dollars the customer paid for the delivery, I received 5.61 before tip

I am completely ignorant on how this works on the driver’s side, so I could be missing something here:

Those 22 dollars the customer paid include whatever food you were delivering, right?

Now, I’m sure the Food cost/Service cost split changes from country to country (I’m somewhere in the Euro zone)… but interpolating from those numbers, I get the feeling that Uber must be subsidizing the service very heavily.

They don’t charge that much extra money to the customer, so I wonder where the profit is coming from.

I’m having trouble conceptualizing how they are making any actual profit after expenses, and in the meantime they (and their ilk) are pushing the traditional restaurant delivery network away since they cannot compete or price nor convenience.

I don’t have a conclusion for this train of thought, just a bit of shock here in the early morning.
> What is wrong with making it up as you go?

Nothing if you're good at it. But if you're hoping to learn something from someone, it is pretty disappointing. How to make it up as you go along is far less teachable.
Yeah that's true. I was at an acquaintance's party on the rooftop of a sleek, modern apartment building near Berkeley and a tile came loose and almost fell through the floor, opening up a void into some machinery that this friend could have easily fallen through and gotten seriously injured, but with quick reactions we saved them from falling through.

The acquaintance didn't care to do anything about it so I sent e-mails to their property management the next day, and got no response. I then shamed the property management co on their Facebook page in comments with photos of the void and that got a prompt response.
Many places have legislation that forbids taxis from discriminating based on trip destination.

If someone lives in such a place, Uber shouldn’t be allowed to incentivize one trip over another based on destination, so if a passenger circumvents any such incentives, the ethical problem really is not with the passenger.
Thanks! I thought I was perceiving something like that but I wasn't sure, glad to see it is a likely more fun or at least more engaging way to stay social than board games of the past.
That's some cojones.
15 years later they're gonna destroy Miami pricing and then flee to the apalachians
Maybe they added this recently:

> Using sensors and GPS data, RideCheck can help detect if a trip goes unusually off-course or a possible crash has occurred. If the app notices such events, we’ll check in on you and offer resources to get help.

https://www.uber.com/us/en/ride/safety/
How would a PKI prevent double spending in a distributed network?

If you could solve that problem well without burning the electricity Bitcoin does, you'd revolutionize industries.
How to Config Netlify Custom Domain in AWS Route53
I can't tell if this is self hosted or not. All I see is a centralized option. If not self hostable, a user still can't guarantee that this doesn't just end up being as bad as google photos. There are plenty of companies like this that provide an alternative to the mainstream then sell out. Really, the only person you can trust is yourself at the end of the day.
No one said you have to use the technology for illegal things, or even as money. Even Bitcoin-the-blockchain is only a timestamping system (seriously, even the Bitcoin whitepaper explicitly states that this is the purpose of the blockchain -- a peer-to-peer timestamper), which uses a token to prioritize transactions for consideration when the network is congested. I can think of non-financial uses for that!