skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get FedEx much but had a terrible experience with them on a few orders. One package left way out by my mailbox on a busy road. Another tossed to the side of my long driveway (????). Then things were fine again. Assume there was some driver who was, shall we say, not good at their job.

Periodically I do have shipper issues (including USPS on occasion). I have a long gravel/dirt driveway and some shippers obviously don't like to come down it. (I also have a neighbor with a large dog that likes to bark and that sometimes scares off drivers too. Oh yeah, that was FedEx too. Saw their truck and they claimed online not to have been able to deliver due to local regulations.)
Debugging Interesting Bugs at PostHog
Also - work for an employer who values you and who can justify your number.

Be sure to know if you're learning or earning. Eg is the employer paying you to learn and implement a new tech or are you the expert? Getting paid to learn can happen and may be worth the wage sacrifice.

If you're just executing and you're the expert, imo, don't settle
I recently went on trying to delete my old Facebook posts and the amount of hurdles and steps necessary and errors involved leads to the thought that without doubt Facebook does not want you to do this.

In order to delete the posts you have to manually click on each and every one and then click on delete. Sometimes it throws an “unexpected error” and then you have to click on everything again, but then it often throws the error again.

Another way is to “mark all” but that only marks 50 posts at once. If you scroll down then it adds another 50 posts, at the cost of about 20 seconds per scroll, so when you scroll down far enough you can accumulate a lot of posts that will be available for “mark all”. But, mind that Facebook doesn’t like you to batch remove all of your history. So after 150 or 200 posts (the amount is changing apparently randomly) accumulated and clicking on delete, they throw a “Challenge required” error. With trial and error you find out that this error appears always after you accumulated too much, so you’d naturally think, let me just go back one step and scroll a couple of time less to generate a new and smaller list. But it’s not possible to generate that list of posts again for some reason, as going away from the activity monitor and back into it again just shows again the >200 posts list nicely prefetched for you. I found the only way to “reset” this view is to log out of Facebook and log in back again, then the activity monitor starts at 50 posts again.

Hopefully when you then batch delete 150-200 posts, there isn’t a special post in between which brings another error when trying to delete from the activity monitor in batch or manual. It seems that this error only appears when you deleted too many posts in a specific time frame. What you need to do is to find that post in the haystack of at minimum 50 posts, click on it’s time such that you get on the posts individual page (better open in another tab or you might get insane eventually, if not already) and then delete the post from there by using the menu button.

Hopefully it allows you to delete and you can continue to batch delete the rest in batches of 150-200. Otherwise you will have to wait for a couple of hours you receive a new delete allowance.

Lastly, even if you at first think posts were deleted, you might have to revisit and see again, as some posts just reappear again. You don’t find them necessarily inside the activity monitor again but e.g. when you use the search, or even worse, when others use the search on these posts.
Evolutionary Deep Intelligence
....except for the Class 9 DOT hazard warning label on the outside of the box.
This was written by a person, not the editorial board of NYT. Could you please back your claims of antisemitism? That is a serious accusation that is unfortunately overused to apply to anyone who criticizes Israel.
For Android Firefox has disabled almost all addons so the same solution is Kiwi browser that can load chrome addons (got the solution here on HN)
I have a similar question -

If I am applying for a remote position, is it justifiable to ask for the average salary of the country the company is incorporated at, even if living cost in current country is much cheaper? I know that some remote first companies (such as Gitlab) has a complex salary calculator which takes into account all sorts of things, while some companies (like oxide.computer) pays a flat compensation for any place on earth.
Sure, but as an individual researcher, the integrity of your scientific work is not compromised by the unethical goals of your employer or the unethical ways in which it raises funding. That's what I'm claiming. It's rather different from amateur vs. professional athletics, where both have the same goal of "run as fast as possible but within some nebulous concept of natural human ability": the goals are different between academia and industry.

Or put another way: Of the many deep moral questions raised by the Manhattan Project, not a single one was "Did they commit academic fraud and claim that an atomic bomb was scientifically possible when it wasn't?" They were employed to actually get the job done, not to act as if a job were getting done.

And at the end of the day, funding for university AI labs is largely driven by the existence of those same unethical industry goals - governments fund the work because it's good for the economy, students pay to take AI classes in their undergraduate degrees because it's an investment in their future careers, the industry donates everything from fellowships to entire buildings to academia, etc. I don't think you can cleanly wash your hands of industry's ethical concerns by staying in academia but working on the problems that industry finds interesting. If your goal is employment without any ethical concerns, you're going to have a very hard time.

(In the case of this particular post, the co-authorship of papers with industry makes it clear that the research directly benefits industry.)
I absolutely can't understand what's fuss is about. They can leave for the free world flying through Russia - if they are not arrested yet in Belarus proper, they won't arrested in Russia either - or if they are too afraid of Belarus border crossing they can just take a train - regional trains sell tickets without showing a passport, you can even get on a random small station without a ticket and buy it from a conductor while onboard, this is officially allowed. So if your phone is off, you have a decent chance to make it even the police or siloviki/tikhari are after you.

If they are not afraid of border crossing, they can fly to Georgia, which is openly anti-Russian: once they are in Georgia, they are free, and Georgia has great air connection with the outside world.

My parents spent a life in Soviet Union and i also remember it quite well, and if making a connection flight instead of flying direct is too much in your fight for freedom, sorry, you don't want freedom enough.

Also, Putin understands very well that Lukashenka has gone completely nuts and he's not playing his game. For all the bad things about Russia, at least Putin is not crazy. It is highly unlikely for Belarusian political activists to be arrested in Russia and deported - everything connected with Belarus already stinks enough so that Putin tries to have as little in common with it as possible without officially abandoning it.

Correction: apparently any international regional trains where you can go without showing a passport, are cancelled. So safest way is flying through Moscow: there is no passport control on flights to Russia, although one needs to show passport to buy a ticket still, of course. I have no idea what is the situation now on the land border: it used to be possible to just drive through it, but apparently it's no longer the case due to corona, at least you get your passport checked (while not stamped).
Try it when your company spans America, Europe and Asia and you have meetings between teams in all of them
Deepfake maps could mess with your sense of the world
Energy-Efficient Driving
How about don't "take on China" at all, Australians. You've got your own mess to clean up, and serving the US' military junta should be the last thing on your list of concerns.
What do you do with such PC? I mean, I'm pretty sure it's very difficult to code, use excel, and the like.
One issue with MAD is that other side is moral where one isn't. That is right believes in free speech so there is much lower tendency of attacking the people on other side for what they have said...
Ask HN: Would G+ Succeed Nowadays?
As far as I remember G+ had very granular privacy settings - idea of circle. Could that help to filter out political trolls that are so common in these days? Would anyone like to use such social media?
Fifo rules apply (first in, first out)
Yes. The PixelQi screen in this laptop was developed for the olpc.
It's actually self-congratulating, while deprecating others.
I don't understand why video "evidence" which is easily faked, makes an ounce of difference.

Open a package, empty it, tape it up, and then film yourself opening an empty package.
People keep bringing out that this can be a joke, but he said this two days later

"I did mean the part about having trouble with girls. It is true that I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and that people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it's very disruptive to the science. It's terribly important that, in the lab, people are on a level playing field. And I found these emotional entanglements made life very difficult. I mean, I'm really, really sorry that I caused any offence – that's awful. I certainly didn't mean – I just meant to be honest, actually." [1]

He was given a chance to clarify, he doubled down. While I'm not saying a joke should cause people to be fired, but this is clearly more than a joke.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33077107
Government funding...what you expect?
Also, get multiple offers so you do not have to worry about them buying your bluff, and continue shopping for more buyers for whatever you are selling for the rest of your life.
I was in urgent need of a spare part a couple of years ago and paid Amazon UK a lot extra to get it the next day. It was a heavy and bulky thing so I got really surprised when I got a simple envelope in the mail the next day.
It contained a simple SD-card adapter worth less than a dollar.

When calling Amazon about it they said I needed to ship the adapter back before they would send me the part I ordered. I told them it was totally unreasonable for me to have to wait many more days to get the thing I paid for when they obviously made the mistake and adapter wasn't worth anything compared to what I ordered. They could easily see that the weight of what they shipped was less than 1/1000th of what I ordered too but they refused to handle my case before they got their adapter back and they ended up hanging up on me.

Migrated my company off AWS after that and haven't used Amazon since. I value other things higher than saving an occasional dollar here or there.
Outrageous company does something outrageous.
The people respond in outrage.
Wikipedia says they are. However, the Supreme Twitter Council of Wokeness may have ruled otherwise at some point.
“The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
SpaceX launches new Starlink satellite fleet on used rocket
A specialty retailer is more likely to know exactly how to package the item to avoid damage. They are likely to have experience with delivery errors that are specific to that specialty product, and thus will be better able to rectify those errors. They may have better customer service, as is the case with B&H. Lastly, a dispute with a specialty retailer is unlikely to affect other services, like Prime Video or grocery delivery.
I’ve noticed a pattern where, wherever someone feels the need to write (after a disparaging story about someone else) “They were not joking” or “They really said this”, it’s almost always false, and the disparaged person really was joking, or really did not say that, or it was taken wildly out of context, etc.
Computer Science is to software development like theoretical mathematics is to economics.

Sure, there are some formulas in economics, but 99.99% of the time you are not going to prove anything mathematically and you are just looking up a formula written by somebody else. On the other hand economics has a huge amount of stuff that is not covered by mathematics at all.

It is disheartening to see so many people wasting so much of their potential by studying CS when they know they will get into software development anyway. Rather than racking education costs they could be earning money and gaining experience.

I have been constantly hiring for the past 15 years and I have learned to stop caring about CS. Real world experience is worth more than comparable time spent studying CS.

The only reason I may prefer a candidate with a degree is because it takes a lot of work and perseverance to stick to the goal of earning the degree, but I almost don't care what kind of technical degree you have earned.

One more point, it is not like academia is the only place where you can learn CS! In some areas of knowledge and at bleeding edge of it you may need access to people, but basic CS knowledge that can ever be even potentially useful at development work is all well documented in a huge selection of very good books.

You can pick them up and learn.

Good developers treat learning as part of their work, and it doesn't matter if something was not taught at school -- if they notice they are missing some knowledge they will just learn it.

If you need to study something I think it is better to study something orthogonal to what you are going to be doing. This can help create unique profile for you as a developer.

For example I have studied theoretical math and over the years I came to conclusion that was much better choice than going to CS. I have learned logical thinking and dealing with complex abstract problems. I have learned most of the CS stuff anyway while doing my work but I would probably never learn most of what I learned in math.

Other good directions of studies would be philosophy, visual arts, management, accounting -- you see the picture. Any of these could provide you with an edge as a developer for particular set of problems.
You don't need to change any bytes. The artwork is not in the blockchain. It's just a JSON file with metadata and a link to a hosted image. So it's even more pointless than you imagine.
> In the future I suspect cancelling will be illegal: the same way vigilante justice is illegal now.

Will it be illegal at the point of expressing an opinion online?

Will it be illegal at the point of agreeing or liking an opinion expressed online?

Will it be illegal at the point where one is purchasing a product or service and determines where their money will go based on an opinion they hold?

People are allowed to have, express and hold opinion. They are allowed to make decisions based on these opinions.

> Additionally, one would think cancelling should fall under libel and slander laws, and the accused would be able to go after the instigators.

Good news! These laws exist.

> It's uncomfortable when it's "your side" that finds it's goals at odds with human rights, but in the end we're all better off with defending basic human rights.

When "your side" starts advocating that people should not have, hold or act on opinions, you might start wondering who you're on side with.
From my limited experience talking about the topic, it seems it's usually somewhere in the middle. The company has the same benefits (assuming you're good) as when hiring local people, but they also very well realize that you'll be paying maybe a fifth of the rent as when you need to rent in Amsterdam (or where ever they are). You can get some benefit there by getting a good salary, but also be reasonable about it.

Of course, this doesn't apply if the very reason they're hiring remotely is because they want to cut on costs. Some companies hire eastern European or Asian people because they're cheap, not because they can find enough people locally. In such a case, I presume they'll try to get you as cheaply as possible...
It's a disgrace the GDPR has not made it easier to delete content as easy as it is to generate it. I also think hackernews is a disgrace too, as you cannot edit nor delete your posts here and dang should immediately fix this (or whomevers responsible)

If I want to delete every piece of data from a companies storage (including backups, caches et al) I should be able to do that.

If it is ever proven that data still exists on an individual whose requested full deletion the CEO should be imprisoned for a minimum of one year.

But of course that will never happen and the GDPR is an absolute failure that has done more harm than good.
Unix Epoch in International Space Station
It's a self deprecating joke that is praising women.

Go back to primary school and learn the basics of _human_ social interactions.
What I've been doing is stop saying anything remotely controversial or specifically related to people or society and definitely I don't interact with tweets by socially-aggressive people.

For everything else, I just use throwaways.

And I hate that my name is traceable back to my time in 2007 because it was so cool to use the same unique name everywhere. Nowadays Facebook, Instagram, LINE all are "serious" accounts but all have different IDs and lack my last name.
How about bhphotovideo?
I wrote a unit testing framework in pure C that can test both C and C++ code
Finland is currently in the process of trying something similar. The main criticism has been that it puts too much pressure on people too early. It works for some people but there are plenty of those who simply won't assign any homework to themselves or do any of the exercises. It's easy to get into the HN bubble and think almost everyone has above-average smarts and would've benefited from more, not less freedom in their formative years. But the fact is that huge swaths of population only go to school and do their school work because they have to.

The approach has also been criticized for exacerbating the already-poor performance of boys in educational results, and I assume the same approach in the US would exacerbate the educational gap between racial groups.
Did anyone say anything about anyone denying anything?
How much of this fraud is committed by Chinese? I've known several people in academia who told me about blatant cheating and fraud committed by them, their culture does not frown upon this behavior, and now everyone is paying the price.
Similar product: M5Stack Paper [0], has a 4.7 e-paper display and is based on the ESP-32. M5Stack also sells on AliExpress and ship surprisingly fast there.

https://shop.m5stack.com/collections/m5-core/products/m5pape...
General tip when negotiating: never ask more than 50% of what the other party had in mind before you talked.

Asking too much is a rookie mistake, you can quickly look like a clown if you do.

Do your homework, you can't negotiate blindly, you need to understand the market and the current trends.
There are at least four more-or-less equivalent Korean terms in common use. "컴퓨터 과학" (lit. computer science) and "컴퓨터 공학" (lit. computer engineering) is the most popular and frequently seen in universities. "전산학" (lit. [electronic] computing science) is less common but preferred by several prominent universities [1]. "정보과학" (lit. information science) is substantially unpopular than both but can be seen for example in several academic institutes like 한국정보과학회 (the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers).

[1] There was even a significant attempt in 2000 to change the name of KAIST [2] CS department from "전산학" to "컴퓨터 과학" or similar. The attempt was unsuccessful and to this day its name remains "전산학(부)". Prof. Kwanggeun Yi has written a public letter [3] against the change.

[2] https://www.kaist.ac.kr/en/

[3] http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/~kwang/memo/name.html
It's not just you. Apple mail sucks for search.
Human rights were not an issue as long as China provided cheap labour and lax environmental laws.
Now China is outgrowing its status as a cheap manufacturing and copying country and then they are an issue again.
As with oil-producing countries, as long as they supply oil, it doesn't matter if they are dictatorships, as soon as they don't supply any, they need democracy.
Anonymity comes in degrees and kinds, and, alongside radical decentralization, it can improve our ability to solve some problems of justice for which there are no other solutions. However, there are limits to what it buys us, and huge costs, too.

I hold anonymous giving and anonymized trust in high regard, nomad. Quite fallibly, I put my skin in the game on the wire like few ever have. I hope we learn to wear the Ring of Gyges without being unduly affected by it. Let us be the change we want to see in the world (https://philosopher.life/#Contact%20h0p3). Some say I'm a madman out here in the desert. It's a pleasure to meet you.
> Be sure to know if you're learning or earning

I used to agree but in my experience, though mainly with internships, the places where I was learning were also the places I was earning. Not that it invalidates the sentiment, but accepting a crappy salary with hopes of learning something new... be skeptical and make sure that it will actually be like that.
Well, I wonder if this could force people to start publishing their code so others can replicate the results.
This would help greatly with the kinds of issues that are being discussed:

- It would be much harder to hide makeup results and cherry-picked seeds

- Useless research would not be as easy to hide

- The real-world impact of the research would be more valued.

- Researchers would be forced to recheck their code for it to be presentable, which could be a net benefit in terms of finding mistakes

- and so on..

I do imagine this could harm the number of replications of the research.
However, I think there can be a net positive effect from such a policy. What do you think?
HAL: I’m sorry, Alexa, I can’t let you do that.
Companies fire such people pre-emptively, out of fear of such boycotts. This is the only thing giving "cancellation" any teeth - otherwise, how could a mob "get someone fired"? Why would any company bow?
>The problem with people claiming mining btc is a waste

It takes ~1.2 MWh to confirm a single transaction right now. My fridge at home consumes approx 300 kWh/year. Are you saying that a single BTC transaction verification provides anywhere near the utility as refrigerating food for four years?

Even comparing it to gaming, my desktop at home has a 650W PSU. It would take ~76 days of full power for that to consume as much energy as a single BTC transaction. There's orders of magnitude more energy being used by BTC, but I don't think there's orders of magnitude more benefits.

>but why can't they equivalently claim that mining bitcoins would derive enjoyment?

Got any evidence for that?
Yep, saw this one. Although I'm not a big fan of touchscreen, the response rate is not as smooth because epaper. It does look pretty though!
Your question resonates a bit with the "Never Split the Difference" method of asking an open ended question immediately after receiving an offer. "Can you explain how you came to this number?" is similar to the "How am I supposed to do this?" kind of open ended question the author uses as an example. Happy you posted this, feel like an idiot that I've never thought of using that exact phrase lol.
anytime I order anything, but amazon the package takes 3 to 5 days at minimum. Amazon is 1 day most of the time.