skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The warranty they up sell at checkout isn’t through Walmart which I didn’t know at the time but of course learned real quick.

The store manager eventually told me they would not accept the return on anything that had the extended warranty which is conveniently right on the receipt.

So this is the second time trying to return it when I wait to get a manager so I went to my car and called the warranty place again (Asserion) and got an agent on the line. Told the agent I called the day before, followed the advice to come back and get a manager and it didn’t work and she agreed to stay on the line while I walked back in the store to get the manager again.

She was awesome and a total boss. I put her on speaker, told the employee at the returns desk she’d speak to me and the manager and we waited five more minutes on him.

When he came back again I told the manager I had the warranty company on the phone refusing to service the contract and she rattled off all the info he needed to hear and what Asserions policies were and that he needed to do the manufacturer return on his side. 10/10 great experience with her.

Then he said go get one off the shelf and take the swap.
Ethics courses are presumably optional at the law school and the business school.
I wish walmart would buy barnes and noble, let me add a book to clear the free shipping bar
Those pictures are proof how trained military men behave, "maintain a single file". "Tank Man" becomes a legend for brazenly holding the line marching Tanks.

Given this scenario to any Indian driver, they'll just pass by using other lanes.
What?!! There are many, many posts with “inaccurate” titles. Would you like to change the John Carmack post to include his entire tweet as the title? YC moderation here on a YC-related post is not fair. It’s also unfair that this reply is placed above substantive discussion.
I'm pretty sure the group of "these activists" is diverse (heh) enough to make such generalizations wrong.
> “[Medium wants] to enforce good vibes and shut down anything that is questioning ‘the mission,’” they said.

Medium are right to “enforce good vibes”. Nobody wants to come to work to constantly defend themselves from ideological harassment.

It is openly conceded in the piece that the critics know that Medium leadership didn’t write anything unacceptable, and that those critics are leaving owing to their understanding/interpretation of leadership’s implicit message that while philosophical diversity is acceptable, harassment of colleagues is not.

Good for Medium.
What I got back in the day came in book form, it was also another flavour.

"A book on C"

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-10233-4

It uses a K&R C subset with bytecodes and a bytecode-> machine language translation.

I just never bothered to type it in though.
Turn it sideways
I’ve definitely parked cars on a lawn, played games on a lawn, rolled around on a lawn, setup tables and awnings for gatherings, and had animals all over them. A lawn keeps the dust down, provides a nice canvas for a variety of activities and is a great place to throw a slip n slide. Sure, you can construct ways to do all of those things without a lawn, but a lawn works too.
Plenty of crypto veterans use stablecoins. The benefits are that its much faster to transfer globally in minutes and works on weekends. There are also high yields from liquidity mining that anyone can benefit from.
>I would say the only thing that makes them competitive is their price

That's the entire story of Walmart. Pretty much the only person that smiles is the greeter, and they aren't always very friendly.
Fuzz testing doesn't mean that the program execution is monitored in any more advanced way than detecting crashes. The fancy execution path feedback stuff came about relatively recently in the history of fuzzing.
1. Answer what do you want to see when people google you?
2. Start from there, build a website.
3. Choose a social media platform where you will find the like minded people you want to share your life with. Out of all the social channels, you will have to focus on 1 the majority of time - facebook, instagram, linkedin, twitter. You will have to experiment with this to figure it out.
4. Start participating in high traffic visibility websites like hackernews, reddits, indiehackers etc.
5. Stay consistent. Treat this as an everyday channel and share every single day. You will definitely have a compounding effect.
6. All of this could be exhausting and you can feel burnt out, make sure to keep things in schedule and keep your mind fresh with hobbies or hanging out with friends. This will help you to be in the race for a longer time.
Talk about a chilling effect, i.e., do not read the news because law enforcement can subpoena the list of what you read. Lawyers recommend never sharing anything with law enforcement because it can be used against you. So the news articles you read can now be used against you? The FBI seems to think so. This is exactly the reason there are laws prohibiting law enforcement from ask libraries for lists of what patrons read. Someone at the FBI is way out of bounds.
> The only code you can be completely certain is correct is the code you didn't have to write.

Not true at all, there are always compiler errors, and in many cases you can statically check your code using an external validation system. I'd be 99.999% confident of most of the WRITTEN code of SEL-4, probably more confident than ANY code "not written" in rust, because it's been formally verified by a theorem-proving external system that enforces far more invariants that the rust compiler. To be dramatic, the rust compiler after all will not throw a fit if you write

fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 { a - b; }

but if that kind of a mistake happened in the SEL-4 codebase you bet your butt the theorem prover would be unhappy.

Correctness also can be other things that you might not be able to lean on the compiler to check so easily. For example, cryptographic side channels (timing e.g.). If there is ANY ambiguity caused by the inexplicitness of the code you produce, maybe because you're not thinking about the cost of the destruction event, because, after all, you didn't write it, and there's not lexical artifact left over, it can get extremely challenging to audit for those sorts of things.
Postscript: the person in question states that this was an open site with no restrictions, and I am pleased to read that. However, it is still unclear if this was because of a special campaign to reach at risk populations (like undocumented people) and I can't help but think there was a naive element of playing the system here.

Regardless, they or YC should have addressed this publically at the time, rather than waiting and staying silent. The YC brand is damaged because we don't know if they acted ethically, or enforced the omerta. Everyone's reputation is taking an acid bath because of unclear communication.
Costco's high barrier is the membership cost where they derive a substantial amount of their profit.
Bitcoin is a terrible replacement for our current payment systems and credit cards on every metric.
Orx – Portable Game Engine version 1.12 has been released
This headline absolutely terrifies me.

The federal government has been pushing to ban different encryption standards for years, or at least require a governmental backdoor. If we get a 9/11 size cyber attack, they will ruthlessly weaponize it, and whatever semblance of internet privacy we had will be gone.
In what concerns the architecture of a light OOP model for the drivers, I guess.
> I'd wager that even after accounting for taxes, most Europeans have more money in their pocket than Americans working in the same field.

Having worked in SF and Berlin... SF was definitely better paid overall and I made enough money to buy a nice apartment in Berlin, something which seems unachievable by working in Berlin all your life.
If they came back from the dead and went public, the AMC/GME/dogecoin/etc cult would throw all their money at it immediately.
It was an aquihire. "Jet" itself was an empty shell that the Walmart marketing folks could build a higher end brand inside.

The shuttering happened because the website was racking up seven-figure monthly Azure bills and bringing in five-figure revenue. Marc just couldn't figure out how to drive traffic without all his domains he sold to Amazon (soap.com, diapers.com, etc).
For a giant company, isnt that a good thing?
I think it would be easy since we already have `listener` and `defaultValue`, maybe I should write an example.
You could potentially use sysdvr for a better “feed” for the time being.
Apple has a ton of offices around the bay area. some are leased, others are owned. Even if a significant number of employees were to hypothetically leave, I'm sure they'd just reduce the leases and move people into the owned offices.
> Advertisers don't raid your house.

No, but they can give that data to the FBI who do raid houses.
I don't understand why all these janky scripting languages like python and javascript have to make boolean operations (a kind of important aspect of a programming language one would think) so darn complicated.
Sounds like a rogue manager, but if it's policy it needs to be public so that people stop buying the extended warranty.

Even though you're over with it now, I would escalate this to walmart corporate and see if they have this as official policy or not. It seems to me like the manager tried to commit fraud unless he can point to where that's official policy or not.

Either way I wouldn't buy an asserion/asurion warranty for any amount of money.
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I got out of vulnerability management ~10 years ago and moved into other domains where I didn't really work around CVEs and vulnerability reporting. I dipped my toes back in late last year and couldn't believe that basically nothing had changed.
It’s great when you want to buy a few things. It’s terrible if you have a cart full of things.
"Error"
That’s not particularly surprising. I spent a lot of time on an army base in mid aughts as an undergrad for a similar reason, decommissioning an astrophysics project.
Costco treats their employees very well comparitvely.
This seems like a crafted case to set some kind of precedent. The request involves cop killing and child abuse, though it's really hard to see how the requested information is useful as the "suspect" killed himself. My guess would be they're trying to prove a related person saw the incident and wiped their drives or something, but that's some weak evidence. Additionally, the FBI likely could just buy this data.

Also, why is this challenge which featured a gag order not be dealt with in a secret court? Doesn't our knowledge of events already make the USA Today guilty of a crime even if this subpoena doesn't stand?
True, the only issue is that dreams of taking over the world need to be refrained.

The only platforms where new languages kind of took over, the move was forced by the company that owns the platform.

However you are right, in every case even the system language for the platform got better.
The Impossibility of Perfectly Caching HTTP Range Requests
Can you tell me what country I have to be in to cancel my services and stop being billed?
This is neither a new idea, nor particularly controversial, nor does it apply to grass.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_of_omission
Judging by the comments, or at least by those who comment (semi-)actively, a surprisingly sizeable fraction of HN actives do fit into that bucket.

And for a properly demoralising angle, that level of wealth is still a far cry from being fully financially independent.
This case has nothing to do with urbanism but has to do with how the environmental impact of the project is measured.

Put simply, despite planning and projecting the entire project, the environmental impact is done piece by piece. This vastly understated the environmental impact in the harbor and Øresund. This approach is what is being challenged, since it obviously disregards big picture thinking.
Domain checking hardware will mitigate such vulnerabilities, sure, but good luck seeing that viably roll out to SMEs.
That is a good question indeed.
The obvious answer is that bringing politics into the workplace threatens corporations profits and power.
Clearly you don't want your employees to talk about unions, wages, working conditions, etc.

So what if you could get those employees to talk about: sexual identity and pronouns, race, allowed/disallowed vocabulary instead? Wouldn't that be a neat trick?
If you have your employees fight each other, they will be too busy to think in terms of group interests at work and will instead think of their groups outside work (black, gay, etc.)

Some might object that it's such an obvious and blatant strategy. Yet it's fooling almost everyone.
I work in the mining industry, and we're now starting to see giant mining conglomerates -- the ones that cause environmental catastrophes affecting poor people, who in Australia blast old indigenous caves, etc. -- demand their employees and contractors to use "inclusive" language.

Thus you don't say: "our dam collapse destroyed an entire village of _indios_ there!", because that's incredibly racist and prejudiced.
The corrected sentence is: "our dam collapse destroyed an entire village of brave and proud indigenous elders", which is of course way more respectful and inclusive.
While mitigating a number of attacks, MFA with these types of physical tokens is still only as strong as their setup/enrollment process, which in many cases can be compromised via phishing.

From my experience, there’s a difference between trying to compromise someone with good opsec (many readers of hacker news) and compromising regular non technical people
Except that it is not “one idiot taking this gamble” that can have a massive impact. The second and eventually third tier idiots are the banks and the government/people for allowing the concept of “too big to fail” to exist. An additional layer of idiots are the central banks that incentivise all of this by kicking the can down the road.
I think you have the pieces all jumbled. Every tool still uses gethostbyname which uses the glibc NSS machinery. The only thing systemd did was add a few NSS modules that could (and are) configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. You probably have the 'resolve' and 'myhostname' modules. The module that reads /etc/resolv.conf is the 'dns' module.

The behavior of the 'dns' module is terrible. If you have three servers listed and the first one is unavailable then every. single. dns. request. must wait for the first server to time out then try the second one.

Also if you have three servers listed and server 3 happens to be the fastest you'll never know because even if the first two servers are down and you finally use it there are two timeouts in between you and that speed.

And since there's only one resolv.conf if you're connected to a split-tunnel VPN you get to choose whether to send all your DNS requests over the tunnel or none of them.

systemd-resolved actually does the right thing in (almost) all of these cases. Built-in kernel IPSec still trips it up because systemd-resolved's view of the world is mapping DNS configuration to interfaces and since kernel IPSec is a policy VPN blah blah nevermind -- it has memory so it can remember if servers are down, and it used to send requests to all listed servers to find the fastest one and prefer it before people complained, and split-tunnel VPNs work!

The "feature" of "merging" DNS zones by relying on query order is pants on head broken as soon as your first DNS server is unreliable or if your first server doesn't return a strict superset of all subsequent servers. If you have internal names both over your VPN and on your local network then no matter what order you pick one of them will be unresolveable.
So if I say 0%, is that irrational? I mean I’m not 0% sure, but I am to many many decimal places. So what if somebody is religious in the same way? They’re not 100% sure, but they understand significant digits, and just round up.
I’ve been a coder for over two decades, and here’s my take on this. First, good employers want smart engineers, and bet that they can learn things quickly. You don’t need to have N years of experience with Kubernetes. Second, most of your jobs later in your career will either come through your network, or will decide on you based on references from your network. Your network is the most import thing. Third, I’ve seen “new hot technologies” come and go without me ever learning them. Many are fads, you don’t need to learn them all, or even most of them. BUT, you do need to continuously learn, and ideally be able to display that in some way.
Can recommend this video from the science elf about bonzi buddy (https://youtu.be/gU1hesbmaKM), great youtube channel!
Not all religions are centered around a 100% belief in God. That assumption seems to be a very common mistake among atheists and agnostics who are most familiar with Christianity.
What is the difference between JDK and jre
I don't think it's "petty" (to use dang's wording) because the underlying issue ("cheating" to get a vaccine) is petty. You're right - the underlying issue is serious.

It's "petty" because the discussion isn't about the underlying issue, the discussions is about someone claiming that they were kicked out of YC for posting to Twitter about someone else posting about skipping the line to a separate internal forum. That's very far removed from the underlying issue of vaccines, and brings in so many other topics into play, many of which are just not best reasoned about in this kind of forum (e.g. is the tweeter telling the truth? If they are, was it ok that they publicly tweeted about something from an internal forum? Did they first approach the original posted? etc.)

Much as you or I might like the discussion to be "Does YC condone lying/cheating to get the vaccine early", that's just not the topic we can actually answer here, since we have no access to the real underlying facts (and probably only one side speaking).

That is what to my mind makes this issue "petty", not the seriousness of the subject matter.
Retirees are not known for generating large amounts of demand compared to younger people who work.
1. Some of the harshest criticisms of economics (both orthodox and heterodox) comes from ... economists.

2. Some of the harshest criticism of other social sciences comes from ... economists. (Notably of sociology, though also variously ecology, systems theory, and cybernetics.)

3. The 2007-8 Global Financial Crisis rocked mainstream economics to its core. a) Queen Elizabeth famously asked why nobody saw it coming (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/33863...), the failure is b) called the "Crisis of Economics" (https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-did-economi... and c) Nobel Laureate in economics Paul Krugman has asked "why economics failed" (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/opinion/krugman-why-econo...).

None of which is "pop economists".
'Amazon nails in person pickup or Walmart nails online shopping.'

Amazon has nailed free shipping with prime. In person pickup costs money in time, fuel, available vehicle. Feels like checkmate in 2021 but this may change
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Any HN user should most definitely be applying this rule on Dang of all people. He deals with a lot of shit on here.
Sure, but the guy you responded to said crypto not Bitcoin.
This has not been my experience, the most environmentalist people I know were generally born in small towns... Most also spent at least some time working in some form of "outdoor entertainment" that included long periods of time spent in the complete wilderness. Canoe/Hiking trips and the like. This includes people who at least publicly admired people who stuck spikes in trees to damage logging equipment (acts that people on the other side classify as terrorism).

I get the impression that the least environmentalist people are also generally in small towns, but I can't say I've ended up associating with them as much. My impression is that they're generally this way because they're the people that environmental laws impact the most.

City people seem to typically fall into a middle ground, not rabid in either direction.

(Europe may be different, I'm Canadian, but broad generalities about environmentalists seem likely to carry over?)
It had a cute mascot. Same thing with cookies--they sound cute and friendly.
Personal, outsider take: it’s unlikely that US businesses will start spending sufficiently on cybersecurity, because it’s difficult to show ROI on this. The government is correct on treating this as a high priority.
I have a vague memory of being able to change the windows 98 startup screen image ( where it says windows 98 ). I changed a bunch of HS computers to say nindows 88 by "photoshoping" it in ms paint.
Exception in Thread “Main” Java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
I’ve tried this sort of thing at a previous employer. In short, this is skeuomorphism raised to … some large power.

Focusing on the looks of whether or not we’re in the right virtual space unfortunately detracts from the actual communications themselves.

We don’t need to rebuild a full 3d virtual office where everyone has a personal avatar to wander around the space, in order to communicate with our office mates. If you want that, just go build your office in Second Life.

But keep in mind that there’s a reason why Second Life doesn’t have a population of hundreds of millions of people — that concept doesn’t scale, and there are many of us who actively avoid 3D MMOs.
They would benefit from the deflation and maybe actually hurt by the guns of the Capital One customers.

But looking at the low percentages of equity on banks balance sheets I think one bank run would easily jump over to other banks just because of the fear that they might happen
Is it what is in processed food that is bad for us or what is lacking in fast foods that is bad? If it is what is lacking then supplements (maybe based on blood tests) could help. If it is what is in the food the only thing that would help is to stop eating them. It's probably both, but identifying what is missing could at least let us repair some of the harm. Beyond vitamins and fiber what else does processed food lack? Specific forms of protein? Variety? Bacteria for your microbiome? Long term energy providing complex carbs to keep you active?
lol this thread is off the rails
YC isn’t the moral police of when one should get a vaccine (nor should they be). YC are the police of other YC community norms, they owe nobody an explanation.
I am genuinely sorry to hear you went through that, and I’m glad to hear — if I’ve interpreted you correctly — that some woke people provided you their support. However, I don’t believe disciples of the woke ideology have a monopoly on opposition to bullying, and I think they are often bullies themselves. Furthermore, it appears that woke ideologues are not internally consistent with their opposition to racism. Case in point: the recent demotion of Google diversity head for anti-semitism.
This is true, and the goal of Security Awareness Training is to resolve this problem. I’m a huge believer in it.
Seems so hopeless. So many dead ends that each can suck up a whole career. But presumably somebody will be famous at the end of it all.
I do not understand what you mean