skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just yesterday I was on the phone with my insurance company because I needed to reset my password, snd I got stuck in the following in the following infinite loop:

“What do you need help with today”. - My account.
“Great, can I get your account number?” -enter number.
“Ok, now that I have your account, what do you need help with today?” -my account
“Great, can I get your account number?”

Etc etc.

I complained about this on Facebook and one of their reps showed up and said, “oh, just tell the automated system that you want to buy car insurance right now, then it will connect you to a human.”

I did this, and it worked, and she answered with “how can I help you” and then I got my account unlocked right away. She clearly didn’t know before she picked up the phone what I needed.

I’m pretty sure that my experience is the norm not the exception.

Remember: the company has to pay for the representative’s time, but the customer’s time is free. They don’t want you to have wandered away from your phone while on hold. So they give you a task to perform while you wait. It also helps to encourage you to get your account numbers and stuff ready and have your paperwork in front of you when the rep picks up.
Well, meaning what value is all that adding above just:

$ cat script | ssh someserver bash
These people march into every JavaScript discussion, carrying the same cross on their back since the first day Netscape supported AJAX. They lament what a travesty the internet has become thanks to this mongrel language which broke the purity of HTML.

What really gets me is this kind of Good Samaritan plea to developers to just “do the right thing” as if every line of JavaScript was paid in orphan tears and puppy blood.

It’s 2021 and at this point it really feels like they’re begging the question: “Sites that require JavaScript are not as good as sites that don’t because they can’t operate without JavaScript.” We already know that. It’s well understood what makes a site feel slow. Progressive enhancement is an ideal situation — it’s just not something that every organization prioritizes. And for some web apps, server side rendering adds significant overhead to problems like caching, authentication, and multi platform compatibility.

If you’re honestly invested in progressive enhancement, contribute to open source tools that make it easier to ship.
Evolution of code deployment tools at Mixpanel
On nearly every thread on Hacker News there are a few posts from people who have JavaScript turned off who will say “this site is blank”
In our gaming group, we decided Risk just isn't that good of a game. It's old and clunky and extremely long, there are 100 other better board games now. Our main plays have been Dominion, DnD, Gloomhaven, Wingspan, and Crokinole, all of which we greatly prefer.
The winning strategy is doing whatever the other players are overlooking.

If everyone decides to follow the advice about the southern continents, the winning strategy is to get all over Asia.
An interpretation could be that remapping infinite sets like that creating holes is an invalid or nonsense operation.
That should be the least surprising. Sanskrit (especially the Vedic stage) preserves a tremendous number of old Indo European forms and is often used as a sort of validity check for PIE etymologies.
This was an approximation of Norway's rules and was not a load of bullshit. Briefly, firing someone is only allowed if their position is no longer necessary and no alternative position exists, the company needs to reduce its headcount or if the employee has significantly derelicted their duties. There are significant judicial details that usually count in the employee's favor.

Standard terms in employment agreements is three months' notice, although as little as one month may be agreed upon when employment starts. The agreed notice period can only rarely be deviated from without mutual agreement.
Hahahahahaha! It really really isn’t, it’s a national treasure and it’s amazing how well it runs given how numerous governments have underfunded it. Every study on international healthcare shows the NHS is near the top in every category and once you factor in the cost per person it’s the top in the world.

If you have a life threatening issue you will be seen and treated as well on the NHS as anywhere in the US, EXCEPT it won’t matter if you’re rich or poor, you’ll get the same treatment and it will work out at a literal fraction of the cost to the tax payer - insurance based and tax payer based are basically the same (cost is distributed over everyone contributing) except the government don’t arbitrarily say pay xxx thousand and the stress of “how to pay for this” is removed meaning people can focus on recovery and not on making ends meet.
You're still limited by what the country will allow you to get enforced legally. So there is not really any advantage.
My favorite cinematic metaphor for Bad Management is the night-bridge scene in Apocalypse Now…
That's a meaningless statement. Putting the customer first is how companies provide value and grow. Obviously the need to capture that value and create profit but every trillion-dollar company today is only that successful by giving the people what they wanted.

What you're missing in this discussion is that these companies are so large and powerful, and their services so critical to 100s of millions of people, that the situation has changed.
The Case for Sabbaticals and Their 100% Approval Rating
So what if they were? If you're ill, you're ill and should not have to go in to work. Sometimes ill-timed shit happens. Only in the US you can get fired for it. My mind boggles at the concept of "retroactive" firing... wtf is that even?
Thanks so much for this. I have been looking for this in Postgres. MySQL has memory back table which helped us a lot in the past.
Ask HN: Why didn't Myspace become the first big tech giant?
Myspace was one of the first to the social media scene at a large scale, and yet, they are rather irrelevant today. What do you think they did incorrectly that put them in the backseat to other platforms like Facebook and Twitter?
Neither uBlock or uMatrix blanket disable JavaScript.
Really? I could have sworn you mentioned school shootings. Which are rare, which is why they make the headlines.

In Chicago there are mass shootings every weekend that get no press coverage. The inner city gang warfare and similar makes up the vast majority of mass shootings in the U.S.

Mass shootings have basically nothing to do with small town and rural NRA members.

Did you already know all that?
I'm old enough to have programmed a couple decades ago when you mostly had to rely on experimentation and manuals to figure things out. The experience today is much more streamlined. What might have taken me an entire afternoon to figure out in olden times can now take a single minute Google search. My productivity is substantially better now with the likes of Google, Stack Overflow, and all the other similar resources.
exact this. even MongoDB has TTL index which is amazing nice.
What do you think they exchanged them for then? Do you think Belarus went, and released Poles out of its good will out of a sudden?
I totally agree - and just wanted to point it out as people always reach for the what about those other people when discussing these topics.

I had my awakening on this subject in my 30s, I started to read academic writing on colonialism. Having grown up in Australia and knowing colonial history having been learnt from the British perspective I was just shocked at my ignorance on British Empire and it's colonies was.
Redis to me is the magic solution to solve so many complex multiple process syncing issues, a global lock, rate limiter, uniqueness with a set, stasher of all the temporary things… no migration, quick solution to complex problems- streams of events to organize pending tasks, etc… to me it’s all about the temporal / temporary state my application needs to keep track in order to work in a multiuser - multiprocess and multi service environment… just a different tool for a different job then what I would use a database for… but really it’s computer science, to each is their own
You need wealth to retire, not income. Can you stop working and still have that income? And if you can stop working, then why can't you buy elsewhere?
CSS px are not screen pixels. From the spec:

"The reference pixel is the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm’s length. For a nominal arm’s length of 28 inches, the visual angle is therefore about 0.0213 degrees. For reading at arm’s length, 1px thus corresponds to about 0.26 mm (1/96 inch)." [1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-3/#absolute-lengths
JPEG XL may solve all these problems instantly:

It is a progressive image format which has an amazing feature: you can terminate the bitstream at any point during the download and have a good looking image. So servers could keep the high resolution of an image but send over just the first (for example) 20% when client is on mobile, and send 50% of the file for laptop, and all 100% when users are on a 4K television.

https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...

https://cloudinary.com/blog/improve_the_web_experience_with_...
not really, there's only so many tradesmen an area can support, and only union members get any real standard of living. Plus, there's the whole "destroying your body" thing; it's not computer scientists behind the opioid crisis, for example. Its drudgery, extremely hard work, and with a side order of ill health for the rest of your life.
If your approach to the subject is that it's the same as the "what if our 'reds' are different" debate then yeah it's going to be unfalsifiable, you've also just very generously assumed from the get go that I'm conflating ideas plus ignored the end of the prior comment.

My friend cannot create a mental voice at all, so not only does he not usually talk to himself mentally, he never does it. He also can't recall voices. If someone is describing a process in steps he has to stop them frequently to write down the parts. This doesn't apply to a process he's seen, he can recall imagery fine.

The end of the very last comment I made contained a possible method for comparing these different thought processes, giving someone with poor mental imagery a spatial task and comparing with someone who claims strong mental imagery, the idea being that intuition should be faster under one set of conditions than the other. Funnily enough there's also others in this thread who have mentioned using imagined images to navigate spatial tasks.
Please, the microprocessor was being pursued by multiple countries. The US first, but again that doesn't mean only the US could do it.
> In Sweden/DK/NO we call it “hjul” which is pronounced like the American nicotine vape brand juul, quite similar to English

I can't quite tell, but if you're saying that the American brand Juul is pronounced in English as if it were the word "you'll", that is not correct. Americans don't think of the letter J that way.

(If you're saying Nordic hjul and English wheel are similar, they are cognates.)
I think the argument is that we are discussing the difference between the:

A) time value of money

B) inflationary aspects of fiat currency vs hard currency
Great comment: Been reading Taleb’s Black Swan this morning on ascertainment bias, so this resonated well.
Yeah, one of my fears is we simply have too many people and too few jobs in this kind of economy. The lower birth rates are a gaia consciousness response to overpopulation in this respect
I heard the same thing you now tell us from every totalitarian regime
Looks like you're one of today's lucky 10,000 about today's lucky 10,000

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Sorry, but that's not enough to give it a pass. Just because objectification of women was commonplace then does not make it OK to continue doing so now. There are plenty of other art forms from the era and medium that don't marginalize people, and tasteful ways to pay homage to the retro vibe.
I avoid these games too but mostly because it feels like work.
These are really neat plants. My father had a huge one on his second floor house deck that was doing really well because he would water and care for it all the time. They love a banana peel for nutrients.

At some point, another one, just like it, appeared across the street (probably a good 100' away) growing on a corner side of another house at the same vertical height.

Many years later, it is also huge and doing really well. It has never been watered or cared for because it is impossible to reach from the ground without a ladder. It also hasn't seemed to spread further, yet.
Nice list of rare edge cases.

Worrying about somebody using „Chrome data saver mode“ before your startup gets 100k hits per month means to me that your focus is completely off.

Instead, perhaps improve your core product and talk to actual users today?
Not a good board game, but actually very decent on mobile. Me and my friends have played many rounds in the train or car.
This seems to come up on HN at least once a year. Sure it can work but LISTEN ties up a connection which limits scalability as connections are limited and expensive. Also, mitigation strategies like PgBouncer cannot be used with this approach (nor can scale out solutions like CitusDB I don't think).

Of course, if scalability is not a concern (or the connection limitations are eventually fixed in postgres), this would be a very viable approach.
Yeah the British were so awful when they arrived in a place, why couldn’t they just let the Indians continue widow-burning?
Young-ish, healthy weight, in decent health, zero interest in becoming a guinea pig for this rush-job biologic. If I were 80, it would be different.
This seems overly reductionist. You have at least two cases that contradict:

1) The fact that biological processes tend not to have hard limits and "kill switches" at those limits, but rather feedback loops which increase or decrease in efficacy due to a number of factors, which are themselves factors for further downstream processes

2) The tendency towards physiological plasticity to facilitate functional homeostasis (e.g., there was a case of an athlete whose smaller blood vessels enlarged in order to maintain blood flow following an embolism; this was disabled athlete who walked on her hands in lieu of her non-functional legs)

I think what is more likely is that that there is a level of a given quality which your genes will have you tend toward (with environment determining how much you will overshoot or undershoot it), but also that the human form is very adaptable and will often respond to pressures by routing around lower-functioning systems, which may require unconventional support but also create unconventional and exceptional achievement (the aforementioned athlete is a paralympian with arm-based muscular strength and endurance - a neurological matter - which outpaces most abled athletes).
I would rather say "because shell parsing is hard the ssh protocol is broken." If shell parsing weren't hard this wouldn't be an issue.
Well nothing so romantic: I didn't read it 20 years ago; more like some time in the last couple of years. And though I vaguely recall seeing this comment in the context of its code (on GitHub?), I may have well ended up there via a HN comment in a thread much like this, so that wouldn't be surprising. :-)
I've been hearing that the Jamstack type approach, along with a supporting CDN like Netlify can achieve this pretty well. No experience actually putting into practice yet though
It is an interesting phenomenon, but I'd say how different genres and how the Chinese novelist approach these genres has a greater effect on the outcome. Most times you reason from effect to cause to see why.

So typical Chinese fantasy/ high-level Wuxia/ Xianxia goes
protag need resources -> need lots with no strings -> a failing pocket dimension to exploit! -> maybe discovered through conflict / treasure map / etc.

Why though? Think of them as a one-time map in an RPG or something, where you access once for some material/etc. but can never revisit.

As for the behavior of that bunch of Chinese tourists, I would say that wasting was an issue in the recent generations (but won't be in the next generation), due to a number of factors such as the abundance of food on the market and in restaurant, hospitality (by providing more-than-can-eat), showoff (by providing extraordinary amount of food), corruption (government paid for, no need to hold back), etc.

However, the fight against corruption in recent years and recently passed laws that prohibit display in public and in video of wasting food would mean that the next generation growing up would have a different standard of what should be considered as waste.

Similarly, those growing up in the 70s-90s that had experience of a lack of food variety and amount, would either be very harsh on any waste of food, or would be overly lenient on wasting food.

As to the theory that this behavior came from memories of grandparents that experienced the famines, I'd say it's stretching it. There's too many variables that would affect the amount of influence, especially if the grandparents weren't around to educate about not wasting food. And if the grandparents didn't educate correctly, it could even cause a backlash.
and someone can successfully complete high end raids in world of warcraft despite being a paraplegic. Doesn't mean everyone should be able to do so or its too easy to raid. Don't view outliers and your own experience as standard; high achievers do this way too often and end up discounting the real difficulty and struggles in accomplishing such a thing.
Coming from an economics background, every presentation I've seen of "systems thinking" (admittedly, not a large number) makes it look ill-defined, incomplete, and obvious.
Just imagine all the even numbers are currently in the hotel, zero is in room zero, two is in room one, four is in room two...2n is in room n. Now all the odd numbers arrive at the hotel, maybe one after another, maybe all at the same time, but you can apply one of the procedure to fit them in. You must not confuse the numbers occupying each room with the numbers of the rooms, the room numbers are all the natural numbers but they can all be occupied by the even numbers alone. Because, as I said, there are as many odd numbers as there are even numbers as there are natural numbers.
Thanks for answering! I think I get it.

Any idea on if directing guests to move randomly would work as well as directing them to move in patterns?
I see. I stand corrected - apologies, @yvbbrjdr. Clearly my crypto 101 was too long ago! But my other points still stand I think.
Despite all of them knowing exactly why it's blank and what they'd need to do to use the site ;)
The best reason I know of to use a relational database as a queue is that it lets you trigger queue operations from within a transaction - so a queue item is guaranteed to be created if the transaction succeeds, and guaranteed not to be created if the transaction fails.

Brandur wrote a great article about that here: https://brandur.org/postgres-queues
If you’d like a simpler Risk-like game that is over in a few minutes, give Compact Conflict a try. There are temples instead of continents so strategy is somewhat different, but it still pays to stay out of fights when you can, particularly with four players.

https://wasyl.eu/games/compact-conflict/play.html
The first part of the article can be summarized as:

1. Initiate as few attacks as possible

2. Let your enemies break up each other’s continents;

3. Take only one country per turn

The problem is that it doesn't explain which country to take, and how to attack without being attacked -- which is what makes the game difficult.

But, then, the article suggests something new (at least for me):

1. Find a way to grow in strength by taking lots of countries (but not taking a whole continent)

2. Make sure you get lots of cards for bonus armies

If this is a good strategy, I have always played it wrong -- because I've always tried to take whole continents.
This is easily seen today in e.g. Norwegian Kval and English Whale, which still sound similar enough to appear related even to the layman.
Is the secret sauce recipe safe?
They sold to News Corp early (2005) for US$580MM and got sucked into the traditional media world.
This handwaves a lot of stuff. The least of which is that with the way satellites orbit, even though they orbit in 90, they’re not over the same ground track again for like 12 days. It’s not the case that a weapon used satellite would have a firing solution every 90 minutes.
All the content in the article is about how it this northern place is changing. If the contention is that the title is cliché for noting that things are changing, then the article is cliché for all the same reasons. So wouldn't we want a post title that reflects that (and also matches the article's title) so that readers can judge for themselves whether they want to click?

This is about accurate labeling. If we want cliché articles to have less prominence on this site, it is a matter of moderation, not editing.

[Edited because I got a little off-topic.]
I have been vaccinated. But not for covid19. Has anyone ever been vaccinated for covid19? Why do people still keep getting it (covid19)?
Your word "marketing" here represents a good insight.
Risk takes forever because setting up and rolling dice takes forever. Same with Axis and Allies.

The moment you put it on a computer it becomes fairly fast and ... actually most of the gravitas goes away.

One person’s opinion.
That's exactly why I don't do it. It's work. It's demanding, exhausting even.
The basics are feedback and a holistic POV. From there anything can be said. But if your strategy doesn't incorporate feedback, it is not a systemic strategy.
I don’t see an argument, just a question. Is land theft a neologism for conquest or does it mean something else? If so, what is the difference?
> It comes from Latin vanus, meaning "empty". More obvious with the "in vain" meaning

Fun fact: the Latin word for "in vain" is frustra.
> Somehow it is Docker, not VM vendors came up with a standard for packaging, distributing and indexing for glorified tarballs and it quickly picked up.

Packaged VM's existed for a while already with thing like Vagrant on top, there was also already LXC which leaned more into the VM concept. Where Docker made the difference imho is with Dockerfiles and the layered/cached build steps.
We focus far too much time teaching calculus and trigonometry in school. Applied statistics would be far more relevant for nearly everyone.
Just to nitpick a bit, it's евангелие - evangelieh. Well, in Russian it is. I just realized you were talking about old church Slavonic. I just saw modern Cyrillic and went straight to Russian. As far as I can figure out without any clue about OCS, it still seems like you're missing the last syllable there.
HN may be giving a skewed idea of how truly popular things like NoScript are.
The new screens are so addicting. I switched back to a 2011 MacBook Pro recently to stop using my laptop so much. MacOS and iOS offer no way to reduce contrast in their OS.
Most PCs do at this point, also that secure enclave is very rarely both effective and something empowering the user so it's often ignored outside of very closed systems like Macs and phones.
Yes there are better games than Risk. That holds for practically all old games. For example, I don’t consider chess a good game. With good players, it usually ends in a draw which is unsatisfying.
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Right, but that's not the point. The point is you are claiming that it'd be "illegal" for biogen to sell it. It's not because it's not a controlled substance.

Biogen won't sell it, but that has little to do with the legality of selling it and everything to do with the fact that they want insurance money and to market this.
The premise was "consisting exclusively of F-35". you might have wanted F22s, but they are not available in the scenario.