skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opposite experience here. Walmart is always a drab experience. I have never been in a Walmart store that I felt good in. Some Walmart's beat others in how disgusting they are but that's about it.

Home Depot on the other end was great. When there was a shortage of disinfectant (and government mandated clean hands before allowing people into stores) they just added actual washing basins with regular soap and paper towels and I could go get stuff to do projects. I have never been to HD as often as during 2020.

I used online ordering literally once at HD and CT each during that time. HD made me call/text a number with my order# when I arrived and they brought the items out for me but I really only used that because something was low stock in the one of many HD stores I could go to that had any of the item at all and I wanted to "reserve" it. No app needed which is a big big plus for me. I abhor all these apps for everything.

CD wasn't bad either. Same deal, reserving an item with low stock until I could go get it. I just picked it all up at the online order desk where it had already been put in a cart.

I don't like ordering food online. Had to do it once while waiting for a negative covid test result. You don't get to pick the actual items you want (fruits/veggies). Not great. I already don't like how cashiers throw your sensitive veggies around all the time. Never mind how they're being handled in the rest of the chain. Before anyone asks, yes I do choose which line I choose by who is the cashier/packer over length of line.
Needs to be a very short trip.
If this is such an important issue for you, then you shouldn’t buy an iPhone. Simple as.
Great! Which one is it?
Yeah HN is a slightly smarter version of Reddit imo. But I've found you can't say anything along the same vein that you can't on Reddit as well.
Where are you getting that figure from? 0.05% is $500m.
We use C because significant parts of our platform are GStreamer plugins… so C. Though if I were going to greenfield GStreamer C would still be a pretty reasonable option in 2021 IMO.
I stand corrected, thanks for the link, from that one I followed this link which is even more interesting as it explains the process of creating that snippet: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=766
I have experienced a similar feeling lying quietly on a beach looking up at the stars. Your words describe it better than any other words I've ever read.
While I feel atrociously impolite pinging people who've never asked me anything out of the blue, I do enjoy sending a small thank-you email to people who've, often inadvertently, brought me down a rabbit hole I wasn't aware of before.
Varies by locale.

Walmart doesn't "try" where they have to compete with upscale options because even if they do good the rich people will still shop there.because of the Walmart stigma. And the poor people only care about price so they won't be turned off if Walmart doesn't try hard.

Also, there are some really crappy Home Depots out there. In my experience they're the ones without appreciable competition.
> I personally think we should abolish JavaScript and not allow arbitrary remotely loaded code to execute on our computers.

> "I want web sites to do everything a native app can do" is a suicidal mistake.

If you think you're ceding a lot of power to Google and Apple when it comes to browsers, I fail to see how "That webapp you're building can't use Javascript so build it in Objective-C/Swift for iOS instead" would cede less power to Apple.

At least I don't need Apple's approval to build my website...
This is the one I used to do
These arguments are all backwards.

Yes an independent small-time developer cannot create a browser engine from scratch today, but Apple does not fall into that category. Their choices with Safari are not born out of lack of resources or expertise but deliberate planning.

Yes large companies have seized control over the web from W3C. Apple is one of those large companies. They refuse to follow standards that they themselves dictate for others.

Yes pushing more features to the web is going to result in loss of privacy. But Apple doesn't want vanilla websites, they want developers to make iOS apps (gated behind their store) which are worse in every way.

Plus it doesn't address the biggest argument, which is that even if you say Apple can do whatever it wants with Safari, what is their rationale for blocking other browsers on iOS? It sure isn't because Apple loves the open web.
https://uxfactor.ca/1151/

I know one of the authors of Flying Toasters and sent him the link. Here's what he had to say:

"It's a rough approximation, which is super cool, but misses all of the nuance.

"You see, back in the day, there were very strong competitors to After Dark that had as much or more animations. The thing that set After Dark was a "je ne sais quoi" that felt like an elevated experience. Both the customers & the competitors thought this was some sort of accident, or that the animations were important, but neither of these things was true.

"The secret was that people loved the nuance of interacting with the product (& subtlety in the animations) and it was very carefully designed with cognitive science. I pushed the team very hard before I would let anything be released because I insisted on the nuance."
It doesn't sound like it works very well
If you look at the article, there's plenty more to make it clear the communists did no pulling:

> The only time it participated, it sent a mere 1,000 to 1,500 men, and then only as a security detachment on one of the flanks.There were 1,117 significant engagements on a scale smaller than a regular battle, but the CCP fought in only one. Of the approximately 40,000 skirmishes, just 200 were fought by the CCP, or 0.5 percent.”

and

> Specifically, in January 1940 Zhou Enlai sent a secret report to Joseph Stalin which said that over a million Chinese had died fighting the Japanese through the summer of 1939. He further admitted that only 3 percent of those were CCP forces.

Also, guerilla tactics are effective when the enemy is not willing to exterminate the enemy population. The Japanese absolutely were.

> I'm sure the British and loyalists used it against George Washington.

This is kinda overwrought. The US continental army did refrain from some continental-style line-up-and-shoot "tactics", but outside the south they engaged mostly in pitched battles. They didn't win by sniping redcoats here and there.
I stopped reading at "I personally think we should abolish JavaScript"
Yeah I usually just say "cyber security testing". People outside the industry can at least make an educated guess at what that means.
I've never understood the thought process that browsers need to be implementable from scratch cheaply, in general.

Browsers are the new OS. Most attempts at a feature-complete OS that is able to run software intended for other OSes would be incredibly expensive.

Plan 9's been in development for over 29 years, and it's still niche.
> but we still don't have a robot that can take out the trash.

Pneumatic waste collection is a thing, and has been for quite some time.

See

- https://www.wired.com/2010/08/trash-sucking-island/

- https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/09/inside-roosevelt-islan...

- https://qz.com/1909600/the-future-of-garbage-collection-is-p...
I understand why Apple is doing it, but what does it hurt if I develop for Safari on Windows? Oh no you have to compile the app and support on Windows? Gimme a break. $1 Trillion company and they can't make that work is nothing short of a joke. The OS wars are nothing like they were in the 90s. Apple really needs to wake the hell up. Steve Balmer said it best:

"DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!"
This podcast discusses the phenomenon as well:
Episode 40: Silver and Gold
HIDDEN BRAIN
AUG 1, 2016 ⋅ 22:24
It's basically a VM with a monstrously complicated ISA.
He's one of the most important, insightful, and yet woefully underappreciated social observer/reflector of the past 25 years.
My favourite C string function is asprintf. It's trivially safe, since it allocates an appropriately sized buffer, and it promotes correct programming by allowing developers to rely on "if I have a string then of course it was allocated by malloc and needs to be freed appropriately".

It's not part of the C standard, but it's trivial to ship around an implementation with your code.
Something along these lines should work, for at least both of GCC and Clang:

extern void banned() __attribute__((deprecated("This function is problematic")));

#define strcpy(...) strcpy(__VA_ARGS__); banned;

Which would output something along the lines of:

test.c:11:3: warning: 'banned' is deprecated: This function is problematic [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
strcpy(x, y);
No, it isn't. Both you and logicchains keep trying to make the discussion about that, but that has nothing to do with whether posts should be marked as misinformation because people ignore common sense.
Indeed, it seems like the newspapers were already publishing things at the time with far more detail to point at Alex Salmond, but nothing happened to them.
MSVC does this, or at least did the last time I had to compile C code for windows. You should be able to do it with the preprocessor if you wanted to.
Teams are hardly as large as 15+. Of course the athletes that don't compete are not given medals. Even if you more then double the amount I calculated let's say 1%. That's still a reasonable price pool.
That’s a whole bunch of stuff I don’t necessarily disagree with, I was only responding to specific points. I am not here to defend Elon’s entire verbal history.

Not included in your response, I should note, was any acknowledgement that you misrepresented a quote as being verbatim was in fact not verbatim. This makes me entirely disinterested in further interaction.
Wages are suppressed because it's _legal enough_ to suppress them

I'm not an Amazon defender by any means, but doesn't Amazon pay the best in terms of comparable work which is why the warehouse jobs are so competitive to get? Or is that just Amazon PR to stave off regulations
ColdFusion developers getting testy I see
That's frustrating? I can't see that as a pro especially a year from now when all the games are known and fully detailed on the web and you're stuck waiting to get to the one you want play.
"It becomes too hard for a small team to write a browser" can't be both the horrible dystopia you're trying to avert and the catastrophe from a few years ago that you're still mad about.
And Steve Ballmer really backed that up by making it possible to compile and test Windows and Microsoft products on every Linux distribution
I know, we moved all our European call center operations there in my last job. The low wages are a big attraction for companies. I felt bad that we were paying so little though the people working there didn't seem to mind. For most it was their first job. But it surprised me that wages are that low.

Also, Romanians tend to have excellent language skills in most Latin languages and English so that helps a lot too. They're also really friendly in my experience. I would notice that when I walked around the office people talking among themselves would often switch to English when I was near them so I wouldn't feel left out. And they'd always ask me to join them if I went for lunch alone. And I'm not even a manager :) I was just there to do the technical side.
DSM-5 literally stands for "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition". It does not include things like epilepsy, migraine, cluster headaches, stroke, or brain tumor. It doesn't even really include diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - notice that the coding is "neurocognitive decline due to" AD/PD/etc. It is not meant for primary diagnosis of these diseases. It is meant for diagnosis of mental health issues, which can result from a variety of causes we understand to varying degrees.

All psychiatric diseases will likely fall under neurology some day, probably split into many more different disorders. Although you could make a case they should already be considered neurology, I think that needs to be an all or nothing decision. People that try to split out a handful of the psychiatric disorders are just perpetuating stigma. At this very moment there is more scientific evidence linking Schizophrenia to brain abnormalities than there is for ADHD (mostly as a result of more Schizophrenia neuro research occuring), yet I don't see anyone trying to call Schizophrenia neurological and ADHD not. I wonder why...

So if you think they are all neurological disorders fine, but ADHD is absolutely more similar to the disorders we would cluster under psychiatry than the disorders we would cluster under neurology. It is diagnosed purely via behavioral assessment, not biomarkers or brain scans. It directly impacts motivation levels, self control, and emotion regulation. If that's not mental I'm not sure what is.

It's also directly covered by NIMH funding, so pretty clearly it is considered a mental illness by the medical community, yet your original claim was that it is not - not that it shouldn't be.
Capitalism is private property and trade.

Markets without ownership are mostly meaningless. All models of market socialism are mostly theoretical. Even the inventor market socialism didn't get far in implementing it.

Yes there are some markets that can exist outside of that but not a central organizing principle of an economy.

> "they got rich cause they worked hard" is a very shallow take

The worked hard on the right idea. Its not a 'take' its a fact'.

I didn't say 'anybody that works hard will be rich'. That would be a shallow take.
Don't stop buying, keep buying, start returning. Buy things that are sold by Amazon and return them make accounts for free trials, buy things and return them, become unprofitable then figure out how to circumvent their bans!
> Imagine a small company trying to write their own web browser from scratch nowadays. It's just not possible!

PrinceXML seems to be doing reasonably well. Yeah, they're never going to catch up to Chrome, but they've been adding one or two new browser features every day for the last several years. And they have less than a dozen developers.
Julia Computing is now on a race F1 car
> Unfortunately the GUI is a bit convoluted, because it exposes every option that you can change

Wow, color me surprised. That doesn't sound like a desktop Linux app at all :)

>I once almost bricked my LG monitor, because I accidentally locked the hardware buttons on my monitor, via an undocumented manufacturer specific option.

Reminds of the good old days of late 90s / early 2000s desktop Linux, when the wrong video timing settings in your XFree86 config could make your CRT monitor (almost literally) explode.

But I'm sure 2022 will be "the year of Linux on the desktop", finally :)
I don't know how faithful it is, but I recently discovered playwright and it contains a webkit build (even on Linux) which is (in theory) close enough to Safari for web UI testing.
BiiN would eventually be explained as "Billions invested in Nothing".
I very much disagree - what do you consider philosophy, for instance? I'm a bit of a fan of the history of philosophy, and I've very happily read translations of Plato, Aristotle, Schelling, Feuerbach, and Marx - the only one I've had difficulty with is Hegel.

The terminology chonen by the translator to reflect the author's intention is often strange, but it's no different to, say, reading Homer in translation.

Personally, I've found that philosophic words and their meanings don't change too much - and there are good arguments with formalism vs anti-formalism to the point where I think that mathematical and formal logic methods may not reflect the insight of some of this "older" philosophy as a whole. That is to say - the fact of being "completely inscrutable" can be something of an advantage if meaning is what you're seeking.
Lets compare the tech when its actually in a vehicle and being sold at a few 1000 a year at least. And then compare the whole system and end to end energy efficiency for society.
And apple shouldn't bribe politicians nor use their immense wealth and power to lock down supply chains, driving out competition. Free market is an imaginary concept that has never existed nor never will.
Yes. Should you?

It depends, like everything.
Ivermectin isn't completely safe. In Brazil, there are people needing liver transplantation because they used Ivermectin to "treat" Covid.

https://olhardigital.com.br/en/2021/02/11/news/use-of-iverme...

https://www.sbmt.org.br/portal/covid-19-e-o-paradigma-da-med...
> Yes large companies have seized control over the web from W3C

The W3C is a consortium, that's what the "C" stands for. Said consortium is comprised of "very large companies" and it always has been. That's the point: cooperative game-theory.
The sentence that Knox got was zero, how is it half of 16 years? You can't compare a definitive sentence with one that was overturned.

(Also the real killer got a 1/3rd automatic reduction by accepting summary judgment instead of a full trial).
Then I wonder if this "particle" is just some components that takes 10^-21 seconds to bounce away from each other after colliding?
Stereo is cool enough[0]?

[0] Stereo sound and 13th century painting
THE BLINDBOY PODCAST
2021 APR 13 ⋅ 1:16:46
Nice file recovery. Have more details? Would be a useful blog post.
I think I must be missing something. Is the case here that Mozilla (an entity whose primary active project is a browser) and Apple (one of the largest tech companies in the world) can’t be expected to compete with Google in terms of features for their browsers?

I was already hesitant at the idea of somebody on Twitter telling me which criticisms are “valid”, but that premise threw me entirely.
It seems no one will state the truth, she's not neurotypical.

As such her behaviour, is complicated. Which is how all this happened.

It's unfair you're downvoted because without saying this, for her to joke about the death of her flatmate on Twitter is as immoral as what she is accusing others of.
I often wonder what I’ll do when instability comes to the United States. The only solution seems to be having more than one citizenship. I think that people who are stuck in one country will be looked down upon like the way many people look down upon the uneducated. Both groups are in a sense transient. Global citizens will have a much higher standard of safety and stability.
Bittorrent can do random access just fine, especially with v2 which enables content verification in 16KB chunks. Clients tend to be throughput oriented which leads to sub-optimal latency, but that's not a limitation of the protocol.
Anecdotally, based on questions on tex.stackexchange.com, there are a lot of questions that come from people completely ignoring error messages.
I have link to my, ahem, "technical blog" and my real name is in the copyright notice. I also happen to most likely be the single person with such a name on LinkedIn, so it's fairly easy to reach me.

I'm not putting any more effort into this because I don't think I'm that interesting.
Ignorant people are usually faster; they don't have to think before typing
You might look at Kiwix, and the data sources they've indexed: https://www.kiwix.org/en/

(Oddly, it's crashing at launch on my iPad right now)
Agree. While Walmart's search can be a little silly still and selecting the retailer as Walmart.com every time gets old (esp. since it moves around), the search is light years better than the trashfire that Amazon.com serves me. Also, it is nice that Walmart.com emails actually list the items that I ordered instead of just the total order amount: the latter ensures that I must go to the site or app to determine what I ordered vs. searching my emails.

Ordering from Amazon.com has been a pain for me for a long time, from the prompting to join Prime on every checkout, the reqd. selection of non-prime free shipping on every checkout, the content-free order emails, and etc. I contacted them specifically about the email issue but they pretty much replied with 'thanks for the info.'

Most of my orders are now local, Target, or Walmart. If the latter 3 don't have it, then I reluctantly fire up Amazon and hate my life a little bit for it.
(disclosure: current Mapbox employee, in the proposed bargaining unit)

The primary value is that a union is the only realistic way a worker in the US can get their employment terms specified in a contract. Without a contract, these terms can in many cases be changed arbitrarily and with any amount of notice.

For example, Yahoo made remote employees either relocate to an office or resign in 2013 [0]. With a contract, the process by which this change could be made could be defined in advance.

Severance is another example. In many companies, the amount of severance an employee will receive is not disclosed in advance. A common process is to offer the lowest amount the company thinks the employee will accept and still sign a separation agreement. This penalizes employees without substantial savings. And since there's a short window to exercise potentially expensive stock options after termination, many employees have an urgent need for a large lump sum of cash right away. The employee is in a weaker position without a contract specifying severance.

A contract could also do things like limit non-compete clauses. These are already non-enforceable in California, but are still common in other areas of the country.

Judging by the disclosures in the proxy statements of public tech companies, executives frequently have these types of provisions in their employment contracts. Because of their position, they're able to negotiate these individually; regular workers need to act collectively to get similar benefits.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/2013/02/25/technology/yahoo-work-from-...
>what is their rationale for blocking other browsers on iOS?

Same reason you can’t install custom system fonts on iOS. They want to keep the iOS experience coherent. If you don’t like it, buy Android.

Edit: a system font is a font that system dialogs use. Not just any random custom font installed in the font library.
That is not how it has always been. For most of its history W3C was run by scientists, universities and government agencies. Google/Apple/Microsoft came much later.
Asking "when was the last time you were penetrated?" is sexual harassment. So, yeah, she shouldn't have worn a shirt asking that.

But I agree, it doesn't excuse the behavior of the Blizzard employees. ESH.