skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "once a whore, always a whore"

> Basically, once a woman tries out whoring

> weird analogies claiming that whoring (renting out your body for money) is just like physical labor, which is fscking insane.

> How is being sexually penetrated by a stranger, ejaculated on, etc... anything like a man doing manual labor?

well we've found our misogynist

> Why is she even a single-mom in the first place?

right, because women have bodily autonomy and basic health care services available to them everywhere. yes i am talking about abortion

seriously, why the hell share this disgusting tirade?

edit: wow i see this isn't your only misogynistic comment

> At least a woman can take the easy way out and become a prostitute. A man has no such "luxury". Society does not pity weak men the way it pities weak women. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28928183
Shitty customer service might have flown in Germany (I live in Berlin now, ask me how garbage most retailers at treating their customers, it's bad) but it won't win them much in teh way of goodwill or customers in the US which typically has a better track when it comes to customer service. So there's hope that this might change in the future.
>To curtail harassment, nerf the outrage machine (algorithmic newsfeeds) and ad revenue biz models.

Speaking only on the money side of this, that is a very easy (and popular) thing to say, but a very difficult thing to do. How would you support these services without the ad revenue business model? Most of the other business models people have tried do not pay the salaries of the network operations people required to run the service.

And I can only imagine that even today people are still going to be reticent to pay for most of the social media services they get online. Most will just wait for another free social media service to come along.

To rid ourselves of ad revenue based business models and algorithms, we need to find, and prove, new business models that work at scale. They don't have to rake in as much money as ads, but they do need to pay for operations and the resultant salaries. And that's not a small amount of money at scale.
> Because most average users ask for one thing, but actually need something else and it is the job of a service person to get down to what the customer actually wants. Disclosing intent of unusual requests helps to find a solution in a faster way.

As I said elsewhere, I think it's an instance of the XY problem and we agree here, but I think the response of the clerk could have been something like "I have a lot of clients that ask for X when they need Y. If I give them X, they may come back and complain, and it will be a mistake on my part. So I'm sorry if I'm being too insistent with it, but I really need to be sure that you want X and not Y, especially since your request sounds a lot like what people say when they want Y", to which you could reply "Oh I perfectly understand, I work in software and we have this all the time with clients, I would do the same thing in your place. I assure you, I really need X and not Y." or something.

> It's also respectful to the clerk.

It may be more respectful than what happened the way the thing was narrated, but I think there is nothing "respectful" about disclosing information you may not want to disclose, which seem to be the case here (or the author is being obtuse).

> That's what this post is about with a strong tendency that OP wants the reader to think that everybody judging him is stupid.

I don't agree about the intentions of the author here. My interpretation is that he found something cool, efficient, somewhat counterintuive and want to share it. That seems to be in line with his other posts.

> I don't think he's stupid, but I think if someone is being judged as stupid all the time, it might not always be the other people (what OP makes us want to believe), but the way how OP interacts with his environment.

That's very true too. We only have his version so that's a possibility.
According to the World Bank, the self-employed in Germany account for 9.6% of the total employment. So nine out of ten Germans can still avoid filing taxes, which is pretty good.

Interestingly enough, the self-employed actually make up a smaller percentage of total employment in the US at 6.1%. So if the US were to adopt a similar system, it'd be closer to 15 out of 16 Americans.
Basically, as a fellow Brit you will know that for most people your tax just happens automatically (typically through the PAYE system, so tax is taken before you get your paycheck, and we never have to even think about it).

Then in the UK if you have more complex tax affairs, then you have to fill in a self assessment on the government portal (where it already knows most of your tax information, and you are pretty much just making disclosures).

And it's VERY rare that people have to hire an accountant (only for people who own businesses, or individuals with the moxt complex tax affairs).

Well in the USA they don't have any of that, and everyone has to file their own taxes. The USA has the capability to do automated tax like in the UK, however the companies who sell the tax software petitioned the government to make sure that they didn't implement it so they can continue to get $$$ out of everyone else.
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Or maybe it's a common theme with California's draconian politics being ineffective.
> You could apply something generic like that to all kinds of things. It's like a horoscope.

You can apply that to your statement too.
Just to be clear, it's not pandering to taxis to do this. It's basically required.

Taxis are first in, first out. Someone leaves the airport and gets in the first available car.

Uber is like the bubble sort of queuing theory. It's random in, random out. A driver and a passenger are matched with no regard to the queue, then, if not specially managed, the driver occupies a spot until that passenger gets there. If anyone calls a car too early or is at the wrong place, they've just congested the system pretty badly. Total waiting time slows down.
My tax person charges several times that amount and I still have to scramble to get all the documents to then. Remember, all the above mentioned issues still exist. If I forget a certain item, it is still my fault
So many leave for greener pastures. You can do everything right in creating content, getting great links, having solid on page optimization, but no movement for months at a time. When you're solely SEO, you probably report to someone who starts to get antsy after a few months of "not ranking 1st for X term", so you end up switching to paid or something else entirely.

I've had most success in hiring copywriters who are eager to learn and then teaching them the fundamentals related to creating content-- keyword research, interlinking and thinking of who/how their content will either further business goals or help with generating backlinks. The technical component is easier- just look for anyone with Screamingfrog on their resume or be willing to teach someone who is semi-technical.
Well you made the reverse mistake...
I would call it My Tribe. That way it would reflect its impact on society.
>data is readily available

This isn't my experience unless one works in a major city.
That is definitely the case in Boca Chica, TX and there may even be a conflict of interests with the environmental assessment being used instead of the full environmental study. SpaceX is going way beyond what was originally permitted by the FAA.

Edit: Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bdkcoiFaN0
> They become a problem when they go viral, among groups of people with limited critical thinking skills.

Agreed, and to expand on this: I believe another problem is that these conspiracy theorists also believe that they have secret knowledge that the man doesn’t want you to have. Finally, they are smarter about something than those folks with education and success.

This makes them an easy target for real conspiracies, conspiracies by folks that merely want to take their money. See, for example, the anti-GMO movement and specifically the anti-GMO seed packs you can buy.
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In LA it’s the worst of all worlds, taxis can’t come to the terminal anymore either. Unless you’re getting picked up by friends, you will be taking a bus to that parking lot and waiting.
You can't discharge lead-acid as deeply as LFP without destroying longevity. So that 150Ah, probably only has 75Ah of useable capacity.

The LFP battery will also last for ~5000 cycles, after which it'll still have ~80% capacity, and thus is still valuable. Lead acid only has a life of 500~1200 cycles. In other words: you'll have replaced the lead acid battery 4~10 times before you need to replace the LFP.

IIRC, lead acid has a higher voltage drop when drawing a lot of current. Meaning that with LFP you can power larger loads.

Taken together, for most use-cases, the lifetime TCO of LFP is better than lead acid.
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They have a whole field called experimental archaeology that's exactly about these sort of things.
This. It just never ends well. The only people I tell are coworkers with whom I'm close enough that I have their personal phone number for texting.

Family: hard no
Friends: harder no
Random strangers on the internet: maybe?
People I barely know but will potentially see again: absolutely hard no never

I also have a couple anecdotes:

Family: Told my sister how much I make. Now my brother-in-law won't stop making random comments about money. They're not in poor humor, but it's uncomfortable.

Friends: In high school, our friend group was held together by anime. So you had a weird cross-section of people in terms of academic achievement. My friend and I were basically the top two, and the rest of the friend group... let's say they didn't prioritize academics and though we two were a bit odd for trying so much. Anyway, we two go to college, fast forward four years and I graduate with an offer for 80k/yr (where I live, this is 2x median household income), and the standard offer is 50k. I told my friend, hoping that it would help her evaluate her offers. Instead, suddenly the entire friend group won't talk to me. I can understand where they're coming from, to some degree - fresh out of college I was probably making 4x their salaries. But I learned from the harm this caused. It wasn't a big deal, since we'd drifted apart after high school, as friends do, but it was still unfortunate. My peer friend had just accidentally revealed the numeric aspect of my offer, and she apologized to me after she realized how much it upset everyone else in the group.

Dunno. I find it hard to calibrate. I now make more than double that offer, and yet know of many peers (principal/staff engineers) who make double or triple my current salary, and I don't fault them for it. Maybe it's just because I/we know our industry is kinda stupid (right now? for now?) and the money is sloshing around everywhere, so we don't take it personally when someone manages to get a sweet offer, and I'm happy - and proud!- that they manage to get such great remuneration. But I also know not everyone has these opportunities and I'm fairly privileged.

But yeah. I have a very short list of folks I share with now.
> Inaction is also a decision

To be fair, FB spends huge amount of money and resource to deal with the various problems that are well identified. I don't see inaction there.

> we don't accept food poisoning as "it's just a side-effect of posing a lot of challenges".

This is your interpretation that FB is akin to food poisoning, but this is not mine. Besides, a lot of business have potentially undesirable consequences (e.g. junk food leads to obesity and health problem) that we tolerate because we assume people are free to make their own choices.

But what's your solution exactly?
I also like PHP. It is also an awful language, though, and always has been. Inconsistent parameter ordering, the infamous NULL/0/""/FALSE heffalump trap, object-orientation as an afterthought. Many more. It's OK once you know the language well, but a lot of PHP developers don't.

I have a PHP app written in PHP5.6, for my own use (not exposed on the internet). Naturally it broke when I upgraded to Debian Buster. Upgrading the code would have taken ages; but it took me just a day or so to work out how to get PHP5.6 working on Buster.

I've retired, because I can, and because I prefer not to work if I don't have to. There's a pretty steep learning curve from PHP5 to PHP8; I don't want to do that learning, if it's no longer necessary for my job, and I'm only using it for a private app.

I've not used PHP8 on anything serious, but my impression is that it's a HUGE improvement on PHP5. It's a lot more coherent, a lot faster, and a lot more secure. A lot of what has been dropped was dropped because it was insecure crap - it had to go sooner or later. In the end it was "better late than never".
I don't see where microservices or not have much to do with having a monorepo or not. We have a monorepo and we have both. We have "microservices" and we don't. It's also a huge variable term. What I call microservices you guys might call "a bunch of monoliths communicating with each other". Same difference.

git bisect helps to easily identify hard to find but reproducible bugs. Since we try to have small PRs once you found the breaking commit it is usually easy enough to the find the bug. Murphy and exceptions obviously apply.
While banning ~90% of the bots sounds pretty good to me - how long would it take the folks behind those now-banned bots to replace them, with new & "improved" & less easily detected bots?
For context: Berlin is one (or the) central for IT jobs and startups, but for car manufacturing Ingolstadt, Stuttgart or Wolfsburg would be more „traditional“ choices, since that’s where the big car makers are. Oh, and the Ruhrarea ofc.
Cleaning isn't that difficult and yet I keep putting it off for as long as I can.
A country is made of people AND legal entities. Legal entities in the US have a lot of impact in what the country does (for example it's legal for companies to pay politicians, which is illegal almost everywhere else).
Believe it or not, about half of the country believes these policies are great and it's what makes the usa so succesful.
I am not making a stand, just trying to explain here.
I'm unsure what you're trying to communicate.
I think using 15-bit ADPCM u-law would be a quick and dirty approximation. Or similar ADPCM.
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It's not badly defined. Consciousness is our subjective experience of color, sound, taste, smell, touch, feelings in perception, imagination, hallucination, illusion, dreams and inner dialog. It's something we're all familiar with.

The modern philosophical term for this is qualia. Chalmers, Block, Nagel, etc. have discussed this at length. Even philosophers who disagree with them like Dennett and Keith Frankish do so by engaging with the definition above.

It's unanswerable to date because there is no consensus on what the nature of subjectivity is. How are some brain states conscious? Is it a cognitive illusion? Is it weakly emergent? Is consciousness a property of everything or perhaps rich information streams? Is it functional or biological? Are we cognitively closed to the answer?
The definition of abusive behavior is unfortunately ambiguous though. Not everybody agrees to it. That's how you get people claiming folks are too sensitive and other people claiming so and so is an abuser for some more ambiguous circumstance.
This is the issue I (and no doubt many others) have when I read pop science books from fields I'm not an expert in is the ability to discern whether their claims are based on solid foundations.

I read "Thinking: Fast and Slow" something like 7 years ago now and while I wouldn't be able to give you a direct account of the ideas I've taken away from it at this point, I wonder how much partially or completely incorrect ideas on thinking I internalized from it.

Obviously I can now adjust my mental model but pop sci still feels a bit like a mine field for the quality of thought I may be taking away from it. I just started "The Selfish Gene" and this post has me wary of the quality of it even though just like Fast And Slow it's fairly critically acclaimed.

I think if anything in the last few years I've found myself being highly skeptical of most claims and ideas (which is also a balancing act, but largely good) which wasn't necessarily the case when I was reading Fast and Slow instead committing a common sin and taking the fact the author was a well regarded practitioner in their field at face value.

I guess the point of my comment here is I find that without taking (or really having the) the time to follow every idea to it's foundations and given there are an incredible number of ideas being thrown around openly and with little barrier to entry having to rely on some type of illogical filter and tendency towards your own biases is required just to filter down to a smaller set of ideas that at least seem plausible. The issue with that as we see on a day to day basis is that most people's filter (including my own given the critique of this book) sucks and we wind up with a bunch of plausible but incorrect ideas being treated as fact and propagated throughout the world. It would be nice if finding some kind of objective truth didn't require turning seeking that truth into a life mission.

It's also something to be said that most people operate on these faulty models throughout life to great success by conventional standards so it's not like knowing some set of objective truths, if they're there in the first place (I'm not entirely convinced everything has an objective truth), is a pre-requisite to a happy, successful or fulfilling life -- they may even be the opposite. I just have always found that unpalatable and hope we find ways to think better.
I know you understood this for EVs and renewables, that's why I pointed out that I think you have fallen for it when it comes to recyling plastic.

You said this:

> Clearly, recycling plastic isn't green. It's only ever so slightly less harmful.

You didn't need to emphasise how little you think recycling helps. I take it to mean "it's better to just not use plastic" and agree but as I said, on a society wide scale that is simply not happening so advertising that attitude to other people, who certainly will not stop using plastic, spreads the meme that recycling is basically useless and that is a bad strategy. Which coincidentally is the same message that fossil fuel providers push.

Collectively we need to use less and recycle the stuff we do use efficiently. As I said, there's no downsides to this, nor any conflict between those two things any more than saying we should use both wind and solar.

You don't use solar when wind makes more sense nor vice versa. But if you personally decide to install solar panels because that works well for you, it's not helpful to say "wind is not green, just ever so slightly less harmful". We need both, both are better than the status quo.
For taxis, depends where you are and what other taxis you were booking. Compared to a London Black Cab, much better, compared to a licenced minicab, about the same but via an app instead of a phone call.

For Uber Eats though, I've had them claim that there is no expectation of food arriving hot. First few times I had delivery problems I got full refunds and the reputation was always "give it a go, worst case you can get a refund anyway". Now it's hard to even get in touch with support let alone get them to acknowledge an order issue, and refunds are almost unheard of.

Edit: I had forgotten about all the issues with sexual assaults by Uber drivers. They tried to downplay the issues, but ended up having to implement a lot of controls to understand who was driving the cars, in some markets they now have to be licenced, it's all changed a lot since the beginning because of how the service was actively dangerous compared to incumbents who were typically much more tightly regulated.
No chance. Nothing good can come of it. In some societies it's just impolite to ask about this anyway.
I'm not going to contradict you. This was just one random example, based on the git/SHA-1 story. To stay in this example: If someone is claiming SHA-1 is faster for them, I'd expect to document what other algorithms they tested, what the numbers were, why better things were unavailable. A future maintainer can check if the decision still makes sense based on the comment. Hence the huge comment from the post above.

The problem is, I have a few examples that make a lot more sense, but they can't be published here. They depend on local corporate circumstances and pretty obscure knowledge, and would be undecipherable for the HN crowd.
To some degree you’re making the case for Uber. The fact that you as the consumer can be completely oblivious to local cab driver idiosyncrasies is part of the appeal, as is the completely frictionless payment experience.

Ok, cabs work fine in Chicago. If I get off a plane in city Foo, I have no idea what I’m going to get from a cab. I know what I’m getting from an Uber.

There’s also some tacit acknowledgement in your comment that in many places local cabs are decidedly not fine. The last traditional cab I took in the SF bay drove 90 mph and charged me twice as much as an Uber. Why would I go back?
Not just Japan, also true for the UK with our Pay As You Earn system - you get assigned a tax code, and the appropriate amount is automatically deducted from your payslip. No need to file anything, and refunds/demands get generated automatically each year if you've been changing jobs/not working/other odd circumstances meaning that the amount you paid doesn't match what you were expected to
That's fair and I understand that. My point, is we have trouble even suggesting causation. We have one event (industrialization) and one suspected effect (warming temps). Without another time-series of data for comparison we don't know what the natural state of the world even is given the margin of error (we're only talking 1-2 degrees C).

We don't have the full dataset so effectively we're seeing two lines go up at the same time and claiming one is causing the other.

We can't even really make a correlation case, besides to say these two time series loosely correlate.

Put another way, we suspect one event causes another, which are tracked via a time series. Normally, when you're discussing causality you'd looking for multiple instances of said event causing another. We don't have that. Hence, we're effectively shooting in the dark.