skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slowing down the correction?

I had 40K taken by US Bank last year...365 days have passed and they're still coming up with excuses as to why they can't disburse that amount to me.

Thank god that I had the insight to start a savings account at a Credit Union about 10 years ago, and moved half of my paychecks there via direct deposit.

I now keep cash in a safe (what safety am I getting keeping that cash in a CD at .05%?) as my savings account.
> To create monopoly, the answer is always to create a monopoly.

That doesn't answer the question. Having a monopoly is only a means to an end (ie. making money), not an end unto itself.
More like a superdisorganizm.
It sounds like that “bad” code was good enough to provide enough business value to keep the company going and you employed for at least 2 years, so I’m not sure your assessment is accurate. Maybe you mean “destruction of value” in terms of opportunity cost, but that’s much more abstract and very hard to truly measure.

Businesses run on cash flow like blood. Once the cash stops, it dies right then and there. It doesn’t matter if a better design will only take a few more months if you can’t make it to tomorrow.
What's the story with SR-IOV for consumer AMD GPUs on Linux? Last time I looked into it, it was impossible to use or more like AMD didn't want to support it.
Yeah put cretinism hasn't been a problem for generations now.
Samsung TVs are a great example of why people like Roku.
You should probably know that there is literally not one fully confirmed case of this ever happening.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3qslhq/where...
Snowflake is trying to build something broader than a database. A cloud platform for storing, processing and sharing data.

But why Snowflake perplexes you and not Bigquery, Redshift or Databricks?
You go to a reputable dealer with cash, and buy what you want. If you’re clear you are doing a cash only deal no name, you’re good.

They’ll issue you an invoice made out to walk in or whatever, so you have documentation, and if you want, you can pay taxes on gains or whatever later.

It IS getting harder to get cash out of a bank without jumping through endless hoops, but most banks will still let you call in an order for $20k
cash or whatever (more than $100k starts to become much more difficult) and after a few days will have it ready for you with documentation (so if a cop pulls you over you can prove it is documented/part of a ‘legal’ source).

Some will make you sign a waiver so if you get mugged outside the bank, you were warned and it’s not their fault, etc. at some point it’s probably worthwhile to get an armored truck or whatever.
If they actually are on the payroll, how is it an "obvious exaggeration" to say that they are getting paid by the Russian government? If something is demonstrably true, why would one need to hide behind the "No reasonable person would believe this to be true" defense?
Says the app is not available in your country (India)

If anyone from Vektor is seeing this, can you please add it to Indian App Store ?

India should be one of the compelling markets for such an app, 10s of millions of kids whose parents already feel math is important and ready to do all they can to provide their kids with early advantage.
Omg not a good look … a commercial e-mail provider…. IMAP and web are down. Where is the failover?

hugs best of luck to the ops team
Jesse Livermore traded pre SEC and enjoyed a lot of insider information. Not unlike crypto today, but unlike the general stock market.
> USSR was built on that kind of manipulation and now it's coming here

Can you link to where I could read up on that? Propaganda tactics are fascinating, and this one is one I never knew about.
> the things I’ve written here, in the context of today, will be dug up and taken out of context

People who are worried about this kind of thing can always email us to rename their account and/or to redact identifying information. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN. While we don't delete entire account histories (and take some heat for this), we do care about protecting users, handle these requests every day, and there's nearly always something we can do.
why is google immune to an attack?
> ...you can post to the local server only, which is an excellent community building feature.

The idea of building a local community that you have to have an account and associated identity on a specific server to access is the kind of mal-aligned incentive that tends to cause federated systems to become de-facto centralized silos and, eventually, return to the status quo of a controlling oligopoly :(.
Had this happened before while you were a customer? I believe it was just a year or two ago that Gmail suffered an extended outage and was even bouncing emails for a while.
Sounds good, or we could also try having an automatic thread on the 1st/14th(?) of the month, like the hiring ones.
This strikes me as ridiculous. Do they mean that every other mac permanently runs at ‘less than full capability’ even when not in low power mode?
Or satellites that can detect polluters who are breaking regulations and making climate change worse?

In reality, the professional astronomers largely don't see the satellites as a problem for their work. There are an overly loud and enraged minority that the "news" uses to get clicks
I assure you nobody outside America would really care, or know, what that company was.
You response is appropriate for a certain kind of definition of "superorganism". To me ants define what a superogranism mean.

> Look at the Earth and what Humans are doing to it. No moral judgements, just the provable

I am not a 100% sure but it seems you are implying about the destructive nature of humankind on the planet earth. That characteristic is not what defines a group of organisms from a superorganism.
I once saw a big company internal webapp that did a dangerous thing. Once it had been misused and the app team was blamed, so there were a bunch of checkboxes at the bottom, including one that said something like "I didn't read this I'm just checking all the boxes and clicking go" and if you clicked that box it would give you an error message.
App developers already pay Apple $100 a year and, as someone in these comments calculated, that earns Apple $2 billion a year alone. Developers regularly need to buy Apple computers, tablets and phones that have 64% profit margins. Users are also buying those computers, tablets and phones that have 64% profit margins.

> and an app store to help developers get customers.

Apple strictly enforces limits and restrictions on users' devices that ensure that the App Store is the only way to get customers. Every other way is banned. Customers cannot get the apps they want without the App Store. Developers are able to find customers on their own, otherwise.

If you want to enter the mobile or tablet markets at all, you're forced to give either company 15% to 30% of your gross revenue. There's no choice, alternative or competition because all the competition is banned.

Personally, I don't think running an exclusive mobile app repository, and then forcing all apps to use Apple or Google's payment methods, should entitle either company to 15% to 30% of a company or developer's gross revenue.
I'd guess Apple has less money -> worse products (or less effective marketing) -> Apple loses market share to Android -> Google gets more data -> Google makes more money

I'm not sure how valid it is given the absolute mountain of cash Apple is sitting on.
Yes, second BMS is included as well, it has a whole bunch of safety features and will be in series with the Bosch one so that it gets first say in cutting out. Though likely the whole Bosch BMS would evaporate if that pack ever shorts out through the BMS :) But that one didn't have the ability to actively balance the pack (which I don't know if I'll ever need but better safe than sorry, once sealed I'd like to keep it sealed, there is a lot of rain here), and it didn't have a bluetooth hookup possibility. Especially in the beginning I'll be monitoring that thing like a hawk, I'm a pretty good welder but spotwelding with rickety gear by hand is a thing that I'm not 100% confident about and it won't take much to mess that up.

70 cts / cell?? Wow. Consider me somewhat jealous, that's an absolute bargain. But better keep a good eye on them then, a FLIR isn't a luxury, it is a good idea to keep an eye on the cell temperature using a FLIR while charging, bad cells will stand out immediately (as well as later on, when they are possibly warmer than their brothers and sisters around them which should be at ambient fairly soon after you stop charging, that's a good indication of a partial short in a cell). I've already spotted some bad apples like that which when checked out on a reference charger seemed to be perfectly ok. It also helps to spot bad welds, simply load up the pack and look at the interconnects, any bad welds will be higher temp because of their increased resistance.
All of Facebook was down for hours a few weeks ago. Stuff happens.
This reads like they’re talking about Theranos.
Sad but true. But what is it your privacy worth? You can always keep an emergency fallback Gmail account.
> C compilers will typically have an escape hatch for envs like deeply embedded systems and kernels like gcc's -ffreestanding and -fno-builtin that says "but for real though, don't assume std lib functions exist or you know what they are based on the function's name".

GCC requires standard library functions even on freestanding environments! It will still emit calls to those functions in certain circumstances.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Standards.html

> GCC requires the freestanding environment provide memcpy, memmove, memset and memcmp.

> if __builtin_trap is used, and the target does not implement the trap pattern, then GCC emits a call to abort.
5% on an ATM in Hong Kong. I'd say that's reasonable.
Ah, they're still struggling with multi-level security. Sigh.

Most of this stuff is modified commercial technology.
Today, everything looks like a call center. The rooms full of custom made gear are decades into the past.

It's embarrassing that they have to have desk phones modified so that the hook switch has a hard cutoff on the microphone.

There's a mention of "KVM switches". One unusual feature of military command centers is that there's usually a way to look at other people's displays. That's done so you don't get everybody crowding behind the person who has the good stuff on their screen. This dates from 1960s NASA, where they just put all the display video on a cable TV network and everybody had a cable TV channel selector. The USAF was using the identical technology into at least the mid-1980s at some locations.
oh, i had that page bookmarked but didn't notice until now it has a feed too. subscribed.
An Interview with Elad Shechter on “The New CSS Reset”
You're implying that there's some sort of conspiracy to keep LiFePO4 out, because it goes against "throw-away culture". If that's true, why aren't we stuck using NiCd batteries today? Surely a battery with memory effects[1] would be even better for "throw-away culture" than lithium batteries than can be arbitrarily charged/discharged for a few hundred cycles?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93cadmium_battery...
'Rust' crew member dead after shooting incident involving Alec Baldwin
Yup. Just consider WAF as a low-pass filter that clean out the noise and let you focus on the real attacks that get through.
Why so? It’s just a clipped version of the state flag:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Indiana
Much more likely to succumb to random whims of google than to experience this
I don’t think it’s just particulates, Denver and the front range are routinely in the news for ozone issues [0]. I think that might be altitude related as well, though it may just be pollution. Den doesn’t quite make the top ten list of US cities with ozone problems, but it’s gotta be close [1].

[0] https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2019-08-15/2019-17405
[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/slideshows/the-10-us-citi...
I started out with a 17 inch 3.7kg workstation and now literally everything feels light compared to that.

I really don’t get all this talk about how heavy laptops are…
Out of curiosity, in situation like these, if you send an e-mail to someone with a Fastmail account, does it eventually get to them or will it bounce back?
Federal Reserve is not the government, and it's employees are not government workers. The Fed is a private cartel owned by large banks, which the government uses like a contactor to implement the setting of interest rates and purchasing of government debt.
Siri is smarter than you. She never makes a mistake
The new Chromecast is a dongle that comes with a remote and has a Google tv interface built on Android tv. You can still cast to it like the old Chromecast. You are likely using one the older, cast only devices which have been discontinued.
Yes. Sponsored to work in this country by his sister. The brother in law owned a few restaurants. My dad was made to work by family pressure. It was reported he was making x amount to the government to keep him here but he never saw the money. He 'worked' for a few years like this

He was driven to various Indian restaurant locations in southern California. Forced to work more than eight hours a day, then driven back to sisters house.

When he married my mother and she immigrated she saw what was going on and ran away and took my dad. We don't talk about the sister any more. I didn't realize my father had two sisters until much later in life.

The scary thing is how open this was. If you're familiar with fancy Indian restaurants in orange, la and Riverside county you'll likely have eaten there. Sister and brother in law were otherwise respectable doctors (including one in public health believe it or not) and otherwise beyond reproach...

There was no hope getting the wages back. My mom and dad started from nothing after several years in the country.

Frankly this sort of slavery is very common, especially among south Asians and is rarely discussed. My parents know a few other full on slaves who were never released to their knowledge. You might ask... Shouldn't we help them... Well we could certainly help them in america, but brother in law is a high caste indian so he would punish the family in India.

There's nothing we could do. This is something the state department and ice need to solve.
Yes, that would be a more organic way to start.
I don’t pay money to use Facebook..
Because the definition of coercion doesn't change when you put a bunch of qualifiers in front of it and say it's for the greater good. It's still coercion. Sometimes coercion is necessary, psychopaths will kill random people absent coercion not to do so for example, but it's still coercion that stops them from doing so.

Your objection basically boils down to "I don't like the way 'coercive experimental gene therapy' makes what my team is presently doing sound like". That's not an argument, it's just an attempt to force people not to use accurate language you disapprove of. Maybe coercive experimental gene therapy is exactly what's needed, just like coercive physical restraint is just what's needed when it comes to dealing with violent psychopaths. But in both cases, refusing to call a spade a spade doesn't change it from being a spade.

When you respond with stuff like "I wouldn't say any of that is a fact, merely incorrect statements" then you're begging your opposition to simply make the exact same statement back to you.
> Given that so much of Apple's profits are from extortionate App Store fees

Apple earns ~20% of their revenue from all their services not just App Store [1]

Given they don't break out their App Store profit numbers I think you should provide your source.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re...
That’s so specific its almost a curse. :)
I am having trouble finding the 'let them' part. I see plenty of allegations. I just wanted to find out when the US was 'off the books aiding' North Korea.
Or SuperUser [1] if this is for a personal machine. They should search/lurk there first, then provide as many details as possible.

[1] - https://superuser.com/
So more control over the priority of workload vs battery life and noise profile is somehow a bad thing?
You've found a nice way to add a workout I think :) Mine is simply un-driveable for any distance without support, it's not a hub motor but a mid motor and there is a whole pile of gears that are driven as well as the motor itself. It's like trying to sail with the anchor out.
They're a much larger company with massive infrastructure that dwarfs Fastmail's? The traffic Fastmail is accustomed to dealing with is likely nowhere near the amount of the traffic that Google deals with.
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Do you also expect `sqrt(a)` to be `call sqrt` and not `sqrtss xmm0`?
Django has never been more popular.

The problem is the group of people who think it is only a back-end for react.

Htmx and alpinejs are trying to debunk that stereotype.
Zombies have always been a thinly veiled analogy for fear of the mindless hoard of ‘everyone else’ coming to get you. In my opinion anyway.
Online pattern generator with various shape
Maryland isn't even readable this close. Who decided to vomit typography onto a license plate?
> I am not a 100% sure but it seems you are implying about the destructive nature of humankind on the planet earth.

I wasn't, unless it's how all of life is meant to be described. Take any definition of life (which is basically synonymous with an organism when you seek a representative individual) and then consider any list of the requirements of life, and you can't miss that the whole human population and individuals are barely distinguishable when it comes to those definitions of life.

We don't just walk (motility). As a species, we also build things and fly as a species to space. That's an example of where humans as a population meet one of the criteria of being a superorganism.

Ants satisfy the various requirements in pretty much exactly the same way. Ever seen them make an ant raft and float out the flood. Some of them die, but the ones that don't keep going. Our space travels will be a lot like that. We just made robots to do most of the dying part first.
Password authentication to something running on local network (and therefore can't get a useful TLS cert) is about it, in my experience. Use the PAKE in place of TOFU to trust a self-signed TLS cert in the browser and get rid of cert warnings, since in my understanding PAKE also helps authenticate the server, not just the user.
Anecdotally, I have investments in both traditional managed funds and contrarian managed funds. It seems to take longer for the contrarian funds to "strike gold" and overall they have not done better than my traditionally managed funds, but have still done significantly better than leaving money in a "high-interest" savings account.

Also, on average, my "punter" picks do about the same as the contrarian funds although with more wild swings up and down, so for less hair pulling I am tending to move more and more towards managed funds or industry-based ETFs with the occasional punter picks.

I certainly think that having some investments in the contrarian space makes sense as a diversification strategy, but I tend to leave those stock picks up to someone who has made it their day job.
Android tv does. Which you can get on an Nvidia shield or a cheaper off brand device on Amazon. Just be sure to get one that is certified for Netflix. (I think it's some kind of DRM that has to be on the device for the Netflix app to work).
SMTP servers will keep retrying for a while.
I've been living in Tokyo for about a year and a half, and I've been in a car maybe 4 times since then. Public transportation is incredible, when done right.

When I lived in NYC, I rarely used cabs, lyft or uber.

The reason it isn't done right in most of the US is because people think it needs to make a profit. That leads to it being underfunded, which means it doesn't run often enough, and doesn't have enough coverage, which leads to lower ridership, which leads to people like you complaining that we're wasting so much money on terrible service.

Stop thinking of public services as companies.
> But if that's the case for a run of the mill general purpose programming language that's running a typical web application, I'd be shocked.

Python's default recursion limit is 1000.
Since Fastmail is the topic here:

Have any other Fastmail users been finding lately that their messages have been getting flagged by recipients' spam filters more than before?

I've been using Fastmail since January, but getting flagged as spam has only seemed to be a significant issue for me for the past couple of months.
I've always used Gmail for my main email accounts and can't recall ever experiencing an outage, although it's possible I just never noticed.
I cannot imagine a single service you pay for that hasn’t had downtime in their past.
It should eventually get to them.

https://twitter.com/Samuel_SGS/status/1451380974776770565
Apple reduced their "App Store tax" in 2020 from 30% to 15% for small businesses i.e. the majority of app developers.

https://www.apple.com/au/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-ap...
Same, I've been on Fastmail for 14 years and this is the first time I can remember them being down for more than a few minutes.
Fewer people face food and water insecurity today than ever before.
I think the retry period is somewhere between 48 and 72 hours
Female elephants evolved to tuskless in a few decades because of ivory poachers
The reason those people exist is that the US banking system is so bizarrely dysfunctional. The American system is corrupt and byzantine and antiquated and leaves tens of millions of people out in the cold. Those people are absolutely right to be furious. They're just wrong about the solution.
It is hilarious that well-studied economists understand that it is difficult and unlikely to consistently beat market returns when using any decent size, yet a primary purpose of the Fed is explicitly to manipulate interest rates.

We would get more value, and much cheaper, by simply using a formula for money expansion and the resulting interest rate.
Short answer: yes

Long answer: it depends. On the settings on all the parties involved. Mail bounceds after the retry limits and timeouts are exhausted.

Your provider tries 5 times over 24 hours? Then that's how long fastmail has to be unreachable by your provider. Maybe my provider reaches them via their secondary routes and thus there's zero chance of bouncing. Mail goes through right away. At least to their server. But maybe the recipient reached their servers via the attacked primary and thus can't see/fetch that email.
To quote myself, from above.

> BTW, I'm not saying one way or the other is the better way to do it.
See texas, its worse.
Revenge of the donkey
Even then it's little enough that I haven't been able to discern the glue even after close inspection.
SMTP servers queue messages and retry periodically. It’s an old and resilient protocol. Eventually the message will bounce, but it’s up to the sending SMTP server how long to retry before giving up. There are some guidelines here:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.4
Near as I can tell it’s a generalized fear they are attempting to address this way, and don’t often really fully understand it or why they are even doing it.

If you think of it however as not needing to be rational, but more or from an evolutionary perspective ‘folks in the past who had similar types of fears and discomfort might have survived prior insane disasters that no one else expected to ever occur’ it might make more sense.

It doesn’t have to be rational. It doesn’t even have to help them survive or be successful most of the time. If it works even a little better and they survive when everyone else died because of their insane paranoia, those genes will propagate.