skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a $1 iCloud subscription on an old iCloud account I no longer use. I could not cancel the subscription from a browser, so I called apple, and was told I have to do it from an apple device. The problem is I no longer have an apple device. Ultimately they escalated the problem, but I never received a call back.
I simply don't want to memorize 3 or more different versions of the syntax codes.

Sometimes I'm using .Net. Sometimes I'm using Python. Sometimes I'm using whatever oddball engine the developer chose.

I know how regex works. I can use forward and backward references. I can combine complex patterns. I can match, extract, replace, transform, etc. Sometimes I have even used nested patterns (though I'd probably need half an hour to re-learn it well enough to read one). But I'm not sitting down and memorizing the difference between /d and /D, or \S and \w or any of that. Frankly, I'm very lucky if I remember the difference between ^ and $. I will have the .Net[0] and the Python[1] doc in my bookmarks forever.

I'm not remotely ashamed of it, either. The codes are completely arbitrary with absolutely no intrinsic meaning. Worse, it's not easy to tell the difference at a glance between literal characters, character classes, operators, wildcards, special constructs, etc. More than once I've been confused by a regex only to discover it does something I didn't know they could even do. Regex patterns are meant to be concise and comprehensible to the regex engine, not to the programmer.

Don't feel bad because you don't memorize an arbitrary and complex syntax. Memorizing syntax is not the job of a programmer. The job of a programmer is to compose the logic and design the system and know that a syntax exists to compose it in. A programmer is an author, not a linguist.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/...

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html
I'm sure the answer to this is, in brief, "politics". Most government-sponsored use of insane HPC clusters are military, or at the very least, sensitive. The owners of such machines are not famously braggarts.
Thank you for this. I have been trying to learn regex for a while, but this makes it easier.
Other normal traffic on the machine going through that conditioner has side effects on your application as well.
I had to cancel my gym membership because I was moving, and it required me to send a physical letter. I did this, but found out later that somehow I owed like 2 dollars, so they didn’t count my cancellation request because my account wasn’t up to date (should be illegal). They continued to bill me the entire membership fee, but my credit card had changed, so they sent my account to a collections agency. Right when I was trying to get a mortgage to buy a house. Cost me hundreds of dollars and much more in annoyance. Thanks The Edge for doing that to your previously loyal customer! It ought to be a law that once a customer informs you via email, text, phone or mail (and all must be easily found) subscription services can no longer accrue new charges.
Sleep is everything you heard, that is more likely sleep is new buzz word. So are the gut microbiota
You make the point beautifully, and I really appreciate how you bring home the consequences of flawed thinking in our politics.
This is a very interesting question, but at the same time a great prompt for snarky answers and humorous hypothesis.

I hope we get serious and informative answers about admin modes etc, but I'm having a bit of fun imagining those frustrated VIP users suffering their untimely updates, confusing dark patterns, and removal of features, so let those come, for once, too.
Great battery life, light.Great for ebooks.
I wish there was a laptop option as well, like HP's old Omnibook.
Color is not required for many applications.
Windows has Enterprise SKUs [0] that turn off virtually all of the nonsense and cede control to the IT administrator. This is the Windows experience for corporate execs and anyone else with access to it. Microsoft themselves describe Enterprise Windows as being "For organizations with advanced security and management needs." [1] No lower tier makes that pledge.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/compare
> I always look at these intros/descriptions of Regex with a heavy heart. They describe what regex's are, but none of the info is going to make much sense to someone who doesn't already know why they would want to learn them.

> Catch 22 of trying to explain what they are.

any teachers, or people who explain/document things for a living, have some good tips or templates to avoid this?
Maybe they freeze the low side to allow the differential settlement to balance back out. I don’t think freezing is that challenging or expensive (on the scale of costs they are having to consider here)
and would take weeks to thaw out. Also, the freezing need not be super deep or expansive, just at along original foundation pile to give them more “grab” in poor conditions.

Freezing could be used as part of a perm fix too. I bet there’s a way to sequentially freeze subsoils in such a way to use frost heave to actually push the building back into original position to augment the foundation. Or create a frozen layer in the mid-foundation and then pump in high pressure concrete grout below the frozen layer. Freezing water is a powerful thing…

Armchair civil engineering is fun
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I noticed some parts of this as well. I just finished AZ104 and 80% of it amounts to "here is how you and your role-based subordinates can spend more money on these product offerings"
So this organizational chart is accurate?

https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
I guess in theory you could use the topical cream form as a moisturiser. Perhaps even use the tube as a doorstop in a pinch.
This isn't limited to newspapers! Have you tried canceling internet service? My internet service did not use internet for cancelation. I had to call.

Free ad for t-mobile: their 5G service for home internet is awesome.
A waveguide metasurface based quasi-far-field transverse-electric superlens
"High-speed internet is as essential as water and electricity"

No it's not. Without water, people die in a matter of days. Without electricity, many households can neither cook nor heat their homes (and of course cannot access the Internet either).

I'm all for regulating Internet providers like utilities, but such hyperbole isn't helping the debate.
Having a Mastercard and an Amex can be useful if you are dealing with some payment gateways that throw a fit at visa during checkout (Scottish whisky sites on Stripe payment gateways is a recurring theme). However this is completely impractical for many people especially those on low incomes who now consider Amazon a utility.
First of all, sex and gender identities are protected in the US and her complaints are about sexism. High level means there should be lots of opportunities, but on the other hand, where does an Amazon exec go if they want to leave? Facebook? As a good faith argument, maybe she saw a personal growth opportunity in the position and also a good-for-the-company growth opportunity to use her experience tap into more talent and/or more of the market. It's easy to stay for a while, even years, if you think you might make things better for yourself and others.

As an outsider, when I got to the part about Ellen Pao I had to think a bit broader. When she was CEO of reddit, in 2014-2015, reddit was practically turning into Ron Paul supporters club. Many users backlashed against her and her decisions (main being banning harassment and revenge porn) and she stepped down. Looking back from 2021, those decisions sure seem good.

I appreciate that you said "Totally prepared for alternate views and am not married to this PoV." It's the main reason I responded after reading the article.
Maybe there is, but not for humans!

If we sensed sound like we sense colour we'd only hear the amount of bass/mid/treble not the individual pitches.

But if there's such a thing as a non-linear medium for light, then transmitting two wavelengths through it should do interesting things depending on the ratio of the wavelengths?
Does that mean they just need to set up a billing center in the UK?
Fluke is a type of worm
The author is a professor at a Catholic university, likely making them Catholic, and I never got the feeling the point of the piece was to be anti-Catholic. It seemed to criticize the CIA's co-opting of Catholicism, with even the Supreme Court bit being more about attacking the right-wing shift of Catholicism than Catholicism itself.
if you're a machinist long enough, you end up making your own tools that iron out the minor but ubiquitous quirks that drive you to the brink of madness.

I'm happy faffing around with Sublime, VSC, even Nano, but when I'm doing anything substantial over an extended period of time I'll always use Emacs, not only that but in the world of Atom Emacs has to be one of the fastest loading/running editors.
Unless you are getting a discount for paying with a debit card, you are paying for these perks too.
What about the refresh/redraw speed? I suppose e-ink has evolved past Kindle Paperwhite standards, because otherwise I can't see how you can use it for coding. Turning a page has a terrible redraw speed, it would drive me mad -- it looks like it was with LCD screens when they were first introduced: terrible.

It doesn't matter for reading books, of course.
Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
Apple Watch Series 7 review: Time for a minor upgrade
The argument that the lockwasher in Fig. 14 doesn't work because it’s equivalent to a flat washer when the nut is fully torqued is faulty. It is not equivalent because it exerts forces on the nut that a flat washer does not.
Beautifully said and couldn’t agree more.

There’s also plenty of empirical evidence for marriage’s positive impacts on kids not to mention the general principle that two are stronger than one. It’s an institution that’s thousands of years old and stretches across every society and religion for good reason.

Sadly not all marriages are successful (not unlike a startup). But this doesn’t mean they’re not worth pursuing.
It’s more about finding a balance than being fire-happy.

Consider: 3 days of all hands interviews and super stressful with a 5% chance of being fired.

Vs

One two hour, non adversarial interview with an 8% chance of being fired.

I made up the numbers but it’s an example of where the approach would make sense. Just as an example.
That is accurate for any and all approaches with email, but it does not negate the (significant) incremental improvements this strategy grants you.
I think this is not the case. Actually, it's more like they give you some restricted benefits matching something near the fees incurred. And only if you redeem them.

It is also virtually cross subsidy from people paying cash/bank transfer to people paying by credit cards.
Show HN: Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing
I don't understand your logic. OP was asking a question, which you answered. Questions are merely requests for logical explanations, and therefore, not always logical themselves.
(Relay engineer here.)

Unfortunately the Premium service that we launched yesterday is only available in a limited (but growing) number of countries. The free version should be available to you though.
Inject Code in Node.js with Chrome DevTools Protocol
When you say this, do you mean actual C libsodium? Because surely you don’t mean that I, a js developer, should need to figure out how to wrap this .h file thingy to get it to work in js when there’s SIX third-party libsodium implementations/wrappers/projects sitting right there listed on the libsodium website? /s
Facebook’s “Metaverse” Must Be Stopped
E-ink is excellent for daylight use. I still have some issue with diffuse overhead lighting (e.g., fluorescent lighting). Detail is high, battery usage is generally low. Frontlight gives excellent indoor / dark ambient legibility.

The way I describe it: persistence is free, pixels are cheap, paints are slow, colour is (mostly) nonexistent. I find the interface far less distracting than emissive displays.

My own leaning is toward the dumbest phone I can find (though an e-ink display would be excellent), an e-book tablet, and a good laptop. Tablets are excellent for reading in ways that neither a smaller phone nor landscape laptop are.
Over here we tuned up virgin media fiber to have the least latency under normal working conditions yet seen, using sqm and the sch_cake algorithm. Pretty graphs here:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/virgin-media-discu...

I don't know what rpm score that network would get as yet.
Apple announces Self Service Repair
‘Off-label’ use is common in medicine; why the Covid-19 vaccines are different
Plos ONE is different from other journals published by PLOS.
Well, sure. But my registrar requires 2FA and has good support. The domain also has a hard lock for transfers, which would require a signature and id.

A targeted hack that could get 2FA tokens or a social engineering attack on the registar aren't threat vectors I'm concerned about. I'm not that interesting.

Much better than being at risk of, for example, Google cancelling your Gmail account for whatever reason, or your mail account getting hacked.
Seriously regret signing up for that gym. The sales person lied about so much shit in hindsight. Signed up for the medium of the road package - tried to downgrade to the basic package told me I couldn't despite telling me when I signed up I could hop between them anytime.
Yep. I rang and said there's a payment I don't recognize and that I didn't make, for Uber in Vietnam. The agent was like "yep, looks fraudulent, we'll cancel it right now and are sending a new card straight away". Money was back by the time I disconnected from the call. Second time it was someone buying stuff on PSN with my card, exact same situation - had the money back instantly.
Kube academy
Why processes at airports are still so inefficient
Can IBM's Quantum Computing effort compress and accelerate the timeline at NASA to return humans on the Moon by before 2024 and at the same time solve the hunger problem with $6B quicker?
> You can edit the entire browser with css like a website.

And each update you have to adjust your CSS to fix whatever the UI changes broke. That is of course until Mozilla remove userStyle.css entirely - they have already disabled it by default so for new installs you have to toggle toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets in about:config.
Is that the case for non-digital goods? When I look at my credit card statement, all the Amazon transactions go to Great Britain.
It's not "one click", but flent is the goto tool we use to probe networks for a multiplicity of problems. It's available for most OSes, including OSx. See flent.org.
> Nit: Adding a keyword is not a breaking change, removing them is.

Langages generally try to add contextual / soft keywords these days but otherwise it’s absolutely a breaking change: any variable named the same will trigger a parse error. That is why languages try to either not add keywords, or find ways to make them opt-in somehow.
Good article for a beginner like myself, however since it was written in 2017 I wonder if it needs a follow up.
And report profits in the UK then I presume.
You can get burned out at free public schools. Here in Argentina the best university is free and open to everyone -- and believe me, you can get very stressed because it's also very demanding.
I wonder where we got off track.

Really, the USA is run by and for corporations. The 90s antitrust against Microsoft happened because Netscape and all the other ms competitors had the connections to push for it. There wont be anything similar against the FAANG corporations now unless a subset of them decide they want to do that, and they're in a careful dance with each other to avoid that happening.

1996: "Netscape and its lawyers and economists, they put together a white paper that they presented to the Justice Department that laid out all of the evidence they had collected on Microsoft. That was a really critical event in the development of the case." https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-...
I really wish emacs had evolved a model for dealing with simple vector graphics. I know part of that falls on the market for not choosing a common model..but
I don't see what's so hard.

"With regex you can search for any combination of characters in a string or return any such combo or modification you like"
It's simple, but not easy.

Just think how things stick together first.
>Nit: Adding a keyword is not a breaking change, removing them is.

Of course adding a keyword is a breaking change. It will invalidate all uses of that keyword where used as a variable. Perhaps PHP is unaffected, as it has sigils on its variables, but most languages, including haskell, do not.
Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph
I don't see the attraction of the Mudita Pure (other than a very nice aesthetic). It just seems like a (hugely) overpriced Nokia feature phone.
Librarians Grapple with Conservatives’ Latest Efforts to Ban Books
In theory yes but then the sales are attributed to the UK company so it would affect their tax avoidance strategy
I feel that Karl Popper's "falsifiability principle" already deals with this adequately:

"In the philosophy of science, a theory is falsifiable (or refutable) if it is contradicted by an observation statement that has a conventional empirical interpretation, i.e., is potentially observable with existing technologies. For example, "All swans are white" is falsifiable, because "Here is a black swan" contradicts it and this is observable."

Note the phrase 'existing technologies'.

More from Wikipedia:

"He opposed falsifiability to the intuitively similar concept of verifiability. Verifying the claim "All swans are white" would require observing all swans, which is not technologically possible. In contrast, the observation of a single black swan is technologically reasonable and sufficient to logically falsify the claim. "

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In a nutshell: if a theory can't be reasonably proven false if it actually IS false, then it's not falsifiable and not really a scientific theory. He also wanted humanities to follow this principle and focus on developing knowledge that is falsifiable.
Not OP but it very much depends on which bit of Azure you're using. Some bits are very polished and work great, some are a dumpster fire.
Hmm, that’s not how I read the paper. It says:

> summary, we argue that, in order to efficiently learn from our successes or mistakes, we need to imagine that we are free. This imagined freedom is physical freedom in the simulated reality of our world model.

I don’t understand why we would need to imagine that we are free in order to engage in certain patterns of behavior. Surely we could just engage in these patterns of behavior for the reason given: that they enable us to learn efficiently.

The paper seems to conflate reasoning counterfactually with imagined freedom, but I don't think the two are so tightly linked. For example, I can reason counterfactually about what would happen under alternate laws of physics, but this doesn't mean that I (necessarily) believe that these altered laws correspond to possible states of affairs.
Not the subject of the thread but the GitHub clone used here seems pretty neat. Gitea. https://gitea.io/en-us/

What do you guys think about GitHub vs Gitlab vs Gitea? Kind of want to make me give a try.
Same, but the credit card is still Visa. Not sure why they only switched the debit cards.
I don't know if I buy this explanation to be honest. I guess main business is office because nearly every company on the planet uses it (for no good reason in that vast majority of cases, and please don't be the guy that defends 'cloud-like' auto-save).

Azure? Not too much touching yet, I am an AWS guy (I can complain here just as much). But their office software and worse their office software APIs are abysmal. I am not registering an app and describe its function to access their beta graph API just to add a task to Planner. I fired the customer that wanted that.

Desktop does make money since most people use their office suite on a Windows PC. Windows isn't that important anymore, but it is still present. And the direction they go with TPM and notebook camera requirements is predictably bad.

You cannot open-source Windows anymore, that would probably be a legal nightmare. Maybe parts of it of course.
Alec of the YouTube channel Technology Connections has a video[1] about his experience with an E-Ink device on his second channel. He wanted to see if this would improve his productivity, so it's not exactly the same as your question, but it's still worth a watch, imho.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k
I went through the effort of canceling my NYT subscription this morning, and thankfully they have an option to cancel "using your account," which avoids a pointless phone call or virtual chat. It's the third option listed, of course, and there are a couple of guilt-trippy pages you have to slide past, but in all it took me 2 minutes to do.
Sure, if you want to split hairs, but the primary beneficiary doesn't pay anything extra.
Building a full stack application with Cloudflare Pages
I laughed at your "just" :)
chop wood, carry water.

this is inherently hard in a world of performance reviews, and corporate ladders to climb. especially when it’s heavily implied that you need to advance or move on.
Do you happen to remember where in Portugal? Because north of Coimbra in Cantanhede is a Spectrum Museum.
Or like the Gameboy Color's screen, you NEEDED external light to see it.
Ah, I fondly recall when the CTO of AOL tried to cancel his AOL account...
This was my approach and I found it pretty successful the first and most recent time I used regex.
> the circle of fifths is very much a "relative" thing to begin with

I'm not sure what you mean.. Is this a pun?

The circle of fifths is right on the intersection of music and physics; each perfect fifth is (very close to) a 3:2 ratio on the previous frequency, which is probably why pentatonic scales are found across cultures. I don't know how much less "relative" you can get with something so subjective as music.
> nice discount if you, instead of paying upfront, finance the purchase

Save $3,000 today so you can spend $12,000 tomorrow!
> "That is accurate for any and all approaches with email"

The likelihood of a takeover of @gmail.com or @icloud.com is much lower though.
Now, this is the time to learn Regex the proper way.
> Strange that this hit HN today.

these 'exciting' new dark pattern strategies spread very quickly among firms. many people are suddenly dealing with them. not strange imo
The full 2% isn’t squeezed out but a big portion is. When I can sign up for a credit card, charge $5000 then get $800 back, it’s pretty clear the credit card company is using much of that 2% for customer acquisition.

And as per my other comment, the customer isn’t necessarily paying the full 2%. If credit card companies became charities and charged 0% would all prices drop by 2%? Of course not.
> I've never heard of a Microsoft Exchange server supporting it

It's supported on Exchange Online/Office 365 environments. There's a switch to enable it. We use it in our organisation.
Or they'll ignore it and just say "The Lakers/Kings game". Unless you can do something like be a White Sox fan and make a Joan Cusack joke, or live in Tampa and call Tropicana Field "the Juice Box", stadium sponsors are purely a vanity project at this point.
What?!

I was completely blindsided by this. I do regular laptop and smartphone repairs for friends and family and getting original parts often is difficult or even impossible. There are many scammers around that will sell "original OEM" i.e. cheap knock-off trash.

Ebay is OK-ish for second hand parts but sometimes you are just out of luck.

I'm pretty excited about this, to say the least.