skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is saying that they're not doing a good job.

For me it's about the externalities such as poor treatment of their workforce, tax avoidance, worsening the consumption culture and environmental impact.
So I've been trying out https://www.future.co (similar coaching concept for fitness).

While I really like the concept (esp since it means I don't need to make my own workouts, which was often an excuse I used not to workout) I haven't found the accountability aspect very effective, I was at it for a few months and then dropped off, despite the daily "YOU GOT THIS!!" text from a stranger on the other side of the country.

It's entirely plausible that at the end of the day I'm just lazy/not motivated enough and no amount of accountability will be helpful, but I wonder if there's a better form of accountability, particularly through likeminded social circles, you could integrate.

Just riffing (using workout as the habit, since I will absolutely pay big $$ if something gets me to work out more, future is $150/m);

1. Social shaming
a. the app notifies a bunch of friends every time you miss a workout.
b. I pay for someone to blow up my phone / texts ad infinatum at a certain time until I'm in the gym's geofence.

2. Material loss
a. you use Plaid to pull $XX out of my account and send it to my buddy every time I miss a workout.
b. set aside some large amount of $$ like $1000 and if I don't get to the gym 20x in a month, confirmed by a third party, the money is gone forever.

3. Material gain;
a. join a group of friends; y'all put $100 in a pot, add 1 point for every workout and subtract 3 points for every miss. When the squad hits 100 points you spend the money on a trip to Fogo de Chão. If you go below 0 the money is gone forever.
b. partner with gyms & give a 40% membership discount if the person has a rolling 15 days / month attendance.

Re: the app; love the idea, the design is gorgeous, but the name is not something I'd be comfortable sharing with friends :)
Questions to start troubleshooting a software development team velocity
The best way to give a manufacturer feedback is to not purchase their product. If the product is already purchased and non-refundable, the next best way is to advise others not to purchase the product. While this may sound harsh, sales metrics are guaranteed to shape manufacturer behavior, while anecdotal feedback may or may not result in changes.

Writing to or calling the manufacturer may be effective for small companies, or companies with a good track record in ethics. Otherwise, let the sales do the talking.
Think of it like dithering. Not all of us could afford full 24 bit color displays and had to make do with 256 or 16 colors or 8 colors instead. Sometimes the right color brick isn't there and it's better to have the odd colors spread throughout the whole thing than one brick that's off.
That's "for the prevention of thermal runway". This study is talking about how to _prevent_ fires.

We're talking about fires that have already started here and are raging out of control and consuming the car.

The battery verification tests confirmed that aqueous agents were most effective for the prevention of thermal runaway propagation. For the lithium-ion cell chemistries tested, none of the handheld agents at their recommended application distances were able to prevent propagation.
The lithium-metal battery tests revealed that, without suppression, the cells would propagate into thermal runaway. To stop propagation, 500 mL of the aqueous agents were sufficient.
I hate you for saying these things that I now believe will come to pass. And here I was thinking the ads that autoplay at gas pumps were bad... :'(
> I don't know why so many feel the need to reduce the effort, skill, and ingenuity of these founders and builders as if them building a Berkshire, Amazon, or Tesla was a given.

It was not a given, but these people are serial coin-toss winners and lazy observers claim they found a way to have an edge in the 50:50 coin toss odds.

In reality if you take a sample of 8 billion people somebody is bound to record 10,000 consecutive coin toss wins , and not because they consciously found a way to crack the coin toss process, but purely because of luck and law of large numbers

The initial hand over of money from rich parents is just the very start of wins in the long series of coin toss wins.
Hmm, I'll try that, thank you! Very interesting idea.
> Having worked mostly in cowboy organizations, I just don't see how you can fix tricky network issues without access to the machines. And once you need access sometimes, you might as well use it always, because it's certainly handy.

The big, abstract idea is that you don't worry about individual instances (be they VMs or container instances or unikernel apps or etc), but you worry about the process for stamping out those instances. If you have a process for reproducibly creating machines, then you can test that process in lower environments (stamp out some instances, validate them, and destroy them) before promoting that process to production. When you have production issues, your first line of defense should be comprehensive logging and monitoring, but failing that you try to reproduce issues in lower environments and failing that you can deploy a version of your app with monitoring tools baked in (e.g., instead of a scratch base image, you deploy a version with a full ubuntu base image). If you're running into issues so often that you feel the need to deploy your debug tools to production all the time, then you're not appropriately investing in your logging/monitoring (ideally every time you need a debug tool in production, you should go back and add equivalent instrumentation so you don't need that debug tool any more). This is the theory, anyway. Practice involves a lot more nuance and judgement.
Jesus man. Please, your experience is your experience and does not generalize. Plenty of people love their parents and would gladly sacrifice a little to make the end of their lives better. Your conclusion might be appropriate for your circumstances but it is horrible nonetheless and no one should take it as the right way to live.
I use VSCode, IntelliJ and Notepad++ all with VIM mode. VIM isn't just the editor, it's a style of editing.

Honestly if an editor doesn't have VIM mode, I don't use it.
But those are features of vim. The default settings of vim are nonexistent. I needed to spend hours just to get it to sort of work. It was not even showing line numbers let alone syntax highlighting.
CentOS Stream 9, branched off Fedora 34, is generally available
The QPX infra can source data from the airlines themselves so that's not the issue. Ryanair and Easyjet don't want to give their data to Google.
> 34% means that Amazon is keeping 34% of the retail price of the product as profit. <...> (Costco is much lower, with 15% selling margins)

then later

> But it's not different from traditional retail.

Aren't these contradictory?
Theoretical physicists love such analogies. There are also things like magnetochromodynamics (=magnetic part of quantum chromo dynamics), etc.
Alexas are changing their names because of Amazon’s voice assistant
The quoted book (Bullshit by Frankfurt) also examines the consequences but more importantly defines bullshit as manipulating the perception of intent. I found the best example was the politician who does a speech with religious claims and hero worship. The book says that whether that politician is actually pious is besides the point, the politician doesn't care about the truth value of what he says but rather about being seen in a particular light.

The book argues that bullshit can be the bigger enemy of truth than straight up lying because it has no actual regard for truth at all.
I think there's context & detail beyond immediate outrage.

In context of article with specific point to make, it sounds awful. But think about it: if e.g. Marriott starts selling rooms for $100 on their website, but $120 on any other site such as Bookings or Expedia or whatever, isn't this ALSO something you as a consumer would get peeved at? Wouldn't you immediately demand that they put a stop to that insidious practice, and regulate some law that forces Marriott to give same low prices to everybody? :->
This makes no sense - stem and liberal arts aren’t mutually exclusive things you can just separate. In fact math itself is generally thought to be part of the “liberal arts”, along with logic, which could be said to be the precursor to computer science.
No, Emacs has an editor. If you're using Evil it even has a good one. ;)
I don't understand this company at all, and don't like the way they do electronic signatures.

On Vanguard and other sites, and electronic signature is a web page that says "Type your name and click Agree to electronically sign this transaction", or something to that effect. It's a one-time electronic signature.

With Docusign, you have to create and account with them, they make this goofy fake signature image, and you have to agree that this goofy image they store on their servers is your legal signature. It's a _stored_ electronic signature.

I have no problem with one-time electronic signatures and do them alot. But I refuse to use Docusign's stored electronic signature. Edward Jones uses them and so does Carvana. Carvana lost a sale to me in the 5 minutes before they were going to deliver a car to me because they said in the beginning I wouldn't have to use Docusign, and at the tail end said I would, or they couldn't deliver the car. I told them to keep it. Carvana also forces you to take a selfie holding your driver's license before they will deliver a car, which is completely stupid to me. And they won't delete any data they acquire, including images of your driver's license, unless you live in CA.
I think this is a good solution, but I want to add a few disclaimers after watching my parents make a similar decision with my grandparents.

My parents moved into my mom's childhood home with her parents, and renovated to build out a second floor with separate living/sleeping space (no extra kitchen). This was great in that the property became the de-facto gathering place for a large and geographically distributed family, and in a crunch the house could comfortably sleep 10 while my grandparents kept their comforts.

That said some things were not smooth:

* My parents and grandparents had trouble directly addressing uncomfortable topics. A significant example of this was when it was time for my grandmother to stop driving. The car would start to show surprise scratches and dents. My parents did not want to challenge my grandmothers stated sense of independence, and also had not budgeted a way to allow her to run her errands while they worked without driving (a driver a few hours a week, essentially). I consider this a high-liability failure.

* I got the sense that money was also not talked about directly enough, and there was frequently an undercurrent or sense of resentment about who was footing what bill, and whether said bill was even necessary.

* My mother, very sadly, started to deeply resent her parents after a long while for her perception of being trapped by the situation and unable to move on to other lifestyle choices. Part of this was due to my father taking a job out of state and being flying back for weekends, and my mom wanting to just join him in the new city full time. This resentment really soured their final years together, and is a real shame. Know going in that the decision you're making may go a decade longer than you initially calculated, and that your goals and priorities may shift in that time too, I guess.

* My younger sister moved in with the four of them in her early 20s while trying to re-figure out how to launch. The result was a lot of arrested development and strange regressive relationship behavior - my sister literally started acting like a pre-teen around my parents again, they started talking to her like a child, and my grandparents went back to the scorn-filled gramp-grumps they'd been with little kids. Everyone leapt backward 10+ years in terms of their adult relationships and communication methods with each other.

In the end, my grandparents were well cared for in their final years, and everyone did have more together time. The main benefit was the central gathering place for the extended family, and the house would fill for a few weeks of each year across all the holidays. I bought a house with room to build out a first floor en-suite that I hope my parents or in-laws will someday use, but I'm also keenly aware of the hiccups above. I think the main thing is clear communication about expectations, finances, and boundaries. Which I guess isn't different from normal life :)
I'm not going to speak for the Amazon situation. But comparing it to toll roads in the real world is disingenuous. Untolled roads are paid for by public taxes, they encourage driving, and people who don't drive end up subsidizing people who do drive.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense licenses the export of Pegasus to foreign governments, but not to private entities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group#Pegasus
> I spent many, many hours trying to learn and use vim only to realize that it was fundamentally slower

Your lack of proficiency in vim does not mean it is fundamentally slower.
Because to have a true hegemony, you need to be able to project power around the globe mostly uncontested. This is very difficult for China as they are essentially boxed in by Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the nations of the South China Sea, even if they do take Taiwan. So they will never have fully uncontested access to the sea and thus to the world, even if they do surpass the US in military power abroad (which is doubtful).
What is your definition of rogue states? The U.S sells weapons to the Saudis in hundreds of billions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States%E2%80%93Sau....

So I should believe the U.S thinks it's OK to sell F-15 planes but not OK to sell software? I'm gonna assume yes, there are probably other players in cyber warfare who sell to these countries, probably also the U.S.
To me it sounds like the author has nearly-zero experience in web development and thus prefers publishing websites straight out of Illustrator.
Money spent on luxuries/social status signaling is money not given to reduce suffering. If you have any sense of empathy for the billions of people living with low incomes, it's obvious that luxury spending is resource misallocation.
I have received a set with pieces missing. I bought the set off eBay, and the seller swore it was new. I didn’t just misplace the pieces either- one was a wheel, not a tiny part
Ray Dalio Defends Investments in China Despite Human Rights Abuses
Not sure if my kids have that many sets yet (they basically just want Legos for every present so we'll be there soon), but I can definitely relate to this. Every set there is a "missing" piece that they ask me about, but it is always either found in the wrong spot or on the floor somewhere. It is to the point now that they tell me a piece is missing, I give them the look, and then they go back and find it on their own.
That's his hope. He doesn't want to live as our father did.
> b. set aside some large amount of $$ like $1000 and if I don't get to the gym 20x in a month, confirmed by a third party, the money is gone forever.

I was thinking of creating an app like this one, my major issue was that the app's incentives (making money) and the user's incentives (working out) were not aligned. I like the idea of giving money to your buddy (or charity) better.
Is this the old Second Life boom all over again?
yes! I was thinking of this thread reading the news today... what a coincidence
I've always been of the opinion that if you find a completely white screen to be blinding or even painful, then you either need to turn down your brightness or add additional ambient light to your room, or both.
> *E Ink monitors' refresh speed is not as high as conventional monitors',

So what is the refresh rate then? I can't seem to find it in the Specs section.
I know people think of Hospice as supporting your final months but their only criteria is a terminally sick patient that will never recover. They can come and do an in house visit several times a week and bring health care to your parents, and it’s free. I knew somebody who had hospice care for years.
Keurig refuses to brew my tea because they didn’t make it
The problem with SVG is that it performs terribly especially when compared with Flash. This site is relatively small and it's super slow on an i9
In the US the state have to provide you a lawyer if you can’t afford one (only after you’re arrested though).

See Miranda v. Arizona 1966 and the Fifth Amendment.
I find the idea of purposefully breeding dogs with short legs, stubby noses, etc. repulsive. Why do people do it? Wouldn't they prefer a pet without health issues?
Ask HN: Non-cloud-based home cameras
We’re looking for a camera (specifically for a baby monitor) that can be accessed on the local network, but which isn’t exposed to the internet and doesn’t use cloud functionality. Does such a thing even exist nowadays?
> the U.S thinks it's OK to sell F-15 planes but not OK to sell software?

The U.S. thinks it's okay to sell F-15s that don't attack Americans and not okay to sell software that attacks Americans. As a, granted, American, I'm not seeing the incoherence.
I am also not in favor of selling advanced weaponry to the saudis or pretty much any non-democratic regime. The US has a very poor historical track record of supporting strongmen that do brutal things. Pinochet. Suharto. MBS. I could write a very long list.
Russia and China were willing to sign treaties with the US to prevent this. Historically they do abide by them. The US refused repeatedly because the US is fundamentally aiming for absolute dominance militarily.
You're nitpicking out of context, I didn't give a definition of an exponential function, I was talking about the spreading of the Covid 19 disease. For example, the R0 value of SARS-CoV-2 was estimated 5.8 in the US and "...between 3.6 and 6.1 in the eight European countries"[1] Obviously, it depends on many factors like population density and contacts of persons/day, but generally the disease will start spreading exponentially with R_t values approaching this number or staying constant.

The initial spreading will be exponential in the beginning - as every actual curve illustrates - if the disease is left unchecked as OP suggested, until R_t values go down again due to immunity. That's all I meant to say.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002251932...
> malevolent behaviour by an agent would rapidly make that agent incapable of future larceny.

This is a naïve claim which is disproved by all available evidence.

Markets without central regulation are always exploited by participants with more knowledge. Regulations are required to keep the playing field level.
This is true to the point that when someone asks me to explain how to do something that I do all the time I feel confused and it requires me significant effort to reverse engineer my muscle memory so I can verbalize the correct keystrokes.
What do you think the "goal of the shelter" is? To just move as many dogs out as possible, or to serve the public by giving them fair access to dogs others don't want? Those are subtly different.
He was not, after the nurse discovered the trick he still insisted to be injected in the fake arm. She refused obviously.
... only when people agree on their hallucinations.

Summary of a talk by brain researcher Anil Seth: https://youtu.be/a54QHJYC8lM
I'm sure Expedia would try to spin it that way. But no, if Expedia wants a $20 cut, they should be providing a $20 service.
Docker Blog – How to Use Your Own Registry
You were there and I wasn’t. But from your description it just sounds like liability was the main topic of that conference. That’s not a group of people who are going to be able to workshop technical solutions for one particular driving scenario.

In general I agree with your point that human drivers can create complex risks requiring sophisticated mitigations. But I also agree that ML systems are going to kill people at some point (arguably they already have) and policy will need to be created for that.
And it should have a list of sites blocked by Chinese regime downloaded as discovered by Lithuania [0], for even grater privacy.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28616683
> What about people who are forced to be near unvaccinated people? Like at school and work?

I'm not sure what the concern here is, but if the concern is that vaccinated people might infect and kill their unvaccinated peers... again, the unvaccinated made their choice, and there may or may not be consequences depending on their symptoms and whether the ICU is full.

Immunocompromised people who can't get vaccinated... they are already effectively banished from society with or without my plan because vaccinated people can spread it to them (and kill them). I don't see a way for the immunocompromised to return to normalcy ever. It is impossible to eradicate covid. Luckily (from what I understand) people in that situation are extremely rare.
Valid points. But to me, this just raises the question of whether comparing business practices of Amazon (ecommerce) to someone like Bed Bath & Beyond (brick and mortar) is a fair comparison to begin with.

Is it really apples to apples, or more of an apples to oranges type of comparison? I'm not convinced we should be using brick & mortar retail business practices to justify/rationalize business practices of Amazon.
Why would you possibly want a bureaucrat in Washington, or committee of such, overseeing Amazon's pricing decisions?

Amazon's policy makes total sense. If you discover an item on its site, benefit from its reviews, specs and descriptions, and then last minute, go buy at Newegg or Walmart or wherever because its $20 cheaper, how does that help Amazon? Amazon would rather have you "discover" items that it sells at the lowest price, and thus lowest probability of you going to an alternative store. I don't like Amazon's massive dominance but I can't blame them for directing you to items you are most likely to buy from them.
Or you're not allowed to punish Amazon customers for using Amazon and charging more on the platform....
Kids can't explain their emotions. Non-developers can't tell what's wrong with websites.

Just because they don't complain about something specifically, it doesn't mean that they don't feel discomfort.
If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

Spinlaunch: BUSTED!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ziGI0i9VbE
Spinlaunch: BUSTED (Part 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSJ_yy96iE
My father's last intelligible words were "I want a pill." My mother understood this request, but we could not act on it.

A year later he stopped swallowing. My mother polled the family, and the consensus was to try intravenous fluids once, to see if this was temporary. With the fluids it took him a week to die. See how hard it is to even follow someone's last words?

My brother would like to avoid that year.
The button doesn't do anything in Firefox or Edge by the way.
The U.S basically protects the whole of Europe by subsidizing NATO. It's probably in the trillions. Sorry but Trump had a point there. What it gives Israel is peanuts compared to that.
Without U.S support to Europe who knows what happens, maybe the Russians and Chinese start looking at Europe as easy prey to pick on.
Also the obsession with Israel isn't a uniquely American thing, it's the same in France and Canada and Germany and basically any Western country.
I much prefer managing my own contrast levels. Always have.

The product of all these attempts to do things for people results in a mess. It's one of those, "if only everyone would..." scenarios. Fact is they just won't.

All that said, leaving some room makes sense. That's likely in the median of the mess and not contributing to it all that much.

macOS doesn't suck at all. It's the device performance being exemplary and people not realizing what that means that sucks.