skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a short term fix prone to all the problems of mono-culture. First pine-beetle infestations brining in disease put all that hard-work to naught.

There is a natural progression to growing forests, how about protecting, and just staying off large swaths of land, using fire treatment and land management techniques as we understand them and let the land restore itself? Perhaps we have to think past 5-10 year windows and start to work at plans that think a minimum of 50 years out. Old-growth forests take easily that long, at minimum, to get started "naturally".
https://clutch.io
Emacs with Nyxt- extend your editor with the power of a Lisp browser
California Will Curtail Water to Farms and Cities Next Year as Drought Worsens
> they aren't waterproof

I sweat an unbelievable amount. This is sorta incredible. But I'm absolutely intrigued despite this. Would definitely need Garmin integration!
> bottom most jobs (most service jobs) unfilled

which would encourage even more automation - filling those jobs with immigrants aren't the only option. I would garner that using immigrants for cheap labour is a form of exploitation which should be discouraged too (tho i dont think it's likely).
Romans attempted to feed its slaves to lamprey. They also refused automation because it would displace the slaves. They worked slaves to death on occasion. Rome had crucifixion and boiled people in oil for trivial reasons. Human cruelty knows no bounds and as a species we haven't changed much. If you look at modern examples:

https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017839/Madman-star...
The advice against using pure black is reasonable and sound for areas of colour and for art that is trying to match how things appear in nature; but I don’t believe it was ever correct to apply it to simple text when your goal is reading rather than art.

The original article here doesn’t even not use pure black, it uses a quite saturated dark blue for its text, which I find quite obnoxious. I find fully desaturating its #113654 to #303030 improves things markedly, and darkening it to #000 makes it even better.

Mind you, I’ve recently shifted to using mildly-off-black (no lighter than #222, which is I think about the lightest you should go) for normal text and true black for bold text and titles (currently demonstrated on my personal website). I think this works pretty well.
Not surprised, they were offering the lowest re-fi rates of any company and on top of that were offering $2k cashback through Amex. Didn’t seem very sustainable for them.
The same happened to me. Bought a few things over the span of a decade and a half, sold a few things. Never any problems or returns, on either side, all good reviews. After about 8-9 months of not using my account got the same summary execution with no recourse. I think I originally opened my account in like 99 or 00 such and had a nice short handle.. It pissed me off enough to never use eBay again.
That is very kind of you, thank you!
StateML: A language for authoring state machines
I thought you guys are giving away the Super Bot Fight Mode to everyone for free
This 2 minute web search is flawed. You don’t disprove a smear by a short web search. If there truly is a smear this smear will be included in the results, so your data is biased and proves nothing.

My short web search found a secondary source[1] which debunks some of the claims you have mentioned here by offering a little more context around them. The Wikipedia page about Jeremy Corbyn has a whole section devoted to this[2] and all the claims are either vague or unsubstantiated.

Now I don’t personally know whether Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite (he might very well be), but there is nothing which he has done which indicates for any amount of certainty that he is. The campaign to smear him as one has most certainly succeeded, and his support for Palestine probably in no small is to blame for this.

1: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-jeremy-corbyn-really-...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn#Allegations_of_a...
Everyone has to find the sweet spot in their customer's price elasticity.
As usual with headlines that end in a question mark, “no.”
I think working 6 days requires much more than a single day to recover. All things considered, I'd agree that it is the "maximum", but it isn't really common to work 6 days a week in the IT industry, is it? I know for sure it's very common in retail.
Disruption and creativity are often best when pulling arbitrary knowledge from between different domains/industries.

I keep a key list of links, but more importantly a strong basic reference knowledge of everything I've read, to be able to quickly find the more in-depth knowledge when needed.
I started doing this, since last year. It is brilliant... I don't forget anything and easily I can track my stiff

The app that I'm using is Joplin. Open source and you can use it in any platform
They have had consecutive Memorandi of Understanding that promise security collaboration and funding. The current one is a 20 year treaty that promises $38B in spending and expires in 2036.
One of the issues is also that code that's trivial for John Carmack to understand might not be for $BODY_SHOP_RESSOURCE_200353.

I recall a self taught dev (or maybe from a bootcamp) coming up with a cascade of nested if-else, nested 8 deep. Someone with a background in CS asked him what he was trying to do and basically concluded that what he was trying to do could be expressed as a state machine. To which the initial dev replied that it was "way too fancy" and that he didn't need the code to be fancy, just work.
You should try working in management before coming to conclusions
Mad Scientist: The Unique Case of a Published Delusion
They almost definitely have an arbitration clause in the agreement, since companies like Amazon, eBay, Airbnb wish to avoid going to court altogether so as not to establish a precedent. This could be favorable to you because they are more likely to settle without either party incurring a lot in legal expenses, but on the other hand it's likely that the arbitration clause asks that each party split the arbitration cost (typically under $5,000 each) regardless of the outcome.

I'm not an attorney but I've dealt with situations like yours. If I were you, I would pursue the arbitration because they are likely to settle.
I completely agree, although GIMP does seem to be getting better as well.
There's no right to encryption, there's only right to free speech.

And stop this nonsense with pretending that the government decides what rights we have. Idiots.
Nah, that would require doing work and something that is outside their comfort zone.
I don't think this is so bad. Overtime users will find a way to cope. There are also a number of secretive things YT is doing that users will never become aware of. Focusing on just the thing that gets publicity creates bias. YT is what it is and it will evolve the way Google wants it to. Either use it or not. Giving this much attention to one feature makes Google even more careful next time they make a change that negatively impacts users to do it in a more hidden way.

Kind of like the more a weak person's immune system deals with a virus the more mutation the virus makes and in the end the stronger it becomes.
I'm also not American and I was able to open a US bank account without a SSN, however they instead put in a dummy SSN of 300-00-0000. I suppose your bank might have also given you a dummy number like that.
Have you looked at tree edit? I thought it could do this, to an extent.

That all said, I am pretty bullish against this idea, at large. For many reasons, not least that I can't remember that many times it makes this mistake. I noticed it when it happens, but it doesn't actually happen that often.
Maybe she doesn't ... need to learn coding at that age?

Really - it's an incredibly over-hyped and overrated skill - especially for the pre-teen set. As in, really, really incredibly over-hyped and overrated.

Meanwhile, you could probably get a lot more mileage out of (and less resistance from) teaching "adjacent" skills like strategy games (ideally physical board games rather than the electronic variety -- but the latter can be perfectly fine as well, if tastefully done). You know, chess, go, backgammon, as well as the modern stuff. Anything involving counting, prediction, planning ("if-this-then-that") and spatial reasoning will definitely give hear a leg up in this realm.

That and ... throw a few Rubik's cubes (and its variants), as well as picture-driven math books her way (especially those with fractals and tessellations and such). Any kind of illustrated science book actually. See of these get any traction.

And don't forget -- a decent scientific calculator. That's one of the things that got me into programming at a tender age (specifically 4th grade) -- discovering things like the x -> 1/(1+x) iteration on my own, and so forth.

Ditto for musical "toys" (aka simple electronic instruments), which are of course another form of computational platform.

As for coding -- if she digs any of the above, she'll get to it on her own, sooner or later. If she doesn't dig any of the above ... then maybe it's just not her bag.

Which is of course perfectly fine as well.
Pretty much every lender offers some zero-fee cards, and Amex is pretty unusual in having charge cards at all. Amex relies more heavily on annual fees than their competitors in the space - Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Capital One...

What lender are you thinking of that makes Amex look low-fee?
Is there something equivalent on Windows or Linux?

As far as MacOS goes, has there been any official word on the future of AppleScript? I remember a few years ago they got rid of the team that did most of the work on AppleScript and related thing and it looked like it may have become one of those "we aren't actively killing it but no one cares so will probably die naturally over the next few OS releases" things.

But then they introduced the Shortcuts app for MacOS Monterey earlier this year, and AppleScript is a prominent part of that, which suggests that they still do care about keeping it alive and kicking.
That’s simply going to force users to do something else. YouTube still has plenty of great content, but if users can’t find it then it may as well not exist.
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> £700 set

That's a shocking price.
She tested negative three times and they still didn't let her out for 14 days. This resulted in her losing her job.

"Being held on a health order" -- this is plain question-begging. It's just a restatement of what happened, not a justification.

I'm astounded that people don't see the problem with this. It's tyrannical. The government took her from her home and imprisoned her, for no crime and with no evidence she was a threat to anyone.
Debatable, my sway setup transitions instantly :) Everyone has their preferred workflow. I personally switched back from two monitors to a 15" laptop screen
Joe Biden's communist tyrant fanbase is a culture of thieves.
C suites tend to want to personalize messages by adding context to how they feel, but in cases of such severely negative news it's always going to come off badly. "Firing people hurts my feelings" is a moot point unless you've slashed your and the rest of leadership's paychecks.

I'm mixed on the method of putting a bunch of people in a meeting and the CEO telling them directly they're being laid off. In some ways, I think it's much better than slowly pulling employees in and letting them know 1:1. In those cases, word about the layoffs travel much quicker than the layoffs, and people will spend all day with dread about whether they are laid off or not.
Automated systems are really poor in managing edge cases.
Sure, but that's mainly because the WCC is such a high-stakes match. Their overall record is not so draw-dominated. According to [0],

Classical games: Ian Nepomniachtchi beat Magnus Carlsen 4 to 2, with 14 draws.

which gives a draw rate of 80%.

[0]: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?page=1&player=carls....
I guess this is my version of tweeting into the void hoping that someone helps me figure out what to do :).

It is a lot of money.

It's funny because I am from and live in Seattle; and post of the local political will currently is against Amazon, but I don't know if that would work in my favor. I actually tried to contact the AG before and got a "we'll get back to you" and didn't hear anything. I didn't follow up because I didn't know if helping in a situation like this was part of their wheelhouse. I guess I'll pose the question to them again alongside the more general question of whether it's relevant to their office or not. Thank you!
There are also Toshi[1] and Sonic[2] in Rust. And Vector[3] as a Logstash alternative too. There is an issue[4] proposing to integrate Vector with Sonic and Toshi. Maybe Zinc can pursue this goal too. Always good to see people who realize that Java is unwieldy monster that will eat all your memory. Native is a way to go for big systems.

[1] https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi

[2] https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

[3] https://vector.dev/

[4] https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/issues/988
If you want to stay on top of Omicron/Coronovirus info, follow Dr. John Campbell on YouTube. He is the most up to date source I am aware of and covers things you often never hear anywhere else and if you do takes weeks or longer before anyone else talks about it.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/videos
I’ve tried this method at a spa, it’s pretty effective. I’ve looked into getting a Japanese style soaking tub for my spare bathroom so I could also fit a sauna and just do it at home, but it’s still not enough space. I would user a lower voltage taser probably if I was doing it myself.
Martin Kleppman has proposed using range deletes for all deletes in automerge[1]. In diamond types (my own CRDT) I'm still on the fence about whether or not this is a good idea.

The downside is if you select & delete two functions, and I concurrently insert a new function in the middle of that range, then the merged result will delete my function. Thats a really bad outcome - but its pretty rare in practice.

A much more common case is, I deleted 2 lines of code and you modify a parameter in one of those function calls. In this case, using range deletes your edits will also be deleted (which is what we want). Using individual deletes, the result will end up with some random junk left behind, in the form of whichever characters I typed.

When we're editing code as plain text, I don't think there's any such thing as perfect here. For asyncronous collaborative editing (like git), I think generating conflict markers & human supervision for merging might be the best answer.

I'd love to see someone make a prototype editor which can do AST-level concurrent editing. That would be super interesting in a bunch of ways - like, you could use the AST to do syntax highlighting in any editor too. But I'm not sure how it'd merge code when the parse tree is invalid - like, if I remove a closing brace (}) early in the function, what happens?

There's a lot of cool ideas in this space. I'm excited to see people explore them as CRDTs get more popular and more mature.

[1] https://github.com/automerge/automerge/issues/401
My team (5 engineers, 18 months building so far) currently runs the largest amplify based project in terms of number of resources used. We have a direct connection to the core team and their support has been great. Things were quite rough until about 6 month ago. The new releases in version 7.5.x unwind a ton of technical debt that caused serious instability. If I were to start our project over again knowing what I know now I might use SAM or the serverless framework instead of amplify, but I am not sure. The graphQL spec definition to dynamo table feature is the entirety of the magic in amplify IMO, and it has seriously sped up our development time. I strongly recommend against using any of the UI components, or many of the features that appear to be "tacked on the side" because in my experience they are tacked on and don't work well. Happy to answer any questions.
NSO should be declared a terrorist organization and enemy combatant.
While the election was not stolen, the DNC and MSM didn't do themselves any favors by perpetuating the lie that was 'Russian collision', even after it was thoroughly debunked. I'd say this sunk their chances in the 2022 midterms.
Hey! Sorry to hear. At this point, eBay is no longer a tech company but a legacy service. I’m building https://limited.co, the next generation of peer-to-peer marketplaces, with auctions and more. We launched a few weeks ago into the mechanical keyboard space and will be expanding into all goods. Check us out!
…or perhaps he’s coming to the situation with a deep and accurate understanding of what is broken at Twitter?
> employee is just there to make sure everything is working correctly

this employee is going to require more skill than the original box stacking employee.

The savings to the company is in the form of a lower number of employees, making the total cost lower. AKA, one maintenance engineer, replacing 10 manual stacking employees.

In this case, productivity per employee grows, and it required capital investment, both in the form of machines from the business, but also from society in the form of education (presumably, the maintenance engineer needs to understand how the machines work to make sure it works correctly). The business doesn't really pay the education cost directly.
Is there sex involved, or are they clones?
Imagine the number of dead PCs if that Verge video hadn't been riddled with dislikes.
All states act according to their economic and strategic interests right?
Ask HN: Scroll to the bottom to see flagged comments?
Who else has their "show dead" setting turned on and the first thing they do when opening the comments section of a story is to scroll down to the bottom to read the flagged comments?
> Black text on white background (#000 on #fff) used to be standard on computer displays, and still is for many desktop applications. The expectation is that one's display is set to a reasonable brightness & contrast settings for that

Tangentially, original Kindles render black text on a gray background, and it's great. Books use white paper and will hurt your eyes with glare if you read them outdoors. But somehow Amazon has decided that gray is only for their cheapest, crappiest model, and you should be excited about the "PaperWhite" "option". I don't get it.
Looks complicated. Just stack the 2x1 sandwich on a larger place. Pop off the topmost 2x1 with the brick separator tool. Then pop the second one off the larger plate. My 5-year old just showed me :)
> The paper may merit retraction on the grounds of error or even scientific misconduct ‘‘by reason of insanity,’’ but such a retraction raises the issue of discrimination against the mentally ill.
So wait you think it takes 3 minutes from someone making ~120,000$ per year to determine if “gg” is an abusive comment for a let’s play video?

Also, I think your overestimating the number of YT comments.
Let’s assume 1 billion hours of watch time per day, and say 20 billion videos, but only 1 in 10,000 views get a comment. That’s just about your 600M threshold per year picked from super inflated costs.
You can enroll your phone and some laptops with most sites, so it's def getting better.
Thank you. This was genuinely an interesting read to me.
Can you imagine wanting to buy a game and its expansions together?
Come on. There is still plenty of potential for Twitter regardless of whether or not it has a “web 3 angle”.
TIL winken takes the dative.
Even you "fork" Sears, you can't fork the customers. Now you have two versions of software competing with each other for customers, and each fork is slightly worse off. Fork enough times and you will only have a handful of users.

This will be much worse, of course, with the reliance on social components, which heavily benefit from the network effects. Even with shared database, there will be no interoperability.

Example: Fork A has 1000 users, it has recently implemented "snapchat-like stories". Fork B has 100 users -- now those 100 users cannot see content from popular authors because Fork B has not implemented stories support. And it cannot just borrow A's code, because Fork A recently switched from Angular to vue.js, while Fork B have not done so yet. People leave fork B and switch to fork A, fork B is abandoned, efforts of dozens of programmers are discarded and thrown away. Or alternatively, fork B's maintainers implementing the stories as well, duplicating exiting work and wasting their time. Meanwhile, new users look at dozen incompatible versions of the app, go "WTF is this I cannot figure this out" and go to Facebook instead.
Yes, it's quite annoying. I didn't want it and it was a surprise to me. I think there's a way to turn it off, but I haven't looked into it.
> So cashers [those who turn card numbers into cash] will do other things, both to achieve operational scale and to reduce their risk profile. One example is triangular e-commerce fraud, which (like much fraud) is so brilliant that if it weren’t absurdly evil you’d almost have to admire the folks who thought it up.

To paraphrase the steps involved, because the description doesn't quite make it clear how the casher gets paid without getting caught:

1. Casher sets up as merchant on e-commerce platform like Amazon.

2. Casher takes order from customer.

3. Customer pays with their own credit card.

4. Casher fulfills the customer order by ordering from another merchant (shipper), paying with the stolen card number. The casher creates a brand new account with the shipper just for this purpose. The casher gives the customer's contact information to the shipper.

5. Customer receives order from the shipper.

6. Shipper receives payment from stolen card.

7. Casher receives payment from customer card.

So the casher is paid by the customer, and the shipper is paid with the stolen card. To the shipper, it looks like the customer paid with a fake card. To the customer, it looks like the order was fulfilled as expected.

The shipper gets a chargeback from the card company. If it's not aware of the scam, it's likely to just accept and move on. But if the shipper gets a lot of these chargebacks and knows about the scheme, it can contact the customer (via the mailing address) to ask which e-commerce site the item was ordered from. This may or may not work because some customers will be reluctant to discuss that kind of thing over the phone. So the casher needs to spread the fraud around to lots of shippers and thereby make the investigation not worth the effort.
> failure to defend them can cause the trademark to be invalidated

This is a myth

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...
competing is not anti-competitive.

> Even though some competing platforms charge much lower fees, if Steve lowers his prices on another shopping site, Amazon’s algorithms punish him

I think in most cases, this "fair-pricing" bot kicks in because a seller has instead inflated prices on Amazon to squeeze more profit from Amazon customers. Amazon thinks that such tactics diminish the value of their marketplace, so they apply this crude heuristic as a way to disincentivize it.

So to answer your question: it's good for you, because if you're shopping on Amazon you can reasonably expect that you're getting good prices (at least in theory). This leads to a virtuous cycle which feeds the beast: people buy more stuff from Amazon, Amazon can operate more efficiently, you get lower prices.

Steve is griping against Amazon, but quite possibly he just has a bad business, and the core of his problem is that he can't compete effectively with other sellers on Amazon. But to him, Amazon seems like the problem because he feels like he's between a rock and a hard place.

But, hypothetical harm aside, Amazon (FBA especially) is currently a really good deal for sellers in terms of shipping costs and access to customers.
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