skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related, this is going viral on twitter today.
A woman tried to read the fine print on the vaccine and gets a surprise.

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1474425550055870485
The AMEX car rental coverage specifically calls out “events based upon war, or acts of war (declared, or undeclared)” as not covered.

Given that these clauses tend to arise from filed claims, I imagine someone attempted to use their car for a car-bombing, and then with a stroke of brilliance later tried to file an insurance claim.

Interestingly, that clause also cancels the theft coverage — so if your car is stolen it’s covered, unless used to engage in an act of war.
Much of the problem stems not only from the limited understanding capability of voice assistant devices, but also from the lack of trust we have in the big tech vendors backing them. I have multiple voice assistant devices, a few from Amazon, and I not only disabled but unplugged them once I heard about Amazon's efforts to share my bandwidth without my consent. Limited utility plus bad privacy practices aren't a compelling combination.

I have a Google Home assistant and I only use it to play music since it has fairly decent sound quality. My Amazon echo and show devices will stay unplugged.
i'm squarely with you on this one. the implicit racism and bias is thick here (note the spite and bile spewed in those many kobe posts). while i appreciate didion's work, she's not even a minor blip in literature and history. also compare this to the lack of interest/discussion around bell hooks[0], a black feminist writer who is at least a minor blip in american culture and history.

besides being one of the best basketball players ever, kobe was a tech investor and media producer in the few short years since his retirement from the nba. there are literally dozens of murals all across LA of kobe. he'll also be forgotten by the zeitgeist eventually, but it will likely be decades before that happens.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29581259
VPN that lets me torrent anything I want without dealing with a million different platforms.
There's the theory (I have no links and don't know how prevalent it is) that people with what we now call ADHD used to be the hunters in their tribes. For that it may have been a great trait to be able to both quickly notice many small details and also be able to zero in on something specifically interesting for a long time.

Then again it can be said for many things.
For what it’s worth, almost every phone call to Toyota corporate in Dallas gets transcribed, categorized, and shared with many employees in the company so it’s worth doing. Emails do too but they show up second after the phone call transcriptions. App reviews on apps like Entune and Enform are read out-loud weekly; sometimes daily.

However, Toyota corporate in Dallas is second fiddle to the Toyota in Japan and has decision making power for only some things. They certainly listen to the customer.
The problem with making it sarcastic is I can imagine someone them just to run with the joke.
Arbitrary if the sending process is compromised through a parsing exploit of some sort. I’m not sure about CAN message authentication but it’d be much easier to convince someone to plug in a USB for lights/music than it’d be to plug into a diagnostic port making it an easier target.
Why not? The information is available to me if I pay. If it's not indexed, how am I supposed to know it's even there? And if I'm already paying for access to a site, then I certainly want it to show up in Google search results.
We need to demand more than that. All of those venues don’t have enough seats to be representative, even if you consider one seat per representation.
To one with ADHD, boredom is not a minor annoyance—it is pure existential torture. People with ADHD are precisely those for whom a boring job is a sufficient condition for clinical depression. It’s a matter of degree.
> Everything you've listed (and more) have been major pain points for me for the last 14 years or so, but especially this one:

>> Ability to "feel" the nearness of the future, and plan and act accordingly

One way of putting it that I have found useful is that while other people have

- now

- in a minute

- in five minutes

- in an hour

- tomorrow

- next week

for most ADHD people there only exist:

- now

- not now

if it doesn't get done right now there is a fair chance it won't get done at all.

This can explain jumping from task to task: the fear of not remembering it later.

Also explains hyperfocus to aome degree: it is a learned trait to protect what little focus exist.
there is a gel battery inside the card.

a scale is certainly large enough for a battery to be inside.
I love this. Paywalls and anti—adblock must be defeated.
I'd bet that there are plenty of politicians with ADHD who don't talk about it. Just as there are certainly plenty of politicians with personality disorders who don't talk about it.
Can't remember who said it, but worrying about AGI is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars.
You don't need to debate established facts, facts for which there is overwhelming evidence.

Fact#1 There is a respiratory disease abound and a lot of people are not immune to it. Evidence: hospitals are full of patients hooked on respirators. She is able to see them.

Fact#2 Most people who catch the disease are unvaccinated. She can confirm this by talking to patients.

If you can confirm these two facts with her, the rest isn't really that important. You can claim that vaccines are made from devil horns and she will realize she cannot argue belief and perhaps even empathize.
>Just think of how much smaller cars could be if we removed seatbelts and airbags!

A stairway is going to take up a lot more space in a building than seatbelts and airbags are. By my estimation my apartment building would lose over 10% of its living space by doubling its amount of staircases.

However, I doubt that it would make a big difference in the cost of housing itself. It seems to me that housing is pricey because it's an investment rather than the labor cost being prohibitive.
Hi Cory—your dashboard is really impressive. Did you have to reboot the wedding place card app? Because I remember you commenting somewhere—I can't remember where—that it had tanked. But obviously since this is an end-of-year report that can't be true, right?
> How is python doing a thread pool with the GIL?

All but one of the runnable threads are waiting on the GIL. The "not runnable" threads are waiting on some lock or a blocking system call.
I was given one for Christmas in 2019, and went back in the box by new year. Just couldn't see the point.
I don't want to talk to machines. It's why we still use keyboards IMO. Talking to machines makes me feel stupid and embarrassed when the wife asks what I said. I only want to talk to other humans or the cat. When I call an automated line that wants me to talk them I find it demeaning so press random buttons until it let's me type a number. Is it just me?
I mostly agree.

I don't mind telling anyone if they're curious or if I do something very ADHD-typical that needs context. But the spin needs to be this makes me a more organized and diligent employee, which is probably true.

I no longer have an interest in advancing toward leadership roles, so I get to be a bit more relaxed about it, but your point is well taken.

> Medicine is helping a lot for leveling the field, and ADHD hyperfocus can be surprisingly powerful for coding-related tasks.

This is true and I do it too. In a lot of ways I think I do a way better job than my co-workers at solving the hard problems. But the whole work dynamic has a very "take your amphetamines and get back to work" vibe which I'm not super happy about.

I feel like I'm clearly abusing myself for money. But I have normie coworkers that seem happy to be doing the exact same job. And a lot of them have kids!

I have no idea how people function.

As far as I can tell, being employed in software is an exhausting and unfulfilling lifestyle (well, besides the money, that's great) and I'm literally counting the days until retirement.
> Man differs from other animals in one very important respect, and that is that he has some desires which are, so to speak, infinite, which can never be fully gratified, and which would keep him restless even in Paradise. The boa constrictor, when he has had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal. Human beings, for the most part, are not like this.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently. There are some days where I just don't feel like getting out of bed, and spend half a day to the full day in my bed. I don't even feel bad or depressed, at least I don't feel a direct negative feeling, I just don't want to do anything else. This reminded me of my cats, which spend most of the day sleeping/resting, sometimes go eat a bit, sometimes go play a bit. I don't know what to think about it. Is this peace? For some reason, it doesn't feel like it.
Firstly, I am one. I have ten years of full time back-end web dev experience and other types of coding for over a decade before that. I also know others— UX designers generally start in another field and dev work is a pretty common start.

Secondly, that few contribute as designers rather than developers is definitely a chicken and egg situation. Designers time and effort is universally seen as less valuable than developers’ and therefore more readily dismissed or minimized. People are worse at taking critique for things they’re not confident in, and as you note, most open source projects are maintained by developers. Ever give a brand new developer a code review? Yeah. That’s about what it’s like critiquing an open source project’s beloved “quirky” interface.

I’ve seen eager designers post issues in repos— some with complete wireframes and rationale having done a good amount of work already, asking for specific types of feedback— only for their system to be instantly bikeshedded into oblivion rather than productively discussed. Unsolicited contributions are often viewed as superfluous expenditures of dev time, or even viewed with outright suspicion or hostility. If it’s not submitted in the form of bite-sized PRs ready for production with the understanding that existing devs can veto any changes without any real justification. Going from a haphazardly assembled UI to a properly designed UI requires fundamental change, and that’s a lot of work. Would you contribute code in a project with those competing requirements?

Before any of that, any designer interested in open source software has almost certainly made the mistake of griping about the interface for gimp, or git. It’s a good preview for what lies ahead.
Most people neither fundamentally understand (1) what a contract is or (2) what their options are regarding it.

Which is sad, because it's not rocket science.

PS: You should have yelled back "We have an illiterate guide here!" Anyone berating reasonable behavior deserves to be called out as an asshole.
Eclipse users loved it 10 years ago? Man, I think I started using Eclipse 15 years ago, and every year would get excited when hearing about the new release because I would be hopeful that they finally made it perform better. They never did... I was so happy when I finally found out about IntelliJ. It's a significantly better experience than Eclipse ever was.
Apartment doors, walls and floors can withstand many hours of continuous burn. The building would never be on fire, at worst you’d have one apartment or one floors public areas on fire before it’s put out. If my apartment was on fire, no alarms would sound in the building, only within my apartment, it doesn’t matter to my neighbours.

There’s certainly scenarios in which you might need to evacuate, like a bomb threat, but we are speaking about internal fire, in which case there’s more danger in hundreds of people fleeing in panic down stairs (whether that’s 1 stair case or 2) than staying inside.
I've never heard that explanation before, but that's spot on.
What an awesome script :)
You can't step in the same river twice, and we won't go back to "pre-pandemic life."

Hybrid work for will stick around for many professionals. Wages will permanently increase for retail works. Drug companies will create more mRNA vaccines. I doubt I'll ever make the student loan payments I made before the pandemic. Movies will continue to come out on streaming services quickly after they come out in theaters. Government won't shrink back down in size. I doubt we'll see any reduction in screen time with kids. And the society will always be waiting for the next big pandemic.
In my experience, the problem with this is you're still going to run into issues with A/V sync if the input is muxed weird. You can end up having to buffer a ton of A or V before you get the packet for the timestamp in the present. I have an old project using fixed size packet buffers between the demuxer and decoders, and for some inputs it just deadlocks as one side gets full.

My workaround to avoid having to buffer a potentially infinite amount of data was to instantiate the demuxer twice, once for A and once for V. Then they can run out of sync with each other in terms of the muxing, and you can keep them in sync in terms of presentation timestamps.
What probably makes sense is to enforce that a measure of equal fire risk reduction is applied if reasonable.

The easiest way to achieve this is probably external ladders for most buildings and putting disabled occupants on the ground floor or just in bungalows or something. Sheltered housing is pretty common in the UK.

A fully covered, fancy carpeted staircase seems OTT if its' purpose is basically to be a fire escape.
It is because of the strange belief that a piece of software can work reliably against a set of libraries when they were not tested together (just because somebody says they're compatible). Dependency management can work only if every piece of software is able to link directly to the versions of libraries to which they were originally released.

The dependency management must be of exact versions of libraries that must be present to work with the installed software. Instead, people believe that it is possible to manage dependencies by stated compatibility: this will never work.
Very infrequently, because I TALK TO THEM. I communicate with my students regularly. I don't put up b*s* barriers to learning that these nerd know-it-alls mistake for "rigor."
He is an expert navigator of the legal system
In 2001 when the Twin Towers came down, people were trying to desert the building. Is there an analysis that shows they would have been just as safe in their offices?
Note that the Gregorian Transition --- adoption of the Gregorina Calendar --- occurs at different places in different country's calendrical systems, with several countries not adopting the Gregorian calender until well into the 20th century. The Catholic adoption occurred in 1582. cal's September 1752 transition reflects practice in Great Britain.

Many people are aware of the fact that Russia's "October Revolution" occurred in November by the reckoning of much of the world. China's adoption didn't occur until the 1940s, Saudi Arabia in 2016. Ethiopia, Iran, Afghanistan, and Nepal have not adopted the Gregorian calendar.

Elsewhere and earlier in Europe, adoption was generally earlier in Catholic countries and later in Protestant ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_cale...

Though not focused specifically on the Gregorian calendar, Eviatar Zerubavel's The seven day circle : the history and meaning of the week covers the surprisingly complex and interdependent history of calendars and timekeeping, including several attempts to "rationalise" the week into a ten-day interval (in both France and Russia). Neither proved ultimately successful --- it's extraordinarily difficult to operate out-of-sync with the rest of the world. (Ask me how I know....)

https://www.worldcat.org/title/seven-day-circle-the-history-...

It's all a helpful reminder that concepts of time and timekeeping are human creations serving human needs and limited by understanding and measurement capabilities.
Go mustangs!
I do Java and Scala for a living. VS Code is perfectly fine, it runs eclipse underneath. I use both it and IntelliJ for my work. IMO the only area where IntelliJ shines is debugging, and support for more rare libraries like play and sbt.
What exactly creeps you out about this?

It seems like a perfectly good amount of fun for everyone involved. The people making it. The owners and their friends and families.

I can't wait to show this to my family tomorrow night.
I hope things get better. Cut yourself some slack, it's been a hard year.
web3 is a JS library used to interact with the Ethereum RPC on Ethereum nodes or services which offer the RPC (like Infura). I'm not sure why it's become so charged from Twitter folks recently. I'm gonna guess it went viral on someone's Tweet is why.
>What ISP should someone choose?

What matters most is if the IP address they issue you has been blacklisted for spamming. DigitalOcean is fine but you need to check the IP address before you do the work of building a mail server. Some of their IPs are on a lot of blacklists.

If it's only on a very few you need to look into who's blacklisting it. There are some that offer a way to get delisted and make it easy, there are others that block pretty much every IP address DigitalOcean has (or large ranges of them) and they won't de-list anything within them. Many of those blacklists are managed overseas and not used much in the U.S.

No matter the ISP you should check the IP address they issue for a VPS before you build the email server.
For a few years, the default aac coder has been fast. But the twoloop coder is better but slower, and was made default in May 2021. Add `-aac_coder twoloop` (in older builds) and recheck.
They have done a ton of work and it is so much faster with almost every release. Yes indexing is slow, but it goes through a ton of things and it does it really quickly for what it does.
I'd say that's generally right, though a slightly more charitable way to think about it is that it partly an arms race as well as a CYA thing -- after all, if you don't rigorously protect your client to the best of your ability you run the risk of getting in trouble yourself; so the things just keep accreting in terms of "what is expected in a contract."
In the biggest economic slump since the Great Depression maybe it makes sense to consider rich people who invest lots of money into the economy a "specialized worker" since they might play an important role helping recovery.
Apple must allow dating apps in Netherland to use another payment option
Perhaps the solution is not to have apartments, and instead spread people and activity out across the country.

Particularly pertinent in the Covid era when we have seen what living on top of each other leads to.
Hey man, first off Merry Christmas. It sounds tough and covid can't have helped. Can I suggest, in the new year, going on something like meetup.com and trying to get to a social thing once a week? Maybe a board game night, maybe some 5-a-side football, maybe a book club... whatever it is, getting out the house and meeting more people could really help - especially after months and months of weirdness and isolation.

Someone else suggested therapy - don't shy away from that if it's something you think you could benefit from, mens mental health is something we can proudly talk openly about nowadays and is as important to manage as physical health. Venting to someone in person could really help.

Hope things turn around in the new year :)
i ran the max rate lora numbers, for very close by devices, & i dont fully remember but i think it was like 250MB a month. again assuming 100% channel utilization at max rate.

i really am very happy to find fault, to elaborate misuse. but the reaction to amazon using a very little bit of bandwidth (usually under 50MB i expect) feels entirely emotional, entirely reactionary. in any technical sense we can measure it is for all intensive purposes going to be irrelevant.

this feels like a social dilemna. we want to activate ourselves against amazon. want to tear down the big, the seeming man. but this feels petty & small. that we so readily make a stand here says that we arent really discerning or tasteful or making sensible assessments & rationalizations & choices. we're acting in aggressively zero sum hostile premises, & causing a stir over that which is nothing.

generally i think you're larger point about mistrust is dead on. these systems are black boxes, running in far off data centers. this is anti-personal computing, unobservable by the primary stakeholder, & it's a fucking abominable form of computing that i think more & more people realize has no respect for them, that treats them like end users, not masters of their home & it's systems.
I’m curious, if you had to start dating again what would be your strategy?
The good thing with that kind of software is that you are not forced to use it and that there are a lot of alternatives adapted to everybody's preference. I'm happy to live in a world like that.
I absolutely despise talking to automated phone trees too. Luckily most of them seem to support DTMF fallback (I assume for accessibility reasons).
Strictly, yes.
About 14 years ago, at my first job, I worked with a colleague[1] who introduced me to the wonderful world of open source: the culture, the philosophy, how to submit patches to open source projects, etc. He also introduced me to Debian GNU/Linux which I use actively to this day.

One day, he began working on certain audio/video encoding problems that needed to be solved for our project. He chose FFmpeg as the primary tool around which he began building his solution. After having spent several days with FFmpeg, figuring out and documenting various ways of using FFmpeg to solve all our audio/video encoding problems, one day, when we went out for lunch, he declared to the team,

"FFmpeg is awesome! If you give me a shoe, I will turn it into a video file!"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=topa
You have to first spread jobs out across the country, which is the hard part. Good luck! The white collar remote workforce is only a small section of the population.
I'm increasingly seeing automated phone systems simply hang up if they don't understand whatever buttons you press, or you have the gall to say "representative" instead of "customer service". I guess it must improve metrics somehow, but it's infuriating to crawl through the tree multiple times until you find the right sequence of precise inputs to get to a representative who can transfer you to the place you actually wanted to go, an hour later.
I'm looking at Billionaires Row in Manhattan, and I don't think they have two staircases. At 1400ft tall and 60ft wide, I don't think they have room. Regulations are for little people.

And since they're really financial instruments, the buildings are still only half full!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wehsz38P74g
Amusing lore, but this ... doesn't seem to fit with the PDP source given here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29677477
I've just read this for the first time, after a lifetime of adaptations and parodies. I was surprised by how funny it is (like a Ye Olde Douglas Adams), and scary, and effective. It's short, enjoy!
I'm actually struggling to think of how a good lead or manager should go about identifying these problems.

By asking people what they are working on all day?
"Hey can you tell me the status of xyz please" type things?

Wander by the cubicle and peek over the shoulder?

Feels like stuff that would get people accused of being micromanagers. Honestly far better imo to just have a pre-set, teamwide thing set up.

This also involves the whole team in identifying and solving blockers rather than everything going through a lead, who could then just become a bottleneck (or a human-shaped blocker)
Weird. There's browser addons that manage to overcome those for me. Pretty sure the outline.com trick works with nyt as well
EconTalk is still great after all these years.