skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just moved to the USA from the UK (having lived in Germany before) and the quality of the services I'm experiencing here is appalling.

To get concrete, we submitted an application for an apartment let. After not hearing back for 4 days we reached out and it looks like somehow they misplaced our application. By then the unit we wanted was gone so they asked us to pay a holding fee to ensure they would keep another unit for us. The online system simply didn't work, so we reached out and they informed us it was fix. But the system just marked the unit as rented rather than reserved, so we had to reach out again...

As Dan says defendants of the efficient market hypothesis will say that it isn't possible to provide a better service, or otherwise this letting agency would have been upended by competitors. Only that our experience with other agencies has been similarly poor, and our experience abroad is generally less so.

And is not only renting, most of our interactions here have been similarly shoddy. Which makes me think that either we have been incredibly unlucky or there is some common pattern. Here are some ideas for our particular case:

* Barrier to entry: Businesses like real estate require large capital and tend to be crowded already, so it is difficult for a disruptor to appear.

* Liquidity: While in theory we could *shop around* if we don't like a let agent, in practice there is a very reduced number of units that satisfy our requirements. It's easier to put up with a poor experience that compromise on the property.

* Corner cases: As new immigrants we had to go through some processes that most people don't experience. Probably is not worth for companies to optimize for these situations.

* Cultural normalization?: This is the most intriguing point for me. Maybe this level of shoddy service has been normalized and accepted in America - or at least the area we live in. Maybe people just don't know better and hence don't ask for more, and therefore companies can carry on providing what would be considered a sub-par service elsewhere.
Ukraine was anything but peaceful. They’ve had neo-Nazi national guard troops fighting communist separatists for 8 years now.
Ask HN: Why is no one talking about chain of trust based internet?
Anyone who lived on a farm knew better. And selective breeding of plants and animals had gone on for millennia before that.
After looking at this when it was posted a few weeks ago, I thought the exact same thing. Why couldn't there just be a chain/belt driven pickup that is filled with uncooked fries from a chute above, puts it in a static cook position, then raises & dumps in appropriate bin. That seems way easier than a 3 axis robot? I would think the high motion robot would be way more prone to being out of service, too.
Putting pressure on Russian citizens motivates them to protest and take action inside of their country. The Ukrainians didn't have a choice either.

I'd much rather have the US heavily-handededly knock down the Russian economy than the alternative of involving itself militarily.
Why? Because I flew from Ukraine before the war with Covid? I was asking for an extra 2 weeks.

I think am entitled to a warning that I can read, like a prominent message from their Fi app.
thats russias fault.
The title was edited to that (both 2020 and "11 Max."). Best Buy doesn't sell unlocked iPhones 11 Max see links above.

They sell used iPhones "unlocked" with multiple reviews saying that they received a locked phone instead.
These are the most important cases to commit incrementally, even if they’re automated or tooling-assisted in some way. That way you can review the substantive changes separately from the chores.
Do you need serverless functions?
I am consistently disappointed by any thread involving Mozilla on Hacker News. Somehow Mozilla is held to an impossible standard. For the one company out there holding the internet away from a WebKit monoculture, they sure get the short end of the stick by people here.
Thanks for the link, didn't know about it before. Amazing how this normal human beings like this one and Averroes can write volumes upon volumes of books and treatises during their lifetime wihout much help from the modern technology and the Internet. I cannot even write a single book so far, probably need to spend less time on HN I guess. Got to love this quote from the Encyclopedia "Turn from the sleep of negligence and the slumber of ignorance, for the world is a house of delusion and tribulations".

Regarding the origin of the Renaissance era please check my other comments on the potential root of the Italian Renaissance movement.
Reading this I get the feeling that Dan is missing a major selection bias: he has extremely high standards and is very competent, and tends to be friends with people who also have very high standards and who are competent.

It stands to reason that he and the people he interacts with are going to build things of higher quality than whatever is commonly available.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17468920
> I learned that Google Fi exclusively uses the T-Mobile network for iPhone customers, and activating a Google Fi SIM with an iPhone causes T-Mobile to lock the phone to the T-Mobile network (which is illegal, since the user hasn’t entered into any service agreement with T-Mobile).

This happened to me with an unlocked iPhone, bought at Best Buy, that I activated with a T-Mobile SIM card as well. Tried Apple support first, Apple couldn't care less. In the end T-Mobile themselves unlocked it after 2 full months of calling them almost daily and escalating, reaching out on social media, etc. This has nothing to do with Google Fi, and, if anything, I blame this on Apple for such a stupid fucking design that lets carriers unilaterally lock a brand new phone with no recourse.
The problem here is actually very basic - markets do not enforce efficiency. Period.
The efficient market hypothesis is simply wrong. Strong form efficiency was already formally disproven quite a while ago. Weak form efficiency has been show to only true if P=NP.

There is not really a strong need to go into why inefficiencies can persist, etc, because at a baseline, it turns out there is no provable theory that markets should be efficient at all.

Instead, we have the sort of equivalent of Galileo - people really badly want markets to be efficient. They feel like they should be, because intuitively, it seems like it should work that way (much in the "god does not play dice" sense). People who suggest they aren't, even when math backs them up, are ridiculed. Eventually, as Max Planck said, science will advance funeral by funeral, and we'll stop pretending markets should be efficient based on "the efficient market hypothesis". Or we'll discover P=NP!
Which would be much cooler.
Is “bee” here riffing “iff”? Because I might steal that.
This is what I'm wondering as well. Automation can do all sorts of cool things but my experience in manufacturing has shown me that machines break down all the damn time. When that happens, some poor tradesperson or engineer is under the gun to get it back up and running again because money is being lost by the minute. I'd imagine a machine running in a hot, greasy environment would need pretty extensive cleaning and routine maintenance to be reliable. Those things cost money and require diligent workers, and this is a company looking to lay off people that they're paying minimum wage.
Read the whole thing. Going long nattie gas as we speak. Seems like the only conclusive thing is to buy all commodities right now. We're only at the beginning.
True, a PWA wouldn’t have been able to get the unique device ID, which is (I think) the only technical effect of the App Tracking Transparency toggle added last year. But that toggle also has legal effects that go further [1]. For instance, apps can’t “[display] targeted advertisements in your app based on user data collected from apps and websites owned by other companies”, even that data was correlated with your app session based on, say, account name or email address rather than device IDs. But the only reason Apple is in a position to impose this kind of requirement is that they’re a gatekeeper for iOS apps. With web apps, short of government action, the best you can do ask nicely, and we all know how the Do Not Track header ended up.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/user-privacy-and-data-..., “Asking Permission to Track”
I'm up to page 30 (of 47) and I'm thinking, wow, someone should really make a movie based on this woman's life and career, at least up until the moon landings.
I wonder if the obvious solution would be a warranty return (if bought in a country/state with reasonable customer protection laws).
Or just get a hot mist humidifier, which does this except:

1. Electronically (ex: you can do this in your bedroom directly, or anywhere you need the warm-mist)

2. With safety measures (its still dangerous, but they minimize the amount of boiling water to minimize the possible harm. Better than an entire pot of boiling water, but still half-a-cup of boiling water can severely burn you still)

3. Probably as cheap as the pot you were using to boil water anyway. Warm mist humidifiers are like $35.
I try to manage most large change sets in the same way, never knew it had a name. For me, the main pain point that keeps me from using it all the time is working across forks, but that depends on how your organization handles code and might not be a problem for you. The same approach is also useful when you want to chunk off a part of a feature for review, but keep working on further functionality while the first part is in review.
Asians are smarter though
It can only ever happen when the phone is first activated. So if you have already used the phone with another carrier's SIM card, you are good to go.
Comments here are often more interesting than the linked articles. I think the 'comment on title' phenomenon is acceptable and possibly good here.
In personal experience things were more crappy then than now. The explaining factor could be that production techniques have evolved as a whole, and less manual steps harmonizes the quality of cheap goods.

To take IKEA as an example, their table were really bad 20 years ago, and the only option was to either buy from another flatpack company, that was often worse (assembly would need like 50 screws for a single table...wtf), or a hand made "old fashion" table that would last a lifetime but cost 10 times more. Current IKEA tables will last a lifetime for the same price as the crap from 20 years ago.

Another example is French and Italian cars. They were really bad decades ago, reliability issues were only compensated by the ease to repair and cheap local maintenance. But industrial process are so much better now that production quality and reliability is at a level way above what would be expected for cars of roughly the same production cost.
There's a line in Antony & Cleopatra about this concerning the origins of some reptiles.
One effect that might also be at play here is, assuming that excellence follows a Pareto distribution:

If your team is very good, i.e. on one end of the distribution, most products will be made by teams that are average, i.e. not that good. In that case it is easy to notice flaws.

If you are smart and knowledgeable enough so that you could design/create/implement the products you use easily, you will see room for improvements.
Where can I find more technical info about the multiplayer aspects of the game?

Ie: is it authorative? How does it handle collision detection between players, combat, projectiles, area of effect spells etc?

I’m looking more for documentation and thought process vs straight up code as I’m not a rust dev
Putting war and personal risk of injury or forced relocation aside, which go beyond hard economic times, anyone with a sufficiently long-term view will not fall trap to "not having any idea about what will still be around tomorrow and what is going to drop to zero."
In what way is the article about that? How is Apple getting a better chip by learning to do it themselves, because cpu manufacturers are trapped by misaligned benchmarks, just a trivial statement about supply and demand?
And if the market is inefficient, the pricing will be irrational (for certain ideas of what “irrational” means).
Just giving context to why Debord is apart of the zeitgeist these days. And Society and the Spectacle is certainly a reactionary text; no surprise it is read by other reactionaries.
HI! Thanks for the question!

If you’ve used and like GitHub Pages, and are just going to host a website as quickly as possible, it’s probably going to be the better option for you. GitHub can host the website, and GitHub Pages has better documentation and support than MarkdownSite does. MarkdownSite would likely be the bad choice right now for this. It launched literally last night, and I am hoping to get enough traffic and feedback from people playing with it so I can see where I can improve it.

If you want to run your own version of GitHub Pages, and host the website on virtual machines or bare metal servers in a data center, and to then provide that hosting to others, I don’t believe GitHub Pages has any self hosting option that I could see. If that’s true, MarkdownSite would be the better option in that situation.

On a personal note, it is perhaps an incredibly self-indulgent project in that I’ve always simply liked web hosting technology. I want to share that by creating and running a hosting platform myself, and to have the code and documentation and network diagrams out in the open for it so anyone else can run their own too.

I hope this helps explain some of the rational, thanks for checking it out!
Couldn't tell ya, but I would think so.
A) What scam do you think is potentially going on here? Getting into a random gmail that the person controls the old phone connected to it and all the pictures on the account happen to be of them and their child? How can I prove I'm not part of some scam in your mind? I can't. I can't disprove a negative. I'm easily Googleable if you're worried about my HN account being compromised, can find half a dozen other ways to reach me if you look (Reddit, Twitter, Github, many emails, forums, etc), feel free to check in on me. You at some point have to either believe something or not. Short of publicly doxxing everything - which is generally frowned upon - and even I'm sure there still would be skeptics.

B) See A. This is a personal friend who I spent multiple hours on video chat trying to help her recover her digital effects and trying to get access back into her account fully and ownership of it.

She needs help reaching someone at Google / some authorities who can actually help. They can verify her information and story. They can see the email being reset to a BS gmail account with typos in it which looks like a phishing email. They can see her phone number was attached to the account. She has identification.

Alternatively maybe someone has dealt with this scenario before and knows ways people have recovered from this type of ordeal that know other avenues to help.
Yes, it is necessary in times of war.
Sorry Chuck, but when a post starts with “I’m not an X, but…” it often ends up being X.

If we did in 40 years what took thousands or millions of years to happen naturally, it’s worrisome.
Open source is mostly an empty slogan in Firefox's case - it was a code dump from Netscape and it's never really been able to attract outside contributions. If you want a browser that was actually built as open source, Konqueror has been right there for decades, but users don't care about that.
Unfortunately, this kind of thing is almost impossible to deal with from a grass roots angle.

Unless you have a culture that values these things from the top down, you're going to give yourself a concussion banging your head on a brick wall.
Kyiv auto repair shop adapts captured Russian weapons for local forces
> Involve the "collaborator" earlier in the process, before it's supposedly finished. If you helped write the code then the approval process will be much smoother.

This forces collaboration on everything. Not everything needs collaboration. Some PRs just need a sanity check from a second pair of eyes. That's it.

> Code reviews help towards bonuses or promotions

Classic example of perverse incentives. This will only encourage people to comment unnecessarily on PRs, wasting the author and other reviewers time. I know this from first hand experience.
Depending on the service, it's not always possible, or even desirable, to fully delete an account. For example, if something has an important social part to it, do you also delete the comments that user has left on other people's content? Or their messages in chats? If you do, then discussions end up broken. If you don't, this isn't really a "full deletion". Most social services I've seen do the latter. Some replace the name with "deleted user".
I'm not sure they are "weak and powerless" but it's almost certain they won't deploy their full capabilities until they work out what NATO is going to do. From NATO's point of view it's probably better to let the Russians become weaker through attrition before doing anything anyway, which truly sucks if you are Ukrainian.

If the news about things like the F35 being only half operational are true, NATO might not be the overwhelming force we assume it is either. Australia is having a lot of trouble making them operational:
https://theconversation.com/australia-spent-billions-on-jet-...
Why do you think the agricultural revolution was a big deal?

Prior to that, humans spent way too much time hunting and gathering (prey ran away and wild edibles don't have many calories).

The whole reason technological development accelerated is because people became sedentary.
Not sure what you mean by that. There are various "chains of trust" like DNS, SSL, Sigstore already in use to varying degrees
Got it, so country code is hidden.

0460 [## ## ##] and had Belgian flag so that must be Google saving country code that way.
AWS requires a notarized doc proving your identity to gain access. It's a bitch but works.
You’re right that we’re probably only at the beginning. However, commodity trading is a bad idea for most people because it has an “expected value” of zero (unlike stocks and bonds, which have positive average returns). It’s very useful if you’re using it to hedge against increases in the price of commodity you consume.
Many companies just as some bodyguards to the login email
2003 invasion of Iraq happened largely in the desert. It was also done relatively quickly and didn't level huge portions of the cities like is being done in Ukraine right now. This is what Russia is doing to several Ukrainian cities right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grozny,_the_capital_city_...
Not only that, but also the massive loss of land that is currently dense urban area, and the massive loss of land in general. There will have to be huge reconfigurations of where people live and what people's livelihoods are. I am not optimistic that such changes can be managed among several billion humans without war, famine, etc.
Did you have any particularly bad sessions? I am waiting on the other shoe to drop
I don't know why you got downvoted but I do know I like salt and I often run into places that don't put enough of it. Whether it's important for pasta or not I really don't know but it's easy to believe it would be better with than without. Also, adding salt after cooking doesn't taste the same as adding it during cooking (again, in general, not specifically for pasta). My go to example for that would be scrambled eggs. Salted before cooked they taste great. Salted after they taste like bland eggs with salt added on top.
I mean chain of trust for search engines, content.
I’ve built something like this and stored the diff regions in PostGIS, really easy way to build a visual diff search tool using bounding boxes.
How is this better than PowerPoint?
I haven't read this paper in detail. At a glance, it seems interesting, but not necessarily a huge breakthrough compared to SOTA in monocular 3D reconstruction (which is not a criticism; most papers are incremental and that's fine). That said, what I find with a lot of work on neural techniques applied to 3D reconstruction/VSLAM (a pretty active area in the past few years) is that they're often not significantly more accurate than prior, non-ML techniques, and in the beginnings, often less accurate. On the other hand, they're often more robust. Classical geometry- and optimization- based approaches are fairly brittle, and tend to fail catastrophically or converge to totally implausible solutions in tricky conditions. Learning-based approaches tend to be better at degrading gracefully.
upvote!

lmao!!!!! foreal man
Most people that come from southern regions just learn to layer, and do fine in colder climates
I'll second that.

I nominate Marina Ovsyannikova for International Woman of the Year.
Because people want to see them spend their efforts on holding the Internet back from a WebKit monoculture, and donate to that cause, but they keep wasting resources on political activism, pointless bs like time-limited themes, etc. while downsizing their engineering team. Not doing those isn’t “impossible”, in fact they go out of their way to disappoint people with those distractions.
> …he'll use the same tone for something he's seen anecdotally and something he's spent a month personally investigating.

A.k.a. “avoiding weasel words”. I don’t mean to be clever here, it’s just that it’s far more efficient to assume that reader can make their own informed decision, and give them citations & instructions for reproducibility to help them along the way, rather than shovel a bunch of weasel words into the parts of your writing that are less grounded in reproducible facts.

There are also different expectations for blog posts and heavily researched&vetted articles.
> I believe the argument is that it may be the lesser of many evils, not that it's harmless.

If it's not harmless, perhaps you can point me to some legitimate harm it caused?

Everyone, at this point, defers to predictions someone made decades ago that never panned out.

If the reactor saves thousands of lives a year, and kills on average less than one half of one person in its operating span, then it's better than harmless, it causes negative harm

Yes, nuclear power actually is better than harmless, statistically speaking

Safeguarding the waste is neurotic nonsense that's talked about by people with no medical backgrounds who want to show how wise they are.

People bathe in the stuff with no harm, to show how safe it is.

If you can't name a single human being who's ever been harmed by it, then it's time to stop safeguarding it. The safety theater has extremely serious negative effects.

All this fake safety discussion is why nuclear power didn't solve climate change in the 1980s.

Really, genuinely, stop pretending a risk exists. Not a small one, not a comparative one, nothing.

It really does not.

I know it can be hard to accept, but you literally cannot show a single person in human history being harmed by this stuff.

It's safer than bread.

It's time to stop the theater. The planet is dying. Put down the fake wisdom.
How is the AWS pricing compared to GCP in general?

Does AWS have anything similar to Cloud Run?
Sure I’ll fix it. During normal work hours the next day
It's an interesting symmetry that's like cyclical Muzak (now Mood Media, iHeartRadio for business, etc..) On one hand you have human- or machine-generated playlists of background music designed to put you in a mood (usually for monetization, but sometimes to study, work, exercise, fall asleep, etc.) while on the other hand you have reverse-engineered behavioral modeling based on what you're listening to (presumably also for monetization.)
I thought we were talking about the majestic equality of the law
The difference between HTTP connect, write and read timeouts in Ruby
EV of 0? Are you assuming you're leveraged 50 to 1?