skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People suing nvidia about their 2018 quarterly reports is actually what happened, the SEC fining them years later is just the cherry on top.

See for example case 18-cv-7669 by the "Ironworkers Local 580 Joint Fund" from late 2018, which was later merged with a class action lawsuit.

Nvidia talked about crypto in their 2018 quarterly filings but they allegedly downplayed the effect on the company.

Analysts upgraded their rating, growth prediction of 17%, shares trading at record price. (for the time, not comparable to today)

In the last quarter of 2018 crypto crashed, nvidia revenue dropped by 7%, and the share price by 29%
Ask HN: Is anything being done to improve customer service?
I don't mean improve the _experience_ that's been done to a fault already.. So much has been written about how to not-fix customers problems and have them walk away happy anyway.

It seems to have reached a breaking point, where a lot of companies and services simply has no capacity/ability/willingness to fix customer problems.

I speculate that economy of scale is somewhat to blame for this; After all, if you process hundreds of thousands of customers per day, it makes no difference if a a few edge-cases crashes and burns, it's simply not a good investment to fix them, because, unless they are extraordinarily famous (and probably not even then), no amount of noise they can make will actually impact your profits.

It seems that aside from the most absolutely trivial of problems, companies and services are entirely unwilling to fix it, that is, if they even have a human being that can be reached in the first place.

Is anyone working on finding the causes for this degeneration and identifying what can be done to rectify it?

I'm starting to develop the opinion that some law should be in place to enforce a level of customer-service from any company that operates for-profit.. probably even have some goverment instance to which one can file complaints with companies to get them to help you.

Edit: This post was prompted by the fact that I've now been "in queue" for 1 hour and 20 minutes, trying to reach the customer service of what used to be a public-driven postal service (but is now, as is painfully evident, a privately owned company), to try and find out why my package has been held in customs for almost a month with nothing happening. Along with several Kafkaesque encounters with flight booking companies.
What ever happened with that 737-800 that lawn darted in China like 2 months ago. Can I assume total silence means pilot error.
> So to me it makes sense to define "hacker" as someone who has mastery over technology. A master is not dominated by their own creations and desires. Part of mastery is choosing exactly how much, and what type of technology to use, and not allowing other people to foist that upon you.

I like that definition and they way you argue. But don't forget that i.e. Meta and all other social networks are paying hords of hackers to screw with your emotions. I.e. you have a really capable opponent.

Why do I claim that social networks and other pay hackers to screw with our emotions? Actually I am convinced they don't care at all about the emotions of their users. They only care about their attention. Since, that is what is being sold to advertisers. Therefore, they do anything to prohibit users from staying in control of their social media use. That doesn't mean that it is impossible to use social media responsibly and healthy, but it is not easy.
There's an essay[0] in the latest edition of The New Atlantis titled "Reading Ourselves to Death," and the premise is that our brains are really not currently wired in such a way to take in so much information via text.

I think you are correct -- that we should feel good about a friend's vacation, or ideal job. However, in real life, we are exposed to those things in a much more limited way: you meet a friend for coffee and they show you photos of their trip, or a good friend calls to share their joy at the new job. Yes, absolutely, emotionally healthy humans should feel good about that. However, social media skews the equation, heavily. First, EVERYONE on your feed is posting how great their lives are, and, second, how many of those great lives are carefully curated for public consumption? When you are doing life with other people, yes, you share the joys and moments for celebration, but you likely also share the hard times that don't make it to social media. It really helps to know other people experience the same sorts of disappointment and pain that you do.

[0] https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reading-ourselve... (might be paywalled)
The surreal, but also real, problem of Britain's gas glut
That is a truly warped mindset.
I think if the set of rules underpinning an expert system is explicitly written down and available to everyone, and if it is possible to appeal your decision and request a human review, I don't mind this.
only under very very very specific circumstances, that require you to take action rather then them being able to revoke it at will.
What are bioenergetics biomarkers and apoptotic biomarkers? Google doesn’t give me a reliable source
>For chat, storing knowledge, "community building", etc it is all strictly worse than the alternatives.

What alternatives do you suggest?
Elon Musk was considering starting competitor to Twitter
I'm sure many investors are looking at their portfolio right now and re-evaluating their holdings of USDT.

But Tether honored redemptions for large holders. This does not look like the beginning of a bank run or a Tether collapse to me.
Yeah. I've seen some old apartments where the kitchen is basically a few shelves, a mini-refridgerator a small sink and a couple of hot plates. That's pretty much the bare minimum, though. Without a kitchen, I'd consider it a dorm room and not an apartment.
In response to previous reports of this in 2018 tesla added a „pin to drive“ option.
When enabled, an unlocked car needs a second authentication in form of a pin code the user had previously set up

https://insideevs.com/news/339271/tesla-adds-new-pin-to-driv...
Yeah... that's a pretty deceptive practice, though I assume it's legal to buy a brand and manufacture a different product under that label.
A useful, critical taxonomy of decentralization, beyond blockchains
Said the employee (first video):

> Twitter wants to censor bullying and harassment, and the idea of free speech is that you can bully and harass people.

Then goes on to call it “toxic behaviour” while criticising other platforms for not allowing it either and ends with singling out trans people as an example of a group which should be OK to bully, they “just gotta tolerate it”.

The interviewee doesn’t care about free speech, he cares about being an asshole without repercussions. He’s a clear advocate for the intolerant[1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Looooove XVR logos. Timeless.
yeah, if you really want to max your battery life you can even limit it to 50% or something: https://apphousekitchen.com/

Macs do this automatically but it doesn't seem to happen to me that often. Usually if I leave it plugged in for an entire weekend I think.
>I may be generalising but I find older (40+) programmers more likely to write good code

[...]

>For example, in Common Lisp

Technology choice can correlate with age. In Lisp's case I would expect that it's long past "cool", i.e. that it's attracting fewer people than it used to, and so I would expect it to skew older.

Just like perl and tcl and awk.

Also you would have to take survivor bias into account - if you only see good lisp projects, maybe that's because the bad lisp projects died out? Maybe the bad old lisp programmers left?
Bit of a shortsighted assessment IMO. Systems abstract tons of stuff that you don't see, even being a programmer. And not having to worry about that is VERY convenient. It sure is nice to not have to give a rip about how to arrange data on a hard drive, or speak network protocols directly.

What you are actually looking for is code that operates in the correct problem domain. That requires abstraction which is done correctly.

My guess is that you have worked on codebases with crappy abstractions.
Arm Open Source makes a seamless migration to GitLab
This is exactly what they are beating in this article. They claim their relay method is not altering ToF significantly and that the RSSI measurement is useless.
In the hypothetical where that's what he wanted to do, maybe he's hoping (or even knows based on conversations) that one or more of the companies that agreed to finance his debt will say "sorry not any more, now that Musk has tweeted about a bots problem"?

Or are those partners as legally bound to providing him with the loans as he is to buying Twitter?
Pretty much anyone can avoid at least 90% of malware really easily these days.

You just don't install things from media sharing sites with full page ads, and if it doesn't have it's own subreddit and nobody blogs about it... never mind you're going to install cleanmyram.exe.deb anyway aren't you?

NPM supply chain attacks are slightly scary, but for now it seems to happen a lot less in popular apps than it does in the smaller stuff.

I think Linux probably will eventually pick a "Thing everyone uses", it will just have a significant minority that reject it, like with systemd or NetworkManager.
The reason given is uncertainty over deliveries, not performance. The 737-max and 787 are stacking up like chordwood in Washington because the FDA won’t release them
Sync Obsidian Between Laptop and Android
See: https://blog.qarnot.com/introducing-the-qc-1-crypto-heater/ (2018)

Such a beautiful idea, if only the computation was actually useful.
Computation needs electricity, computers need maintenance, and the maintenance is done by people with salaries. People have to drive to work which uses gas. Parts of computers have to be shipped, which also needs gas.

Gas and electricity are going up.

You have no clue what you're talking about. Computation prices are not going down.
It's a subtle difference, #2 is arguing against a different meaning of the words than you are intended (what do you mean 2+3=6? Everyone knows 2+3 = 5), #6 is actually changing the words you are saying (what do you mean #2 is #3 + #6?! that doesn't make sense!)
The healthy spin on that is seeing possibilities for making progress towards one's own goals.
Someone losing weight or getting fit/getting a new cert, etc makes me think "I can do that!"
> Musk appears to care less and less about the law or his word.

True, but that is because nobody tries to go after his stupid moves. Even the SEC seems to have given up. Twitter can absolutely force him to honor the contract he signed; but it's true it's unlikely they will do it, but they may. Why write up a big contract like this if there was no intention to enforce it in the first place?

> The best leverage Twitter has is to threaten to take away his twitter account - hit him where it hurts.

Yes, that would be extremely funny, and a big relief for everyone.
Some keys supposedly have an accelerometer and will stop emitting if the are not moving, but I really have no idea if this is mainstream or a legend. Myself, I have never seen any key that would stop emitting.
I once read a comment or post on HN that was saying something around the line : 'good code is code that you can throw away easily'. A long function that can be broken down easily meets that criterion.
No. Plenty of parts that were previously available without lead time are now quoted for 2024.
You comment bears no resemblance to reality.
Their whole argument was around body builders not losing fat when fasting, so if you're right, this is just irrelevant. No one expects people to lose fat when they're not caloric restricted.
I believe that wireless electronic unlocking of cars has always been a bad idea. Ever since my neighbors got a new Ford that included a Start button with wireless unlocking a decade or so ago, I’ve been suspicious of the technology. Although many hardware based locks aren’t so hard to overcome either, physical contact between key and device will always be more secure than remote unlocking.
I've come to believe that having enough energy (assuming enough raw materials to kickstart the process) solves a ton of society-level problems. For example, the supply of potable water is nigh endless if we have the energy available to run desalination plants. Or, if we never end up figuring out an alternative fuel for planes, the carbon emissions they produce don't really matter if we can just expend energy sequestering it afterwards using energy from a more sustainable source.
These kinds of "sensation" vulnerabilities have been making great headlines every for the past 15 years. However, there is nothing new about this.

- Relay attacks are nothing new, and not unique to Tesla.

- Every contactless unlock technique is vulnerable to relay attacks.

- No amount of encryption prevents relay attacks.

- Short range/near field wireless standards (such as NFC) are also vulnerable, though requires close proximity of the attacker to the NFC token (phone/card/keyfob).

Even HN often falls victim to these kind of sensational headlines. No, we can't solve this. No, car manufacturers won't go back to physical keys. Yes, 99.9% of consumers really like keyless entry and don't care too much about the potential of theft. For most, that is what insurance is for.
> Canada has […] the same language

Just don't open an office in the province of Quebec:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/protest-montreal-bil...

* https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/breaking-down-th...
The problem is that Wikipedia's policy prohibits howto information. You can get a chunk of theory out of it, but not practical instructions.

I don't know the reasoning behind it, but it makes Wikipedia significantly less useful for this particular use case than it might otherwise be. WikiBooks might fill the gap in some areas, but it's just not got as wide coverage.
Bluetooth LE is not "passive" in the sense that there is definitely two way communication going on. They even mention GATT in the article and that is as two-way as it gets.
You keep changing the goal posts to suit your narrative, tx volume alone is not entirely insignificant, but I'm guessing you also don't realize most tx on exchanges are not on the blockchain.

Furthermore, LN has also offset a lot of the load for smaller txs as it was intended to be. Several exchanges have also opted for it, too.

Again, you either do not know what you are talking about, or are simply making absurd arguments to distort the reality that a system that competes with VISA and MC has emerged all while being snubbed by most of you here.

Is it perfect? Hell no, absolutely not; but it does work and unlike te payment rails you are relying on they cannot be shutdown or censored as much as many people have tried.

Mining half empty blocks while on the surface is alarming it's actually a sign of progress, mempool bloat is one of the attack vectors that was used in 2014 and then in 2017, which made Segwit necessary; but again, I doubt you have any idea of what any of that means and the implications of it so I'll stop here.

Either way, this is going no where and to be honest it's not worth engaging with any further as they are just the same tired talking points that always get brought up and repeated all of which can be refuted with a simple google search.
No, the reality — not my assumption — is that there are a limited number of opportunities and the government mandated that men should be discriminated against when being considered for them.
They do. Teslas come with two NFC card keys. The phone unlock is optional but really convenient.
> The market for Nvidia stock is not made up of the same people who buy their graphics cards. Maybe even almost no crossover.

I think this is the problem you have investors buying stock in a company they have no concept what that company does they just know its a hot stock because the price is currently pumping. They go all in with no due diligence assuming the price will continue to pump for no reason and when it doesn't and the supply demand level out they act like they where scammed like the company should have told them when to buy and sell.
Actual title: New Study: Is Hating Facebook Bad For Us?
Accept that you can fail and being failable is part of being human and part of who you are.

Realize that if you fail, your life is not going to end.

Internalize that even after you fail, you are not worth less than what you think you are if you succeeded.
I very recently learned that KDE Connect has a Gnome version.
My comment was mostly said jokingly. I have been using Linux exclusively for the past 18 years or so. My only experience is seeing posts about Mac apps I think are cool, only to find later they only exist in the OSX world.
Keep in mind that the alternative is for doctors to routinely dismiss problems as anxiety.

Many conditions can take dozens of doctor visits and years to get a correct diagnosis. Many doctors are not up to date or even aware of common conditions.

People that have a chronic condition are continuously called hypochondriacs. There are a lot of people that basically tell them to shut up and just pretend everything is okay
True, of course - but they may as well have been made by Sun, since they use Sun's custom ICs and were basically a SPARCstation in a laptop form factor: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/sparcbook-teardown/
Thank you for your careful use of negligence and recklessness (vs the intentionality required for 'murder').

from GP:

> > I would consider myself pro-life like many others here

Just as a data point: GP/spoils19, you don't come off as pro-life the way that I am -- babies aren't the property of the State.

My wife had at least two miscarriages. We both desperately wanted every one of those babies. To imply that my late wife somehow neglected the care of those fetuses would be a very, very ugly accusation.
On that latter point though, go look at a US metro region specific tax calculator for those salaries, then subtract an extra $200 a month (or $500 for families) for health insurance premiums, and look at average rent in those areas too. The differential is still there, but less than you probably thought.
Not too surprising. They have millions to optimise for your attention, which is via emotional reactions.
Many software projects have their documentation in Git. That is partly to have the documentation sitting alongside the code, but I would argue it's also because Git is good for managing documentation. Other fields have similar types of documentation and content that Git could be be similarly useful for (whether it's worth learning Git just for those purposes is another question).
Why I should use Wikiless instead of Wikipedia?
He renounced the opportunity to do any serious due diligence, and signed a contract forcing him to buy no matter what. It's a little late for this now.

If he's seriously worried about bots _now_, he's stupid (or high?)

The other explanation is that there is a bigger scheme, maybe involving a reason to sell some Tesla stock. That's possible, but it seems a little too complex to be actually true.
thats pocket money for nvidia
DigitalOcean raises prices
> effective July 1. On the low-end, most instances will see pricing increase between $1 and $16 a month, but on the high-end, some products will see increases of as much as $120 in the case of DigitalOceans’ top-tier storage-optimized virtual machines.
You went from "This guy should be dead" after 30 days of fasting to "this one guy died 25 years after a one year fast".

All I'm saying is that you were wrong. The human body can take much more than you explained in your first comment. You won't die nor fall unconscious and "5-7 days max" isn't anywhere close to the limit
However, resistive heating is 3-4 times less efficient then ground/air source heating, so if your actual aim is to heat the house, you can do a lot better[1]. It's just better, if you're generating heat anyway, to also use the waste heat than to dump it outside.

[1] YMMV in permafrost regions, and the hardware is too expensive for many people.
They do use little electric heaters some of the time.

And there's smaller mining operations, the economies of scale aren't that great, more the difficulty of finding GPUs. You can lend it to neighbors and give them a cut of the proceeds, you could do the whole town. So in fact ordinary mining operations waste the heat, this would not.

Plus power there is cheap, I would guess nuclear.
TLDR: In conclusion, reimplementing the same old desktop model over and over again doesn't help anyone and it just wastes a huge amount of talent and effort.

No wonder the Linux Desktop ecosystem is still struggling to take off. Out of all of those attempts, ChromeOS seems to have learned something from Windows and macOS; much so that Google is considering to replace it with their own OS (Fuchsia).

They've somewhat 'used' Linux merely as a test run for their own OS.
One can write Scala like ruby or python or typescript nowadays. What seems to be the problem?
What was actually "told to you"?
> OTOH if you you have a big supermarket in the same building or block, you barely need any fridge at all.

I don't agree. Case in point: a friend of mine grew up without a fridge in her household and it's a massive pain, because now you have to shop daily and frozen goods are of course out of the picture entirely.

All that additional time spent going back and forth and standing in line adds up.

My personal experience is that replacing the fridge from one that keeps four days worth of groceries to one that can hold a week's was a massive improvement in quality of life.

For one it gives you a buffer should the shops be closed or out of the goods you currently require.

And, mind you, I've always lived less than 600m from a supermarket with fresh produce etc.
Interesting to look through.

I quickly scanned for things that stood out for me. As with anything, there are some things I disagree with.

To wit: the condition variable code includes a mutex inside of it, to deal with the case where you perform a signal on something before there is a waiter. Does this solve some problems? Sure. But it introduces extra overhead when I know what I'm doing and just want a condition variable.

These types of small things - the author thinks this is the "right thing", whereas others won't - are why no C standard C library like this exists. In C, the beauty is that you make every single decision; someone else's decisions won't be the same as yours.
To be fair, that sounds a bit like a fallacy ... if a diverse board leads to comparatively better outcomes, it's the fact that they were diverse, but if it doesn't, it's the fault of everyone not trusting the female-identifying board members enough?

If you're bringing up a claim or a hypothesis in a discussion, you need to allow for the claim to be falsifiable.
Who even has such a word in vocabulary and first thing your mind came up with is ...

But hey, maybe youre just salty after googling Sparcbook and realizing how innovative Apple was with Touchbar XD ( which apple killed by using it wrong )
if you harness too much of it, waste heat boils you off anyway.
Mostly ecommerce, but varied. 6 yoe. Backend/Python.

I have applied to hundreds of places, grinded leetcode, studied advanced system design, and am near giving up. Becoming a famous actor is probably easier than this.
Is 2. not true for GSuite regardless? It's one of the reasons I find the risk profile acceptable despite Google's ability to ban me.
You can also enable pin to drive. Requires a pin in the car to move it,
Can't decide if you're being sarcastic. But for the record, Musk is absolutely not straightforward at all, never has been. He's a troll, a bully, a right-wing nut, and a schemer.
Not even basic tools like vi, though.
There's something weird in that it seems to always be Telegram and not Whatsapp that they ban. Although we "know" that WA's E2E encryption is way better and should make more sense for any kind of insurgents to use.