skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume it's shipping cost. as well I bought a Timex watch for about 30 to 50 euros, and the calendar broke on it in a couple of weeks. Contacted Amazon.co.uk before I went to bed, and the next morning they told me to keep the watch and they'd send me a new one.

I'm guessing that me shipping that watch from Finland to the UK would've cost way too much.

I did have to ship in a broken Seagate HDD back to Amazon.de on their dime though, so it's not just them not wanting broken goods back. Although that might also be Seagate wanting it back for warranty purposes even though I went through Amazon?
I sold a metaverse property for $30k. They have perks like citizenship
Ha! Good luck convincing end-users that that's true.
Have you thought about talking to a recruiter and looking at contract to hire opportunities?

usually get better feedback and a better feel for the opportunity.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-komp...

>Kompromat refers to materials collected specifically for the purpose of blackmailing the target. It’s a Russian portmanteau of komprometiruyushchiy, “compromising,” and material, “material,” and if those Russian words look familiar, it’s because they are; they were borrowed into Russian from English.

The sheer stupidity of two nations borrowing a word from the other to sound smarter and more worldly ought to blow your mind. But it happens so often that anyone who is polylingual just has to deal with it.

The worst example is Latinx. Americans who wanted to cosmopolitan in the 90s decided that Latin wasn't good enough since everyone knew what Latin meant. So they started saying Latino instead. With the 10s craze of gender neutrality Latino was now problematic so it was changed to Latinx only in the way someone who has never passed high school Spanish could. Now instead of the English word Latin we have the abomination Latinx being forced on Spanish speakers by English speakers in the name of progress.
Liberty or Death from GTM Games.

Asymmetric rules and victory conditions for each of four factions.

I try to play every 4th of July.
GP's post also discounts cases where the manufacturer is just wrong about a spec.

I once ordered a custom aquarium. 200+ gallons, over 400 pounds of glass. The sizes were standard, custom part was for drilled holes for plumbing. The manufacturer advertised the aquarium as X inches by Y inches foot print. I built a stand for that size, but it turns out the manufacturer was half an inch off in each direction.

I couldn't return the aquarium since it had been made custom, but the manufacturer delivered me a product I couldn't use with the stand I built. The stands have to be built very specifically to transfer weight to the floor. Filled, the aquarium was over 3000 pounds, being off by half an inch was catastrophic. I had to tear apart the stand I built and rebuild it to support it.

Manufacturers can be wrong, manufacturers can lie. A microwave might fit your cabinet on a spec sheet, but not when it's delivered. Or something else might make it a poor fit (i.e., it fits, but requires clearance you don't have for the door hinge to swing).

Let customers return things.
Of course Apple is going to put a marketing spin on everything they do - that is a given. Does that somehow invalidate the work itself?

Why do you find it necessary to reframe the introduction of these features as a load of bullshit?

Are you arguing that these features are bad or not useful?

Or are you just saying that “it’s about time”? And if so, why not just focus on the part where Apple is doing a thing that needed to be done?

The undertones in your comment feel a bit unnecessary.
The web in the 90s was an evolving, alive ecosystem. Without the ecosystem, websites that approximate something old-school are standalone entities. Flowers in a vase. They might look the same or even temporarily feel the same, but they are both authored and browsed in an entirely different context.

For example, browsing a website that looks original, but is likely abandoned is a very different experience from browsing it in the 90s or early 00s when it was a part of something big, new and exciting. Even if the content is identical. The same principle applies to authoring.

I have seen countless claims that all the technology that someone could use in the 90s is still available. Regardless of whether it's true or not (mostly not), it misses the point. The social project that was web 1.0 is now defunct.

Paradoxically, the only way to create something equivalent to old-school web now is to invent something entirely new.
> When working in a new codebase, it's generally better to assume that something odd is the way it is for a reason, rather than changing it to something that seems right (easier to understand) to you.

But isn't that's just because when you find yourself in a new codebase it's generally because you will be in a long-term relationship with the other contributors to that codebase, and thus it makes sense to be cooperative? If you were dropped into a new codebase in a hypothetical scenario like the trolley problem where you only need to make a single choice without any expectation of ongoing interaction with the relevant parties, then you might very well just do the quickest and dirtiest change to the codebase to accomplish your immediate goal.
This right here

If you don't know what's the subject of the meeting, why are you attending?

Regardless if it's BS or not, if you literally couldn't care less about what Robert is doing and his latest report, and it doesn't concern your job, you shouldn't be on that meeting. Period.
> But, couldn't they fight it in court?

Why would they? They want to do business without much headache.
the people who took the 2% for a while before you did. And got out before it died.

Sorry if I was unclear, you might be in this camp too.
Because it's being made to sound like something it's not. The comments are full of people fawning over how innovative and groundbreaking this is. Just trying to offer a dose of bitter reality to bring people back down to earth.
Assuming everything goes to plan[1] for Nathan's list finish:

Today, Wed, July 6: A five-peak, north-to-south traverse of the southern Palisades: Palisade Crest, Norman Clyde, Middle Palisade, Disappointment, and Thumb.

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[1] - https://www.sps2022.com/post/nathan-finish-plans
That's why companies need middle men such as BA and PM who can do the translation.
Ah yes, the "why make things easier when you could do things the hard way" argument.
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Where do you plan to keep the machine? Is noise a concern?

If you plan to spend a lot time around it, then I suggest getting some kind of tower. Otherwise rackmount all the way. There are so many benefits to rack machines, here are a few:

* Superior cooling

* Enterprise reliability

* Built-in remote access system (so you can remotely cycle the power in the rare event of a hang)

* Easy to open up and work on

* Tons of HDD slots

Downsides: Rackmount machines tend to be varying degrees of insanely loud.

Is 2U a hard limit on the size?

I love me a Supermicro rackmount. They are the most cost-effective good quality servers that I know of. Overall quite reliable, easy to work with, easy to source replacement parts for in the rare case a component croaks.

GPU lines:

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/gpu?pro=pl_grp_type%3...

Please follow up and let us know what you end up getting!

Off topic: Are FatTwins still the big kahunas of high-performance, cost-effective enterprise rackmount servers?

Final food for thought: HN has a lower concentration of hardware nerds than the homelab subreddit. You might like to ask there as well, you'll get better advice.

https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/
I'll provide slightly less cynical thought, may or may not help:)

I was purely technical for first 20 years of my career. I never understood meetings like this. I never cared for meetings like this. I assumed there's no value or meaning for meetings like this. They didn't impact me and people can BS each other as much as they want.

I was right? From a personal perspective. I did my technical work, and the org changes and sales strategy and client relationships and wording on contracts did not seem to daily impact my work. You can spend an entire, happy, sane career in that way.

Few years ago I ended up what can best be described as middle management. It is now my JOB to understand what the heck is going on at a certain level, and it is in some way easier. My goal becomes less "Build Server to these specifications" and more about "Help client achieve this outcome". Just like there's a set of language that has developed around "how to build a server" and "how to create a webpage", there's a language around "how to achieve a business outcome". And they'll sound equally gobblety-gook to each other.

A business development manager may believe all techies are interchangeable and building servers is the easy part, hard part is sales and keeping client happy. A pure techie may believe that all managers are bullshitters and hard part is infra/code. I'm sufficiently recent to both sides that I can see both aspects if I squint, kind of like that optical delusion that's like two faces or one vase depending on how you look.

If you genuinely WANT to understand these meetings... you can't go in them cold. You won't understand language and background by starting from the middle. Talk to your management and ask them: what are your goals? What are your priorities? How do we make this team, business unit, company succeed, at strategic level? This will hopefully give you a framework to then start fitting little nuggets you hear into.
Ask HN: Have you noticed an increase of spam evading Gmail's filters recently?
I've had a Gmail account since the service was in its early beta and you could get one by invitation only.

That was nearly 20 years ago. Over the years, the number of messages in my Spam folder grew constantly - last year, for example, there were some 1,000 messages there, waiting for auto-deletion. I didn't care, as I very seldom saw one in my inbox.

Something must have changed in the past months. Now I'm getting 3-4 messages per day and those messages are very obvious spams, that even a primitive mid-Nineties filter would have caught. I keep reporting them as spam, but nothing changes - I get the same messages the next day. Even more infuriating, they seem to be emanating from the same bot, as they arrive in my inbox between at ~10am PDT, ~12pm PDT and ~3pm PDT each and every day.

How is is possible for Google's excellent (until now) spam fighting system to miss out on those ones?! I'm reluctant to copy'n'paste some fragments here, as they're so spammy that HN's own filter would be triggered and my message would go straight to HN's purgatory - but, please, believe me when I say they're in the spammiest format one can imagine.

Any explanation?
I definitely see the benefit of a separate code search engine and would use it. Google has, as you have notice, gotten way less useful. A big part of that is trying to target the wider market to the exclusion of less popular searches, like developers'. A dedicated engine would help with that.

I'm more than willing to open another tab to not have a search result page full of YouTube videos.
You do realize that market cap is not real money, right? That's like saying that an average American who earns 30K USD/year over 33 years will earn 1M USD and thus they should be considered a millionaire.
The simplest explanation for this really crappy, worthless app is that someone with budget wanted to give some overpriced FBI contract to a friend. I'm sure the FBI paid millions for this app when some college kid could do the same thing in a week.
Wow this is really interesting! I wonder how making the environmental detection more of a continuous area would change things.
Here is some description of Section 91:-

Whenever any Court or any officer in charge of a police station considers that the production of any document or other thing is necessary or desirable for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code by or before such Court or officer, such Court may issue a summons, or such officer a written order, to the person in whose possession or power such document or thing is believed to be, requiring him to attend and produce it, or to produce it, at the time and place stated in the summons or ordeR

Section 91 has been used in 2020 as well by Kerala Govt ( state govt)

https://m.timesofindia.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/cbi-invok...

It seems author of this post doesn’t understand law. India penal code is fundamental from west laws.

Section is used to for “summons to produce” and comes under “process to compel production of things”

The post owner simple intention is to harm Razorpay reputation. He also changed the headline of this post from Original post.

In this section police office has full authority to produce things and it has been used prior to this case in India to produce financial documents. There is no need of court order in this scenario as per section 91.

Summon can issued by a court or police office, by law this both have same power to do so to produce document associated with the case.
> Certain individuals took it up, but as a whole those other societies disregarded it.

Just like today? How many people today own a telescope? It's a niche tool useful to some but irrelevant to most.
> It's not brushed off. It is obsessed over by progressives, though. Shall not be infringed is incredibly strong language. Does it need to be in bold for you to understand?

So "shall not be infringed" is strong language, but "well regulated militia" is not.

> At the end of the day gun control isn't even _possible_ in America.

Let me be frank: this is because a very vocal minority doesn't want to give up their toys. You cannot convince me that people with 10+ guns are out there because they want to take up arms against a tyrannic government. They like their guns the same way they could like cars, or Lego.

> A revolution would break out at some point. Is that something that you think is "worth it" to ban scary guns?

There is no way a majority of gun owners would go to war over this, I guarantee you that, and of those who say they would, I bet that the majority are just LARPers with too much free time.
I’m sorry but I really can’t take any such take seriously. If you mean alsa, it may have worked (though let’s be honest, there was a painstakingly high amount of sound hardware that simply wasn’t supported well for decades, which was fixed over a similar timeline. “Linux sound bad” memes have been around way before PA became a thing), but the thing is, it is not adequate in itself for a typical desktop usecase, simple as that.
One of my favorite detective stories is Dead yellow women, by Dashiell Hammett. Includes a crazy chase through hidden tunnels in San Francisco's (early 1900s, opium dens, etc) Chinatown.
It is completely immoral that some people want to paint Altnews as boogieman receiving donations from Pak and syria.
Is this no responses to 10+ applications or 10+ interviews? Sometimes companies just get a lot of responses and can't get through them all. I've helped sort through resumes at my company before and there were times we got dozens, which can be very time-consuming to review. I agree with the idea of talking to a recruiter.
Mister Explainer: A classic gaming device to rule them all
How many THC carts are you in at this point?
Fair point (especially for super generic things like "#science" or similar) - that could sometimes be handled better. However sometimes there are multiple rooms discussing the same thing on the same network, so it's not always necessary to jump ship completely.

But not sure I buy that the communities are that different. I would rather view them as different networks in IRC terms. You'll have a completely different set of people from one to the next, so how is it any different to joining a different network on IRC?
Please stop this. This is the worst kind of technical cynicism.

Tech people are not the people with 'real jobs' while everyone else 'bullshits'.

Terms are above your head because they generally relate to operations outside the scope of your knowledge.

(Edit: 'omnichannel' could mean a lot of things, it's definitely a bit 'buzzwordy' but it almost assuredly refers to some cross functional project of some kind that the OP is not aware of. This immediate implication of 'things I don't understand are bullshit' is antisocial and a bit glib - maybe understandable for some young people (?) but still, it's a problem to default to this posture.)

The biggest 'bullshiters' tend to be on the tech side, who go on and on about technology that is not needed, this is because they can very easily talk past others on domain knowledge.

I sit on both sides of the fence, and as soon as I get on the business side, I immediately see it - tech people 'controlling' the schedule and much of everything else because of their domain knowledge, often without the self awareness to recognize what's going on, operating with the implicit assumption that their need to push back 2 months for some refactor is inherently more important that other needs.

And yes - a lot of effort is filler and inefficient - that is probably the real culprit here.

Do not heed any of this ridiculous Machiavellian advice (aka 'keeping notes on people'? WTF?). Assume the best, do your jobs, obviously some people will BS, oh well, move on.
Genealogists have worked out most American Presidents 800 years or so. A couple interesting facts include (1) about everyone one of them is at least 10th cousin to every other one and (2) a large fraction descend from King John of England. Probability suggests that after a millennium that that someone becomes a super-ancestor, i.e. everyone is descended from them, or no one is descended from them. Very little middle ground. (A lot of northwest European Americans probably have the same statistics as Presidents.)
I agree. The rule of thumb I follow is that if the list comp doesn't fit on one line, whatever I'm doing is probably too complicated for a list comp.
> How can there be a supply chain crisis and a inventory surplus?

Different times and different things. There can be a surplus of T-shirts from Vietnam and a shortage of 90nm PMICs at the same time. There can be a shortage of stuff in December due to port problems, but an oversupply of that (out of date) stuff in February. Not to mention the drop in real income and a large drop in goods spending as aggregate spending shifts again back to services like air travel.

> Why did they not adjust the wages accounting for the labor shortage?

There are far more jobs than people to hire, at present there are guaranteed to not be enough people somewhere. That will be wherever has the least capacity to pay more - and airlines are notable for being extremely low margin.
It's the same reason you see companies advertising risk-free money-back guarantees:

Buying something feels less risky if you believe you have recourse if it doesn't work out. Practically speaking, if a company can raise sales by 20% with a liberal return policy but 5% of purchases are actually returned, they may still come out ahead.

Long-term, having a return policy also signals that the company is interested in taking care of the customer and building a relationship. This is why you see brands like REI building a reputation on top of their generous return policy. People (on average, not everyone of course) will actually pay a small premium to shop from a company with a return policy.
I explained at length why I agree with the Thoreau quote.

> The outcomes of inaction are equally as "profoundly unknowable" as the outcomes of taking action.

Absolutely.

> From an "unintended consequences" perspective, it's a wash.

Indeed. That's exactly what I said.

> So we might as well focus on the first order known consequences

Sure. Or we might not. Either is permissible because...

> which are pretty clear.

That's where you've been lied to. And the site author absolutely should have added an example where the description didn't match up with what happened at all.
Last I heard, the rumors are exactly that. They're working on GTA 6 and it may be set in Vice City again
Ukraine is a patsy regardless of who dominates that region, as allying with US has led to the complete destruction of their country. They picked the wrong horse to follow. If they stuck with Russia, they wouldn't be in this situation (would US have invaded?).

It's prescient because it hints as US long term interest in keeping Europe and Russia apart (in recent times seen most clearly with meddling with Nord Stream 2 pipeline agreement, and encouraging sanctions that are on their way to destroying European industrial power and impoverishing their citizens on account of lack of cheap energy).
Buying 10 dresses to keep one is not a ‘deplorable customer is always right’ tactic. You can’t reasonably purchase a wedding dress via due diligence, you have to try them on. The returned dresses should be able to be resold.
No moreso than usual, but it comes and goes almost seasonally.

This particular Ask HN comes up almost monthly:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> python was not meant to scale

So many successful projects/technologies started out that way. The Web, JavaScript, e-mail. DNS started out as a HOSTS.TXT file that people copied around. Linus Torvalds announced Linux as "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu". Minecraft rendered huge worlds with unoptimized Java and fixed-function OpenGL.
If you're looking for something worldwide, your best starting point is likely SRTM[1].

If you get into more specific areas you can generally find higher resolution data.

Good luck.

[1] - https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
Sounds like you’re getting pulled into meetings without context. You should either ask the person who pulled you in to clarify the context or ask to be excluded and get heads down time back.
I have noticed this also. I have a few friends at Google who I pointed this out to, so let's see what happens. If anyone else has friends at Google, be sure to pester them about it.
Perhaps they took a lesson from Perl; its code base was so complex as to be near unmaintainable.

In addition to the other point here about speed not being a target in the first place.
It keeps asses in seats at crucial moments.

Or at least, it used to.
And even if the vast majority of them don't in fact make material money, many of them have a hope of doing so and act accordingly.