skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sent Bezos (@jeff anyway) an email a couple of years ago, about the absurdity of using Alexa.com for the analytics tool, while simultaneously having Alexa the wildly successful voice assistant line. Customers looking for the voice assistant go to Alexa.com, whoops; customers go digging for Alexa on Google and end up at Alexa.com, whoops. A particularly dumb thing for a supposedly smart corporation to do. I went step by step through why they were wrong in that approach and what they could be doing with Alexa.com instead, around five paragraphs of text (all respectful).

The clowns at Amazon still have a dead page at Alexa.com. They're slow and they have no idea what they're doing.

Here's what they replied with:

> I'm [insert name here] of Amazon's Tech Support Executive Customer Relations team. Jeff Bezos received your email and I'm responding on his behalf.

> I relayed your feedback to the AWS Relations Team to handle this scenario. You should hear back from them in the next 1-2 business days.

> Thank you again for bringing this to our attention. If you would like additional assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are here to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

> Thank you for your inquiry. Did I solve your problem?

Sure, you solved my problem. I never heard anything from the AWS Relations Team of course.
I'm guessing it's remote ignition, triggered by a fob key. Not all that suspicious really
Honestly, this is just proving my point when I say that non-mac touchpads are terrible. On my Lemur Pro, it the palm rejection was awful, it was so damn annoying how often the cursor would just fly to a different spot while I was typing. Literally has never happened on any of my Macs.
Yes, this is also why the masks have a 'best before' date.
This is true, and a great reason we should have treated the destruction of trust in the telephone system as the public health threat that it is.

I tend not to answer, because it is _always_ an unwelcome interruption.
And if you are, it is actually easier to see a MacBook Pro screen than the Lemur Pro, because of how dim the backlight was on the Lemur Pro.
I agree in spirit. I’d love to see a curriculum that somehow teaches kids to “discover” counting, addition, the utility of notation, squares, cubes, up through square roots, complex numbers, derivatives, etc…. But I feel like it would be tough to create.
The HD makers started issuing warnings in 2020... this was foreseeable
Related:

Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Bezos superyacht - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31937612 - June 2022 (32 comments)

Rotterdam bridge taken apart to let through Jeff Bezos pleasure yacht - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185303 - Feb 2022 (7 comments)

Rotterdam to dismantle historic bridge for allow Jeff Bezos' superyacht to pass - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182058 - Feb 2022 (6 comments)

Rotterdam bridge to be dismantled for Oceanco's 127m sailing yacht Y721 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30177084 - Feb 2022 (159 comments)

Rotterdam bridge taken apart to let through Jeff Bezos pleasure yacht - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30175795 - Feb 2022 (10 comments)
You can use this to make microphones and speakers as well.
This looks very cool, kudos on the launch!

I feel like vim tutorials mostly focus on navigating and editing a single file, which is great! But I mostly struggle with how to replicate opening a whole directory in VSCode, which makes it easy to browse the directory, switch between files, open multiple panels, etc.

I'm almost certain vim does all these things out of the box, but tutorials always end at "this is how you edit some text quickly" and never cover "this is how you do software engineering".
Related:

Two people in Tesla killed after crashing into parked semi at Florida rest stop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32023337 - July 2022 (51 comments)
On my in-laws side there were a couple of cousins who each worked for a phone coop in Kasuth County.

They were busily installing fiber to hogging operations back around 2000.

As a byproduct, small town residents were paying something like $15 a month for cable and phone lines with every possible feature.

It totally blew my mind.
I once had an issue for a client and managed to get in touch with the CEO of HP's exec assistant. The issue was resolved literally next day after weeks of HP being unhelpful through usual channels.

This often works with government too, especially local government. Call your state reps and your town government officials if you need to. It is why they are there.
I think there is even some evidence that cesarean births have higher risks of some infections because of not being exposed, I even recall that they did some things with babies being born with cesareans because of this.
>While Jack intended the Commodore 16 to replace the VIC-20, and it was much better with its more RAM, higher resolution, larger palette, and more speed, he intended the Plus/4 to be used by small businesses. Unfortunately, the ROM apps were too primitive for business use.

Even had the 3+1 suite been any good, it would not have changed the fact that the Plus/4 is not compatible with the C64's massive library. Tramiel, as ruthlessly brilliant in business as he was, never moved beyond his mindset as a Toronto office furniture/typewriter maker of only being interested in tangible things. In 20 years in the computer business, Tramiel never understood the importance of software. Think about that.

>Of course what Commodore should have done is release a "C64 Plus" as a backward compatible system, like Acorn, Apple, and Atari did with their series, with enhancements such as more banks of RAM, faster CPU, dual SIDs, and an enhanced VIC-II with new modes offering 80 columns and a larger palette, and a better BASIC. They could have added these features without breaking much existing software.

Indeed. As each new Apple II model is compatible with the older one without having to boot into a compatibility mode, this encouraged software developers to gradually support newer models' features. An architecture that began with 4K RAM, cassette storage, 40-column text, and 280x192 8-color graphics in 1977 by 1984 supported 128K, floppies, 80-column text, and 560x192 16-color graphics as the norm.

>Instead they offered the C128 with a C64 mode which resulted in little software being written for the C128 mode.

Correct. If the Apple IIe and IIc required booting into a "II+ mode" to run older software, developers would have continued to focus on the much larger II/II+ installed base. While 80 columns had by 1983 become reasonably commonplace in terms of software support (albeit via a variety of incompatible methods), at least for non-games software, double hi-res would probably never have seen meaningful support.

Of course, Apple then with the IIgs proceeded to make the same mistake as Commodore with the 128, and obtained the same outcome in terms of sales and market acceptance. I believe that this is the result of technology advancing too quickly. By the mid-1980s VLSI had reached the point where it was possible to engineer the entire C64, or Apple II (IWM), on a single chip. This made using a single chip a temptingly easy way to provide 100% backwards compatibility, as opposed to the much harder task of extending the BIOS/KERNAL/BASIC/etc. to support new features while maintaining compatibility with, say, 90% of existing software. While Commodore never had much software talent, Apple has always been as strong in software as in hardware so it has no excuse in retrospect.
What 43" monitor are you using? Do you happen to have a picture of your setup?
While the palm rejection has failed with me on a MBP. I'm just saying I agree that Palm rejection sucks on non-mac devices and so I have a preference for smaller track pads.

The one on my Lenovo Legion 7 is large, but smaller than the Dell, and the palm rejection is lightyears ahead of the Dell, but still fails. However it doesn't fail enough for me to care because it's so ever slightly smaller than I dont have the bottom of my hand on the corner of the trackpad while typing like I do on the Dell.
Right, but theres a lot of nuance in those sections because they are taken in combination with 5.11 that I posted. In other words, if hes seeking information needed for financing then its fair game. If its to perform "due diligence" or to verify financials for his own edification and/or to build a case for pulling out then thats less kosher.

Its important to keep in mind that until he actually owns Twitter, the current management needs to still operate with an assumption that he may not end up owning Twitter. If they have reason to believe it would harm Twitter financially to give information to him in terms of him using it to undermine them later, or if it would impact business operations today, then they don't need to give it to him under these agreed upon terms.

More broadly I think its important that theres a clear distinction between pre-merger-agreement information requests and post-merger-agreement information requests. An analogy I've made before is that imagine you have 2 offers for your home which you list at $100k. You receive two offers: one is for $100k with no inspection contingency and one is for $100k _with_ an inspection contingency. All else being equal, you will always take the no inspection contingency. Now imagine one is $100k with no inspection, and the other is $500k with an inspection. Some percentage of people will take the $500k offer because they have _paid a sufficient premium for the future uncertainty of consummating the deal_ as well as _the likelihood of renegotiation if anything comes up_. This is extremely relevant to the Musk/Twitter agreement because Pandoras box has already been opened once the agreement goes public. It would be an unfair negotiation to try and _reopen_ negotiation based on things discovered in a _new round_ of "due diligence" analysis. If you wanted that right, you need to pay for it.
Why should that matter? I've had at least one credit card in the past where the billing address was a PO Box, with no option to leave bulky items there. What's wrong with requiring a signature?
You’re asking why this hammer can’t make ice cream. vim is a modal text editor. That’s fundamental. If you don’t like it use something else.
Thanks! And no, it only samples the current state. For sure makes sense as a next feature.
The one used by most is DTCC, it’s basically owned by the banks who use it, not something that could be bought.

The legal entity which maintains the list of teslas owners is ultimately tesla, but that duty will be likely given to dtcc.

A stock is ultimately just an entry on a list maintained by the company, most offload the managing of the list to DTCC and usually the pointer isn’t to you but to your broker dealer.

There is no sense of being able to hide ownership overseas, we’re talking about an American company keeping a list that points to someone, that list can’t be offshored.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_&_Clearing_...
The stock closed at $36.81 on Friday, and other social-media stocks are down significantly since April. (Snap Inc. is down about 57% since April 13; even Meta Platforms Inc. — Facebook — is down more than 20%.) Meanwhile Tesla Inc. stock, the main source of Musk’s wealth,

Or maybe that was because the overall stock market was down a lot. Meta being down 20$ is about the same as the S&P 500.

Also it is obviously untrue! Companies advertise on Twitter because it sells products!

lol Twitter ads are notoriously expensive. It's mostly big companies buying them to build awareness, not to move product.
> I assume there are contracts involved. If shopify is not holding up its end, there are already legal avenues to compel them.

The answer to consistent bad behavior can't be "well, just sue!" because the US court systems are already underfunded and jam packed as is. It just doesn't work to (only) have breach of contract lawsuits in David v. Goliath (202X) suits.
503 doesn’t map well to me meaning “you performed a successful GraphQL query but the result is that the thing you tried to query is missing.”
Warning: all photos shot by Apple iPhone SE in your gist have GPS info.

So.. yeah, this post may expose your location better than this device.
Great aspect ratio but pathetic DPI. I'd buy it in a heart beat if it had 4x the pixels.
A proper remote starter for a manual transmission has sensors to ensure the vehicle is in neutral with the handbrake on.
My Favorite Erlang Container
Ask HN: What productive things do you do on your phone in place of social media?
BIG_COMPANY will often start to buy MEDIUM_COMPANY and then find that the other company has looming problems, has been faking user numbers/reviews/accounts etc, and the deal falls through.

I cannot legally name names but this happens all the time.
There's a few reasons:

1. WiFi is largely unmanaged so all the clients basically act like they're on an Ethernet hub. If they detect a signal they wait a random period before trying to send again.

2. Besides interference from nodes on the same network, you're getting interference from other networks on the same channel. Your WAP and WiFi card ignore those networks logically but they still need to yell at each other over the noise. This makes for dropped frames that need to be retransmitted.

3. WiFi is using unlicensed bands and has very low radiated power limits. The 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands in particular don't propagate well. This keeps a neighborhood of networks from making the spectrum totally unusable. Even still areas dense with WiFi networks make for really shitty interference.

Cellular on the other hand is aggressively managed. For one handsets and towers transmit on different channels. Your upstream won't affect my downstream. Besides every channel being multiplexed a tower can tell a handset to change channels or even entire bands in order to managed congestion.
Anything with Dr. Eric Lander from MIT (e.g. https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre...). Hands down the best lecturer I've ever encountered.
https://archive.ph/8h0xA
I Am Easy To Find (short film, 2019)
Am I the only one who initially read the title as Elon came out of the closet?
This is the right answer. Empirically, continuity of brand assets actually drives higher brand recognition and awareness/shoppability advantage over time, particularly for consumer goods. Look through the disastrous Tropicana branding change example for how wrong can changing familiar assets go.

However, the marketing teams get bored of their branding and ads way way before consumers do - after
all each consumer see a big brand in a branding context maybe half a dozen to a dozen times a month for a few seconds at a time in advertising or stores. The marketing teams see it every day every hour :-)

So they naturally desire for change - exacerbated by the fact that the "experts" in marketing agencies or relevant in house functions have no incentive to tell them different as they make money off of the change :-)
The article is confused about the difference between a logo and a word mark, which is what they are showing. Big brands are super pedantic about how and where logo marks and word marks are used. You shouldn't be seeing these word marks in contexts that are not already dripping in branding for the company.

Look at the Pinterest Brand guidelines (https://business.pinterest.com/en-au/brand-guidelines/) and you well find them saying: "Only use the Pinterest badge (please don’t use our word mark)". The Pinterest badge is the exact same stylised letter P from the old wordmark. So, almost everywhere you encounter a Pinterest logo it will be the stylised graphic. They can do that because enough people recognise the brand that they can drop the "interest".

The Facebook logo is an even weirder example because they are comparing the old Facebook app word mark with the newer Facebook-the-company word mark. That logo was specifically designed to look different from the app. Now that Facebook is now Meta, that uppercase logo has been retired.

Microsoft, Facebook, Pinterest, Spotify and Airbnb all have stylised logo marks. eBay and Google use word marks, but are brightly coloured and immediately recognisable 99% of the time they are seen.
Physicists have a term for conspiracies, they call them symmetries.
And yet transparency is a major element when dealing with bad actors in the physical world in democratic countries. If a suspected murderer is brought to the courts, they have the right to be informed what charges are brought against them, and the right to request all relevant documents from the accusing party to defend themselves.

Why are Internet platforms unable to do that, other than it's too much of a hassle and makes our business unsustainable? Which may be a legitimate reasons for the platforms, but are not legitimate at all for society as a whole.
It's amusing to me that someone would go through the effort of deconstructing it, writing a gist, and posting it on HN before literally just googling "device under steering wheel" and seeing other people posting about the _exact_ same device.

People tend to imagine their lives are more interesting and worthy of surveillance than they really are :)
I'd hazard it's mostly images and/or the plugins the store has installed to track conversions and / or extend the Shopify store. I do admit plain Shopify stores/themes are quick and lightweight, and the plugins are to blame, but I also point at Shopify for blocking some easy features to be supplanted by plugins.
Some of my friends use Time Machine for local files, or they use cloud software (e.g. Figma, Google Docs) that store version history by default.
If you're on Windows, and you want to download something, install it, see what its all about.

Windows Sandbox starts in like 8 seconds to be usable and is trashed when you close it.

So its far from useless.

But for your usecase, yes it wont work.
Sony link is broken. Or maybe the logo was really that bad.
Thanks. I'm always curious about the practical logistics behind things.
It wasn't just the original "pedo guy" comment. Musk also hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on his target. He tweeted more, and emailed a Buzzfeed reporter alleging his target was a child rapist. This wasn't just one moment of spite.
You’re better off just disconnecting it than getting new wiring. Wiring harness replacements are notorious for requiring obscene amounts of interior disassembly, and you might just end up with annoying squeaks and rattles.
I’m pro-choice, but this is a bad argument.

In the case of abortion, the default (inaction) means the baby lives, whereas having an abortion is an active action which ends the “life” (I don’t entirely believe it’s a life up to a certain point, but just conceding it for the sake of argument).

In the case of forced organ donation, not donating unfortunately results in the death of the other person, but that’s the default state (inaction).

For those with agency, we place greater moral weight on active actions than on the absence of action.
To your last paragraph, how does one adequately educate oneself to advocate effectively at the CRTC if the ranks of those truly in the know are so small and inaccessible (seemingly by design)?
Thank you for this. I haven't thought about Kate Bush since the 80s (she got replaced by Tory Amos and Sarah McLachlan in that genre in the 90s), and I was never a big fan but I knew this song. I didn't realize the impact she had on other people and thought the choice of her song in Stranger Things was meant to be kitschy but I guess not!
I am saddened by the author's take on 2FA. I am saddened that so many in this community share his POV.

Come on people! These Supply chain issues have real world consequences. Y'all act like this is some huge burden.
Windows hardware like the Surface?
I mean he tells you what the chords are and describes what you can already hear with your ears, like "here's a pad"...why do people find this worthwhile to listen to?
Your sort of low effort knee jerk response to a well researched informative comment is precisely why it's so hard to have rational discussion online. Can you not stay on topic and refrain from instigating polarisation for one minute? Do you have an opinion on these "persuasion campaigns"?
Intelligence Is Never Solo
Yeah I feel the same way. I read his comment thread but it didn't really add up and seemed written in an over the top way. Too me that means there is more to the store than this one side. We will never know the full account for sure.
I suspect this is a reference to the "press f to pay respects" meme. I read it as a jocular expression of sympathy for the Amazon employees, playing on the single character point.
>?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As a customer, yes I will require proof before buying anything from your hypothetical store.

If Shopify can provide that assurance to me - I will transact on Shopify-hosted stores more with confidence.
I built my own boredom-killer while I was on vacation a while back, mindlessly surfing Facebook and other sites...

https://www.friendlyskies.net/fmk/index.php?tpl=Boredom-Curi...

Some of those things are more productive than others, depending. Is phys.org productive? Maybe. Listening to The Odyssey via Librivox? Could be.

Meditative art via The Useless Web? Maybe also productive...

http://lacquerlacquer.com/
Ahh. Looks familiar. A dealer in the PNW installed one of these (without our knowledge) in a Honda CRV we purchased. Something about anti theft and vehicle recovery by finance, for all the cars on their lot.

The car had all sorts of crazy power problems. Smart display would randomly crash, interior lights wouldn’t work, just… flakey.

Called the dealer and demanded they remove this. Electrical problems went away instantly.

Super frustrating.
I'd be tempted to respond with "Use your words, Jeff". But then I am a mere minion.
"You might be a laugh, but you have a vibe where other people aren’t going to share their innermost personal stuff. They get a feeling that you’re not able to give it back."

Or, you know, rip the piss out of them for sharing anything that matters.

Anyone else find this piece curiously unreflective? There appears to be only one way in which men can interact with other men, drunken banter. It's a never-ending episode of Men Behaving Badly. And the answer, it turns out, is _not_ to try and go beyond what amounts to a juvenile way of interacting with people, but... be better at organising activities where that "belligerent way of occupying space" can happen?
I mean, if you could get your hands on a variable capacitor, you're in business. That was unlikely to be an item you could scrounge up though.
The guys in the article managed to find a tube and other parts, so that's quite impressive, but you can still get more minimalist.

The most basic is a length of wire wound around a coil form (toilet paper tube, plastic bottle, etc), the "detector" was a blued steel surface (DE safety razor blade), a safety pin to act as a "cats whisker" (bonus if you can use graphite pencil lead attached to it), some high impedance headphones (WW2 tanker/air crew headsets usually fit the bill), a good ground and as much wire for an aerial/antenna as you could get away with.

Using the length of the coil, and where you connected the antenna, you could kinda-sorta tune for better efficiency at different parts of the band (be it SW or AM). (Longer coil = lower freq)

I made a few of them years ago, and posted the results on my now-defunct blog. The DB is still intact with my files and findings, but my code base is hosed (need to remake it).
Even if the cited $1k per customer varies by density etc., and perhaps you mix in some fixed-wireless, then how about a business model in which you sell your network to providers (internet providers, telco providers, tv providers...and likely specialty content, business app and service providers...who then sell to the end users)?

You sell B2B (you would need to solve for multi-tenancy), and help facilitate a lot of consumer choice and competition by decoupling the pipe from the services...