skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon's customer support "call me now" feature used to be the 8th wonder of the world. IMO.

The first time I used it I was amazed to get a call instantly on December 23, one of the busiest shopping day of the year. No fuss. No jumping though hoops no waiting, no one asking for my mother's maiden name.

Now, in an obvious cost cutting measure, the service the service has now been moved to India and there are now wait times, now they want to know my mother's maiden name. Its slowly becoming like all the other customer support centers. But they still have a "call me now" feature.

Declaration: I have never worked for Amazon.
This is an essay / review of a book by The Last Psychiatrist - I didn't know they published anything after the blog ended, but I've seen their blog posts here and elsewhere over the years.
> > Lucky for a start that he was born in the US not, say, the Congo.

> The US was created by its citizens. Any country can do that.

That's a very strong claim. Are you saying that Congo just doesn't want to be prosperous? That every country that isn't currently the richest in the world just... didn't decide to be become the richest in the world?
That was my job. I was his manager.
> When its live-action reboot failed last year

Did it fail? I enjoyed it! I don’t stay up to date with the critics though. Hope this doesn't mean the second season won’t get made.
I'm pretty sure the mismatch is just that the major ui frameworks were designed for oop languages, not that UI is inherently oo. As the gp said, react type frameworks play fine with languages that have no inheritance. It's just a matter of a few more coming along with the same paradigm(s).
What is the tech stack of EADP?
Thanks mate!

Foreign founders can make a Delaware C Corp. We used Stripe Atlas for that and it did the job well! From there, it's the same process.
Because FAANGS are essentially gigantic centralized socialist states where users and small customers are just a "blob" that needs to be used, milked and discarded.

There is not a single good reason for them to provide support beyond whats required (if any) by local government regulations.
yes there’s absolutely no need for UI to be multi-threaded. You can do stuff in the background but IMO multi-threaded UI is completely useless.

You have an event loop where you poll for input => propagate changes => commit changes => rerender UI. Normally you
might have poll => propagate => rerender, but when you delay the changes you can represent everything in a shared reference, and when commit them you have a single source which takes the 1 mutable reference Rust allows.
Of course. Telling people to get vaccinated is propaganda. Propaganda is neutral it's the message coming with it that can be a bad or a good one.
It's getting better every year, in my opinion, though sometimes it has growing pains
> I think this is the first of his stories I've read, and what a treat.

Collect the whole set:

https://search.theregister.com/?q=SOMETHING+FOR+THE+WEEKEND
Bay Area planet. Your mileage will vary based on location and industry.
It’s actually thought to be entirely fictional by most of the authors I’ve read.
When the Hubble telescope was launched is had an improperly ground mirror resulting in fuzzy images. There was a test that would have caught the problem on the ground, I recall reading that it would have cost $10 million, but it was skipped to limit the project's budget. Instead it required a multi-hundred million dollar shuttle mission to give the Hubble corrective lenses.
I head up product at Retool. I’m sorry to hear about the issues here. We’ve been heads down on improving the performance of apps like yours by moving work into the server-side, re-architecting parts of our codebase, geolocating our servers closer to users, and a number of other initiatives. We’re releasing these improvements as we prove their efficacy, while other improvements are under more experimental feature flags. If you’re interested, our engineering team would love to get these safely turned on for you—Just reach out to me at eeke@retool.com.
You're right, sorry. I can't edit it now but this is the WSJ link I meant to post.

https://archive.ph/HsGyY
No, because one of those options incentivizes people to do whatever it takes to get to the top, ethics and harm be damned, then once they get there to turn over a new leaf and be canonized as a saint while reclining on a pile of ill-gotten gains.

Most sociopaths won't get to the top, though. They'll just do the first half where they hurt people, then lose it all. You can watch them on twitter now, hawking crypto and MLM.
Skia is not GPU first. It was initially designed for CPU-only rendering, 3D GPU support was an afterthought. For that reason, the quality of that support ain’t great. AFAIK it only uses 3D GPU to compose layers.
Can't win the lottery if you don't play either, but that doesn't mean playing the lottery is a good idea.
I doubt I shall ever again have such a feeling of warping into the future as I got when moving from coding 6502 assembler on the Beeb to ARM-2 on the Archimedes. Suddenly there were enough registers. And they were all general purpose: use for arithmetic, use as an index, do whatever you need to. And all the instructions were conditional; hardly needed branches. And the memory map was flat. And everything was 32-bit. And no weird operand modes. And the best Beeb feature was still there: the assembler was still built-in to BBC Basic.
They're both fairly common https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
I think it's more about access control. They don't do any access control at the db level afaik.
One of Teach’s most interesting challenges to the reader:

Describe yourself: your traits, qualities, both good and bad.

Do not use the word ‘am.’

Practice this.
Is that Yoko Kanno?
I don't know the game, but I recognized the name. Werecat is a very cool project by this author!

http://www.whicken.com/werecat/overview.html

The Werecat Rules Engine is a freely available framework for building and evaluating simple, hierarchical rule structures. Using Java reflection, you can easily plug in your own data and functions to create a highly dynamic rules-based structure with very little coding effort.
It was cancelled.
I got tired of my previous internet provider. I noticed Xfinity wifi was available at my house. I signed up.

They asked me to either rent a router or bring my own and do self install. I have done neither.

I use the Xfinity wifi. For over a year now. No complaints.

Wiring every house in a dense area seems weird when you can just go wireless.
Nassim Taleb writes a lot about this in Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets. Great book.
It was cancelled within a handful of episodes airing.

Personally, as a fan of the animated series, I thought it was awful and only made it through the first episode and half of the second.
Tried that before, doesn't work. It'll f up, when you try to actually talk in a call or share screen and so on.
I specifically noted that the constitutional arguments against specific performance most likely have no application here.

Please don't truncate a quote so you can strawman someone.
Convention before configuration doesn't solve the core problem.

Why do you need configuration? Because you build your application by gluing together a multitude of different applications that need to configured properly to be able to talk to each other.

Once you understand this, the solution is obvious: don't build your application this way.

Build it in one language. If you want to "reuse" existing solutions, reuse them as libraries, not as separate programs.
One of the best-known mask studies is the Bangladesh mask study, which is as close as exists for a masking efficacy RCT.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069

First, note that this wasn't studying in the context of a mask mandate - in the sample villages, masks were distributed, and people were recommended to wear masks when around others. In practice, this brought mask usage up to 42% on average, as compared to 13% in control villages. So, even in this context where the majority of people weren't wearing masks, they still saw an effect in the cloth mask villages. They also saw a larger effect in the surgical mask villages.

Thread from one of the study authors: https://twitter.com/Jabaluck/status/1433036923610742789

It is worth noting that the effect was smaller and the sample size for cloth mask villages smaller than for surgical mask villages, so the confidence is lower than for surgical masks. But with that said, note this from the study author:

> We find a clear and large statistically significant impact on COVID symptoms. We find an imprecise zero for serologically confirmed COVID. The most likely interpretation is that cloth masks reduce COVID, but not as much as surgical masks.

https://twitter.com/Jabaluck/status/1433227618497728514

Now, was the effect relatively small for cloth masks? Yes. But given the results here, plus results we have from mechanistic studies of cloth masks, a reasonable conclusion is something along the lines of: cloth masks have some effect on transmission, albeit a relatively small effect. Other types of masks are better.

Additionally, if the assumption of "the types of masks worn by the vast majority of school children" is correct, then studies showing that mask mandates in schools had an effect on transmission would suggest some efficacy for cloth masks.

Two relatively large-scale observational studies: https://twitter.com/roby_bhatt/status/1502244997764157442

That said, I'm endlessly disappointed that there wasn't a consistent, strong push for people to upgrade from cloth to surgical once supplies of surgical masks were no longer an issue. And mask sizing was also an issue - there are so many masks out there that are oversized for kids. Imagine if the federal government had coordinated with schools across the country to ensure supplies of kid sized surgical masks at every school. Alas.
Because the bank wants to make it as difficult as possible for you to opt out, while still complying with the law.
I'm not sure this is accurate, maybe a sufficiently cherry-picked small # of frames in a VBR recording?

It, at the very least, hides more than it illuminates in that 68Mbps is an order of magnitude higher than an average 4K video's bitrate over it's duration
Sunk cost fallacy is still hugely influential. And structural inertia blocks obviously profitable change.

Certainly the people currently milking the public for $trillions annually pay big money into campaigns to delay transition of that money elsewhere.
Somehow half of the article is about windows and windows defender.
The vast majority of people who work there probably don't tell themselves that
> I was amazed to get a call instantly on December 23

I never call, if chat is available; it's so unproductive. With chat open on my second monitor, I continue my other work. I only requested call back with them once, when they could not solve the problem via chat.
It's unlikely that the FCC has the power to do either 1 or 2.
Thanks! Keen to see how your use goes.

Love that idea, it's something we've been floating around ourselves. We're not sure if the problems around that are painful enough for people to change existing habits (is it annoying enough for you to switch apps?), but let us know if you have any thoughts on that!
As someone hypothesizes above, it’s common for browsers to add www. to domains that don’t resolve.
Maybe that should have been the public message we focused on, the actual dumping of trash into the ocean by foreign countries, and us sending it there when we supposedly recycle, instead of "little girl convinces law makers to go to paper straws!"
>WikiLeaks has intentionally not published documents damaging to the Russian govt

For the reason that they thought those documents had already been published elsewhere. And a lot of the documents had been, though there were some new ones. Oddly, the leaked chat never mentions that to Wikileaks. It instead apparently assumed an organization with no Russian speakers and it's leader essentially imprisoned must have fully vetted all the documents.
I really really hate Java, in parts due to the verbosity, and find Rust very pleasant to write. I'm not sure I would call Rust verbose at all, although you can look at code that gets verbose due to the expressiveness of the language and the desire for people to over engineer things (versus a language like Golang that remains very readable at all time). But when I write my own code, I tend to avoid the complexity and write pretty clear (I would like to think) Rust code.

There's definitely a learning curve (I think everyone agrees with that one), which might be what you're feeling now, but that quickly goes away once you pick up some speed. I would say keep on learning Rust and the language will grow on you.
Has nothing to do with tractor emissions. They are being forced to forgo using nitrogen based fertilizer for crops, and cull their cattle herds to reduce ammonia. Both are going to severely cut into their income for an industry with very thin margins, and put a lot of them out of business. Their government even conceded that fact very early on and still pushed it through. The farmers are pissed and rightly so.
Current approach of commercial and non-commercial organizations to make "critical" FOSS projects fit their (or public) security, code quality, etc standards is doomed to fail. They focus on sheer force or, sometimes, incentives to developers. What part is often overlooked - is the tools, software and legal, to make such moves easier and practical. Recent GitHub and GitLab developments helped to setup static code analysis for many, also security advisories management. Another good example is the OSSFuzz software/program, it helped many developers to understand what fuzzing is, how to use it for eliminating easy bugs, and ease of setup for your project. This is a step in a right direction but still somewhat patchy experience hinders these developments. They should focus more on making it as easy for FOSS maintainers as possible, in uniform way across the ecosystem of languages, frameworks, infrastructures. In commercial world we have mandatory certification and audits, enforced standards, etc. That would never work in FOSS world, since often the "user perspective" of jumping through hoops to get the desired compliance status is absolutely horrendous. Organizations like OpenSSF should focus on making their standards and such void of legalese and compliance-speak, make them as easy as possible to understand for every developer: from JS to C++, from Web frontend to the embedded, from console tools to huge distributed computation softwares. From what I see, this is not what is happening.
It failed and got canceled by Netflix.

Now, I know getting canceled by Netflix means little. I gave this show a chance, after being impressed with the intro sequence remake, but found it to be soulless. Maybe Cowboy Bebop just doesn't translate to live action; what seemed charming in the original was played for kitsch in the remake.

I couldn't even make it to the last episodes.
Your comment makes it sound like my problem with configurations is that they require understanding something.

But that's not what I said.

What I said is:

> Configuration is opaque. Undebuggable. Unmaintainable. By its very nature. No matter what "language" you use for it.

The underlying point - perhaps not metioned explicitly - is that they are way too complex for what you achieve with them.

Of course, complex systems require a deep level of understanding. But everything being equal, complexity is a thing to avoid - when you can do it without loss of capability.
Richard, CEO at you.com here.

Users vote on their own preferences... not on other users' preferences.
so i dont see how it will be gamed unless we start incorporating user preferences into global ones - which we would only do if we thought it worked better and isn't being gamed.
It is. "Didn't /used to/" is a mistake in American English, according to prescriptivists anyway:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-used-to-...
Where else but cmd.exe does the OS keeping track of the current working directory even apply?
I didn't ask you to defend them. I asked why they would be protesting.
I, too, would be a bad advocate for them as well. I am neither a Netherlander nor a farmer. I just eat and don't wonder where the food comes from, nor do I want to. I just want the food to be at the store when I am ready to buy it.

I agree the 90s were great, but I'll admit I was born in '92. So I might be biased.

I don't know what you mean by "good faith". I don't think the farmers are the short sighted ones here. They are farmers. They might be little bit interested in the long view, as hear it takes many months to grow food, and years to raise livestock.
Again, I don't know, I just go to the grocery store.
I hope in 10 years, whatever the farmers are protesting about, the Netherlanders can enjoy a burger [1][2], just like I do.

[1]"The ruling coalition has earmarked an extra 24.3 billion euros ($25.6bn) to finance changes that will likely make many farmers drastically reduce their number of livestock or get rid of them altogether." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/22/thousands-of-dutch-...

[2]"According to government estimates, this could lead to the shutting down of about 30 per cent of livestock farms." https://thewest.com.au/politics/dutch-farmers-block-roads-po...
> no stability is in sight

I'd disagree with this point. The require/import mess is due to multiple competing standards. Now Node.js has ESM support built-in, and so do all modern browsers, there is finally a single standard that works everywhere.

This should lead to stability, as least with module systems, which will allow bundlers to also focus on a module system, instead of esoteric hacks to make otherwise incompatible module systems play together.
Anybody can get lucky, but most people aren't prepared to get lucky in the way they want and don't know how to capitalize on it when they do. That's where the skill comes in.
How did you end up in an unpaid internship? I don't know a single person that didn't have a near 15k-20k/m-equivalent stipend tier internship for SWE/SDE. I'm genuinely concerned because I don't think I have ever heard of unpaid software internships outside of f.e., office wordpress-type labour scams or similar.
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Doubt much has changed in the industry as a whole, although maybe the identity of the worst offenders has shifted around as the shame spotlight has moved around over the years.
That's not really the thing. First, people immigrate from one country to another all the time. Not to mention you can move around freely within a country. Most people in San Francisco are not from San Francisco (people from San Francisco are pretty upset about it). Second, people are successful and have good lives outside of San Francisco.
> Technically we are "at the center" of our intractable universe.

We are at the center of our observable universe, yes, but that fact does not support any of the claims I have been responding to in this thread.
Meanwhile, I've been driving mine daily with autopilot for over a year daily, and can count on one hand the amount of times I've needed to take manual control.

My anecdotal experience is they're incredibly predictable and with an attentive driver (as you should always be in any car), completely a non issue.
It strikes me that you're very clear on the problems with each person. That's a good place to start. You're not confused as to the problems.
I would have coffee with each of them, and give each person concrete examples of where you think they failed the mission, and why.
Speaking of mission, does your team have a mission statement? I know this sounds like it doesn't matter, but they're truly amazing.
Get everyone together to come up with a mission statement, keep repeating it, and let everyone know that everything they do every day has to contribute to the core mission. If it doesn't add anything to the core mission, then don't do it.
There are so, so many distractions. I don't know how anyone in Gen Z gets any work done, frankly. I'm in middle age, and our brains are wired in a quieter, pre-social media fashion that allows for more clarity of thought. I am not saying this brag, but really to say it's something that needs to be studied now that Gen Z are taking critical positions in the workforce.
Completely agree with Golang, it is such a nice language as it remains pretty basic/simple and thus extremely readable and easy to use. Sure it's not expressive enough for some applications, but for a lot of applications it really shines. I'm mostly doing Rust nowadays, but if I want to use a beautiful and enjoyable garbage collected language there's Golang.
> the notion that space has no preferential direction is an axiom in the theory.

This was the case in special relativity, with a flat space-time. In general relativity, space-time is curved and there are locally special directions. The laws of Physics still do not define special directions a priori. It is quite fundamental actually, and so far everything behaves as expected, at least in this respect. It is not as much an axiom as a consequence of Maxwell’s equations, from which we can deduce that light has a well-defined velocity in vacuum, irrespective of location or direction.

> There's nothing about the way we measure the speed of light that would disambiguate if light traveled instantaneously in one direction and at half the measured speed of light in the other.

There is something I don’t get here. If we shine a light on a detector, we can measure the time the light takes to reach the detector. Are you saying that the light hits the detector instantly, and then goes back to the source, or that the detector is the source and the light comes back to it after hitting the source instantly?

In practice, the speed of light does not depend on direction, as far as we can measure.
Have you heard from Fidium yet in your community? I know they haven't got coverage everywhere yet, but its surprising how quickly they have been backfilling. Plus, fully symmetrical 1 gigabit/sec under $100/mo has been nice.
I'll take that as a yes. Thanks.
That's funny, pretty much everyone else thinking him demanding someone see a psychiatrist over a prank thought his response was a bit over-wrought, especially the psychiatrist

Guess we come from extremely different cultures
Where did you get that information from?
I tried loading the site multiple times, but it times out / exhausted my patience
Is this true? This feels hard to imagine that computers would load the entire diskette into memory. Apparently the Atari ST had up to 4MB of RAM.

I can imagine many programs doing this though.
To be fair it was a pretty broke state university. Although it did build a new basketball/hockey arena at the time. Also basketball games for students were free (and about half of the seats were reserved for them). Amherst were the university is is quite far from any cities. I imagine it helped the university financially but it's a weird system UMass has.
I photographed the team back then for the college paper..(I have signed photograph of him dunking I took)

After the basketball program catered. As an alumni I think it's for the best. University sports are great till they turn into money making afairs. but the article makes clear he was making a huge amount in the NBA and was trying to be fair.
Try artists' studios. There are buildings that rent reasonably priced spaces meant for making art, but they are private yet in a building with funky, creative people, so that environment might suit you. Good luck. I have often thought of starting an AirBnB-type marketplace for just such an office as you are looking for. Especially post-pandemic, there are so, so many offices with empty desks.
Wait, are you talking about deltas as in damage rects?
What services are providing at those prices?