skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We decided to focus on other online acquisition channels, FB and Instagram working best. For this product, it turns out offline channels convert better anyway - so it was a suspension we could live with, despite not understanding it.

But I could imagine how distressing this would be for a business more dependent on search. And you can find lots of small business owners and indie hackers with such stories if you start looking..
A Question About a Rotating Line Helps Reveal What Makes Real Numbers Special
People running the hotspots should care, they could get prosecuted for unauthorized access of their ISPs network. Sharing you connection is not authorized. Don't like it, lobby to change the law but what they are doing is explicitly illegal.
Guess what what will happen? Hackers will circumvent EAC.
And modders will go extinct.
How to kill your game, speedrun %any.
I had basically this exact experience. I finished a no-profit side project and wanted to get some traffic to it so I started a small campaign. I was immediately suspended for suspicious payment.

After literally months of trying to convince them I was the owner of the account and the payment methods, I succeeded by finally sending pictures of credit cards on the accounts (not secure, I gave up) and also just deleting every campaign. I'm not sure which one had an effect -- it was just me throwing pasta against a wall.

I was relieved, BUT! my account is still suspended. Why? It says I have an unpaid balance.

https://ibb.co/NYgz95H

What do my balances read? 0.00

https://ibb.co/FWKxfVZ

I thought this would be an easy suspension to appeal. Well, I submitted it on July 7, and still no action. Here's there message of responding within 5 business days:

https://ibb.co/r2Sx6ht

I once tried to call the company, but they refused to talk to me because my account was suspended. There's no way out but to somehow convince them to unsuspend, and in my case, that didn't even work.

It's truly the worst customer experiences I've ever had.
Wooooosh :-)
And I'm telling you that even though there were no visible witch hunts, there absolutely were forces that suppressed certain types of thought, only they weren't framed that way. It was simple racism/sexism/homophobia etc.

Simple metric. Look at the makeup of "tenured faculties" back then. Overwhelmingly white and very male. Do you seriously believe that such a make up could nonetheless provide a diverse cross-section of thought?
Plenty of people do use it figuratively.

But then one of the main uses of the word is to be clear that you are not talking figuratively. If it is widely deemed acceptable to figuratively use a word whose main purpose is to clarify that you are not talking figuratively, it defeats the purpose, and leaves people with no easy way to be clear that they are being literal rather than figurative.

Its not so terrible when the situation is sufficiently clear that the primary definition could not be possible, but becomes a lot more problematic when used as in intensifier in figurative statements where the literal interpretation is also possible/plausible.
>All OSes have what is essentially the same service as Grammarly

Not all of them! Excluding Ubuntu, and stuff like package management management and heartbeat is-the-internet-up pings, Linux doesn't phone home about anything, let alo--

>without having to stream every word you type to a third-party service

Oh, you mean the spellcheck part. Right, right, yeah.
Google has an internal policy of not talking about anything related to enforcement. They've banned and ghosted their own business partners, not to mention their own employees' husbands, with zero explanation. This isn't anything new either; you can find examples of it going all the way back to the company's founding.

The underlying logic seems to be to lay traps and pitfalls for bad actors to fall into rather than having a transparent and evenly-enforced set of rules. i.e. if we tell scammers they can't use privacy cards, instead of just silently banning anyone who uses them, then how can we tell scams apart from real users?
> The solution here is to never use a hidden or “privacy” card number with Google

The author regularly uses the same CC with many other google services

> The same credit card on the account, a corporate Mastercard from Brex, is attached to Google Cloud, Google Workspace, and Google Domains. Collectively, Google services have successfully charged that same card over $2,000 since that email.
I manage about $210K a month in ad spend and the support I get is terrible. I would gladly pay a fee to get good support.
Thanks for your reply. I will definitely consider using a more explicit public-domain equivalence in the future.
I guess in-orbit assembly would then be a whole different can of worms. But, a very useful can of worms - once it's figured out, it's like horizontal scaling - you can just keep sending up more parts.
Nitpicking one point:

> On non-Linux systems, additional software is required. Thus, TAR+GZIP is not established in our sense.

However, "established" means:

> 1. The file format has already been around for a long time.

> 2. The file format is supported by several vendors (and not just by a single company).

> 3. The file format is platform-independent, i.e., it enjoys support on Windows machines, Macs, and Unix-based systems.

Point #3 strikes me as odd since there's been tar support on Windows for a long time (and vendor support from Apple since OS X). To double-check, libarchive's release notes mention "Much improved Windows support, thanks largely to Michihiro NAKAJIMA. In particular, the test suites now build and run on Windows" back in 2009 at https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/ReleaseNotes -- and that's only one of many ways to use tar on Windows.

So, perhaps the author means the OS vendor must supply a tar implementation to be "established"?

Thing is, "BSD-tar has been included in Microsoft Windows since Windows 10 April 2018 Update" says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#History and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/community/te... says "you'll also be able to extract files in formats in addition to .zip (like .tar.gz, for example)."

Okay, so perhaps the author wasn't quite up to date with Windows?

But elsewhere the author says this about FLAC:

> Apple products (iOS, Mac, Safari) do not natively support FLAC — quite possibly because Apple has its own lossless audio format, ALAC. However, players for FLAC can be easily found also for Apple systems. FLAC is thus an established file format.

I don't see how FLAC can be an established format when tar+gz is not.
You can stay within Israel for that pivot. We have our fair share of rich people not paying. https://www.reuters.com/article/natgas-israel-leviathan-idIN...
I care about these things and left crypto over a decade ago.
Well, these people are getting at least 16 weeks severance. 4 months paid to grind at interviews. Then unemployment after.

I wouldn't worry too much if I were at a similar company.

Getting laid off during Covid was a boon for many people
Learn how to make a dish you really like. Expand from there.
Many companies will provide a rejection reason in a telephone call that they would not be happy to put into writing.

Especially companies located in places where phone call recording isn't legal.

It's all about not leaving a liability paper trail.
Those who terrorize Russian diaspora for the actions of their government have rocks for brains.
Saudi Arabia Wants to Build This Bizarre City Dubbed 'The Line'
Clearly a labor of love. Thanks for having built this.
yeah, over the last few years I've seen more and more companies launching open source software, and hosting it as a service. it seems to be working well. on the software side they don't sell a product, but a service.
>Personally, I think the government should subsidize something like this to allow it to get off the ground. Earthquake data, climate data, traffic data, etc. Essentially public use.

Literally the exact opposite of what web3 is. You're arguing for a _public good_, but web3's entire premise only makes sense when the opposite happens: everything is privatized, everything is monetized.

THIS is the world that web3 makers envision: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
This sort of thing used to be pretty common with large employers. A classmate got caught up in maybe the first layoff round of one of the old-line East Coast computer companies. He'd only been there a few years but as I recall he still got something like 6 months severance and he took off to Greenland for an extended trip before even looking for another job.
> emotionally attached to their coworkers and even projects and workplaces.

this is a serious problem.

I went through some of the hardest most stressful projects of my life when the COVID vaccines were coming online building systems for US state governments to manage the vaccine program and all the analytics and reporting at the same time dealing with the trauma of the pandemic personally. I handled the tech and a managing director two levels up handled the relationships. We grew so close and shared so many tears (quite literally) and high-fives that i'd follow her to the gates of hell if she asked. It would break my heart to leave her and go work for someone else.

getting emotionally attached to your job is a very real risk.
Pluton first debuted in the Xbox One. It's possibly the first home console that went it's entire lifespan without being hacked. That should tell you everything about the threat we are facing.
So you can never leave a queue? Queuing would then be discouraged, wouldn't it? Making the move to buy something would often ensure you can't buy it but can also not buy anything else because someone else will cut in front of you and if you're out of luck, you'll be stuck in the queue forever, abandoning it is not allowed. Enjoy starving for greater efficiencies.
makes me think of my home town. built around a steelmill. always jobs being cut for any reasons. hope all those laid off will find a nother good place soon. one that keep them!
That’s how they get you. You’d better anticipate a lot of emails offering you deals to re-up for another few years.

I pulled the plug on Nord years ago and haven’t looked back.

Steady the course my friend.
Had a similar experience with GCP -- wanted to run an experiment in AWS, Azure, and GCP side-by-side. AWS and Azure were set up within a day. GCP required hitting up support to "turn on the feature," then a salesperson called to tried to upsell over a few calls before they'd turn it on. There was then confusing payment UI flow that meant my payment wasn't set up correctly. Overall took 3 weeks of back and forth to even start. This was 4 years ago, so maybe it's changed a bit now, but it's hard imagining depending on them as a business unless you're the scale of Snap and have leverage.
ex before vi, ed before ex, and QED before ed. Enclosing a pattern between slashes is a tradition that comes from QED that is not directly related to regular expressions: /<pattern>/ means "line that matches <pattern>".
This isn't a "Google of 2022" thing. Antispam has always been Google's secret police.
Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases
A new theory of quantum subsystems
The entire point is that you can't "deal" with it. Since car batteries contain the fuel and the oxidizer, there isn't a way to separate them short of blowing the whole thing up. Fires can stop and start spontaneously, and often do (see pictures and videos of Teslas on fire in junkyards).
Private-sector customer support can also mean contacting your local representative and hoping they take up your cause. That tactic once got a health insurer of mine to stop trying to wait us out and just pay the damn bill they were supposed to pay.
Definitions and implications of climate-neutral aviation
This seems extremely clever.

I know Mullvad already allows you to e.g. send cash in an envelope for total privacy, but that's kind of a pain, it'll take a long time to arrive, if the envelope is lost there's nothing you can do, etc.

But by physically printing covered-up codes on cards, this actually uses Amazon to create the privacy/anonymity, which kind of feels ironic given how Amazon generally tries to hoover up all the data. You can get your code with fast Prime delivery, a tracking number, pay for it with your credit card, get a free replacement if it's lost in the mail...

I love this.
The layoffs I experienced were explicitly about reducing size and cost of the workforce. Individual performance was a limited factor at best. This was the case at two different Fortune 500 companies.

The only thing saving many high performers was better understanding of the company direction. Meaning a lot of the good folks figured out the “safe” teams/organizations and transitioned shortly before the lay off occurred.
I only get a single quote here with no option to scroll down. I assume there's an article underneath?
Stripe = fin processing.

I'm not talking legacy - I'm talking startups that are trying to take market from the bank through subsidized VC and repackage it to sell to the banks which feels like a lot of the fin services business model.

If anything fin legacy (i.e. IT dept) probably pretty safe.
Wow, I've had really good luck with Eagle, I've talked to quite a few happy owners, was a huge upgrade over my previous shimano XTR. The year I got XTR it was quite the lemon, so much so that Mountain Bike Action (MBA) did an article on how terrible it was, I'd even get mocked by folks on the by folks recognizing the signature screech. Apparently the brake cylinders would fail, never retract, and the only fix was replacement, this combined with a light weight disc rotor with a particularly loud resonance. Very disappointing for a top of the line set of components.

In any case, sorry to hear it. I'm not shopping a bike replacement and leaning towards an ebike, but trying to avoid the Shimano EP8, which again has a signature noise, loud clunk/clanking on the downhills when not under power.
optimisim wins over pessimism, right up to the point the ship sinks. somewhere in the middle is likely the way forward.
Global reduction in ship-tracks from sulfur regulations for shipping fuel
They are not unable, they are unwilling.
the trick is to cook about one and a half servings everytime. this way you eat one serving, store the half and heat up a previously stored side dish (previously remaining half serving)
With cycles in the graph, there's no single path to each node, no matter where the root is. Multiple paths to a node is the exact opposite of addressability. As an example, try to devise an algo for enumerating nodes and their paths from root.
Researchers unpack unkillable UEFI rootkit that survives OS reinstalls
I recently started to use Mullvad. They really appear to be the most innovative in the VPN space when it comes to privacy.
Anecdotal point of data: M247 seems to run a lot of bad-faith traffic as well - while a service I run tries to keep block lists minimal even for frequently abused endpoints (eg credential stuffing) their ASNs are a mainstay in there.
It doesn't sound like they are new though. They use other Google services and have a history with Google, it's just the Ads service relationship that is new.
I carry at least 2 paperclips with me (1 live, 1 backup). They don't add much to the space or weight of my EDC, but they can come in handy in the time of need.
I'm slowly leaning more and more towards "It's unacceptable to ban a user without providing EXACT details about why they were banned".

I understand that this is a cat and mouse game of abuse by these companies - I no longer care.

I'm utterly disgusted when the company in question is a monopoly (and to be clear: Google is a monopoly in search, and it should have been addressed years ago - except the US government is crippled and dysfunctional)

I don't mind some sanity checks around the process (the most obvious and foolproof: Make a representative show up in person at a company location) but this whole "Appeal and get auto-denied with no explanation" bullshit needs to stop.
The problem is they have a near monopoly on search, a duopoly on video, a near monopoly on display etc.

It is very difficult to advertise without them. Engineers have a lot of options when building. Any company that wants do advertise does not have such a wide range of options.
The savings really add up at that 10 pound level. Chicken quarters are still under a dollar a pound at Walmarts in that quantity.
I have been at startups where they just stop paying the office lease and salaries stop. These days i am just prepared for it. If you are in the backend side of things you can figure out most things with a few sql queries.
Fairly sure that's one of the reason for this. Had similar issue with Discord - removed the ability to add my Discord bot to new servers but refused to provide any reason or fix the issue. But unlike here, they said they're eager to see a new bot instead..
When you decide that hiring good people is actually a hard problem the most obvious solution is to stop trying, and just accept some bad hires in the org temporarily that you'll let go in the next round of cuts if they don't work out.

This actually works out fairly well for everyone - some people get hired and stay because they're good, some get hired and then dropped but they earn well and get a big name on their resume for their time, and the company eventually builds a stronger team.
This is arguably one of the big problems with the Internet today.

On the one hand, browser automation is extremely effective and nearly indistinguishable from human traffic, and bot traffic often eclipses that of human visitors, depending on what you're serving, consuming an enormous amount of resources.

On the other hand, using IP-reputation to decide who gets a captcha is one of the few methods that undeniably works. It's really unfair and I wish it didn't have to be that way, but at least for my websites, I can't serve traffic to human visitors if I don't discriminate against these IP blocks with captchas and whatever. I just don't have the hardware. The bot traffic I get is something like 50x that of sitting at #1 on the HN front page.
Like the App Store.

Hopefully we get the digital markets act over here for similar protections
> build a distributed low data wireless network completely independent of phone providers and cable companies.

Don't the people buying the LoRa gateways just connect them their router, which is being provided bandwidth by phone and cable companies? Or alternately LTE, which is also being run by phone companies?
maybe the danger of reading your old journal entries is to get stuck in the past.

the purpose of introspection is to learn about yourself and understand yourself.

at one point i had the opportunity to digitally scan a set of negatives that i have collected from my photography work over a decade prior. this forced me to review all my work at once, and only then i realized that most of my better photos were portraits.

reviewing my journal might allow me to make similar discoveries.

the point of introspection is to make those discoveries. to find things that i can learn about myself that were not obvious before.

i am generally aware which current goals i am not achieving. in my journal i might find some goals that i dropped, but those don't matter anymore. i dropped them. maybe i can analyze if there is a pattern in how i set goals and drop them, and maybe there is something to learn.

In a way, introspection has held me back. It has made me viscerally aware of my shortcomings in the financial, professional, romantic, and physical realms. Introspection has reminded me of dropped promises, awkward encounters, unfounded concerns. It reminds me of just how naked and vulnerable in the cold of space and time I really am.

i don't believe introspection is the problem here. being aware of my shortcomings always helped me to better deal with them, to find a way to work around them instead of letting them control me.

the conclusion the author makes seems rather a sign of not enough introspection. i would dig deeper, trying to understand where these are coming from, how to overcome them...
This comes down to terrible service. Pretty sure that if Google would invest in providing good customer support, their global usage and stock price would increase immediately.
Brainfuck on a 2D Platformer Game
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Archived: https://archive.ph/dN0Jb
Fair enough, amend my first response to say it’s predicated on the desire for the option to work less in the future. The same concept applies, though. You’re optimizing for some future event while the OP was optimizing for something different. That is somewhat different than your post about the goal being "sufficient pay and health insurance benefits." Those you'd most likely already have without job hopping, even if your spouse gets sick.

There's probably something to be said about the systemic causes that create an environment where even tech workers are so financial insecure as to foster that mindset, but that’s a digression.
a16z is an odd fund. They've made a ton of money in crypto investing in projects, pumping them, and then dumping on retail. Most crypto insiders view them as completely toxic and won't touch projects they've backed.

But a16z has such a strong brand in general tech and is so great at PR, I don't see them slowing down anytime soon. They're making way too much money.
wrong on all counts. A disc has the same transit "solution" that a line does, just draw a spiral. for a line however, this is the only solution, and boy is it terrible. Imagine if society were all in one skyscraper and the only mode of transit was the elevator.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-staggering-de...
That's a pretty cynical outlook on their part.

All of this is just a further reminder to me to avoid doing business with Google.
Private companies can develop software with government data rights. Hosting isn’t free but they pay for an n-year contract with support and can find another vendor for the software and hosting in n years if they want. That’s a good collaboration between govt and industry, governments should insist on stuff like this so they retain ownership over what they paid for, as much as possible.
The same people used to completely deny it, they only pivoted lately to bargaining and it's really transparent.

The IPCC scenarios don't really rely on feedback loops, because we don't know enough about them. They are rarely taken into account, while even the mildest plausible scenarios based on projected human activity project at least a 2°C change, which can't be stable. We underestimate feedback loops, and we might also get human activity wrong, but even if we don't you still get a planet that's just barely habitable.

The warming trend is not created by IPCC fudging past temperature data. This is a climate change denier talking point, but it's a lie. Land and ocean temperatures have been adjusted separately to account for the changes in the measurement methods. Localized sources were compared to their neighbours in order to be able to account for changes in the instruments, urbanization and so on. High-accuracy sensors are used to create a reference network of perfectly sited stations. Roughly half of the stations reduced the warming, half increased it. Deniers like to cherry-pick the stations to make a point. The biggest adjustment by far was because of earlier ships. They used to throw a bucket overboard, pull it up slowly and measure the temperature of the water with a thermometer, without accounting for the air temperature. Ships later switched to measuring temperatures through engine room intakes. These days we have a global network of automatic buoys. None of this increased the warming trend, the adjustments actually reduced it. Mostly only data from before 1940 had to be adjusted. Studies continue to use raw data along it's interpretations, but the necessity of an adjusted interpretation is constantly shown.