skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporate process improvement is not an excuse for treating people badly. An individual human who treats people badly is not allowed to say "well I deal with a lot of people and I need algorithms and sometimes my algorithms don't work so I'm doing my best to improve them". Corporations should not get a pass because they need cheap processes that "scale" to maintain their profit margins.

This is the perpetual moral hazard that we constantly see at all big tech firms. These firms promised fantastical profit margins, but only on the condition of scaling at very low cost. What doesn't scale at very low cost? Customer service. That's why you're all so awful at it.

And don't come back with your satisfaction metrics from customers you haven't screwed. Your job is to do right by the customers who aren't convenient for you. Just like it's an insurance company's job to pay out to the tiny minority of claimants. It doesn't matter one bit if the company has a great web site or API that everyone loves. The true moral nature of your company is revealed by how you treat the customers who need you to do right by them.
CNBC? That’s a great non-partisan source you cited there.
but those are first party cookies, not third party.
I'm not sure of the facts on this case and always need to hear both sides fully before i would comment on them.

But; I have run 4 different businesses on stripe over about 6 years and have never had a serious issue. Yes there have been ups and downs but even with no phone number I would have to rate their support head and shoulders above most. Maybe 24-36 hours for a response, but we always got one, and in most cases it solved the issue.

We are still with them.
I think the fact that a company vehicle was sold for the $3300 hardly matters.
For the whole of Trump administration, he was really good at making peace when things where going south, he never said that he would protect for example Taiwan directly in case of attack of China.

I miss Trump so much, like he was a issue for US , but the rest of the world just could have a laugh and live in peace

It was Obama that started poking Putin saying that he was at the end of a medium power, and it is Biden that is giving all the weapons asked to Ukraine without even asking for a way to de-escalate and find a compromise, it is Biden that is letting Ukrainian lose territory and life just for weakening Russia for US interests
What has changed?

The party in power.
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A character from Lord of the Rings. He's a hermit living in nature, and one of the more notable things omitted in the movies. Probably because apart from saving the Hobbits from some dangers early in their journey he doesn't play much of a role.
Sad, like the "colors."
You mean like a Lovecraftian horror as described in the last quote on the article?
> "new drugs developed in the US" are crap consumer oriented drugs with no real medicinal value (a trillion snake-oil industry)

This is true to some extent (not all drugs approved require more than just superiority vs placebo), but that reads like throwing the baby out with the water. There's a ton of great drugs developed every year that are clearly very innovative in terms of mode of action, and by far and large those come from the US.
At my day job? Never happened.

Interviewing? Sure. Those LeetCode algorithmic problems have a tendency to sometimes touch upon these well-established values of the underlying architecture of bytes/bits and how memory pages are structured, etc.

The thing is: Working with Java and Python in your classical corporate job maintaining a DB schema, creating and/or optimizing endpoints with Flask and/or Springboot, most of these underlying concepts will be shielded from you entirely.

Again, in Java, you can specify the load factor for a HashMap when you create it... I bet you 99% of the developers working with Java have never needed to do it or might not even know what it is or how it works under the hood.

Maybe they don't even know that internally the hashtable size is managed in powers of two... but again, I don't truly believe this matters for 99% of the work you'll be doing.

It's either something that you need to use or fully understand, or something that will always be abstracted away from you.

8 or 2^8 or 2^8-1 are just numbers basically.... It's good to know a bit their intrinsic meaning or why they are relevant just as a general knowledge, but, unless you are doing C programming at a very low level, embedded systems, microcontrollers, etc, this is just knowledge that will _never_ be used.
What is in fashion or decor magazine and what people actually have in home or wear are two different things.
If I recall correctly, they publicly outed Thiel as a gay man, so I assumed that put them on his radar and he saw the Hogan incident as the opportunity to go all in on them.
Structural change for performance improvement or making the code less error prone are the 2 big reasons I can see for rewriting code. 3rd being if the codebase is just legacy and needs to be updated.

There's nothing wrong with an experienced dev improving code structure (at the expense of working on more tickets) but it needs at least an engineering or business justification generally.
It is so wild that your country is beholden to either one of two private organisations. What if one of them (e.g. the Republican party) goes totally off the rails? There is basically no mechanism to wholesale replace them because the inertia is too great.
the groundworks, at least partially, happen as you typed this: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01627-2
I find the classic take that Tom Bombadil was intended by Tolkien to be god persuasive. But he is definitely creepy
To double reply

You said, "I have a reason to believe that it is a company wanting something beyond what many or most of the users would prefer."

You have not articulated any reason. Just an unsupported conclusion, and then quickly switched to saying that preferences could be ignored. (which clearly your preference is ignored), while then trying to throw a bomb saying that the very real (and documented!) benefits that telemetry provides to all users, aren't actually some distraction.

State the nefarious secret reason you believe Mozilla has rather bland anonymous data, and what threat that identifying a CPU and operating system provides.

And for the record, my quip about Mozilla not being a company, was a facetious remark about how poorly managed Mozilla is, and the fact that was originally a nonprofit, but now has this a very unusual architecture of being for-profit corporation that is wholly owned by a nonprofit foundation, due to US tax laws dictating that a minimum percentage of the revenue must come from donation, and the search deals were way out stripping that, and B-corps didn't exist when it was founded.
Zulip is pretty good for this.

By default, you have a linear, IM-like UX, but it is trivial to fork conversations on specific topics.
Sorry, lame joke. Peter Jackson cut Tom Bombadil from the movies, and it was a meme 20 years ago.
Thanks for the comment and the tool :)
Sounds indeed more in line with what Tolkien said, although everyone can create their own version of the story of course.

Tolkien:
"But Tom Bombadil is just as he is. Just an odd ‘fact’ of that world. He won’t be explained, because as long as you are (as in this tale you are meant to be) concentrated on the Ring, he is inexplicable. But he’s there – a reminder of the truth (as I see it) that the world is so large and manifold that if you take one facet and fix your mind and heart on it, there is always something that does not come in to that story/argument/approach, and seems to belong to a larger story. But of course in another way, not that of pure story-making, Bombadil is a deliberate contrast to the Elves who are artists. But B. does not want to make, alter, devise, or control anything: just to observe and take joy in the contemplating the things that are not himself. The spirit of the [deleted: world > this earth] made aware of itself. He is more like science (utterly free from technological blemish) and history than art. He represents the complete fearlessness of that spirit when we can catch a little of it. But I do suggest that it is possible to fear (as I do) that the making artistic sub-creative spirit (of Men and Elves) is actually more potent, and can ‘fall’, and that it could in the eventual triumph of its own evil destroy the whole earth, and Bombadil and all."

http://www.hammondandscull.com/addenda/bombadil.html
And it's back!

edit: It's not back.
Their procedure is subjective, but there is still a standardized measure of convenience, no?

Just like there is an "official kilogram". We can say, "That's an objective measurement of weight on Earth" but it's not. It's the measurement of the standard kilogram in France. And that "objective" measure can change [1]. It doesn't mean there isn't a consensus on what a kilogram is.

Yellen was on Meet the Press last week explaining there is a difference between the "official" measure of a recession and the "two quarters of negative growth" heuristic. That's not to say that politicians can't, or won't, play wordsmith games.

[1]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070921110735.h...
The news media is not nearly as objective as they claim to be. And, they exercise a considerable amount of discretion when it comes to either amplifying a potential controversy or downplaying it.
Are you using a calibrated monitor and if so what color temperature and brightness did you calibrate to ? I can imagine if you calibrate to a colder color temp, which is more blueish, it might appear grey, or if you calibrated to a higher brightness it might also look more washed out.

I have mine calibrated to 6500k and 120cd/m2 and it looks very purple to me.
I know Maine at least uses Ranked Choice Voting.
Erin Brokovich's case against PG&E & Hinkley(2), or Jan Schlittchmanns case vs WR Grace and Beatrice Foods

Are these exceptions? I wonder how many individuals (without money) have taken on mega corporations only to have their lives destroyed by the mega corps (legally)?

I am just speculating here, but my guess is that everyone knows about cases like Brokovich vs PG&E because the little guy won and because of the size of the settlement (and the movie helps too). For every case that small guys win, there must be many many more cases that they lose, even though they are on the right?
It’s fixed! There was an issue handling request from international clients.
Folding@home answers a related but different question. While AlphaFold returns the picture of a folded protein in its most energetically stable conformation, Folding@home returns a video of the protein undergoing folding, traversing its energy landscape.
The middle class is a myth. If you need your income or assets to survive and can't use it to feast on your neighbors during a crisis with the other vultures then you're a peon like the rest of us.

Just because you have to sell the jet ski and the SUV and might have to sell both houses because you over-leveraged trying to leech off of the rest of the working class doesn't mean you're being hurt more than the single mothers with two minimum wage jobs that are now homeless.
One of the best metal adhesives is cyanoacrylate, believe it or not. I'm not sure how well it would hold up against heat, especially the higher heat of an oil cooled engine, but it is in general a very strong adhesive for metals.
You're not wrong:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32263901
In the USA, "officially" a group of 8 economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research decides when a recession starts. I suspect other countries have their own definitions.

"The NBER's definition emphasizes that a recession involves a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months. In our interpretation of this definition, we treat the three criteria—depth, diffusion, and duration—as somewhat interchangeable. That is, while each criterion needs to be met individually to some degree, extreme conditions revealed by one criterion may partially offset weaker indications from another. For example, in the case of the February 2020 peak in economic activity, the committee concluded that the subsequent drop in activity had been so great and so widely diffused throughout the economy that, even if it proved to be quite brief, the downturn should be classified as a recession." [1]

Planet Money (podcast on NPR) did an episode [2] a little while ago about it that I recommend listening to. They talk with one of the 8 economists. It was honestly refreshing hearing the economist talk about it, I got the impression that it was a more neutral take on the circumstances rather than pushing a narrative.

[1] https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating

[2] https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1107581150/recession-referees
whois for trafficmanager.net seems to suggest it is MS (https://who.is/whois/trafficmanager.net).

Registrant Contact Information:

Organization : Microsoft Corporation

Address : One Microsoft Way,

City : Redmond

State / Province : WA
There's someone else down thread here who says that they've had the call/email greyed out on their Stripe account as well.

>Stripe somehow has some logic that disables it specifically for that person

I'm not sure why you wrote this as if it'd be a grand technical challenge to implement. Locking-out specific features based on X criteria is pretty damn common.

I don't particularly care in any case, I just had the impression that you might of missed that specific line when you wrote your original comment regarding the short wait times you've had when calling support.

Edit: Seems like you saw the other post as well.

>But from my own experience, that is wrong.

Well, from my vantage point I see 2 people claiming it gets greyed out and 1 person (you) claiming it doesn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Autonomous trucks are just some minor differences from Autonomous cars. No auto manufacture dares risk someone else come out with an autonomous car that is enough safer than human drivers that governments mandate it. This is mostly about all the patents needed to make it work that the first mover will get. As such all car companies are investing in this to ensure if someone makes it works they will have it too, or at least enough useful patents that they can get a good licensing deal.

I think Tesla is the only company attempting this alone, all the other car manufactures are just in some form of partnership with others. These partnerships are known to include the big truck manufactures. I suppose there are a few car companies not investing in this (either tiny, or not selling cars in western countries).
I probably just lack the necessary imagination - I do not see the metaverse as anything more than an open world Wii-styled sim city that will be immediately plagued by annoying ads.
> there was been no efficacy nor safety studies conducted with the exact Bonjesta formulation

Would you expect this? Not every drug on the market goes through safety and efficacy tests of their exact formulation do they? The point of safety and efficacy testing is to establish that it’s safe and effective, and this can be done in general for a drug, and then múltiple different formularios might enter the market.

You don’t redo crash tests of cars because you change the interior lining.
What if the person you are asking is an immigrant themselves? Would that answer make them reverse-Schrodinger's immigrant? Just trying to improve my Harry Potter game here...
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seems like it comes and goes
Do you have evidence she was lying versus being wrong? A number of notable economists thought inflation was transitory. It’s hard to predict things like the effect the war in Ukraine would have and the effect the shipping industry doing its thing would have.
This was my reaction - I clicked for PBR and was surprised to find the much more interesting lede buried
Also remember another person who took on a large, well-connected corporation, Karen Silkwood [0], and ultimately lost her life under suspicious circumstances.

[0] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood)
Perhaps the author?
Average age of cars in the UK is 8.4 years, it's growing, but slowly, the 13 years+ segment is about 1/5 of the total, so as long as 1 out of every 5 batteries makes it that far, we'll be fine, anything better than that is a plus. Plus we can start making the new batteries from the 20 year old dead batteries rather than mining fresh materials for them, if we can't find any other use for them.
Donziger did some bad things. That's mostly indisputable, although it's questionable how much control an American lawyer had over a team of Ecuadorians operating in Ecuador. But the sanctions carried out against him were an atrocious breach of ordinary legal procedures.

Just because someone's moral character isn't perfect doesn't mean their legal rights disappear. John Adams would be horrified.
One thing stripe still has going for it is that it has a great user experience, both for businesses and developers. PayPal can't say that
The applications and importance has been discussed, but let me explain why what we are doing right now does not work which will also emphasize the importance of this.

At this time, we create drugs, test them on animals, and see what the side effects and results actually are. We are very limited in our capabilities and basically throw mud at the wall and see what sticks. This would allow us to try potential drug candidates without so much randomness.
Move should have been the default…
If you can't scale customer support, you can't scale period.
I agree with your analysis.

Autonomy also dove-tails very well with the inevitable electrification (reduced maintenance, higher up time, higher capex lower opex, etc)

DO you have any opinions on etrucks-battery-swapping?
Acknowledgement is the first step to working on a solution
They clearly have a mix of D R and I.

Have you ever actually watched?

If you want cable news that isn’t complete D good R bad, or the reverse, CNBC is the way to go.
Yes, it is actually pretty good. In the morning, Joe tends to lean a bit right and Andrew leans a bit left.

Ever watch Fox Business? They talk politics all day long. I try to deal with it during commercial breaks but it can’t seem to stick to business.
I'd have to generate that file and commit it though.
If the government changes the definition I guess we're not right?
Or Stalin Style.
> Beside, color is all in your mind. Out of it, it's just electromagnetic waves

No it isn't. Our eyes are sensitive enough to detect differences in the wavelengths. Would you say AM/FM radio waves exist only in our mind? No, they have real world impacts, just like color does.
What podcast is that? I'm just reading the books for the first time.
It's fairly obvious there are political bias in american media and always has been. If your party is hostile to increasing federal government or regulatory capture you will be under a microscope and even sacrifice some credibility to attack you, otherwise you can bumble around, redefine common terms, deflect and mislead and have the entirety of relevant and 'trusted' media sources run cover for you indefinitely.
The hoops that they have to jump through to try and prove that it's not a recession basically prove that it is. "But this team of eight economists hasn't voted to say it's a recession!" Great, can they tell that to my bank account? It seems to show the opposite.
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> We both know no one opts in to stuff.

That should tell you something, then.

> (Fun fact: You can! It's all documented.), or articulate something beyond, "I just don't wanna, and I think my minority opinion should be imposed on everyone."

It's actually that I want Mozilla and the developers there to respect my fundamental human rights as a data subject. The idea that you think I should have to justify my rights to you is absurd.

I honestly don't think you understand the damage that your attitude and your comments are doing to Firefox. Why would anyone ever trust software written by someone with your attitude. It's abhorrent.

If the information at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid is correct, then it seems that this data collection may be unlawful for EU residents.

Even IP address, even if never stored, is too much telemetry to be collected without consent or other lawful basis, which doesn't seem to be present.

It's sad to see Mozilla throw away their reputation because of telemetry.
Qubes OS is cool, but the linux userspace as a whole doesn’t have a good solution to sandboxes with fine-grained permissions. On that front, Qubes OS is a radical “solution”, akin to using different devices for different things, which is good practice, but it is not as practical as the out-of-the box security of ios/android
What you're describing is named the "curb cut effect" [0].

> The curb cut effect is the phenomenon of disability-friendly features being used and appreciated by a larger group than the people they were designed for. For example, many hearing people use closed captioning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_cut_effect
I tried via 3 different routable IPv4s from different netblocks. I tried the same browser on 3 different physical computers and OS installs.

I get that "It works for me." for some of you with non-corporate browsers. But please understand "It doesn't work for me." and it's not because I have some weird antivirus or packet mangling or a bad IP. It's because Cloudflare's heuteristics are biased against browsers that implement some, but not the latest, JS features. That's cloudflare and dreamwidth's fault, not mine, and they are in the wrong.

Blocking is bad by default and they must justify and adapt, not the users.
> Johnson reportedly explained to authorities "he was told by the president" to warn "the government there was US aliens fighting with Chinese dragons."

US aliens? Native grown or naturalized?
There are other countries outside of those you've just mentioned. And committing comparatively less crimes against their own citizens while fucking up every other country they are in disagreement with is no excuse.
This comment is inciting violence and advocating for prosecution without due process. Would you like to be pulled from your home by a mob, because some internet trolls said you did something wrong? That is the world we will head toward with this mentality.
The original title is: chiark’s skip-skip-cross-up-grade

Since that isn't very informative, I tried to simplify the first sentence: Two weeks ago I upgraded chiark from Debian jessie i386 to bullseye amd64, after nearly 30 years running Debian i386. This went really quite well, in fact!

Realizing now the feet is going from i386 to amd64, rather than an old debian version upgrade.

Unfortunately I can't change the title.
I'm looking to develop a self-hosted, open source Node.js web app mainly to upgrade my resume (as well as to scratch an itch). I considered SQLite to be the perfect choice - the software will be mostly used locally in a single user setup, so that saves RAM and even if someone wanted to host it for many users it would still be able to handle a lot. Plus, the package will be so much more portable, with SQLite it can be distributed via npm install, rather than a Docker image. I initially wanted to use one of the "real" databases concerned that an interviewer may look down on it, but decided to scratch that idea and use the right tool for the job. Your comment makes me reconsider that choice. I think I will do SQLite anyway, because it's something I want to use myself and I also will be applying as a front-end, rather than full-stack.
Yes, you're right :-(