skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By saying it can be interpreted correctly or incorrectly and you’re on … the side… of those who interpret it correctly is another violation of your simple philosophy.

You are one of seven billion in an aimless universe with no higher purpose. Your preferred political philosophy is not a universal constant everyone values. Continuing to lean on it does not make your perspective more valid. It just proves changing one’s mind in the face of pushback and new evidence is harder than you cavalierly put it.
As mentioned at the end of the article, the dictionary is available online [1] (at the Internet Archive):

A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue

by Grose, Francis

[1] https://archive.org/details/b2876190x
Yes, this happened in the thread, after other people suggested it when he asked for help connecting with a human. So if the purpose of your comment is to support the idea that, many people who say "Ugh, I cannot reach a real human" have in fact spoken to several humans, repeatedly and at length, then you do not have enough information to support that here.

The statement that he never talked to a human could be true at the point in time when he first made the claim in his reddit post.
I really like EdgeDB so far. Only played around with it for side projects up to this point but with 2.0 and the introduction of Object Level Security I will definiteyl use it in production.

The EdgeQL is the first graph-based query language that is more intuitive to me than plain SQL and the local dev experience has been far smoother than pretty much any other db I’ve used to date. Really excited to see this project mature.
We had an expert one on TV answering questions, and one of the questions was the one I was burning to ask: "how do you know there are X infections per day"?

To what he answers "because we get data from pharmacies, doctors, etc. about cases"

- so how do you know that this is a total number? It is just the number of positive tests?

- yes, so we know the ratio and therefore can tell for the whole population

- so the number you provide is an estimate?

- no, the number of cases

(some time passed and then another question)

- when you extrapolate (they used a more human-friendly term), how do you know that the ones who come for tests are representative of the whole population

- ...

While I must say that our government reacted to the pandemic almost very well (except that they lied at the beginning), some of the experts they put ahead were ridiculous.
For most businesses a little down time here and there is a calculated risk versus more complex infrastructure. You can’t assume all the cloud architects are idiots — they have to report their task list and cost of infrastructure to someone who can give feedback on various options based on comparative resource requirements and risks.

Zone downtime still falls under an AWS SLA so you know about how much downtime to accept and for a lot of businesses that downtime is acceptable.
how did I miss this existed, and now I have to re-watch the entire show again
The algorithms seek to maximize engagement. And it turns out that rage is one really good way to maximize engagement. After being on twitter for a bit over 14 years I deleted my account in May when I realized this is what the algorithms were doing. I'm still detoxing from twitter, but I feel like quitting has been very beneficial for my mental health.

> Even without the algorithm, though, I also believe that humans just aren't evolved to have some kinds of discussions asynchronously, remotely behind a screen.... But if we had been discussing it face-to-face, I'm sure we would both have been more respectful of the other person's viewpoint, or at least would have agreed to disagree and move on.

Yes, this. But what I fear is that heavy use of social media is causing our face-to-face interactions to change for the worse as well. People seem to be getting less respectful in face-to-face interactions as social media led the way towards making it easy to dehumanize the other.
This is why safe deposit boxes are not safe. Not only can they be easily searched by law enforcement, but they occasionally get robbed, cleared out, misplaced, etc. Why would you trust the bank to keep anything safe? look at the history of bank runs all around the world. Don't keep more than a few thousand dollars at the bank, imho.
I can't tell if you just mean because the newer screens are nicer, or if you didn't know the PS2 had a VR headset
You had to pause for a moment after the third +.
I am told it comes as quite a shock to the unititiated. I usually don't think twice about the giant billboards of bible verses and sermon snippets as I drive to work (Northeast US) but when do notice them I am struck by a small pang of dystopian dread.
It's not lacking in integrity to point out your opponent's criticism is no longer valid, even if - especially when - that criticism was made in bad faith.
>The “abstinence only” approach is proven to wholly ineffective.

This isn't sex. There isn't a biological imperative to vape. Abstinence absolutely works with some things. Abstaining from ever trying heroin, for example, is a great way to never become a heroin addict.
>I really do think a lot of recipes are unnecessarily onerous in some way

Cooking is different things for different people. I feel like tech people see it as nothing but sustenance (yay Soylent!), so the idea is for it to be quick, cheap and easy.

For other people it's a hobby and they actually enjoy the process. Grinding your own grain or peeling grapes can increase the food quality, and it takes nothing but time, so why not? Same goes for buying better ingredients. We probably all waste a lot of money on things that aren't necessary, but we enjoy.
When you make a hedge bet you don't go all in. They are still making normal cigarettes, and last I heard expanding their tobacco productions to take advantage of emerging international markets.
Some people care about it but not enough to justify the added downsides - multi-data center is expensive (you pay per data center) and it’s complex (data sharding/duplication/sync).

If you’re Amazon where every second is millions of $ in transactions you care more than StartUp that has 1 request per minute. Even if you accept the risk, you still care when your DC goes down.

Also, a large chunk of AWS is managed from a single data center so if that one goes down you may still have issues with your service in another data center.
Thank you, we'll keep pushing! :)
Not looked into it too closely yet, but for us it looks like there were also issues connecting between the two remaining AZ in our 3 node cluster.
This is not my practice area but I’d guess tracking down the responsible party is a giant pain in the ass even in the best case scenario and nearly impossible in the worst.
Can you tell me even one possibility for how Apple will profit off of letting parents choose to not allow children to send or receive nude photos? Besides for increasing the chances parents choose Apple devices for their kids, which is really something you could say about any feature.
Unless Patio's email address appears in the customer support section of the website, how responsive he is is immaterial. He's posting on HN, not in their ticket management software.

It is not really different from Elon Musk responding to a tweet about Tesla service, but not actually lifting a finger to escalate the ticket.
That was a very clear explanation, thank you!
We'll see when a fourth amendment case comes across their docket how true they are to the constitution and limiting government. I'm not holding my breath.
> It's not obvious to me that a system that raises the experience for mean, or even the bottom end, of the distribution would be a good thing for me in many respects

Ah—I usually assume the Rawlsian "Veil of Ignorance" POV when it comes public policy issues, personally, as I think is fairly common. Sure, if that's your perspective, literally nothing matters except how a policy affects you, personally, right now, so my analysis may not hold—but that's not an especially useful perspective from which to consider public policy when discussing it with strangers, and I'm not really sure why you'd even engage on this in public if the only thing you care about is whether a policy is good for you, right this second (circumstances are subject to change, after all)

At least you're up-front about it, rather than hiding it. I don't mind that when it's made explicit—I just also, again, don't get why you'd engage, and wonder whether you might have guessed in advance the sort of more-typical POV I was taking, so really could have understood what I meant by "good effect" without my needing to explain it. What were you trying to accomplish here?
Drug-sniffing dogs are set off by their handlers.

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/563889510/preventing-police-b...

> some cops jokingly refer to the dogs as "probable cause on four legs.

> And there are powerful incentives not to change how things are done, says Andy Falco, a former police K9 handler who now trains dogs and works as an expert witness for defense attorneys.

> "All [police departments] care about is how many cars you're pulling over, how much money is being seized because your dog alerted," he says, referring to departments that use civil asset forfeiture to keep money and other property found in cars after a K9 alerts to the scent of drugs.

> "They go, 'It's easy! All I gotta do is walk my dog around, and look for him to change his behavior slightly, and then we can go inside and sometimes we'll find a million dollars and then we can seize it!'"

> "There's been cars that my dog's hit on... and just because there wasn't a product in it, doesn't mean the dog can't smell it," says Gunnar Fulmer, a K9 officer
> I’m a litigator. The system is defined. The law is defined. I just operate within it.

I don't agree with the parent commenter, but I find this view to be widely held among lawyers, and I find it distasteful.

A good way to respond to the question: why should banks be subject to this risk? Because ultimately leaks like the one described shouldn't happen, the people affected by them should be swiftly made whole, and it's not hard to see that banks are in a better position to ensure this happens than the individuals themselves.

Just because from the consumer's perspective the bank "covered" the losses, there's no reason the bank should be understood to be forced to just eat those costs. If a company like crypto.com is ultimately liable, then the bank can more effectively pursue action, whether there was 1 person affected or if N of their customers suffered losses. In the event that there were multiple customers affected, those losses can be consolidated, and the bank can pursue the ultimately liable party to recover the costs that the bank had to (temporarily) foot the bill for. They're frickin' banks.
Yes, but also it means they don't want the tourists to feed the "blue" markets.

Yes, Argentine exports (mostly direct farm products like soy and corn now rather than beef) are made artificially more expensive by the perverse dollar policy. Also, on top of the 59% haircut from the fraudulent exchange rate, there's a 33% "retención" applied to agricultural products, so the farmers only get 21% of the international price of the exported grain. The fraudulent exchange rate also subsidizes (legal) imports, making it impossible for most Argentine industry to compete even in the domestic market with overseas imports.
There is a "view photo" button under the blocked photo. I assume it will take any phone user much less than two hours to find a way around the filter.
Our political parties are failing us so badly, I wouldn't be surprised if the guillotine came back into fashion over the next decade.

I hope congress can get its act together and serve its constituents better before it comes to that, but it feels naive.
> I am saying it is stupid to wait until after someone has killed your child to defend that child, especially when that person intentionally waits for people to be home.

But if you just preemptively murder anyone you want, you'll never know whether they were going to kill your child or not, and you'll think you're always right.
Yeah, you’ll get the bank account of some other person who has been scammed into a “no experience necessary work-from-home job” transferring money
This is a really neat idea. The most important issue was probably the shipping cost which you seem to have solved with a flat rate.

One issue I think you might run into and might want to think about, is what happens when a customer needs to cancel a shipment or make a change of address?

It might be worth it to figure out a system of notifications with easy routing for customers to engage customer support with the carriers.

Im also curious as to what carriers you are supporting? Is it carrier agnostic, so to speak? It sounds like it could be abstracted away from the carriers altogether through an API that merchants would connect to?

FYI, I work for a UPS on internal applications, but while going through school worked in operations so I have a pretty broad spectrum and understanding of package movement.
You'd be venturing into the realm of psychology for that, but I would argue that short-term engagement != long-term desire. Think of gambling or gaming addictions- nobody's "forcing" those people to engage in behavior against their best interest, but many would argue that they're not freely choosing to succumb to addiction either.
Will need to see the post-mortem, when us-east-1 had its last big outage multiple AZs were working, but cross AZ functionality (lambda, event bridge) were impacted... which made recovery problematic.
all amazon services seem so expensive, hundreds of dollars/ month bills easily for running a few large ec2 servers all month.
I'm up for any kind of experimentation, as I think one thing all the commentators in this thread can agree on, the current system is creaking at the seams.

How about more direct democracy? Representative democracy is a compromise for an era when the will of the people was practically too challenging to collect - something which has been solved in large part by social media. Perhaps the problems described by the author of the article is precisely the tension between a legacy system, made obsolete by new communication technology. If this is the case, we need to embrace more technology, not less and really lean into it. Maybe we could do a geo-fenced direct democracy for example?
My understanding is that you can now have TLS compatibility with all google products through https://pki.goog/

Tweet where I saw this: https://twitter.com/rmhrisk/status/1552357227301744640
Lately im doing Backblaze B2 + Bunny CDN and im very satisfied with the prices
> There are times when one side's concerns are nonsense

I envy your confidence. I also hope I never find myself under your authority.
That's why it is important to have some verifiable agreed upon definitions. "Two quarters of negative growth" is something that anybody can understand and validate. Too simplistic? OK, make it more complex formula, whatever - but make it a formula, and make it fixed, so people can be sure neither Rs nor Ds can game it (at least not easily).

Instead what we're getting is "holistic criteria" which means pundits can argue on TV for hours (which they probably love to) and everybody gets to keep their partisan views and there's no objective meaning to any terms anymore. No wonder people have low confidence in "experts" and grasp at whatever they find on the internet to find some clarity.
>Just because you feel that way doesn’t mean others do. Everyone parents differently.

The same applies to the parent poster I quoted, who was then told they must support sexual predators because of their different parenting.

They didn't tell you to how to feel or tell you how to parent. They stated how they feel and how they parent. You don't have to agree, but that doesn't mean they support sexual predators.

>This is an optional feature that you don’t have to turn on and is off by default.

Yes, that's been well established, and I don't think anyone in this comment chain has said otherwise.
Here's a good example of how the Fed language causes debate. From Paul Krugman:

> Well, we’ll have to wait and see. The good news is that policymakers appear willing to do just that. From my point of view, the most encouraging aspect of the Fed’s statement on Wednesday was the paragraph declaring that the committee setting monetary policy is prepared to be flexible, that it “will continue to monitor the implications of incoming information” and “would be prepared to adjust the stance of monetary policy as appropriate.” That’s a not-too-subtle rejection of demands from inflation hawks that the Fed commit itself now now now to a long period of extremely tight money.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/opinion/recession-inflati...

My reading of that language, on the other hand, is that its pretty tepid and just what would be expected, and that the Fed not actually coming out with the most hard-line language possible is not worth much. It still suggests that they'll stick to their guns until they see a considerable amount of change in the data. I'm drawn more to the single blunt sentences which are "The Committee is highly attentive to inflation risks" and "The Committee is strongly committed to returning inflation to its 2 percent objective" which are two pretty harsh statements that they terminated paragraphs with that I think signal their overriding concerns.

Given that I think that they'll wait until they see clear changes in the data, and given that I think that the foundations of the economy are vulnerable to shocks and I'm expecting at least a commercial real estate implosion to go off once everything gets "stress tested" by higher rates, I am not anywhere near as hopeful as Krugman.

The fact that people can get such wildly different takes out of the Fed language is a feature, not a bug.

I'm over here building a nuclear fallout shelter, Krugman is in la-la land thinking its all coming up roses, we're both reading the same announcement, yet nothing in the Fed announcement is wrong or false.
This is the one time I want the Slippery Slope Fallacy to be true because then the next step would be banning money in politics which would be fantastic!
Yeah, that.
> When billing is complex (lots of fees, different billing cycles, usage based consumption)

So does Lago have a template for all these use cases? What happens when a new unique case comes up? Is Lago flexible enough to handle all the cases? Current and future ones? How is that different than having a flexible template? What actually is the problem with that?
I suspect it might be an issue of "cheap enough". For smaller Projects, the s3 storage cost doesn't matter too much. Medium sized projects may find the tradeoff between price vs cost of a custom solution to still be more than good enough. Large enough projects simply chose a different, more specialized solution anyway
Same in the US. Nearly all of the junk we get originates overseas.
12 years ago, I was working on a contract for an aircraft spares supplier. One of the hard requirements: all sales invoices, purchase orders, quotations, invoices, and so on, had to be printed AND available as PDF.

The solution was to use JasperReports. The business could design their templates in a iReport Designer, test with dummy data, put the jrxml templates in a dedicated storage, and a simple http call would merge the real data with the template in a java service (200 lines of code) resulting in a PDF. That PDF would then get printed using ColdFusion cfprint (those huge multi-source laser printers with 10 different drawers). It was worth spending £800 for CF just for the cfprint stuff.

Hundreds of these were printed and generated every day.
This reads like a Markov chain trained on HN comments.
It looks like the most recent data point, S3 was actually cheaper than the raw storage, while providing 11 9's of durability, across multiple AZs. Still looks like a pretty good deal, as the price of storage has mostly flatlined in this graph.

Nor does this even account for cold storage, or reduced redundancy.
It's a game theory thing. If everyone stays single AZ, everyone goes down at the same time so nobody gets blamed. Somehow the blame falls on AWS instead!
What's the alternative? Randomly letting people go?
Because the corporations would no longer have a record that a politician actually voted in their favor. They would be donating to campaigns based on rhetoric alone. Therefor the representatives would have no incentive for voting anything but their conscience.

(Obviously disclosing your cryptographic vote receipt to a donor would be forbidden.)
I think the point was more about reducing the saliency of bribes/lobbying than the particular dollar amount.
As Retric points out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32258306, every transaction needs both a buyer and a seller to happen, so all of these things do affect most average consumers.
You can self host Lago for free under AGPLv3 licence. You have access to the entire billing service (UI, API and all related services). Feel free if you need a proper demo
Flutter is essentially just that. Its graphics are built on Skia Graphics Engine and the tooling is designed to cater for UI interaction needs instead of gaming needs.

Apple's own UI libraries use their graphics engines too(SpriteKit, SceneKit), unfortunately supported only on Apple platforms.
hackernews actually already supports rate-limiting people from posting to much. so it is possible to implement systems where individual voices don't get a chance to dominate. i think that would address this problem.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220728105345/reddit.com/r/tifu...
Either checks bounce, or some other office covers the shortage and the account is just overdrawn until paid back. There was a minor scandal about this in 1992.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_banking_scandal
I've had very similar ideas, and although I can't quite get the vision of how you're organizing the material since your last pivot, I want to throw in a few ideas (that you may be already doing.)

1) Cooking skills are physical acts of dexterity and timing that can be explained and modeled by text and videos, but not mastered. This is a good place for the use of spaced repetition; every time someone makes a recipe that uses that technique, ask them how they did (and give them the criteria e.g "was the sauce shiny?") Make practicing fading or weak skills, or taking advantage of mastered skills, a criteria for suggesting recipes to the user. i.e. "do you want an Easy, Challenging, or Difficult recipe?" and select based on their current skill level at the techniques involved (and the ingredients at hand.) Choosing Easy would be biased towards recipes utilizing techniques and ingredients that they have mastered, Challenging would be for techniques that they are learning, and Difficult would be for introducing new techniques.

2. Organize learning more around techniques than ingredients. Some techniques only apply to a single ingredient, but most apply to many ingredients. If techniques are verbs, ingredients are conjugations - many irregular, but most regular. Some ingredients require a higher level of a particular technique than others. Figure out what ingredients they like by asking what meals they like, and use those to help suggest future techniques to learn.

3. Many people want to become vegetarian, or vegan, or paleo/Mediterranean/whatever, but don't like the food yet. If a program like this suggests logical progressions to train the palate towards a user's goal, it could help them switch to these diets (clinically picky eaters, or people who have discovered they are pre-diabetic, diabetic, celiac, or that they have fatty liver disease, have a serious problem with this.)

This could be amenable to a machine learning recommendation approach if you ask what meals people enjoyed, you know the techniques they're good at, and you know their diet goals. You could say "buy avocados on your next shopping trip and you can try X, Y, or Z, which people who like what you like also seem to like."