skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it sounds like you use call or email support as a last resort, which is how I use it too. I poke around on my own, look through the documentation, check out the website, etc.

Many, many, many people do not do that. Ask any retail business what the #1 and #2 calls are and the answer is always #1: "Are you open right now?" and #2: "What are your hours?". I suspect a big chunk of Stripe's email requests are similarly trivial - "where can I see my $whatever report", "can I take amex?", "how much will I pay for a $.95 transaction", etc. that a competent support person can answer in their sleep. Now if we're getting into complicated technical issues, I'm sure those should be taking more time.

I share your disdain for those "just say what your issue is", although the trick to that is usually to say "cancel" and get immediately transferred to someone who will be expected to keep your business.
Maybe a general user is okay for himself without command line.

But a good command line is essential for replicating more complicating tasks on more than one machine. I still remember when computer magazines printed a ton of screenshots on how to do certain things. A command line can be short, simple and much easier to replicate.
Using supply chain data to monitor zero deforestation commitments: Brazil (2020)
> Isn't the price of housing affecting poorer citizens?

Housing is so expensive that advertising couldn't put an appreciable dent in it. But I don't have any sort of moral objection to some company renting out apartments that are a bit cheaper but have advertisements. (And I would be opposed to outlawing them if they existed)

> I am pretty sure that people would give up on 99% ad-supported content on the web quite easilly if it had even a $0.01 price point, because it is simply not worth it for most people

I think you would see that as well, but mostly because of friction, not because of willingness how much value people get out of things.

> We went to the Moon in 8 years

This cost the US a quarter of a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. This was a massive investment. Almost everything has received far less investment than that; no need to posit a conspiracy!

If you think it is just a matter of implementation, I would love to see a link to a proposal you would endorse?

> I was not aware you can buy an ad on Hacker News

There's one in the front page right now: "UPchieve (EdTech Nonprofit, YC W21) is hiring senior engineers"

> Most of the content I choose to read...

I can believe this for you, though that you did not notice the ads here makes me wonder whether you might be missing tasteful ads elsewhere? But it's definitely not true for most people: a web without advertising funding is a web that the vast majority of people who currently use the web would enjoy much less.
>But we're not going to tell you if you did it right

This part is tough because in any system with cash involved they dont know.

But for the big chunk of us that effectively are digital currency, they might as well send their estimate, and give you the option to dispute it, correct it, or pay it (with the individual still retaining liability to correctly report) .
This happened to me with Tinder, when I begged them for 2 weeks before expiration to let me renew my grandfathered Platinum membership, since my card wasn't showing up. Their canned response kept saying the account will auto-renew, no matter how I worded "no it won't, because you don't seem to have my card on file, even though my card hasn't changed".

Then, when the account didn't auto-renew because they didn't have any card on file, their canned response switched to "create a new Platinum account" (with much worse benefits).

I requested that this be the same grandfathered type of Platinum account that I lost.

Their canned response was that I should create a new Platinum account.

I said okay, but I want the same benefits I lost.

Their canned response was that I should create a new Platinum account.

I created a new Platinum account. It had much worse benefits.

Approximately one week later, I was permanently banned from Tinder for violating community standards without explanation (after having been a nice member of the community for the past year on Platinum and continuing to be one).
> That's so American.

Except in Japan they install an app called Kodomamo onto kids phones to do this exact thing.
That's my point. I think my mistake was not defining what a good and bad driver means. I don't mean safe, cautious, polite - I simply mean competent in moving the car where you want it to go. Drivers in America and even more so in China are aggressive, but they also can control their cars better because they have to! No one will let them in, they have to force their way. If someone in my country of origin drives at the speed limit, everyone will overtake him, even if it's dangerous and if it's physically impossible they will beep at him. In the UK if someone is driving 40 in a 60 zone there will be a long line of cars behind him. It used to boil my blood first couple of years. Now I'm patient like the rest.
Tangential but funny: I fondly remember the Jerky Boys prank call of ClarisWorks tech support, where they said something like “they did a full, clean, custom install on me” when describing how they were allegedly abused by someone using ClarisWorks install media.
"let's pay bounties for laws deleted." That's still a target that can be abused for self-gain, so...no.

To be blunt, your whole polemic reads like a CATO fever dream, which is the opposite of what I was suggesting; ideological contrivance isn't a solve, and complexity at a nation our size and scope ain't gonna get reduced to a nice pamphlet of rules. It's the same reason you can't run a FAANG company the same way you run a 6 person A-round company.
I was one of the best posters on Hacker News until my real name account got banned. Now I'm 30 of the best posters on Hacker News.
Primarily a Windows user here (though not really by choice) and I guess I'll bite - what does it matter what people put on the Desktop? Are there any security implications of not keeping it tidy?

The rest of your points I fully agree with, but that one sticks out as weird to me.
> The definition of "recession" doesn't depend on what other things people think happen during a recession.

It absolutely does depend on the factors that NBER has always looked at to judge recessions, like employment.

> No one would be making this argument if it had happened while Trump was in office.

That's a nonfalsifiable statement that does nothing but show your own political bias.
Fairly different - for one, Retool isn't the system of record; they're not storing any of your data, more of a back-end agnostic UI layer.

The user is pretty different too, Airtable generally targets business users who may otherwise reach for a spreadsheet, whereas Retool is focused on developers who might otherwise reach for React Admin (or something).
You restated what I meant better than I stated it. Thank you.
Yes but when someone else causes your downtime it’s fun to sit around and snipe at them for fun.
I'd prefer the regular public voting and a secret non-binding vote. You'd get a lot of information out of the secret vote telling you what representatives really thought. Especially if it were a landslide in the secret ballot and down party lines in the public one. You can think of plenty of examples of past issues that would have gone that way.
“Somewhere in the middle of that is a DDoS attack I never even noticed.”
My main issue with services is that they’re degrading the general experience in favor of pushing them. The Music app is barely functional for listening to your own music files, and they make it very difficult to find broadcast radio streams, instead promoting “Apple Radio Stations”.

Setting up a new phone prompts you incessantly about Apple Wallet, iCloud, etc. and uses badges to make you think something is wrong until you begin the process for each (the badges go away if you cancel out of it).
If you are in a higher paid, tech skill role in a FAANG, the regular cutting of bottom 10% performers should be expected. These are (generally) high-prestige, high-pay, competitively-sought roles. This type of job at this type of company is not the 'no-cut' team, although in some very successful companies during a booming economic period, it can kind of become that way for a time. However, those heady times always end eventually.

If you highly value long-term employment stability, it would be better to look for a role in a state, government, educational (or similar) organization. It won't be nearly as highly-paid, upwardly-mobile or prestigious but you'll generally have a better chance of staying employed even if you remain in the 'middle of the pack' performance-wise.
My take is that so many sites are broken, maybe I shouldn't care either. The extra complexity of dealing with high availability is something that probably isn't worth it for my project. Spend more time on features instead.
Hopefully their opponent will use that against them on election year to prevent that
Constitutionally you are correct. However, the Federal Register is approximately 4 times larger than the US Code. That is four times more rules that are enforced like laws than actual laws passed by Congress. Additionally, agencies are under the Executive that is explicitly prohibited from making laws.

Congress in many respects has abdicated it lawmaking authority to the Executive by creating administrative agencies. Violating agency rules will not land you in a court with a jury of your peers as required by the Constitution either. You will end up in a court run by the accusing agency with a judge appointed by the agency. But hey, they aren't laws just rules with criminal and financial penalties for violating them.
The other side of FOMO is appearing as the US transitions to a shortage economy, like the former Soviet Union. It used to be that if something was popular, more of it would be made, and then the price would go down. Now, if something is popular, the seller is likely to restrict the supply to push the price and margins up. Buy now, while you still can.

Cars. Houses. AWS S3 space. Meta's VR headgear. Meat. Most of the toiletries and drugs CVS and Walgreens sell.
> It's a business for them and ease of use is the key.

I have no personal problem with ease of use or market success because of it. I do have a personal problem with the feeling that it looks people behave almost like they are being brainwashed to believe some very very bad behaviors are "ease of use".

> I don't believe however they just disregard the security issues,

As an example, AFAIK windows still hides extensions by default.
>we have achieved word definition stack overflow!

I prefer to think of it as the equivalent of an Excel circular reference.
> - most of them are required for most food

Most foods, or most traditional French cuisine? I've never even heard the term, despite cooking pretty decent food for decades.
If using the Sun as a lens is practical for us, it's likely to be practical for them. They can manage radio transmission, so it's a matter of time before they image Earth as well : relativity, rocket science and electronics is not far off from radio transmissions in term of knowledge.
It is about 5 years of a minimum wage in the Netherlands. Could spent it on a hiatus and work on a passion project.
>>GDP has long been criticized for being a poor metric for the economy.

> yes by MMT supporters that want to ignore the classic model of economics in favor of monetary manipulation for political purposes

It's been said that a cancer patient going through an expensive divorce is the best contributor to GDP.

You don't measure the health of a human by looking at their weight on a scale. When you go to the doctor for your annual checkup, they'll measure your BMI, blood pressure, body temperature, resting heart rate, and look at a few other indicators to get a very rough estimate of your overall health and how it compares to last year.

GDP is one indicator among many to measure the health of the economy. An important one, yes, but looking at GDP without also looking at employment figures, inflation data, the markets, etc. would be tremendously silly.
Much like Tom, the reader is out of that world, so the ring power doesn't extend... the reader can see the unseen (Frodo/Bilbo having the ring on) and so on.
You may be interested in the 02006 Ramallo bank robbery, in which an acquaintance of mine lost her life savings: https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-buenos-aires-bank-heist

Houses are worth a lot, but they are not worth a lot per kilogram. Consider a house consisting of four 4m×4m rooms and a floor, with 200-mm-thick floor and 3-m-tall walls made of 2.4g/cc concrete, plus a cheap sheet-metal roof. This house might cost US$100k, but its 144 m² of walls and 64 m² of floor contain 41.6 m³ of concrete. (We can disregard the weight of the roof as insignificant.) So it weighs 99.8 tonnes and only costs US$1.002/kg, 4.7 orders of magnitude less than gold. Different construction techniques can modify this somewhat but by less than an order of magnitude.

I think the lesson you should draw here is not "a large thing such as a house is impractical to steal in the conventional sense of just taking off with it" but rather "a thing worth only US$1/kg is impractical to steal in the conventional sense of just taking off with it, unless it floats". It's also unusual for people to steal pieces of a junk car chassis, for example, even though all the equipment you need is an angle grinder or a portable oxy rig.

If a thing is impractical for a thief to carry away, it is also impractical for the owner to carry it away themself, or to conceal their possession of it from thieves.
> People should learn some windows behaviors are not normal. Your computer shouldn't get slower over time, installing software from untrusted sources is not normal, an extension is part of the name of a file and it should not be hidden, using the computer as administrator should be reserved for administrator tasks only, your desktop area is not /tmp/, drivers belong to the kernel and devices should work as soon as they are plugged in, the command line is not a thing of the past...

Playing devil’s advocate, the Unix/Linux model of things doesn’t have to be “normal” either. Why should file extensions be a thing? Why shouldn’t people use their desktop as they please? Why put drivers in the kernel?
If we get autonomous hub-to-hub, what does that mean for companies serving the first/final mile?

Do they keep trucks longer since they do less mileage?

Do they start billing by the hour?

Does their schedule become less pre-booked and simply on-demand?
> Is it enforced? No. But technically, it's there.

In California we have the same law, and it is certainly enforced, usually at the behest of nosy neighbors who have nothing else to do.
> For my company, neither egress nor storage cost are the big issue. It’s the API call (PUT) cost.

> We are write heavy. Reads are probably 1% but need to be instant for a good UI and API experience.

It sounds like the recently released OVH High Performance Object Storage[1] might be a good fit.

It has better performance than S3[2], completely free API calls, and $0.015 / GB egress.

[1] https://corporate.ovhcloud.com/en/newsroom/news/high-perform...

[2] https://blog.ovhcloud.com/what-is-the-real-performance-of-th...
wow, nice!
Thank you for the kind words, and I hope you do approach it! My wife and I recently started cooking together all the time and it's become one of our favorite hobbies. Spending a couple hours building a meal as a team after work is great fun.

If you want a recommendation, I highly recommend Laura Vitale's YouTube channel. She helped us get brave enough to do it. I use her recipes all the time (take your pick - it'll be good. The recent "one pan orzo chicken" is already a staple around here), and her videos really show her making the meal. So when you're making it yourself, you really feel like you've seen everything before :)

good luck on your cooking journey!
From a harm reduction philosophy point of view it's honestly just best to have no flavoring whatsoever. All flavorings used are from food products which have been approved for oral use and not inhalation. We have no idea what these compounds are doing to the lungs or other tissues when bypassing first pass metabolism.

From my perspective it would be the least harmful to stick with just nicotine + PG/glycerol.
From the chilling reports I have read, sexual predators can do their entire work not needing to send or receive a single (nude) image.
Not gonna lie I'd watch his unhinged YouTube videos.
in-freaking-sane. Thanks, I feel very small now.
I wonder whether any stars 30 light years away have interesting objects behind them.
The variance in sales compensation is huge. The variance in engineering comp is compressed. At my previous firm, the sales base salary was $60k and the highest earner earned 12x that. The lowest earner earned $60k.
It's typically some affiliate-relationship that's conveniently structured to permit plausible deniability on the part of the ultimate recipient of the funds.
> Yes, and people like it

So? People like cocaine too.

> The algorithm does not shape people's preferences -- quite the opposite! It is an attempt to discover their preferences

Which preferences though? There might be a hundred different types of content that I hypothetically would find very engaging, but the system happens to pick one particular one of those somehow. Yes, it's subject to some constraint but there is still a lot of degree of freedom left over.
First of all they haven’t stopped looking for the next next big thing. At least I hope they haven’t.

More importantly, services, or really software, can be very exciting too, no less than hardware. Apple isn’t a hardware company, they’re a company that integrate hardware and software into packages that users desire. Services are just the extension of device’s software.
You say that, but upvote seems to have disappeared, re shadow banning thread.

This is why shadow banning is just stupid, deal with confrontation and ban properly or not at all - that is ignoring all of the other people it affects, I share an IP with 1000s of people, it could be them or it could be me, who knows because there is no feedback.

I do find it pretty funny that this needs to be explained to a HN audience, but then it's verging on a tech support forum with all the Facebook and Apple woe is me....

Interesting, it does intermittently appear, perhaps ad blocking is filtering it, also maybe js disabled might be related.
I have the first Mac Book Air (2008) driving an old scanner with outdated drivers. Another old (not as old) Air is my portable Logic recording station. The last Intel Air as my current laptop. My desktop is a 2013 Mac trashcan. They end up being used for a very long time doing something useful.
It's not "you have money we didn't know about", it's "you have an amount of money that requires explanation".

It's more like "we see a lot of smoke coming out of your house, satisfy us there isn't a fire or we're coming in with the hoses". Viewing that through the "innocent until proven guilty" lens is like trying to argue the fire crew have to stay outside until they see actual flames
Oh I love this complaint - so it's cool if we leave younger generation with massive national debt, unaffordable housing and a climate disaster, but how dare they make any demands on us? Ungrateful little shits, should be happy we didn't send them into the coalmines!
I don't think even this would work, unless, you know, we start exiling politicians to Mars or something like that, where they'd be completely out of touch with the society that they were in.

Sure one can (theoretically, this is just not going to fly in practice because those who are already in power won't let it happen) prohibit direct employment and other official forms of affiliation, but it would be hard to prohibit receiving gifts, talking with good friends, getting invitations and so on. Yes, you can list such things, and let judges review it, but humans are creative and there always will be loopholes.
After a bit of luck, I was enrolled into Tsinghua Universiy, the number 1 university in China.

I loved every seconds of it. I loved China, I came to like Chinese. The student life was incredible, every time I met people, they were trying to solve interesting problems. They had curious mind and spent their free time exploring some more.

Then I had to start research. And I quickly realized what I already knew. I love learning, I am pretty good at quickly grasping what is important (generally useful) in a specific domain. I like to draw analogies between unrelated concepts.

But I am not good/resilient to relentlessly attack a single problem from every possible angles.

So I dropped out.

I wish I could live in China now. But I am happy I am not doing research anymore.
You're assuming they worked within the bounds the city agreed with them. I encountered a filming location near me recently, and the crew absolutely tried to restrict my movements beyond what was legally permitted, and did so rudely - presumably to appear authoritative, so that I would simply obey them.
also concerning is the fact that there's an advertisement banner on the top of the article. (edit: i saw it the first time i clicked but not the second)
If you want something that leaves a little less to the imagination, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus_aureus_alpha_to... . It looks just like what it does: drill a giant hole in cell membranes.

Some proteins have 3D structures that look like abstract art only because we don't have an intuitive understanding of what shape and amino acids are necessary to convert chemical A to chemical B, which is the main purpose of many enzymes in the body. If you look at structural proteins or motor proteins, on the other hand, their function is clear from their shape.

There are a lot of other things you can do with the shape. If it has a pore, you can estimate the size and type of small molecule that could travel through it. You can estimate whether a binding site is accessible to the environment around it. You can determine if it forms a multimer or exists as a single unit. You can see if protein A and protein B have drastically different shapes given similar sequences, which might have implications for its druggability or understanding its function.
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> On the other hand, we just went through a once per lifetime pandemic and a once per lifetime consumer stimulus package

And—relatedly—a once-in-ever declaration of a recession of less than one quarter, because of how uniquely sharp the decline in output, employment, and all the recession-relevant measures was, even though it quickly reversed direction due to stimulus and other policy responses.

So it's kind of weird people today pretending that the 2-consecutive-doen-quarter thing has always been an ironclad definition of a recession.
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> In those lands I journeyed once, and many things wild and strange I knew. But I had forgotten Bombadil, if indeed this is still the same that walked the woods and hills long ago, and even then was older than the old. That was not then his name.

My takeaway from this was that Elrond wasn't sure if this was the same person - strongly speculated to be, and probably correct, but not someone Elrond had personally known or corresponded with. It felt like this was the first time he'd heard the name Tom Bombadil, and made an educated guess that it was probably old Ben-adar. Tom, meanwhile, had contact with Gildor at the very least.