skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this definitely used to be a thing until like... early 2010s. Back then I completely recall watching tracking for some items and they'd accept it and run it a couple hops and then... it'd just sit for 3 days or whatever. Fedex said it was gonna be 5 business days? Then don't expect to see it in less than 5 business days.

I've seen both Fedex and UPS do it, but in some places it seemed like one or the other.

I don't see it all that much anymore though. Definitely post-covid but tbh it's really been years since I've seen it. I can't tell how much of that is vs me moving away from a rural home (might be more likely to attempt "batching" deliveries in rural areas due to distance) vs an actual change in behavior here.

It may also be the shift to JIT logistics too - you have to have a big warehouse or something to hold them. Even if it's sitting in a trailer somewhere, you still have to have a big lot to hold them. These are costs that are probably not justified for the return of "lol make customers more amicable to pay more for better shipping", the conversion there is ~0% for the most part. The 5-day window is nice for the courier if they need it of course, holiday is madness in the mail business (and payments, retail, etc) from what I know, but if your throughput is significantly lower than your mail volume then you've got problems, so you need to be able to ship it through in 2-3 days on average anyway, and if you can do that... why pay for someplace to hold onto it when we can JIT it right onto a truck?

Today it seems like if your shipping drops off for a couple days it's usually lost. I had one package stop tracking and then bounce 100 miles in the wrong direction, another where it stopped tracking and then showed up with box damage, etc, but haven't seen it just hang out like the old days.

Amazon, too, will play games with shipping windows... on a thunderbolt hub, they set a delivery date like two weeks out, sold and shipped by amazon. Like a week later I see a ship notice, cool it'll be here soon right? Lol nope, shipped UPS Surepost, so they got their week out of it.
Getting on medication is one of the top 3 decisions I've made in my life. I had a serious crisis in 2018, and while I didn't attempt suicide, I really wanted to die and could feel it moving in that direction. I went to a psychiatrist recommended by my primary-care doc. He met with me a few times, recommended "The Happiness Trap" and a few techniques for distancing, but it wasn't helpful. He then recommended medication, and I was super-cynical, because the guy hadn't been helpful otherwise.

After another particularly awful day where I stayed home in bed, I decided to give the prescription he'd written me a shot. I felt it working by two weeks in. It was very noticeable. My mother passed away about two months after I started, and I often wonder how badly I would've handled that if I'd not been using this medication. My doc told me it works well for about 1/3 of the people who take it, works a little for another 1/3, and doesn't work at all for the remainder, who must then hop around to other drugs till they find one that sticks.

Lots of people are against medication, and I get that mindset. There's also evidence that comes out occasionally that says "SSRIs don't work" or something similar, and I don't really care -- there's no doubt in my mind that it's working _for me_. It's very night-and-day and I wish I'd had this from high school onward.
That's called a personal problem. It's not the responsibilty of a website owner to make his website constantly rot for the sake of strangers.
I should add that the Pirate Mirror FAQ continues, "If you just want to search the Z-Library for personal use, then just go to the Z-Library website."

Which I did and was amazed to find a polished, easily-searchable collection of 11 million books. Including one of my own.
I’ve always said about them: For mechanical engineers, by software engineers.
> How can [X] if [false premise]?

By the principle of explosion[0, eg].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
> Obama ran on ending wars in Iraq and afghanistan

He mostly ran on ending Iraq, he called Afghanistan 'the good war'.

The reality is that these politicians could do far more but they just don't care enough about it.

For Trump for example the America First people in the administration were pushing that, but those people were kicked out and Trump in order to get along with the party just let them do their thing in Afganistan.

Obama was the same, in order to get out of Iraq he authorized the surge in Afghanistan.

The 'deep state' you are talking about exists, but they are supported by lots of people in congress and lobbies and the president, whatever he ran on has to negotiate with those interests to get anything done.
Having no choice.

I had a kid to look after (who was also suffering) who had to get up, go to school (most days he was able to -- the ritual helped). I had pets to feed, dog needed walks. I couldn't just lie in bed and justifiably feel miserable for myself. Friends would drag me out, inviting me to things. Kid had events that required showing up.

And slowly, and eventually, I recovered to some degree.

Without an external forcing function though I don't really understand how ppl in such situations don't just fade away. I have noticed some people replace grief with anger. I wonder if that's really better; I'd imagine it would be even more corrosive.

In one of his novels (SiaSL?) Heinlein had a character follow a doctrine of "I'll get over this eventually, so why not now?" That is absurd.
Maybe this is why it reduced and stopped over the years. I'm not as knowledgeable in contemporary HTTPS and its capabilities, probably.

Because I'm pretty sure that happened.
Which app do you use to record runs on Apple watch? I've found Strava's own little app to be much more accurate than Apple's workout app.
Except that being farther along the tech tree doesn't imply greater intelligence any more than possessing a car implies greater intelligence than an ancient Roman.
The historic Roman year (the one _before_ the one that Caesar replaced) had 10 months, which is probably where that comes from.
You can, see https://superuser.com/questions/1080059/word-displays-a-line...
Exactly. I couldn't have put it better myself, thanks.

They're techniques after all, models, tools.
The author argues that AI algorithms don’t have desires, yet this is precisely what reinforcement learning simulates.

With reinforcement learning positive rewards are assigned for positive outcomes (a “carrot”) and negative rewards are assigned for negative outcomes (a “stick”).

The model is trained to maximize the expected rewards per decision. I’d say this is fairly analogous to desire.

I’ve written an introduction to reinforcement learning here: https://improve.ai/reinforcement-learning/
> You should read Tobi's post about what happened. That's not how it was.

I did read that back when it was posted. I hope you recognize PR when you see it?

Sorry if it came across like I was saying that companies are being evil or bad or vain about how they're hiring. Quite the opposite, and more dangerously, I think companies see nothing wrong with the boom-then-bust approach to hiring, and that it's going to happen more.

And so my point here is that employees need to re-think how they look at job security in high-growth companies, and assume that they might be getting hired as part of a "bet" and not as part of a long-term strategy where the company has allocated the money to keep you around, like a lot of people assume when they take a full-time job (vs. a contract).

Plenty of larger tech companies that did layoffs, Shopify included, were never in any real financial trouble. They just made bets that didn't pay off, and so they corrected and moved on.
I haven’t. I have a Brother laser printer that’s probably 10 years old now, if not closer to 15. I don’t use it frequently, but it comes in handy occasionally. My wife prints a little more than I do. Toner is cheap and lasts forever. I think I’ve been through 4-5 toner carts and 1 drum replacement.

If it died, I’d get another. As infrequently as I use one, when you need it it’s nice to have.
Farnell is my nearest equivalent (in Ireland). Same "why doesn't everyone ship like this" experience, but more electrical than mechanical.

I'm in the same boat as far as looking for a MMC equivalent (they refuse to ship here at all)
Annndd.. A/B testing was in the 2nd paragraph. No surprise.
> imagine Java code heavy with streams or reflection

I can see Reflection as problematic, but what's wrong with streams?
All in good fun, I didn't feel attacked :)
C++20 is hard, but Peter Kasting's presentation is really easy to understand. I learned a lot.

Also, I don't understand why there are so many negative views on C++. C++ is a beast, but somehow you can control it, and C++ is too popular and still in use to be replaced by anything else in the near future.
> It'd require something like regulations reeling in the whole short-term rental business, or something else killing tourism.

Why does solving this problem require killing or reeling things in? Why not make it easier to build cool hotels? I went to some city council meeting where building a hotel was discussed, and it all seemed very difficult to get a return on new construction at a reasonable price.
The tube is pretty bad. Many lines have grime floating in the air that deposits on skin & clothing and turns your snot black. Often a very long walk pavement to platform. Frequent delays from suicide attempts because its old so no track doors and the designs of stations are depressing. Overworked and underpaid staff.
Are there any open standards that Microsoft is still going to support to receive emails, or will you be required to use only their proprietary clients to do so going forward?
> What's wrong with adding a simple challenge-response protocol for FIDO2/U2F USB drives? Or a TOTP popup if you don't have a physical security key?

Infrastructure to handle authentication on the web already exists. This is a massive benefit for providers and client developers. Whatever you propose does not. Good luck convincing big email providers to agree on a new standard like that.

GitHub alone has like 5 different ways to handle 2FA. Google has, I think, 3? Using a browser to handle this simplifies things a lot.

b) While it's not fixed by Oauth it greatly limits what can happen:

— First, you only need to store a refresh token that can expire and that expiration can be controlled by administrator

— Second, that token has limited scope: password provides access to entire account

— Third, it's clear where it came from — if token gets compromised, you will know where it happened. With password, it's unclear.
The exact opposite is true.

Iran gets the short end of the stick in the media. Just look at how the nuclear treaty was covered. Its was tragic.

Or how Iran involvement in Syrian civil war and ISIS war got covered. Depending on US media you would think ISIS and Iran worked together when in effect Iran was fighting ISIS when the US was still mostly ignoring it or was broadly supportive of the trends they represented.
> The overall connection will drop to "mixed status", but the inner frame will still be HTTPS.

That is not possible. You would get a cert mismatch error.

Consider what your browser does when you navigate to the page: it directly opens a TLS connection to port 443. There's nothing your ISP can do to force the browser to request the page using a non-TLS connection.

What might have happened, is that you might have carelessly typed the address in your URL bar without the "https://" prefix, as in "www.example.com"; for legacy historical reasons, most browsers (except IIRC some very old browsers from the dialup era, which always required an explicit URL scheme) treated that as if you had prefixed it with http:// (so it actually was the non-HTTPS "http://www.example.com" that you were using). Many sites would then redirect you to the HTTPS site, but your ISP could hijack the page before that redirect (since the redirect was not protected by HTTPS). Had you been careful to always prefix any address you type with "https://", there would be no initial non-HTTPS connection to hijack.
I thought it was just me that had the realization one morning. Glad to know I have company.
DigiKey eliminated everything except next day air for small packages some years ago because it was too expensive to have two different SKUs for shipping small orders in their system. B2B is weird.
Just hook it up via USB?
In a language like C++ returning status codes means that callers can and will ignore it, even when they shouldn't.
What were the equivalent white box vendors and did they ship with the same firmwares? Citation to read up in this?
There is an old Slavic word "vtorý" for "second" (not sure about spelling, but it is documented for example in old church Slavonic). Russian still uses "vtoroj" for "second". Several other Slavic languages have a word for Tuesday based on this root, even though their usual word for "second" follows a systematic derivation based on "dva" (two). Examples includes Czech and Slovak ("úterý" for Tuesday in both) and Polish ("wtorek").
I personally think that governments would be better at making decisions of what to farm and where to farm it than farmers. Farmers have a profit motive whereas governments can have other non-profit motives.
> If the bet had paid off…

There’s the rub. The parent’s suggestion was that, probably, the new hires weren’t told anything along the lines of “Hey, this is a crazy gamble and it might not work out. Sign here to play.”

Yes, it’s implied in “startups”. But companies as large as shopify aren’t generally hiring people from the startup scene anymore. People are (were?) leaving good, stable jobs to go there. Only they know what their expectations were.
Like danpalmer I can't stand the jetbrains tools I've used (PyCharm, IntelliJ). Just seems like a lot of clicking and inconsistent interface.

I use Xcode but do most of my code editing, building and debugging in Emacs; I have to use Xcode directly for all the UI plumbing. The best I can say is a weak, "not as bad as jetbrains"
Somwthing like a mix between word (layout/ ui) and jupyter notebook (for the infinite single page design with cells) might be an interesting project. Maybe as a libre- or openoffice fork.
In large companies, don't assume that there is a coherent and unified vision on hiring or growth.

Different managers/directors/VPs have their own portfolios, their own budgets, their own roadmaps and KPIs. This leads to duplication, inefficiencies, and more.. But tech companies make so much money that in most cases this is accepted as cost of doing business - up to a point.

Also in some places, if you don't hire for your headcount, it becomes harder to get it back later when you truly need it..

There is a ton of organizational dysfunction like that in very larger companies (thousands of employees or more), even in the "best" companies that HN likes to fawn over.
DoH is bad use DoT instead.
If they're selling out everywhere still, after years, I guess it makes sense to try especially with costs rising. Their subscription model is way less mature than Xbox's as well so they need to rely less on that to turn a profit.
For me, a printer is vital when proofing checking important documents. Documents may read fine on the screen, but the moment you print them out all those nastily little errors become more apparent.
I totally disagree with the article. Our calendar is 1000s of years of technical debt. Surely they will understand things built on top of other things for centuries and centuries..
Not an agreed upon final answer, but a common not arbitrarily changing one - yes. You can easily see that in our history. Every time we have something slightly different in various cultures, we try to unify it and make it more consistent. Various units of measurement got pretty much unified when we needed to work together. Where we didn't, we got issues like losing the Mars orbiter because someone thought inches are still cute. We got time measurement unified and precisely defined, because we needed to synchronise time globally to enable precise GPS. Even on a cultural level, many countries went through some kind of unification/simplification of their language. (simplified Chinese, German orthography reform, Indonesian -> Malaysian, etc.) On a social level, we're so connected, that pointing at a random person today, I could guess they speak English, Spanish, or Chinese and not be wrong too often.

So yeah, once a society gets to travel to other life forms in the universe, you could expect their measurement of time is simplified and plain. Not that they don't understand the historical context of not having it that way though... but that would be far in the past. And it's funny to think of them going "oh, one of those again...", or even "ok, I've seen some weird stuff, but the mixed units on Earth are just disgusting". Probably the same reaction you'd get if you saw a programmer today copying the whole source to another folder with suffix "..._working_8". "oh $deity, I see why you're doing this, but please stop, this hurts my brain, I'll show you version control".
Right! Rock Auto might be my favorite e-commerce site.
This couldn't be further from the truth. DoT is easy to block, so anyone who wants to censor or surveil you will just do so. You should always use DoH instead, since it's way more resistant to blocking.
When I realised the same office supply place I bought print supplies from could simply do the prints. Or I could use the library, university, or work printers. It ended up being quicker and cheaper to outsource, plus I don't have another machine taking up valuable desk space.
Whew! That's good to hear. Yes, all fun. :)
One approach is to post an old, valuable thread (from Reddit or elsewhere) to HN, where annotated/appended conversation can continue indefinitely, especially if it reaches the HN front page for a one-time infusion of new readers and commenters.

What we need are search engines to offer an opt-in view or keyword which prioritizes this genre of valuable older evergrowing content. Perhaps Brave Goggles can be adapted to this purpose, using HN reposts and other signals of longevity.
I think this is not only wrong but exactly backwards. Airbnb was sucking supply out of the market because it made sense with cheap capital. It was essentially a capital capicator in real estate form.

Well now we head into a recession, airbnb demand falls, there is no cheap refi option, potentially concurrently with layoffs, so some people are going to be forced to dump airbnb inventory into a market with zero demand which os going to start creating supply bubbles.

I think these areas are most at risk in the bad recession scenario
You're absolutely right, and it's worth thinking this through even before you take a job, if you have that luxury.
I think the problem is using better quality materials doesn't really show up or become apparent unless you are already breaking kingpins all the time. It would take a significant marketing budget to convince people to spend 50% more on your trucks for small gains in material strength/quality, and that marketing will quickly wipe out the advantage of potentially higher sales. Will people see it as worth it when the majority of people aren't breaking them often enough in the first place to be concerned with it?
I was going to make a similar comment. The .22 pistol is a very traditional weapon for killing someone with a minimum of noise.

While people have the impression that it is for small game, a surprising number of people are in fact murdered with .22. It is effective in the hands of someone that knows how to use it.
I would say "the irrelevant case.."

Where Rust excels is in safety when using concurrency. Most web apps and APIs have a single thread used per request. I've also used async/futures that work fine without ownership modelling.

As for performance switching from Ruby/Python to Java/C#/Go will pay off not so much to then go to Rust unless it's a particularly high throughput or latency zensitive app in which case you'd already know it matters.
That’s possible and I k ow the watch will do this. I run with both my phone and Apple Watch. For long runs 20-26 miles, I use the phone for music to my AirPods. I run slow enough for the watch battery to be drained after a marathon of I try to have my watch do it all.

I’ve had a few instances where the running track gets all wonky when I go through something like a long underpass tunnel. It’s long enough to miss a GPS signal for many minutes. Instead, it guesses where I am based on distance to cell towers (I think). Or at least, that’s what the running trace seemed like to me. Everytime I went under a tunnel, I found out later that I ran a 3 minute mile — on miles 16, 20, and 22 (that’s not possible).

Now I just disable Bluetooth on my watch entirely while doing long runs. I’ve found the watch by itself to be more accurate, in general.
I don't miss not having featured items, fake reviews, and suggestions
When my wife started working at a library 10 years ago. Now on the rare occasion I need one, I can just send the documents to their system for remote print, which gets billed to my library account, and she brings it home. I suspect many libraries have similar setups, except for the convenient door-to-door service part.
Augustus' first name was Octavius... now August is the eighth month, full circle.
And if you're using TLS ECH, then they wouldn't even know the host name.
I based that on [1] which says in "2021-22 Q2" nationwide, 3.4% cancellations of trains were cancelled, 74.3% were within 1 minute of their scheduled arrival time, 90% were within 3 minutes and 98.9% were within 15 minutes.

Which is obviously far from perfect - but good enough that a holidaymaker visiting the UK has a good chance of not encountering any severely delayed trains.

[1] https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/popular-statistics/how-many-tr...
I have vastly reduced the amount of printing I do. I do almost all of my reading on a tablet, for example. However, I do find that I'm more efficient at proofreading when I print out a draft, because I can write directly on it (and yes, I have an iPad Pro and a Thinkpad X1 Yoga, both with styli), attach PostIts, and the like.

I recently bought a high-yield toner cartridge for my laser printer, and hope to live long enough to need another.
I love their visuals / filters of the products. A lot of times I don’t know what a part is called on go on there to browse
MSC is sooooooo expensive for tooling though. Or pretty much anything. Unless you're a business who cut a deal with them so you don't pay list price.

I also can't find anything on their website, what a terrible search and catalog functionality they have. Like the opposite of Mcmaster.
The shocker is it has existed in this form for nearly 20 years
Two things have happened in the past.

Scenario a:

1. Navigate to https://www.example.com

2. Arrive at https://www.completelyunrelated-adsite.com while your address bar reads https://www.example.com

They used to do this regardless of your DNS. They directly hijacked that stream/connection.

Scenario b:

1. Navigate to https://www.example.com

2. Get https://www.example.com with an ad-banner on top.

They happened rarely, and never survived a reload or further navigation. They completely stopped after a while.

I have a 4G modem from my mobile carrier. They inject a info popup when I receive an SMS or any other notification' if they can manage it. It's very rare now, too.