skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, sometimes better sometimes not.

Btw, I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4o3E1Yjvp8 it's an Android TV

Someone in the comments on youtube says: "They actually do more than pay the bills with those buttons on the remote. I've heard that at least Netflix and Disney+ will outright not allow their apps to be pre-installed onto a TV if there is not a dedicated button for the app on the remote. So if Sony wants to include Netflix, Disney+, or other major streaming services on their internal OS, they usually have to include that button on their remote."

This screams like an anti-competitive practice.
Honestly I wish someone gave her ecstasy and maybe some speed to kick her out of her slump. Or maybe something more drastic, a heroin habit to give her a reason to wake up the next day after which she could rehab her way to regular life.
Neat, thank you so much!
The person prescribing the
antidepressant medications and the two psychiatrists evaluating and approving the euthanasia were different.
Assuming the thread gets enough upvotes to be noticed, anyway. That could mean posting at the right time of day, on the right day of the week, following another related story that helps drive more readers to check it out.

While it’s a fair point that with PayPal, you are almost entirely SOL, whereas with Stripe you at least have a chance, it’s not a tenable solution.
For sure it's also good to practice things aswell, it doesn't have to be only one or the other. My understanding and experience is that if you do 95% practice & 5% spaced repetition you will be significantly better over the long-term than doing 100% practice.
Yes, as a German I did expect something very different when reading the word "euthanasia".
And let me follow up by saying the problem with many of these offshoring firm arrangements is that the number of layers in between the person assigning tasks and person doing tasks.

Purposeful inefficiency is harder to sniff out because it’s not a manager-ic relationship. There’s often 2-3 hops inserted into the middle with the work going into a pool for the offshore team lead to manage. The offshore team lead is also consulting company so they have no efficiency incentives either.
I heard you like to travel...so I destroyed your home
I only have 2 suggestions for medium:

* when a non-subscriber click a premium link, don't show the whole content and let the user choose whether to spend the allowance on this article after seeing a snippet.

* Keep an eye on your javascript size. Right now it is grossly out of whack for what it does. It put people on slower network at a huge disadvantage.
For my current side project (see my posting history) I run a Go executable on a $5 Linode. I have other projects that have been running on similar Linode VPSes for more than 5 years.

Vultr is cheap but flaky. It's good for experiments.
as far as i can tell, the ccc does offer support for travel expenses and accommodation if needed
Good point, but I think it's a no. You can't dry a mango right? I guess a better question is if you can just freeze pawpaw.

An interesting little semi off-topic point, but dried figs somehow taste very differently than fresh figs. This was a shock to me. Fresh figs are close to peaches in a way.
IANAL, but the person terminated would probably have some pretty good arguments in a US based lawsuit. More money to be awarded by the court in case he wins too.
right, you lumped me in with someone talking about slavery.

That might have been the first indication you were being unfair.

The poster I responded to thought they were talking about money, the poster was talking about castes.

Leave your religious wars at the door please.
Ah yes, respecting a suffering woman's choice is apparently "disgusting" now. What's disgusting is that a bunch of terrorists decided to kill and maim hundreds of victims. Your vile response to a young woman's suffering is also pretty high up on the disgusting scale.

There's no reason to be rude about an innocent woman's death. Show some respect.
> Further, we found we had to spend $10Ks at a time to send NY/London staff over there monthly to figure out wtf was going on. These offshoring firms were running some serious scams. We once had a guy come back (mid 2000s) and say that his 5 devs in Hyderabad were equipped with 4 PCs and 3 phones between them!!

Oh this brings back memories. A few years ago I worked for a company which offloaded functional testing to a team in Chennai, including pre-release shakedown tests. We did that until there was a release which started to blow up in a critical point that was very hard to recover from, right after being deployed to all customers. We were baffled because we had test sets covering precisely this scenario, and the tests all passed. To cut to the chase, we soon discovered that our trusty Chennai team was not to be trusted and in reality was signing off releases without performing a single test. Everyone in that team was fired and replaced by other replacement testers also based from Chennai, and once the new testers started running the exact same test sets then all sorts of red flags started to surface. Now, here's the kicker: it only took a couple of weeks until the new Chennai-based testers started to flag tests as passes even though they never ran them at all, which we discovered because we also added telemetry to track those.

Anecdotal evidence, but we only ceased to have problems with Chennai-based teams once we finished automating away their job.
> Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino

The article is great. He just forgot to explain how and why (84 Mhz microcontroller for a FM radio ? ) he did it. /s
what other avenues of escalation are there?

You can send evidence that the customer purchased the product and is using it to Stripe and they’ll still issue a refund. Google can delete your account and not say why. There’s no other way to escalate: support people will tell you they’ve done all they can and close any further tickets you open. Social media is the only other resort.
I have never met a single person that isn’t a Chinese propogandaist that actually believes Taiwan is a part of China. It’s such an obvious calling card.
There really aren't.
If somebody said "the government shouldn't flashbang babies in their cribs", it's not charitable or reasonable to assume they're implying 'that should be done by corporations'.
Having a big list like this also stops growth and integrating entire new tool-chains. I sometimes start with a blank slate when developing a new system, because in the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, and in the expert's mind there are few.
Can You Tell Your Life Story in Six Words? (2010)
It’s because when you hire employees they come with the aspect of being “people”. People work to live, they don’t live to work.
I find it personally hard to date stuff that came out or that I watched during the pandemic. To me it felt like I consumed 4 or 5 years of content in the span of each year. My sense of time is completely twisted.
Except for the 10 other techniques we don't know about. Did you know about this before the HN post (or original post from 2021)? I sure didn't, which means there are other tricks hiding out there.
Methane clathrate gun is going to destroy all life on the planet. I stopped contributing to my 401k.
No it’s that companies aren’t paying a premium to fulfill quotas in the first place. The “quota” hire is being paid the same salary that a “non-quota” hire would.
International post day-importance of delivery services in online businesses
This October 9th, we'd like to make World Post Day an opportunity to highlight the importance of effective delivery services in running online businesses.

As a matter of fact:
When packages arrive late, 48% of customers will not purchase from the company again.
Real-time order status visibility is a top priority for more than half of customers.

And with recurring purchases…subscription services have created a solution to these concerns for many years now!
Create subscription rules, take orders for recurring deliveries and allow customers to observe their order status the entire time; we’ve thought of everything to make it better and easier for you.
Happy World Post Day everyone! Happier customers make a happier business
> Purely from a Devils Advocate perspective those banners are legally required, so pro-actively blocking them seems like a bad idea.

Not a European or a lawyer, but I think "legally required" might be a slight question mark.

I could be very wrong, but I think the issue is that the requirements of these laws are all vaguely worded, so companies started putting in place these giant consent forms on load purely to cover their ass legally.
This is a good way to think about the subject. Still, education at a higher level like uni is often good to get a sound understanding of a subject (more so than optimizing for grades).

Also learning a new (natural) language sometimes requires hammering words or gramatic rules into memory, and having a good teacher can be much faster than learning on your own by reading texts.
I've been using spaced repetition software (Anki) to learn Japanese. Community decks are really powerful for the basics, but personal decks are unavoidable later on.

For language learning, there are flash card generators that make this a simple one-click process. I think these strike the right balance of simplicity & flexibility/personalization. Of course, a tool like this relies on a free database that you can map concepts onto. But I could see this sort of working with wikipedia or some documentation.
Stripe support is broken. I recall patio11 writing about how Stripe is all about putting in the correct "process".

Well, the process for support fails.

We handle a decent volume and have been a merchant for over 8 years. We can't even get an account manager to handle specific issues.

90% of requests are met with a subtle RTFM!

If you ask specific questions, these are avoided.

An open ticket is bounced from person to person. No two people seem to touch the same issue.

If you try specific chat support, and you ask technical questions, you'd expect some knowledge. Instead, most agents put you on hold and go over documentation, only to come back and say they've escalated this to a ticket.

Then the ticket comes back with more links to documentation, never answering the question.

The only way to make progress, answers and some human treatment is by jumping from connection to connection on Linkedin, trying to get an intro to someone inside.

Or of course, getting lucky with an HN post.
Also similar: https://sumi.news/
(author) Interesting. That may have been what I ran into. carl itself was unaffected, just proxying through it.
Yes when viewed this way it can be an alternative recruiting pipeline for good nearshore staff. It would be better to just directly recruit this way and skip the middle man consulting firms taking so much margin and having to hire teams of 20-30 to poach the top 5 nearshore.
Think about what HN is. It’s a marketing campaign for a VC firm.

YC invested in Stripe. HN is a place where you can hurt the reputation of Stripe by posting about their support.
Activity after eating puts the sugars in your muscles rather than your fat cells right? Or no?
sed s/vanilla/pure/g

(my wish for what we call javascript itself)
Accurate, appropriately detailed, and up-to-date documentation and references are about way, way more than "first impressions".

I really don't see how it's a hard problem either? How often does a payment gateway API really need to change? Just spend the resources necessary to get it right. If you really need to, hire (another) FTE on docs.
The questions surrounding the involvement of foreign actors are interesting meanly because of the timing. It’s interesting that Iran see a vague of mass protests right after the utter failure of the nuclear talks and when they are admittedly very close to getting the bomb. Plenty of foreign powers therefore have an interest into seeing the current regime fall down and have historically never been above giving a gentle push in the right direction. It wouldn’t in any way make the reasons of the protests illegitimate however.

Now, I don’t really understand why you bring Al Qaeda and the Uyghurs to the mix. That needlessly muddies your point.
Toward Gauss' goal of engraving a beacon into Siberia to signal our civilization to extraterrestrials, what is more representative of our current evolution and intelligent intent, an elementary theorem from 3,000 years ago written in megalithic land art with rocks and sticks, or, our most succinct representation of mathematical beauty, transmitted with complete consistency over all spectra of sound, radio waves, visible light, and even x-rays?

What's unique about this function is that it is an oscillation of reals, but between integers. It's the effect of representing the integers in terms of the real, imaginary, and transcendentals. That oscilating sequence is such that if they have discovered Euler's identity, they would be able to see that we have as well.
There's no way you seriously used the existence of a rich black family in the same locale as an asian as evidence that it wasn't in the US.
It's not a rapid change. It's a slow change from about a century ago to projections about a century in the future.

Another directly-observable-by-laymen example is the start of cherry blossom season: https://www.sciencealert.com/japan-s-cherry-blossoms-burst-i...
I’m not sure - I took an operating systems course in C that used command line only for submissions, and of course if you didn’t run a *nix locally you had to SSH in and work in a terminal environment for the entire course. This was three years ago. You could nitpick about what “non-trivial” means, but I’d say most CS degrees require some non-trivial work(to them).
What I really want is a dumb panel with no TV receiver; this makes it a monitor, and not subject to Ireland’s TV licensing law. There are commercial panels, but the power draw on the ones I’ve seen is higher than a regular 40 inch TV. Plus, finding one that’s available in Ireland.. well, it’s a smallish island with a population of 5 million, and it’s not a common purchase.

I probably need to re-evaluate the pricing on 40 inch computer monitors, if I can find a non-4K one.
Your man just tried to sell Taiwan to China. How much more deranged would you like to have it?
It's more about cold dinner. Theory is you are more likely to over eat a warm meal.

So if you are going to keep to having a warm meal a day. Make it lunch.
I've never seen explosion which creates obscure counter intuitive trajectories.

Bridge must be one of the most open-space environments you can imagine.
Elons wealth is liquid and he leverages SpaceX's image to drive public Tesla investment. When you invest, you invest in "Elon".
Hit Songs Are Staying on the Top Charts Longer Than Ever
So I cannot manage my own life in a sensible way?

If I want to end it, does it have to be messy (as in jumping in front of a train)? Or not well working (as in jumping from a window and ending up paralyzed - which indeed will stop me from further silly attempts)?

The government has a duty to facilitate it.
Given that Musk is an integral part of american defense, he would never say that if there was really a war imminent. So i will go back to sleep
What a joke. Gotta protect the future of those massive profits from BeOS sales I guess.
yeah I use it at work too, as just about 99% of the people who work anywhere close to the metal or high performance, but you should definitely learn _that_new_language_2022_, because the thing that actually feeds us and has been staple of the industry for decades is just .. sooo .. terrible
>Using cookies to track state on a website, that is only used for that website, is fine. You don't need to ask for consent. That is how a site tracks things like whether you are logged in.

They are called 1st party cookies and they are required like you said in order for a website to work but 3rd party cookies are intrusive and invasive.
funny enough this is exactly what gab/dissenter did, giving any website a comments section. it's actually a really cool concept, though obviously dissenter ended up hella toxic.

someone made a clone, zeeker, but it doesn't have a lot of users: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zeeker-on-site-dis...
Armodafinil. It allows me to get into a flow state more easily, concentrate for longer periods of time (and more deeply), do necessary things that aren't exciting without procrastinating, and finish things.
If I help an elderly person across the street am I discriminating against the young?

Are VA hospitals discriminating against non-veterans?

If my neighbor's house is on fire is the fire department discriminating against me when they don't spray my house with water?

We make accomodations for people in society all the time, it doesn't mean we are discriminating against people who aren't part of that group.

Hiring practices in our industry have historically, and still do, overwhelmingly benefit white men. Making accomodations for other people to reduce that disparity is not discrimination. You STILL have the overwhelming advantage in the hiring process and are crying discrimination. It's absurd
> I don't think that's good grounds for killing a bunch of people.

If you’re blaming the colonists for this, you have selective memory when it comes to the history.
Well, but that isn’t the definition tend to think of right? They do think mass killing, it’s part of why the word has such power. If it was merely portrayed as the Chinese working to forcibly convert Muslims a lot of the US would shrug and say that seems good
You have to be blind if you don't see that extremist groups are using gaming platforms to disseminate their ideas and recruit. They are trying to use every platform, but the mainstream ones are starting to become better at weeding them out, and young Western audiences on the gaming platforms are specifically susceptible, because they tend to be isolated, which is what these groups thrive on.

It has been long identified that these extremist groups can be best curbed by not letting them have access to audiences. Unfortunately now that they do it is likely that our countries are facing a new wave of violent extremism and terrorism. Free speech sounds wonderful, until you give an extremist group the power it needs to put knives, guns and bombs into the hands of isolated or disenfranchised people.

Obviously the other solution is to not leave people behind, to not let them be isolated and disenfranchised in the first place. The problem is that in some countries like the United States many politicians are working on the opposite, because that's how they themselves get elected.
I agree but the reason for the difference is because the “offshore” folks have zero incentive to do so. There’s literally no point beyond keeping their job (and because of the incredibly low bar and compensation, it’s not at all difficult to find another one). They are there to fill seats and hours, not be productive or efficient.
How is this relevant to the topic at hand?
In my (extensive) experience in infrastructure. When people say the JVM is the problem, the JVM is never the problem. It's usually just a symptom of something else and lazy ops people just want to blame something and throw up their hands. I've never had to "tune a JVM" to make things work.

I'll give you an example in Spark. We had a huge job that was failing and after checking the logs, it was when results were being spooled to disk. More log diving showed a lot of GC on every node. At that point we could have gone down the route of tuning something in the JVM, but more digging found the real culprit. IOstats when the jobs ran showed while reading data, writes were completely blocked and write latency was in the 100s of ms. The spark executor trying to dump data was blocked and the first symptom that things were falling apart was... GC. We changed the scheduler on the nodes and magically everything worked great. The VM in JVM is virtual machine. Same rules for resources apply and if you run out of resources, don't expect the mythical ops faeries to save you.
I am really not understanding what you want to say. And of course you would have had years without snow in the past, as there are always warmer and colder years in any region, there are always fluctuations. But the average temperature determines whether a year where the snow completely melts off is rather likely or unlikely. So the frequency of the snow-free years is a direct measure of the average temperature in that region of the world.

And snow in NZ doesn't tell anything at all on its own. It might just have been a cold year in that region, it could even be, that climate change would mean a cool down for that region. Climate change is about the temperature increase in the sum over all the world. It doesn't mean that every part of the globe equally warms up. A lot of the local temperatures are determined by geographical features and resulting stable weather influences. Take the gulf stream. That makes Europe much warmer than the equivalent parts of the nothern America. But if that fails due to climate change, temperatures in Europe would considerably go down.
I assume someone buying a handgun above .22 caliber has intentions of harming someone with it. Obviously the context of their use matters, but they're inherently dangerous objects that Americans have the right to own. It doesn't seem feasible to stop someone who wants to use it as they would like.
There's an artist called Øystein Wyller Odden that works with mains hum. I find it pretty fascinating:

Kraftbalanse is a musical translation of the hum from the mains; i. e. the frequency of the alternating current. The piece is based on the fact that this frequency is not stable, it fluctuates subtly around 50 Hz as a direct result of supply and demand in the power market.

The composition consists of a self-resonating piano that is tuned to resonate on 50 hz and overtones of 50 hz (100 Hz, 150 Hz, 200 Hz etc.) The piano is fitted with vibration-elements – transducers – plugged directly into the electrical grid, causing the resonance and timbre of the piano to change with the fluctuations on the power market.

The piano is accompanied by a string octet. The musicians are equipped with voltmeters that measure the frequency of the current in real time, as well as a score of instructions on how to respond to changes in this frequency.

https://vimeo.com/370554138
If I were helping someone start a web project _right now_ I'd probably tell them to just use Moment.js and forget about it. Any live web product I've ever worked on has always had more than enough to work on to keep updating the date-time library at the bottom of the to-do list almost indefinitely.
People enshrined slavery into law as well, and that law was unethical even before it was overturned. Your argument easily fails, no matter how many times you repeat it.
I don't understand how someone can quote the absorbtion spectrum of CO2 and then go to .. Al Gore and the Mayans? Rather than, say, IPCC?
I don't see how "reading" is anyone anyone on HN needs advice to do, all people do nowadays is reading if reading is defined as getting information from text on a screen. Using a computer is basically entirely reading.

Edit: to the article's point spaced repetition to memorize domain specific facts is useful but it's not exponential like reading is.
The C++ Programming Language from Stroustrup is the c++ bible but Im not sure all of what you find there is actually useful for day to day coding.

To become a better C++ programmer you just use the language, but not on a project where you fix bugs, but on a project you write from start to finish. If this is not possible at work, you could try looking into contributing to open source c++ projects on github...

When using C++ in practice to build projects you realize what features are actually useful, what to avoid and what the limitations of the language are. C++ does have a lot of after thought add-ons...