skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "customer support doesn't scale" usually covers two things: 1. customer support is a cost center, and 2. your average customer gets much worse as you get larger.

When you're a small company that nobody knows about, the only customers you have are usually skilled in the business and technical. As you grow to Walmart or PayPal size, you're dealing with everyone so the average customer support request gets worse and worse.

This is basically a law of nature, apparently. I'm not sure there's much that can resolve it.
4? Is "tea" its own meal where you live?

I've only said "fourth meal" ironically as it's part of a Taco Bell marketing campaign. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and then getting Taco Bell at 2 am on a weekend.
The "year without a summer" being a result of a volcano blowing off a kilometer of elevation and darkening the atmosphere with particulates. Yeah that's real comforting.
Two weeks ago "Ask HN: Which is the most useful job board?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967144 followed by "Ask HN: Most Useful Job Board?" three days later. Do you expect much different opinions?
This happened to me with Citibank. But, I called citibank and got a new card number. Then, citibank gave the new card number to the fraudsters when they tried to charge me the next month.

Unfortunately, I’m going through a divorce right now so I can’t cancel that credit card. But, as soon as I’m free that’s on the top of my list of things to do to start living the rest of my life.
Rooting/Jailbreaking an LG TV might be a suitable Dumb TV solution in some ways:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33016217
What bit do you doubt?

The core concept that spaced repetition increases rapidly in effectiveness over time is called the Spacing Effect. There are many many studies that have investigated and proved it
Except this is Stripe we're talking about, so it should read “Neglect: Maybe if we starve the customer to death they'll stop bugging us.” They are the “food”, the connection to incoming nutrition in the form of revenue.
> ...lose some Bobs to accident or war. Wtf?

Because the copies are imperfect, I took the in-universe explanation to be that, while yes, they can technically restore a backup, the restoration is going to be another new personality.

>...but new containers for Bob always end up with slightly different personalities

I think this is a story-telling device to give us new character perspectives. Otherwise the majority of the story would be, "Great idea Bob", "I agree, Bob". It also allows for the writer to invent whatever character expertise is required for the plot.
Most anything that says "don't use this for support" means "this is an effective means of support" - it's just not guaranteed.
It's the modern version of ad-blockers, which was the modern version of anti-virus.

It's always an arms race between the assholes and everyone else.
With that and the other techniques I outlined in my previous comment.
Except most people that would like to go have family commitments around this time. And airports are really busy.

I've never been due to the busy and costly flights thing myself.
So if there are any feelings of guilt, you can't respect them, then you can only respect sociopaths.
Don’t forget to add “ maxdelay 0.05/0.1/0.2” across your three NTP server settings, lest you get hit by MitM NTP attack.

You’re welcome.
It's definitely come to mind. It shouldn't be hard for an end-user to even train it on their specific videos.
Since you’re unaware, the bridge opened in 2018. Medicines had ways of getting there for decades before didn’t it?

This is a military target as it’s used by heavy military vehicles. Medicine is lightweight and can use the old ways of arriving.
5% is huge. Like, ban your business from taking credit cards huge.
It sounds like the company is really paranoid about their remote workers being actually subcontracted to a cheaper locale or something.
> Income Taxation is in no way voluntary exchange like that

Take a weekend off and calculate how much 'fees' you would have to pay for 'private defense services', infrastructure, judiciary, police and all the other things if they were made private.

> The fact is that the government, like a common thief, says to a person: Your money, or your life

What religious delirium.

> But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.

The dastarty act of providing military, police, firefighting, law, justice, social services - all the things that make you live in a modern society instead of living in the former late feudal society where you wouldn't even have the social rank in order to be able to talk against your feudal lord in public like this.

There is no magical, divine, extraterrestrial or supernatural force that provides this modern society that you live in, and all the rights and freedoms that you have in that society. We, the people, have managed to make that happen through the mechanisms we invented. And one of those mechanisms is the state that is owned by its people.
You are mixing a lot of things in your post, I won't go into all details. But long term precise temperature measurements exist, they are the basis of all work about global warming. I am sure you can find them quickly if you browse the corresponding scientific literature.

And of course there are plenty of calculations about the warming effect of CO2. Arrhenius published early calculations in 1874. And that directly leads us to the harming effect of human caused emissions onto the global climate. Humanity has increased the CO2 content in the atmosphere by 50%. Within 200 years, most in the last 50. Which already has caused a significant warming, which is very well documented. There is plenty of rock solid science behind this.
The same engineers who staffed the IRC channel staff the Discord. Unfortunately it moved to a proprietary platform when Freenode was taken over in 2021. As _engineers_, though, they're never going to be a point of escalation for a support concern related to disputes, supportability, or issues involving personal information.
what is it you actually want? please tell me, im not trying to be trollish or pedantic. when you make posts like this it seems that you want some result your not telling about. Are you attempting to designate a target?
I think the idea would be you need to empower the network of satellites in the sky to react quickly to a nuclear attack from another country, so you need to allow this “sky-net” to launch nukes at a moments notice without human intervention.. it likely would need a human level intelligence to quickly asses the level of risk. And to avoid being hacked, you would want this AI to be able to protect itself under various circumstances. Sounds reasonable right?
"Server not found"
Thanks, so essentially you set a reminder for you ti sit, and remember what you learned a few days prior?
That should be MORE than enough. IMO an employers access to the screen and keystrokes should be zero.
You could also email their CXOs. Many will appreciate direct (considerate) customer feedback that they may not be hearing from their teams. Claire Hughes Johnson, Stripe's Chief Operating Officer, who presumably oversees service/support, is at claire@stripe.com¹.

¹ FYI, this email was publicly discoverable via search engines and took a few seconds to find.
> If there is anything akin to "wage slavery" in modern times it is more because of income tax than anything else

Don't invent stuff to make an argument. Wage slavery is what happens in the 'free market'. The very invention of wage slavery was to make conditions of slavery happen after slavery was abolished so that former slaveowners wouldnt go bankrupt. It was implemented in post civil war US, then it was copied by Brazilian slaveowners when slavery was abolished in Brazil.
> It does take a certain amount of mental energy to constantly be computing efficient key combos.

Yes but no one is actually computing efficient key combos. Most people just use the movement they are used to (w, e, f, t) and the most common text objects (s, p, ‘, “, ), ], }) when doing operation. That plus repeat will do 95% of what you want. Add markings used with ed ranges and the occasional macro replayed line by line on a visual selection and you can do everything without ever having to think.
Crazy good ESPHome story here!

> I wanted a quick solution (with ideally no custom firmware development) and was already familiar with ESPHome, which turns out to very easily implement the functionality I wanted :)

> In addition to a standard ESPHome configuration, I have added the following lines to make the GPIO pin available through MQTT, and make it a momentary switch instead of a toggle switch, so that it briefly presses the power button and doesn’t hold the power button:

Really simple looking understandable yaml.file constitutes almost all the softwafe development done for this project. Stunning. Nice.
Yes, Kia with their models are the closest. They are right there in terms of pricing. The Nissan Leaf is well priced, but it is a bit basic and not what most people are looking for these days in terms of features.

And I agree, a tipping point feels close. If Tesla ever caught up with demand and stopped raising their prices on the Model 3 I think it would be a Model T like hit.
While climate change is going to have some profound and devastating effects, it's not on that timescale. If anything, when hard times hit, you'll regret having less of a financial cushion.
I am still trying to figure out how CIM is supposed to work out.

The highest density storage shares a single access structure among many bits (see SRAM design). This is antithetical to real CIM, because you fundamentally have to read & write the whole structure iteratively, at which point it’s just regular compute.

On the other hand, if you build memory that does not depend on a shared access structure, the density is inherently poor. We already know how to build these today in CMOS, and the reason they have not taken the world by storm is the crummy density. (A CAM, commonly built with flip flops, is a simple form of CIM)

There’s a good chance I’m just not creative enough to see the light, but I haven’t found my way past this basic axiom.
Just to explain, people selling stolen cards have a reputation that makes them money. If they have a reputation for selling cards that have already been burned, they can’t sell each card for as much. But, I’d they have a good way to test their cards, they can get a reputation for only selling cards that still work. This lets them sell each card for multiples of what a fraudster with a bad reputation can charge.
> I'm always a bit irked when I see here on HN people suggesting that it's impossible to end up poor if you're a skilled developer. Shit happens, despite the potential for earning well.

It's pretty hard to end up poor as skilled developer, unless you spend many years chasing entreprenual ideas or otherwise engage in activities that don't guarantee income. But, if you just do paid work and are responsible with your money (assuming you live in a developed country), it's impossible to be broke after 20 years of working without a huge amount a bad luck.
The finance academic literature has advocated for years that buy and hold is the best strategy for individual investors. However, anyone who bought the stocks at the market peak in 2021 will have to hold them for a looooooong time before they can break even. And that too in terms of nominal returns as break even in real returns will take forever! So the pain is real for the people who started stock investing last two years.
"hilariously robust", the article says.
Show HN: A Commandline Conjugator
As another commenter said, 500ms clip is super tiny. Each key is a a separate partition.

So each segment is a separate partition.
Intel: We're inching closer to mass production of spin qubit chips
If you want an in-depth examination of OS/2's history... https://medium.com/@estherschindler/os-2-is-25-years-old-201...
Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects. I used to like mucking around with Linux and distributed databases, but then Cloudflare came and destroyed all my motivation, since their platform is better than what I could come up in a decade. So just send me the bill and let me build brilliant, beautiful software effortlessly you bastards. Working harder than you should is a waste of time and money, you have to learn to sit pretty on the gravy train.
Ive connected mine time to time because Amazon won't stream HD to my GPU/TV combo (rx590/LG), but will happily stream 4k via the TV's app. Not a great solution, but its nice to have the option when a friend comes over; otherwise it stays unplugged
The option for the company is between the "more money" and "less money" option. There is a general sense in which the average individual benefits from the "more money" option; websites are better funded, they can provide better services, etc. There is also a incredibly minor way that they are worse off, in that some of their data (consisting of a field that says when they viewed certain news articles) might show up in a data leak in the future. But when you put it as "do you want to be tracked", of course it sounds bad, so all else being equal most people will say "no".

The "informed consent" framing of this issue is quite ridiculous. When someone is asked to pay for an item at the store, we don't say that they should also have the choice to take the item for free, and only pay for it if they want to. We recognize that, individually, most people would rather pay less, but that we collectively benefit when businesses are profitable. The situation with cookies is even worse, because unlike with money, most people have no idea what a website even uses their data for.

Th EU trying to rewrite the issue as concerning "consent" is thus idiotic, and innevitably lead to the cookie banner issue. If you think tracking is bad, then ban it, and let websites figure out how to target ads and improve their product without it. If you recognize tracking as overall beneficial, then permit it, and throw out this charade of informed consent. The EU can't make this decision themselves, so they expect every single individual to make this decision for themselves, every time they visit a website. This despite the average individual having no idea what their data is even being used for.

The issue is existential for websites, since it concerns their ability to remain profitable. As such, the website that stays in business longest is the one that can coax the most people to hand over their data. It is entirely inevitable that websites would go up to and beyond the letter of the law in pursuing this.
Because many, and arguably most, corporations have grown too large to be sustainable owing to overly aggressive adoption of digital technologies paired alongside generous investment and financial policy that has assumed infinite growth (fueled by infinite consumption) as the goal, which is breaking down only so absurdly because we went from "We have branches in 3 different cities!" to "I have a business with a 1/3rd of the human species as my customers. Neato." rather too quickly.

In less wordy words: Imagine you have 1 million customers. And 95% are satisfied per year. And 90% of those unsatisfied customers are able to be satisfied through the regular channels. These numbers don't seem awful, but at scale everything breaks. That's a total of 50,000 unsatisfied customers per year and 5,000 who are unable to achieve a satisfactory outcome through the regular channels.

And that's with only with 1 million customers - practically a mom 'n pop shop by the modern mantra of growth at literally any cost. Consequently, you end up with a large number of customers who have irreconciled issues when going through the normal channels, unless you approach 100% effectiveness which will never happen - as peak possible customer satisfaction is only going to decrease in proportion to scale.

So you end up in a scenario where accepting an increasingly large number of discontented customers just becomes a normal part of business at scale. But of course this will also lead to the downfall of those accepting this. Because customers, and citizens, once slighted - tend to remember it.
This article communicates a simplistic viewpoint. There's more to a programming language than "doesn't have a preprocessor", and sometimes nuances add up to bigger things. Although "simple grammar" get peripherally mentioned, the east tooling this enables is not. Sure, you could script with Go if you wanted to, and that's another aspect of a carefully designed grammar.
As a counter point to this, anecdotally though it may be, I've never seen anyone come out of a Comp Sci program (and I've seen a lot now) who was ready to go as an engineer (sound understanding as you put it) unless they had significant practical experience through projects of their own or internships.

In general:

A priori knowledge only gets you to the starting line. Experience carries the rest. And you can only get that experience by doing yourself, not second hand.
According to http://hummingbirdclock.info/static/js/hum.js the base frequency is 200 Hz, but has a gain of 4, which seems to push it more into the higher harmonic range as the waveform is clipped:

// hum.js

// toggle html audio on/off
// with cookie to maintain state
// and use html5 audio synthesis
// ios html5 audio must be triggered
// call init_hum() after DOM loaded

// 0. create audio context
// 1. create oscillator, define
// 2. connect oscillator to gain
// 3. create gain
// 4. connect gain to output
// 5. start oscillator (on click)

var audio;
var audio_context;
var control;
var vco, vca;
var hum_delta = 1;
var hum_base = 200;
var hum_min = 100;
var hum_max = 400;

/* init */

function init_hum() {
audio = get_cookie("audio");
console.log("audio = " + audio);
audio_context = get_audio_context();
console.log("audio_context = " + audio_context);
control = get_control();
if (audio_context != "false") {
if (audio != "off") {
set_hum();
hum_on();
}
} else {
set_cookie("audio", "off");
}
}

function get_audio_context() {
var which_audio_context = window.AudioContext || // default
window.webkitAudioContext || // safari
false;
this_audio_context = new which_audio_context;
return this_audio_context;
}

function get_control() {
var this_control = document.getElementById("control");
this_control.addEventListener("click", hum_on_off);
return this_control;
}

function set_hum() {
vco = audio_context.createOscillator();
vco.type = 'sine';
vco.frequency.value = hum_base;
vca = audio_context.createGain();
vca.gain.value = 4.0;
vco.connect(vca);
vca.connect(audio_context.destination);
}

/* on off */

function hum_on() {
set_hum();
vco.start(0);
control.innerHTML="&times;";
set_cookie("audio", "on");
audio = get_cookie("audio");
console.log("audio = " + audio);
}

function hum_off() {
vco.stop(0);
control.innerHTML="+";
set_cookie("audio", "off");
audio = get_cookie("audio");
console.log("audio = " + audio);
cleanup();
}

function hum_on_off() {
if (audio == "off")
hum_on();
else
hum_off();
}

function cleanup() {
vco.disconnect(0);
}

/* cookies */

function set_cookie(cname, cvalue) {
document.cookie = cname + "=" + cvalue;
}

function get_cookie(cname) {
var name = cname + "=";
var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
for(var i = 0; i <ca.length; i++) {
var c = ca[i];
while (c.charAt(0)==' ')
c = c.substring(1);
if (c.indexOf(name) == 0)
return c.substring(name.length,c.length);
}
return "";
}

function check_cookie(cname) {
if (getCookie(cname) != "")
return true;
else
return false;
}

The audio spectrum analyzer on my phone (Spectroid) records it most strongly around 1000 Hz.
> Even if there is an interest to empower the people to oust the regime, wouldn't it be fomenting on already existing unhappiness?

Out of all the nations on Earth, perhaps a majority of them have some kind of discontent among the population. Then, with this blank cheque being given, the nations with the most powerful intel agencies can empower the ones they want into full-blown protests.

The conspiracy theory that Russia influenced the two recent American presidential elections naturally come to mind. If that was the case—and I don’t doubt that they might have invested a small pittance into FB ads—then they were surely just building on existing unhappiness, as Trump supporters are too numerous to all be sleeper agents of the waning super power that is Russia.
>plans to auto-reject based on intelligent patterns

Not sure what you mean with that. Checking code[1] it apparently uses a rules list (can be found in [1]) to function on site-by-site basis. This is the same approach utilized by popular "I don't care about cookies" add-on.

[0]: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone...
[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/cookie-banner-rules-list
I'd game this immediately: commit every character individually.
In just this post, you

1) Disingenuously frame someone being removed from premises where they are not welcome as "decided that X is a fascist and started, escalated, and carried out an attack".

2) Care more about someone who runs services on "hitler.rocks", "nuke.africa" and "nigge.rs" than you care about CCC being kind and welcoming place for everyone - for example, people who might not want to be called "niggers".

3) Use "it's just joke bro" as a defense for despicable behavior.

I have no idea what someone like you was doing in CCC in the first place.
I read the article. It tries to give a balanced view of both the good and the bad, including details, but if your read the article closely, it doesn't say exactly what the union is trying to do.

Also read the 2 links provided above, because I was interested. On the second page 'what will the union do" the answer is 'its up to us', so I tend to agree, it's not clear what they are asking for yet.
Sk012
This. We've been Stripe customers for a decade, but my team is very nervous about using them for our next product after repeated HN threads about banned companies that end up left with no recourse.

We have had no major issues ourselves, but Stripe's image is tarnished and we can't be confident we can trust it with our business.
Yep, there are still a few good ones, but don't tell anyone ;).

Taormina or Positano are so small that the "new wave" of tourist places have already (and since a few years) "killed" practically all the places for normal people[1], in Florence you can clearly see the trend, but there are still enough "old" places, though it won't probably last for long.

[1] though (if you have the means to go only a few kilometers away) in the surroundings of Taormina or Positano there are still many good traditional restaurants
But writing Typescript in Typescript allowed the language-designers to dogfood the developer-experience of being a Typescript-developer.

Just like MS eventually did with C# too. After the C#-compiler was reimplemented in C# (Roslyn), that’s when the language was truly allowed to develop. And it also made it much easier to make C# a truly cross-platform language.

When the language-designers don’t have to use their own language, they have objectively much less motivation to improve upon the language or it’s tooling than if they do.

The Flow-team didn’t use Flow to write Flow and that shows in its lack of development, its lack of tooling, its lack of contributors and ultimately in its lack of adoption.
People associated with the CCC most often do responsible disclosure. Therefore you can expect vulnerabilities revealed during C3 to be already known in advance to the vendor. AFAIK an exception to that are jail breaks, which have quite a history of getting announced during C3 without disclosing them to the vendor first.
Fair point.

Perhaps 4.0 will solve that but I'm not sure how.