skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably it would only make the implicit control governments already have more explicit and transparent.

Personally, rather than having obscure scores and lists in the background preventing people from getting banked with next to no recourse in case of mixups, I'd appreciate a public alternative, if only as an experiment and to encourage the banking industry to innovate a bit.

There are very interesting technologies being developed in this space as well, e.g. Taler offering one-sided anonymity for payments.
"My internal valuation for the London to NY leg is $0.01, and NY to San Diego is $9999.99, which coincidentally is the damages limit for small claims court. Now let's be reasonable and work this out without a judge".
You know, my return flight from the holidays last year was suddenly canceled the day I was supposed to fly back (ofc they didn’t announce it till much later)

I ended up having to purchase a new last minute flight from another airline. I was supposed to get a refund for the cancelled flight, but I’m not sure I ever did.
Henry Ford wasn't saying that people are just too dumb to understand how great cars are, he's saying people become so uncomfortable with what already works they don't understand how much better the alternatives could be. Ford understood because he ran a car company.

You may be the exception in preferring horses (although you should note, some states don't look kindly to drunk driving horses), but when people had the choice they chose cars.
How many data scientists that use Databricks for modeling do you know?
I recently came across Aswath Damodaran's youtube and I like his characterization of CEOs compatible with company maturity better. A visionary CEO is a wrong fit for a mature, stable-state company.
This approach was made popular by Steve Jobs at Apple. He would have multiple teams competing to who's solution would survive, while the other teams products were thrown away

This goes all the way back to his early days (I think I remember a scene about this in The Pirates of Silicon Valley), but also reportedly multiple teams were building very different original iPhones
> We hire people who want to obsess over their customers.

:eyeroll:

This reads like PR fluff and flies against the experiences shared by a lot of employees, current and former. Amazon is a huge company with a lot of variation between teams so I'm sure it's not a meat grinder for everyone, but they don't have this reputation for no reason.
The fact that exempt employees are increasingly realizing that it's effectively wage theft when a company forces you to work long grueling hours for the same rates and it steals years off of your personal life to feed the ambitions of an insane CEO.

Perhaps instead of calling it 'hard work' you should call it what it is: Stealing. There's a reason why people fought violently for eight hour work days.
We've been trying that and it hasn't worked. If you remember the "transitory" arguments from last year, that's what those were about. The people saying inflation was "transitory", who won the argument at the time, meant that they agreed with your diagnosis and wanted to just let it happen for a while.
I Have to Pirate Colours Now?
Sorry to hear that - that sounds concerning as a parent but I'm glad your child found their way again. Agree with you that and my sense is that teachers are the foundational component of education regardless of systemic benefits/drawbacks - all the way through your adult years where someone interesting at work can light up topics that you wouldn't otherwise be interested in.
Apple notes is rock solid compared to reminders

Reminders has been perpetually flakey, particularly around new OS releases and if your iPhone/Watch/iPad/Mac are in different states of latest vs non-latest OS.
You're still going to get to where you want to go and you'll still get a seat. That's the service you're paying for.

Disregarding the kidnapping part of your straw man: we also do already charge for priority disembark. This is why premium seating is typically near the boarding door.
Byjus, Meta, Twitter: India tech workers fight back amid mass layoffs
I have a voucher from a cancelled flight on JetBlue stuck in the abyss of their computer systems. In order to use it I've been told I have to call, but the wait times are hours long. I can use their text message interface on iOS to get someone to call me back instead of waiting on hold (which is nice), but the couple times I've tried there's been some ridiculous problem with actually using the voucher: They can't find it. Or I need some confirmation number that is different from the one they gave me that I swear doesn't exist. Or they can't transfer the credit into my actual account so I can book a flight on my own.

It expires in a couple weeks from today and I just assume I'm never going to use it. I'm also always going to avoid JetBlue in the future. They don't even advertise prices that include carry on bags anymore, you have to pay extra to bring a change of clothes with you.
As I said, referencing this story in another thread [0], where we were discussing media bias:

Nice use of the word 'circling' there to suggest a predatory shark, about to move in for the kill on aa hapless victim. Methinks the wording and visual imagery would have been quite different, if the US or EU was in talks to buy up El Salvdor's debt.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33622285
Haha, I love this.

I wrote up something similar [0] but not quite as creative. Discoverability and Locus of Control are two of the best reasons to use OOP that rarely comes up in the academic discussion of OOP as a practice.

Honestly, OOP is many cases is simply more practical.

Even imperative code has its merits; case in point: it's often much easier to debug.

[0] https://medium.com/@chrlschn/weve-been-teaching-object-orien...
1. How often are security issues found that are already fixed compared to security issues that are still in the latest version and require an even newer version to fix?

2. What are the security issues that can be found in a local tool which has as its only input your own code and it's output is only printed in tooltips for human review? Even if you had a way for specially formed code to run other code in eslint, it's a bit like saying bash has an RCE because you can type a command into it.
Roger Penrose: “Consciousness must be beyond computable physics”
So these are conclusions borne of accepting without question neoliberal foundations.

The false premise here is that central bank action (Ie interest rates) is the only way to tackle inflation. This is false. Interest rates are indiscriminate. Whether you own a mortgage or are a failing business or a successful business, you are impacted to varying degrees.

Increasing interest rates is a form of wealth redistribution to banks.

The alternative to interest rates is taxation. Just enact an 80% corporate income tax rate and redistribute that wealth to the taxpayers most adversely affected by that.

A lot of people like to demonize, for example, oil companies for "price gouging" when the price of oil is set by a global commodities market. If an oil company charged less, someone else would simply profit the difference between the charged price and the market price as a form of arbitrage. The history of price controls as effective long term strategy is not good. Others will also argue oil companies are engaging in price manipulation. That's a longer conversation with some (but honestly not a lot) of merit. But it actually doesn't matter.

Why? Because the solution is to both of these problems is simply taxation.

Opponents might argue that corporations will simply pass that cost on. Won't that simply generate more profits which generate more taxation?

There is a fundamentally adversarial relationship between capital and labor here, which is why neoliberal publications like the Economist talk about depressing wages being a necessity. This is what's lead to almost no aggregate real wage growth in 40 years.

Wealth redistribution to taxpayers essentially hedges the inflation problem but that borders on socialism, which is why it's not part of any serious conversation about inflation.
Supporting your brother like that is very cool! For me, the calendar app is not available in Brazil though..
> don't EVER find that I need some kind of *nix command on my local machine when developing, but that's also because I'm not afraid of PowerShell / stuck on bash.

Have you sorted out how to get fuzzy tab completion in PowerShell, short of the buggy, menu-y integration available with fzf?

Do you find the everything you need is just already in PowerShell or so you sometimes run third party command line executables? If the latter, how do you deal with lack of man pages?
Reading your post it sounds like you dont really want to learn how to do something new. You just want to use your existing skill set to make money. That is fine but to start a business, and starting a side hustle is starting a business, you need to learn new things.

If you dont want to do that then maybe finding a smaller company or a company with a better culture will help. I didnt love my first two eng jobs. I like this one a lot. No middle management bs. No politics. Get to work on interesting stuff. Just took some time to find it. Ask friends where they want to work/the best place they have worked is.
This is going to be a disaster - Bending Spoons is not a good actor:

“let’s talk about Bending Spoons’ business model. The basic concept is very simple:

- Find a solid app that someone else built and buy it from them (see Splice (acquired from GoPro) and 30 Day Fitness)

- Optimize the monetization of said app (by implementing from scratch or fine-tuning existing subscriptions), thereby driving higher lifetime value (LTV)

- Take that higher LTV and use it to bid on expensive ad inventory (on Google, Facebook, Apple Search) where you can acquire more users (aka drive more downloads) - i.e. leverage performance marketing for growth

- Convert those new downloads to paying users

- Massively ramp revenues and cash flow by combining the new users + the better monetization

- Use the new cash flow - plus the debt from those lovely Italian banks - to fund the next acquisition

- Lather, rinse, repeat

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this business model. What differentiates Bending Spoons, though, is how they do it.

Remini - Bending Spoons’ new app that the press is gushing over - is $10 a WEEK. And Splice, the app that started it all? That’ll set you back a cool $5/week.

Does anyone really think it’s appropriate to pay $10 a week for a photo editing app?”

https://open.substack.com/pub/impassionedmoderate/p/ryan-rey...
Like, lots of absolute useful option are hidden by default unless you hold [option]? It always both me that why mac ever want to make the [move] option be in the hidden menu at first place. Isn't move/copy 90% of the reason user ever want to open finder?

Windows surely also have lots of hidden function. By I never see it hide something that is so critical to a hidden menu or something similar.
If he had access to printer logs, he would know exactly what everyone printed and when they did it.

Networked printers store a lot of information about what is being printed.
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> without any mathematical theory to quantify "better" there's no way we can really ever know. Rotten apples and rotten oranges ALSO exist in a world full of apples and oranges.

So you believe that the only way things can be compared is on quantitative measurements? Not with how they impress their users within whatever context they're in?

> I mean your evidence is just a bunch of qualitative factoids. An opponent to your opinion will come at you with another list of qualitative factoids. You mix all the factoids together and you have a bigger list of factoids with no definitive conclusion.

This is the process in which we gain knowledge in an uncertain world. I guess you could take the nihilistic stance and ignore it, but what's the use of arguing with nihilists?
I've actually had success with AngelList Talent in the past. I prefer the name change because I can never remember if there are two Ls or just one.
Horrid, horrid, horrid
The ticket in this case is for a flight, not a particular seat on that flight.

Think of it like buying lawn seating at a concert. Best spot is taken? Tough luck.
And the rest of metals? Nickel, copper?
You're too kind! I'm just using a Rode Procaster in an extremely cluttered room XD

However, I don't recommend the setup, I tested an SM58 and the damn thing sounds IDENTICAL, but 1/4 the price!

The trick is to speak very close to the microphone, off-center, have the microphone 2-3cm from the corner of your mouth, so breath doesn't hit it, but volume does.
When the iPad 3 released Apple called it "The new iPad" everywhere.

So you had:

- iPad ("iPad")

- iPad 2 ("iPad 2" or "iPad 2nd generation")

- iPad 3 ("The new iPad")

- iPad 4 ("iPad with Retina display")

So in late 2012 you had people shopping, and having to pick between "The New iPad" (last year's model), "iPad with Retina display" (this year's model), and the iPad Air.

Apple stopped after that, going with iPad [type] [number] naming.
Do you have pointers to that? The one I saw was called “python 2.8” which is definitely a point of confusion for people who might think it was supported.
An outstanding way to share your experience! My notes are now a roadmap for client after client! Thank you and stay in touch.
Methane emissions from oil extraction aren't negligible either so it depends on your point of reference. It's almost certainly better to burn methane in a power plant and use BEVs where possible but that's a long way from possible in heavy goods vehicles for example (they will need batteries measured in MWh for a start).

There are also many dimensions to emissions, global warming potential is important but from a personal point of view I worry more about the impact on my children's health from the other emissions like particulates, NOx and aromatic hydrocarbons.
Automating Chrome extension publishing with GitHub Actions
US govt: Iranian hackers breached federal agency using Log4Shell exploit
Incidentally, literally every dictator to ever live also has come to that conclusion
They should add a feature to open a prompt (when max # of user is detected) with a custom question like:

Can I take over?

or

Are you REALLY watching this or can you switch to another service?

or

I pay for this so finish up and get the f*ck off I want to watch someothing.
Webhook forwarding in the GitHub CLI (public beta)
There's no way someone as stupid as him thought of that.
Video by Linus Tech Tips...

TLDW: Pantone is having a spat with Adobe and Adobe has disabled Pantone color licensing in Creative Cloud. This supposedly shouldn't affect old documents, but it does, rendering the colors black. Pantone wants to charge $15/month to license you the color files.
Last year I made the mistake of flying up to visit family on Christmas Eve. The TSA line wrapped around the entire airport. Luckily I made it just barely in time. I was already delayed when a nasty accident shit down the interstate and added an extra hour to my airport trip.
"If you do the latter, how much productivity have you gained from rewriting a generated post compared to writing your own draft?"

In my experience, AI providing the activation energy to get a first draft is highly valuable.
Looks like eBPF support for HID devices will be available in the next kernel release (v6.2)

Source: https://twitter.com/kernellogger/status/1592786651968839683

Linux Plumbers Conf talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w708RnBEdvE
I suspect people who actually went through the military would instantly spot this as ridiculous larping
on MacOS/iOS, Bear was the best note taking app I found. If you need cross platform capability and/or want free and open source I like Joplin a lot as well.
You don't have digital dollars, you have demand deposits denominated in dollars.

Ideally, in a world where everybody has access to a checking account covered by adequate deposit insurance and interbank transfers are instantaneous, the difference is purely academic – but depending on where you live, reality falls short of that ideal.

There are two possible solutions: Regulate the desired status quo into being (or trust the market do do it, or any combination thereof), or create a public alternative. These aren't in any way mutually exclusive.
Office 365, Google Keep, iCloud notes is the answer.
This brought back such warm memories.
I didn't know any English then, but I just copied programs, ran them, and slowly learned some BASIC and some English while at it. :)
I'm a huge fan of writing code in an FP style in a language where that's the convention.

Erlang, Elixir, OCaml, Clojure, (Hell, even Ruby.)

The problem with the current state of JS and Its popular libraries, is that the convention is to write OOP and Imperative code. Unless your entire team is onboard, its causes a lot of issues.

I feel like js-transpiled languages like Purescript, Rescript, ClojureScript, ReasonML, etc do a really good job of allowing Devs to write functional code on the frontend, while leveraging the JS-lib ecosystem.

I personally have a hard time reasoning about while and for loops, etc, and mutable variables, my monkey brain can't keep track of that many spinning plates.
Not your keys, not your car.
My kid started Mandarin language kindergarten, I am trying to learn enough to help him with his homework. Mao simplified the language quite a bit when he took over. This is why in Taiwan they still use traditional characters. Mao was considering converting to the Latin alphabet as well but apparently Stalin told him it would invite western decadence.

Because there are around 8k characters, the ABC song we teach kids for use in ordering dictionaries does not work. There are 3-4 different ordering systems so you end up owning 3-4 different dictionaries, though often I give up and just use an app. There are 8,105 simplified Chinese characters according to the official list, 3,500 classified as "frequent." My kid has about 4500 hours of elementary school left so he has to learn about one character per hour.

Mandarin does not use spaces between the words. This introduces some ambiguity in parsing multi-character words but it does not seem to be a huge problem in practice.

There are some things that are easier though, Mandarin does not have much in the way of conjugation, possession, plurals and gender like you do in French and Spanish. There are some counting words you have to learn, like how in English we have flock, pack, herd, etc.
I'd guess grown-up mall ninjas who never got closer to serving than TV shows.
This problem is not limited to the FBI. Local law enforcement will not pursue cases that require actual investigation and detective work. For example, only 3% of rapes end in a conviction; most suspects are never even charged.
> But its existence will give independent digital cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin more legitimacy

How exactly? The legitimate uses will move to the legitimate digital currencies which will leave only illicit and speculative users, further tanking Bitcoin's reputation.
> My guess to why this isn't solved is because the cities don't actually have the capacity to fix all the potholes.

Pretty sure this is correct. Nobody wants gas or property taxes to go up. What does get maintained is covered somewhere in the federal budget deficit.
The sale price doesn’t really matter. There are standards for maximum % of your income spent on monthly housing costs. I think it’s like 25% but don’t quote me.
Haha yes, my parents put a password to keep me from playing WoW on the family computer. When I used ophcrack to get the password they were mad (but I think a little impressed.)
OP says he compared them in terms of KBs, if this is taken literally then he didn't check to see if they were exactly the same length. Assuming that the two word documents are actually identical except for metadata, I wouldn't expect the size discrepancy to be on the order of kilobytes.

Still a reckless way to identify the leaker, there's plenty of reasonable doubt if all they have to go on is the size of the document that was printed.
In my experience, you can get the attention of an airline by complaining about them to the DOT (in the US).

I had an airline change my ticket from refundable/changeable to non-refundable/non-changeable. The airline refused to acknowledge our original contract. A complaint to the DOT got their attention quickly and I was refunded quickly.

https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/complaint-process
Well said.

The proliferation of ReDoS "vulnerabilities" has been extremely frustrating (as someone working on accurate and high-signal vulnerability reporting tools), and belies completely perverse incentives in the bug bounty/vulnerability reporting space (reporters are incentivized to obtain CVEs to pressure companies into accepting low-quality reports).
>it’s ok for a business to let’s it’s competitors take its clients and market share?

I wonder when businesses are OK with that? Seems like something you would like to avoid always, not just when "at war" (whatever that means - did someone declare war on you?)
A large chunk of people think that every product should be certified as 100% effective and that just being able to read two numbers and see which one is the smaller number is the absolute maximum amount of work that should be required to be an informed customer of any product on the planet. Any defect in the product is "a scam," yet, anyone who pays anything more than the absolute minimum viable option is a total sucker. It's honestly a very strange way to view the world that I don't really understand. My source is that my mother is an ardent member of this group of peole. I find that it mostly just leads to the opportunity to complain about everything and build up a complex around you being "slighted" by the universe all the time.
That's a great point. I interpret that there's a difference of "assigned 40 hours" and "works 40 hours" that is being called out in this data.
Projects which don't consider the build environment to be version controlled have these problems.

When Java came out, we went through the tool hell described in this article.
It's more compatible if you want to access a usb or serial port.

WSL2 is like a car that's great in most ways but for some reason just cannot make right turns from one-way streets. You might not encounter that particular situation very often but your car still needs to be able to do it or else it's just an annoying 3/4-baked thing that is better just skipped until it's actually fully functional.
I desperately wanted to tackle knowledge retrieval problems when I worked at Slack, to the point where I built prototypes during nights/weekends to try and get internal traction. Slack easily has one of the most valuable and important datasets in the world for training corporate agents.

IMO, the most useful rejects were:

- Subscribe to a search query. Get an RSS-like digest of Slack messages, external document updates, CRM interactions, etc.

- Auto-responder I called "escal.ai," named after Slack's internal naming convention for help/support channels. These channels were prefixed with #escal-<subject>. I built a variation of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.05415.pdf to handle asymmetric retrieval tasks, where the answer to a question was typically a Slack post in another channel.