skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google for paid products has phone support. From a quick check, 2-3 min answer time for calls or chat from google one on cheapest plan.

If you use the free option, the no support is given which is fair, you're not a customer
> For example, name something of real political consequence that it is acceptable to disagree about.

"What is the most impactful way to ensure that everyone has sufficient clean water and nutritious food to survive? Would approach X or approach Y or approach Z save more lives? What other alternatives should we be considering? What are the tradeoffs and risks here? How can we hedge our bets to protect against those tradeoffs and risks?"

Reasonable people can and should have interesting conversations about how best to solve problems. Those arguments could even get heated, but at the end of the day, the person you're arguing with is aligned on key values with you, and just disagrees on how best to fulfill those values.
> It’s not something you can achieve often, to be fair.

Anything is possible with sufficiently good VR.
The Taiwan Long Game
It's true! I remember before we use to just double the tax and that was the tip. (When it used to be 7.25% in California) Nowadays we're taking a second and thinking before eating out.
The cited Medium post says many things. Most of them seem to be background or diversions. I did my best to pick out the essential points and discuss them in my comment above. To the extent I could understand, those essential points seemed questionable.

For what it's worth, another commenter posted this and I found it much clearer, if still imperfect: https://fairlearn.org/main/user_guide/datasets/boston_housin...

The FairLearn authors here explain, like I did above, that the ethical issues depend on use case, and are not inherent to the data or the dataset developers' choice of transformation for the B variable.
I work for a B2B business that offers a pay as you go model.

It hasn't been a complete disaster... but I would now strongly recommend against it.

- Most customers want a fixed bill for budgeting purposes. They would often rather overpay a little bit than having to set aside a special budget that they may or may not need any given year.

- It will make forecasting your revenue a real SoB. For a bigger company you may be able to annualize the payments and deal with liquidity crunches. But imagine being a smaller company and going through months at a time when you aren't getting any money in because of the cyclical nature of demand.

- Customers feel punished for using the product more rather than "getting more value" out of it.

- It's extremely punishing for your biggest customers. 10% of your customers will use 90% of your customer resources. Making them basically foot the entire bill for your company will make them not happy. You will have to find a way to cut them their own pricing or they will go to your competitor (or worse, stand up their own competitor instead of paying you).
Carl Schmitt critiqued liberal democracy with this very same premise. The myth of the disinterested neutral "discussion" seeking consensus optimal solutions, (vs the reality of factional interest groups fighting for 0 sum spoils and power).
> The delta between service worker and say tech is far less than the delta between that collective average and the top of the financial food chain.

True when we think purely in terms of wealth and income, but I'd say the reverse is true in terms of quality of life.

A SV tech worker earning six figures has food and housing security, likely has insurance and dental, has a 401k, is possibly building wealth with stock options, likely has a long term achievable plan to buy a home if they don't own one already, has an emergency fund. They can afford to live in a safe area and send their kids to a good school. That's a lot of vital needs satisfied, many (maybe even most) of which are not fulfilled for the average minimum wage service worker. A huge number of people are one missed wage payment away from poverty.

Sure, Elon Musk has a private jet and can fly anywhere he wants every day of the week. But his fundamental needs (physiological, safety, security) are basically met just as well as mine.

The concentration of wealth at the very top is deeply concerning and potentially destabilising. But I think it's worth remembering the differences between the secure end of the middle class and the bottom half society.
Older Seattle area roads tend to be concrete; newer roads are more frequently asphalt. It was definitely very popular here in recent memory — I could name tons of concrete Seattle roads off the top of my head — but my impression is it is no longer as popular in new construction.
That sounds like hell.

Also as a consumer I have absolutely zero information on how busy drivers are, if my tip needs to be > $X to get picked up faster, if more drivers will login if I tip $X or greater, nor do I have a way to increase my tip if drivers aren’t “biting”.

IF I had that information/ability I’d concede to part of your point but I don’t and even if I did I hate that idea with a fiery passion. If that’s the world we are going to live in then why am I paying a membership fee AND service fees?

I’d say you don’t get to eat your cake and have it too but that’s absolutely what these companies are doing.
People inferred what OP was talking about by reading the post. In addition to an ASCII diagram, it included the phrase:

> I’m not talking about the perpendicular “rumble strips”
Inc. makes it sound like point to point (rather than hub and spoke) is the problem, but that seems like a distraction. Airlines operated PtP for decades; hub and spoke is a relatively new approach that has its own issues.

What got Southwest could get any airline: being stretched too thin, running schedules too tight, having everything just in time, all to cram as many fares into the sky as possible.

American also had huge delays and cancellations, United kind of always has huge delays and cancellations. There but for the grace goes any other airline in this situation.

The lesson from all this, it seems to me, is that if a meltdown can happen to a company like Southwest, which has ample resources and talent, then it could happen to anyone.
>>I still top 20% out of guilt

hmmmm

>>but it might be that service in general is poorer now.

I wonder why that might be? You have allowed emotion to screw the system. the entire purpose off a tip is pay for the service. no serivce no tip. People work of incentives, if they know they will get 20% no matter what why would or should they give you good service?

you set the expectation, and now complain that people have given you exactly what you expected of them
Pure-python commonly is used to refer to code that has no external dependencies.
I only wrote Python. I am using C++ and Rust libraries
If the analysts are tasked with getting blood from a turnip it doesn't matter how competent they are.

Note that I'm not arguing that Twitter is worth more (or less) than they say it is, I'm arguing that they likely don't have access to information that makes their valuation particularly useful.
I'm not sure why rampant fraud can ever be justified in a democracy. You take direct control of forming establishment to the greatest percentage of the populace who will ultimately choose the rules (how representationally biased being completely dependent on your nation). Vs the anarchism/libertarian model you seem to espouse which sets control in the hands of those who bully the rest. Those that drive corruption and cheating the max are the winners in this world and that's not the world I want to live in.
To make your power go further, we'd want some impressive insulation in our structures. Aerogel comes to mind, but it's low density and fragility means shipping it by rocket from Earth wouldn't work. However it may be possible to make it locally - the moon has lots of aluminum oxide, but we'd have to ship the water & alcohol needed for synthesis. Removing the water and alcohol after the aerogel structure gets created is done with freeze-drying, something that is easy on the moon, and the water + alcohol can probably be recovered for reuse in the next batch.

Downside to aerogel? It makes for a lousy micro-meteoroid and radiation blocker, unlike something like rockwool that masses more.
I do think that some do. A well written, polite, short letter expressing a issue and how it is detrimental to an organization and how it impacts customers would be welcome by any competent executive or manager. If they don't want that knowledge, then I am sure that is common, but it is not ubiquitous.
>There have been restaurants have tried non-tipping models,

You mean like most restaurants in europe? Yes the service there is on average worse than in American restaurants because of tips, but in my opinion not by enough of a margin to cost me 20% every time. The times that you would tip at a eu restaurant, its something reasonable well below the ridiculous 20% average that American businesses have swindled into existence (because a tip is supposed to be extra, not the employee's actual means to paying rent)
Some of the 1.7 stuff has an alert banner that pops up when the connection is broken. I think that could really help.

However I haven't put that in our app as I have seen other issues of flakey connection reconnect issues, and I would hate to make any of those more visible with a flashing notice.

- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues...

- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/5102

- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/5024
That’s a distortion that is what the property owners in California want. Y’all get your million dollar studio apartments with $1000 property taxes and tent cities on the curb outside.

San Francisco can be a playground for the rich until they get sick of paying for $30 lattes or whatever and flee to low cost locales like Manhattan that have affordable housing and transit.

It won’t be “fixed” until we’re all backed into an economic corner where it becomes politically acceptable for the property owners to lose bazillions of dollars.
My issue isn’t the scale itself, my issue is the scale used for _this_ data.

I don’t know exactly what kind of reply you are expecting to your second sentence.
Harmful parenting styles lead to children that grow up to be debilitated and somehow it gets turned around to be called 'entitlement'. It's just shifting the blame from the bad parents to the child, like victim blaming.
That's the one I've been using mostly, but am fairly displeased with the voices. GP's point about nice samples that fall apart in real use is accurate.
You know, in the last years I started to believe that this kind of article is pure clickbait striving to elicit a reaction from the reader.
If the generative AI gets so good...

I'm waiting, but don't believe it is/will be "that good". Language models are about language, not knowledge - our human gullibility and hopefulness is a vital factor in the current "success" of generative systems.
I haven't tried all-you-can eat restaurants with QR codes.

My (good) experiences have been at bars and outdoor restaurants, where normal process of placing additional orders is usually slow in my experience, giving the new approach a chance to shine.

I agree with you re: the novelty aspect and personally I dislike ordering on my phone, but will tolerate it for the places where it makes the overall experience better.
It can provide diffs against ctime so you can see if files have been modified and then restored.
Anyone here reading this, did it change your opinion on the increase in theft at retail stores during the pandemic? Are there people that now realize no one cares who works for Walmart so why not just steal stuff freely? And, they do it because they think that Walmart has destroyed their local economy? I'm not asserting that all is true, just saying it would be an interesting story behind the theft.
> But automated call centers do save the customer time. 9 times out of 10 a user problem is easily remediated by pointing the user to the correct manual.

> If it wasn't, phone trees and other pre-tech phone routing would never save the company money at all!

> Customers would buy products with customer service that actually solved their problem instead.

That assumes that there is a choice. Often enough there isn't. Just like there often enough isnt really competition. We have seen how "compeditors" have colluded to keep wages low before (the "gentlemens agreements between apple, Google etc execs). Funnily enough these agreements are never done to keep exec salaries down, might have something to do with the fact that they all sit on the same boards.

> Customer service solving the customer problem in the fastest possible time is the metric, and if humans were better at it - you could still hire less humans and "save labor costs".

Evidence required. I suspect the systems are actually designed for customers to just give up. This is especially obvious in services which customers only use rarely and thus price becomes the main purchase factor. Take airlines, which probably are the worst in terms of call wait times, people do not buy tickets enough to make purchase decisions based on service when something goes wrong, so service is atrocious, except for business customers and frequent flyers, who typically get significantly better service.
Octave/matlab is a little more enjoyable to use for matrix stuff in the REPL though. The game of “is this in Numpy or Scipy and why won’t it autocomplete” is kind of annoying, IMO.

On the other hand, the non-mathematical functionality of Python of course is much better developed!
Yes it does - via ssh force commands. In the hosted version you just tick a checkbox in the web ui for each ssh key.
The kids I know these days are fantastic. They’re empathetic, smart, polite, and all-around much better people than my friends and I were at their age. They’re so good and they give me so much hope. But they’re also troubled. They struggle with anxiety and depression (and younger) more deeply than anyone I knew growing up. My theory is that we’ve simply handed them a more difficult world to grow up in. They’re handling it admirably, but we really did them dirty.
>> but damn if 20-somethings aren't emotionally fragile at a level the world has never seen before. And they're also all in therapy too and super in touch with their feelings and emotions which is supposed to help

They’ve probably seen enough older people drink themselves to literal death, along with other types of deaths of despair, & make a conscious choice to not want to end up that way. Whether or not it will work out in the long term, nobody can tell for certain - but at least they’re trying.
Ok so the main plot point is entirely wrong because they didn’t bother translating anything enough or caring about the mythology.

Odin’s wife is Frigg.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg

This is known kinda like, Luke is Leia’s sister, Mary is the mother of Jesus that type of thing.
But the way you pronounce the name is nearly identical to Freyja.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja

Freyja is then in the game pretending to be Odin’s wife.

They get this fundamental detail wrong because they have such a poor understanding of the mythology.
I’m trying to think of an equivalent for how wrong it is… like maybe using Mary Magdalene instead of Mary, Jesus’ mother as the Virgin Mary. She really wasn’t no virgin…
Netware was far more expensive than NT server. Most smaller businesses couldn’t afford or needed directory services that Novell offered. Add in the fact that once NT 4 came out with easier to use GUI tools, Netware was done. Their product was stable, we had 2 big computer labs and printers running off one server It never crashed. I remember having to restart a print queue every so often though.
That is not the case at least in the UK; you have 14 days after receiving an item, for any online purchase you make, to return it, even if you just changed your mind.

Consumer protection regulations are genuinely so nice for feeling at ease with buying stuff online.
Neil Howe: The Fourth Turning Has Begun, How Will It Unfold?
The French Revolution was an evil thing. Its horrors exceeded anything that the ancien regime could even fathom doing. And in any case, the situation isn't comparable. The average poor American is overfed and lives a life of comfort that the rich of 200 years ago could only dream of.
Rentier parasites enabled by state overregulation, which is in response (usually) to overeager or immoral entrepreneurs (ARM loans, thalidomide, slum lords,crypto, supplement industry, lemon cars, malware, vaporware, stock scams, etc). The regulation is supposed to protect us, but in reality just enables those with the resources to meet the new standard to have a (olig|mon)opoly. I'm not sure what the solution is, just pointing out how "rentier parisites" tend to arise.
There are situations where fractions are easier and more importantly more accurate than decimals.

For example, measuring a third of something in decimals would be 0.333... while in fractions that would be 1/3. Fractions are particularly popular in the construction industries for this reason, where base 12 math will toss out anyone who tries to be metric and base 10.
> I'm not sure why you would put data you don't intend to be queried in the same database

Things like personal user / marketing info, internal data / metrics, etc.
It builds/preserves your brand. A proper customer centric strategy relies on support to empower the sales/product teams (and vice-versa).
True, you normalise/denormalise data not tables as such; tables pop out of a normalisation process and denormalisation collapses them together. Perhaps if I'm still wrong you could put me right. And don't just point at the wiki article on it, please be specific.

To your question, probably longer than you but I've always more to learn.
Show HN: Hoverflow – Nested browsing for wikis and docs
I built Hoverflow.io, a browser extension that allows any hyperlink to be previewed inside a tooltip just by hovering. And it's nested, browse API docs, wikis or the web without leaving your tab and breaking flow.
Educate them in the perils and pitfalls of life. Tell them not to fear them, but be aware of them, then let them know you expect them to take it from there. Kids are far more capable then we give them credit for. Not long ago they were forced to work in factories to help provide for the family.
> Clinical psychologist Camilo Ortiz, a professor at Long Island University-Post, began noticing a few years ago that some of his young patients, mostly children being treated for anxiety, would “fold very quickly” at the first sign of adversity

This is a perfect description of someone I met recently on a road trip with friends. From our first encounter he came off as feeling miserable and sorry for himself. He didn’t drink so he was the DD for our group, but he was a nervous driver and when we hit the freeway he got so nervous he was afraid to take his eyes off the road in front and wouldn’t shoulder check. Instead of confronting him and hurting his feelings we let him keep driving and we would shoulder check for him. Very dangerous and we knew it.

When we had the accident, it was minor and happened because he froze up at the wheel during a turn and continued on to hit a tree. Saddest, slowest accident I’ve ever seen or will be a part of and no one was really hurt. My immediate reaction from military and first aid training was to get all the other passengers to safety and make sure they weren’t injured. Meanwhile, he got out of the car, burst out sobbing, and literally ran away crying.

Anecdotal, but I think the lack of mental resilience and emotional resilience were strongly connected in his case.
Ignore OTP for the most part. Just write good code that works at one level at a time. Then when you hit something that needs OTP I send them towards Designing Elixir Systems with OTP

https://pragprog.com/titles/jgotp/designing-elixir-systems-w...

This is all about the onboarding experience of engineers coming onto a team. So you have to be careful with the projects that engineers newer to elxir get. But that's part of the cost of a more niche language.
“It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not… You can get the real thing, and you get the same price.”

- Bill Gates
Google is a leader in the tech playbook concept of cornering off your monopoly then treating your customers like shit. It's actually essential to any internet scale business model, because of the challenges of profitable serving so many people if you actually provide some kind of support.

FWIW, google is better positioned to give shitty support because their users are the product anyway, and they grew organically into this. Support was never really part of the bargain (incidentally why I would never take google seriously for "business" services like gsuite or gcp because it's just not their culture).

The more egregious examples are companies like uber (probably the worst) that actually have customers but think they can treat them as badly as google treats its users because it's a "tech" business. And you end up with supposedly "disruptive" businesses that just amount to "we're cheaper because we're self serve and don't offer support (and ignore laws)". But returning to your point and mine, the first step is "blitz-scaling" yourself a de-facto monopoly so you can get away with treating people badly.
I think you hit the nail on the head, except that the word "entitled" is completely inappropriate to describe something entirely negative.
I just tried to do what I would do originally and the steps were:

- look at the "functions" example on the main page (an opportunity to mention s-strings there)

- search for "function" in the prql book (s-strings are about 18th position, I probably bailed out before that)

- search for "prql SQL function" and "prql native function" - neither returns the answer on the first page

The sstring on the front page definitely helps a lot. I think just a bit of SEO and a right phrase here and there mentioning "SQL function" and "native function" could help a lot as well.
This is kind of a bizarre article that tries to view the world through some sort of class struggle.

Airlines make choices about how to run their business.

Consumers make choices about which business to give their money to.

If businesses screw up, then consumers leave.

It’s really that simple.
I really dislike tipping. I can’t remember the last time that service was so amazing that a tip was required. Of course, I’m not sure I would be happier if the bill was the same with the tip component removed. I suppose it does give the consumer some leverage if the service was horrible. I think I’ve just convinced myself that tips are ok.
I want to say around-ish a decade ago? It definitely used to be 15% when I was growing up.

Although based on some recent news articles I found when I tried searching for a more definitive source, tip amounts have gone down in the past year or so.
You should go in! I enjoy picking the fruits, veggies and cuts of meat instead of whatever the market grabs. (not to say curbside is bad but it was one of the few things I miss when the lockdown in 2020 happened.)
If course, it only goes to workers, when it isn't stolen by the company.

https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-06-instacart-revises-pay-po...

As far as I know Instacart has stopped doing this, and many other apps were busted for this, but it's utterly, utterly shameful.
Not that it seems to matter. Congress will spend way more than they receive in taxes, regardless of the tax rate on rich people.
>"receiving oral sex from animal"
That's like the most basic kink for women, the animal being usually a dog. I can't even remember all the women that have shared this "secret outrageous fetish" with me, from my experiences it's not uncommon at all. Also psychopaths and other predatory humans exist in huge numbers, 1 in 50 is probably an underestimate. Consider yourself lucky that you have successfully lived on a sheltered environment most likely all your life.