skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fairly standard policy for any big box stores when it comes to gifts. Otherwise, the gift economy would collapse (along with holiday sales), as no one would take the risk of buying things that might not be wanted.
The problem is that killing those whose lives are currently bad is much simpler than helping them fix their lives. That is the undesirable outcome - that those who aren't lucky just die, instead of making a system where everyone is well off enough that they don't feel death is better than going on living (except a very small handful of people with incurable painful or otherwise debilitating conditions, of course).
Alas, the world is neither reliable nor consistent, so any approach which is not probabalistic is also doomed to failure.
I really wonder how Tesla breaks out of this tailspin. For a long time the Tesla name carried a lot of cachet but it's so inextricably linked with Musk's public persona - which is growing more radioactive with every tweet.
#1 reason is because they're running WhatsApp, a 2 billion+ MAU service, and not monetizing it at all right now. Hypothetically a single text ad on the home screen would add billions to their bottom line overnight. #2 reason is because their core products have staying power. They've lived through twitter, snapchat, pintrest, a ton of other smaller social networks, and are still wildly profitable. I fully anticipate they'll outlive (or at least co-exist with) tiktok in the long run and do fine. #3 is "the metaverse" has like a 0.1% chance to make trillions of dollars if it works out like they think. Worst (and most likely) case is that it fails, but it isn't like they bet on something that destroyed their core business. They can just stop investing at any time really and add another $10B in profit. Even after their investments in "the metaverse" they're still pulling in nearly $30B in profit on $120B in revenue.

Obviously if I knew the future I'd be rich already, but that's my 2 cents. shrug
I've experienced asshole power-tripping border guards on both sides. They're much less frequent on the Canadian side, and I have a US passport, but they exist.
This has been studied and solar still comes out ahead. This article seems to not consider the literal thousands of tons of cement and steel required for a natural gas plant. Both of which carry the same mining and smelting baggage that the rare earths come with. At least with nuclear there is clean energy as a result but it will take decades before we can build any nuclear and we can not wait.

https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/life-cycle-assessment.html
Hmm... I read (and loved) Snow Crash, that's not how I imagined it ;)
The HTTP Status Code Management Strategy
There’s still the ability to just type out half a sentence. Digging a bit deeper, is your concern that “if there’s a tool, people will use it”?

Aside: I think this creates a delightful opportunity for an unnecessary middleman. Let’s make “Summarizely” a SaaS app to summarize long winded emails!
The rare times I check a bag I throw an AirTag in.

Although the airline app has always been accurate it's cheap insurance if a bag isn't properly scanned or something.
>From this regard, is not it freedom to have society less restrained by basal desires and the widespread practice of modesty makes it easier to be private with regard to exposing one’s body?

No, it's not. That's a primitive manner of thought that we have hopefully progressed from over the last couple centuries. Freedom is individual choice, not an imposition from another person.
That’s why I suggested in another comment to also create a subscription strategy
There was a news story a few months ago about some airlines changing the way their crew software works to stop a third party app employees were using to better track their hours Was Southwest one of those airlines?
+1. The URL is a huge red flag since it's exactly how scammers create fake links online.
I built telecommunications systems / software for some time. The unfortunate truth here is that telecom carriers absolutely already have everything they need to largely put a stop to it but they knowingly ignore it. It's the biggest problem in the US because because of pricing. It's expensive to run outbound campaigns in almost any other country, and very cheap in the US (fractions of a penny per minute compared to 5-10c per minute in some EU locations). Scammers need volume to make money.

The reason carriers -- from the local exchange carriers and up -- ignore it is because just a single scam operation can mean 10s of thousands of dollars in volume a month, and sometimes more. Since they have to self-report for the most part they're not very incentivized to stop it. There are a few easy to implement regulatory / technical mechanisms that could nearly axe all of it, but carriers push back hard on those regulations and they never stick.

I know from experience dealing with this that it's absolutely not ignorance that's at play on the regulatory and commercial side. It's disgusting, and as fueled with greed and red tape as you'd fear.
Musk’s provocative nonsense was a major reason why I didn’t consider leasing a Tesla earlier this year when I was in the market for an EV. I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this way.
I have a fairly extensive emacs config, and for the most part I am still using the default keybinds. I find the readline bindings to be ergonomic and easy to use.

Assuming average case, most of the complaints in this thread can be solved by using the side of the palm (top of fifth metacarpal) to engage C. Requires no remaps, doesn't take long to get used to, is totally comfortable, and leaves you on the home row.
What a $1M Retirement Looks Like in America
Brianna wu is a nobody whose opinion of Tesla is equal to that of every other nobody. How is this person qualified to predict stock prices? Why does their extremely one sided take matter to anyone?

They're not a good source of information even when they're right.
I don't agree with the Russian sanctions, you're doing collective punishment on a population of people, many of whom presumably don't even support the war. It may be an effective strategy but that alone doesn't justify it
Gift cards don’t have a value until you purchase them, the package is meaningless. The barcode is scanned and the value is added when the transaction is completed.
I think “new meaningful connection” would be a great metric.
He thinks he's being funny, and his opponents and critics have no humor.
When I applied to Atlassian, I had actually been tired of banks and searched Google for “Best startup in Sydney”. HR was in rage that I hadn’t kept the screenshot ;)
The C ABI is (broadly speaking) a standard way to layout structs and a choice of calling convention for the platform. That doesn't influence which types are/are-not defined (and the superset of a C compatible ABI can fix some subtle issues there, like untagged unions).

Null terminated strings are not a part of the ABI, they're a convention in C libraries. Same goes for memory management, that's not really a part of the ABI (but it is an issue, since you need to define who is responsible for memory if it is shared across FFI, but again, the big issue there is garbage collection).
How does that post in any way refute the parents point? I agree with the parent that management will try like hell to blame this on the weather- heck they already are. Just check out their press releases.
For what is worth I have successfully dealt with scratched CDs by applying a cream that I found to be almost the same refractive index as the plastic of the CD.
I do that even now, rather than sleeping to the last minute and struggling to get ready and out the door in time, I'll allow myself time to wake up and get going by: poking at the game du jour (Currently STALKER Gamma and Dwarf Fortress) for a half hour or so while drinking coffee, a short workout, and a shower. Then I'm off. No grogginess, no dragging ass, no rush.

As opposed to my old morning past time of doomscrolling, I much prefer this. Plus, if the GF and I had a rowdy night out, I can forego all of the above and sleep in for another hour or so.

All that said, I do often wake up up to 10 minutes before my alarm actually goes off, and I prefer waking naturally than to the noise of my alarm.
Please read the article for an explanation.
The basic problem is that in highly un-regulated & legalistic economy & polity like the United States, failures such as these are not easily corrected especially where everyone except the weak make money. Everyone who could stop this is making money, the telco operators, amazon, the banks and everyone is weighing the cost of taking any legal or other action and is maximizing their own gain... nobody is really looking to is this socially good.

Contrast this with how the Singapore government in a similarly highly capitalist economy dealt with this - basically telling banks - "you'd better make good the consumers & deal with your holes or else"
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/mas-will-consider-...

In many ways in domain after domain, US nowadays seems to act as the "economic proving ground of the world" where lax regulation allows a million ideas to flourish. Then folks in other parts of the world seem to take the best winning ideas, figure out how to make it work in a socially & governmentally acceptable way in other parts of the world and out-compete the US originators (eg. how Uber, Lyft, Amazon, US based social media firms have effectively been pushed out of dominance in Asia)
The easiest way to solve the tension is probably to add additional money into the mix - the hard to fill shifts get paid a bonus, etc. someone would figure out how to game it of course but you already have this somewhat when overnights pay more.
Because there was the specter of a protracted legal battle to close the Twitter acquisition and that risk (of both time and result) was priced into a 25% discount on the acquisition price. That’s why the stock bumped to 50 on the acquisition news and fell off as the deal became imperiled.
What's most annoying is that there's plenty of employees on the front line who not only care about testing for this sort of thing, but it actually interests them, they're motivated by it, and they understand the dire reality of what happens – to them, primarily – if the company isn't prepared to handle it.

And you can guess what their managers' response typically is: "We need to focus on OKRs and QBRs and KPIs right now... maybe next quarter"

I'm fully convinced that achieving 'manager status' is directly correlated to cowardice. Companies need top-down decision-making, but those decision-makers need to spend more time on the front line.
And what do you propose would be such a reasonable rate limit?

>However, even if we assume that SIM boxes are a magic solution to carrier interventions, that still raises the cost from the current status-quo. Implement enough of these barriers and the entire scam operation becomes unprofitable and no longer worthwhile.

Why do you assume that the call routing is a meaningful cost to these operations? For all we know they spend less than 0.01% of their revenue on call routing.
Kind of off-topic: I built a single HTML file website to fetch dogs images from Flickr tears ago for my girlfriend. Totally forgot about it until now. It seems to be still functioning.

https://gimmeadog.khoanguyen.me/
You comment is nothing else than a personal attack. Maybe you have any scientific arguments against the article?
I have relatives with SUV type ICE vehicles that get over 30mpg, all those emissions add up over time. 20mpg is atrocious in 2022

When people make extraordinarily bad choices I'm vocal about it no matter who it is. "One last time just for fun" is a poor reason to do just a bit more damage to our environment

Excess sugar intake has been linked to the development of type 2 diabetes independent of weight gain

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/02/98777/quantity-sugar-food-...
I'm not defending him - repeating an earlier comment: Musk's behaviour is harmful to his personal reputation, his businesses, his investors, and sometimes beyond. Also utterly unbecoming a CEO of companies which routinely have human life at risk, serve critical national security interests, etc.

But I stand by the analysis that Musk's ventures are (so far) opposed to Russian interests. Who knows though? He's pretty erratic over the last couple years. Maybe next year's Tesla model will switch to gas, with a preference for Russia-supplied gas? Am I joking? Mostly, but not 100%.
The repository says it is deprecated and to use lld instead

https://eisel.me/lld
> I think Ford really is going to get traction with the F150 Lightning

I agree, I think this will be huge. Tesla's moat really is narrowing. I'm still rooting for them, though, and I'd like to see some of the other startups get traction as well.
I once attended a memorial lecture on euthanasia at Oxford university. It started with euthanising people who are in great pain and are obviously going to die in the next 24 hours, and by the end a psychologist in the audience was arguing for euthanising depressed teenagers.

It felt like we hadn't just slipped down the slope, we basically rocketed into the ground. I will never support this movement.
Yes, but that would at least put them at the same level as burner phones with a physical presence required in the target country (or close to it).

Anyway, since you are willing to shoot down each and every suggestion in this thread short of rolling over and accepting the damage how would you tackle it?
But that's not an argument against assisted suicide. If you don't like the choices people are making, absolutely offer them more options so they can choose otherwise. But if there is no willingness to fund these alternatives, forcing people to continue to suffer so that your aesthetic sense isn't offended isn't justifiable.
On the contrary, a drill press is one of the most basic and most used workshop tools.
If you’ve always been handy then you’ve probably already got one, if you’ve just decided that fixing and making things is where you want to go then you will collect various tools.
This has nothing to do with Indians, and is entirely a failure of the FCC to regulate the legacy phone system. The tech industry solved e-mail spam, why can't they be allowed to do the same for phones?
Perhaps the burden of proof is inverse -- require SS to enroll people in the local job that they believe exists.
No, it was intended to save a lot more.

Like Civil Forfeiture, the medical system should never see a single cent "saved" via suicide. Because otherwise, yes, we're saying we think they'd optimize for it.
Six Months with Android from a blind person's perspective
This is an article I wrote a while back, however it's still very much relevant for operating system and app developers
> Well, people believe the craziest things so you are in good company.

I assume people who say that haven’t had a good experience with fb, but it changed my life when I was younger. I still use to track all my friends across the world.

> In some sense adtech has ruined the concept of users paying for a good product and there is poetic justice in that

Twitter blue
And Aer Lingus had a meltdown just last September because of network issues.

https://simpleflying.com/aer-lingus-data-center-meltdown-com...
SMDHuman / BalanceWheel
So in my attempts to get my family home I’ve discovered that rental car company web sites are atrocious.

The direct company sites (not Expedia for example) do not give you the ability to search for vehicles at multiple locations within a mileage radius. You are forced to enter a single location for pickup. This is also true for drop off.

From what I can tell, rental car companies are not setup to easily service a one way rentals, which is what most people need right now. I’ve managed to reserve a car for pickup in KC and drop off in Phoenix for tomorrow. The quote for the two days, over $1200. This isn’t really a web site issue but it gives some context.

Here’s the baffling bit. I make a reservation this morning at Enterprise in a KC suburb and get back a confirmation number, cool. Five minutes later I get a call back that they don’t have any cars available. I ask him why, because I got the confirmation number. He says the website isn’t accurate at the moment. WTF? So when a car is rented and driven off the lot the database doesn’t update? Or worse, the local dealer data is not synced to corporate in real time?

This is a cascading mess. They don’t even have availability in Joplin, MO who’s is 3 hours from KC.
That's poor game theory.

Russia is a Mongol horde. Suing for peace against tribal border raiders (cooperate) is a rational strategy. If they know you'll always cooperate, then their best strategy is to always come back and attack (defect). Each time you achieve peace you lose land.

So, rational strategies are bad. You want to adopt an irrational strategy where you appear to be a crazy person willing to hurt themselves to get revenge - now attackers won't risk themselves in the first place.

This is why societies develop an "honor culture" and why NATO has that mutual defense clause.
100%, it just contributes to the digital landfill that is our inboxes.

Good emails should be written like pseudo code, I suspect this will happen or emails will finally die for something that provides this type of capability of exchanging information in order to facilitate decision making.
The economic angle is convincing only to sociopaths.

Sane people don't kill people to save money.
Somewhere there’s a retired guy sipping his morning coffee and saying, “Told ya.”
Kind of would like "train gmail on all of my sent emails and generate replies in my own sarcastic / self deprecating style". If the request is from a certain family member make sure you reply with an appropriate level of delay to know that they are not your top priority. Inject an occasional reply with an uncharacteristic amount of emotion and sensitivity to show that you aren't completely robotic and devoid of humanity.
> it will take decades before we can build any nuclear and we can not wait

Recent relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34015330

Tl;dr: this is not true; nuclear can be build quickly enough. Also, "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago", "But the second best time is now".
I spent way too much time on this CD as a kid. The little animated demos were wonderful.
Trains have major weather issues much less frequently than planes.
20 years ago, in Vancouver, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised that the coil in the pavement did indeed detect my bicycle, so there is certainly no engineering reason it can't be done.
The Indian government is pretty clearly complicit. At a large enough scale, there is no difference between permitting something and encouraging that thing. And other countries are free to impose economic sanctions on the USA for the shitty things it allows/encourages US companies to do.

If there is a market incentive for companies to do something bad, and the government can, but does not act to correct/neutralize that incentive, then the government should be blamed. India is a democracy, so that blame also falls on the electorate.

As a US voter I grudgingly accept my ~4e-9 proportion of the blame for the shitty things the US allows.
Certainly not, that would destroy profit and competitiveness. Spare airplanes are mostly in for non-essential maintenance, and spare crews can be called up in an hour or two. That's good enough. Catastrophic outages every few years still cost less than building decent redundancy into all operations.

This is partly because airlines are still externalizing a good portion of the cost onto their customers, who need to rebook at short-term pricing. I'd love to see legislation to address this loophole.
I used them as a “virtual travel agent” similar to the prompt on https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts#act-as-a-travel...

It’s nice to be able to respond, “I’ve done 1 already, 2 is too far a drive, and 3 is not my vibe, give me 3 more options” and get a good result. I even asked it “what would the iCal format for doing this activity next Tuesday at 11am look like” and it generated one reasonably close (though in UTC time zone).
Those videos by Mark Rober mainly build on the work done by Jim Browning.

https://www.youtube.com/c/JimBrowning/featured

ScammerPayback also does an incredible job.

https://www.youtube.com/@ScammerPayback
I’m not sure businesses care. Everyone I know associates Indian accent with either scam or useless call center rep who can’t actually see the account or help in any way. India is often given the informational customer service, and only Americans can make account changes. Or someone not in India at any rate.
1. "the things I do are basically the job of a CTO"

If your job title isn't CTO, leave this behind. Unless the elevator is stuck between floors and we are waiting on an emergency crew to rope down sandwiches through the escape hatch, it's not going to work in an elevator. Too many syllables versus "I am a CT0."

2. Tell people who you are. You are more than what you do. If you are a leader, say "I am a leader." Lean in. Tell people what you can stand behind.

Good luck.
Even if it's the oldest 5%, _eventually_ you'd reach even lower than 20 because the population isn't growing at anything near a rate of 5% per year, and so you'd run out of people that old quickly. You'd see an exponential decline in the Canadian population, halving every 14 years. A -5% rate per year is an extremely unlikely thing to keep up for long
My understanding is this is sort-of true. There have been continual upgrades for the entire life of the plane so you can't point to the first ever and assume it's anywhere near the same as one which flies today. (from memory. One more knowledgeable should chime in here)
Personally I pay for twitter blue and I would pay for a facebook subscription
I think people with insane, exclusionary and divisive ideas like yours should be ignored completely.
Tesla Stock Tanked in 2022; Now They're Offering $7500 Discounts
Appliances.

With an abundance of YouTube videos and multiple parts suppliers many appliances can be repaired with a few hours work and $100 in parts (depending on what's wrong of course)

I've repaired a freezer (thermostat/temp control) and a clothes dryer. Have also fixed my furnace.
> * News that Sheryl Sandberg was stepping down was announced on June 1st, the same date of the much anticipated Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial verdict was scheduled.

> * Zuckerberg told employees they’ll be turning up the heat on performance reviews and slowing hiring on July 1st, right before the 4th of July holiday weekend.

> * Meta announced plans to make staffing cuts on September 21st, just days after Queen Elizabeth’s funeral service broadcast across the globe and the associated news cycle.

This is numerology. Just dumb. Wow, announcements on the 1st of a month? Must be a master plan. Days after the queen's funeral (not even days after her death)? This is grasping at straws.
I don't pay for extra standby aircraft, but additional flight availability is why I pick one airline over another. If you choose to fly Spirit, and your flight is canceled or delayed for any reason, you might not make it to your destination for days. With a major carrier, you'll simply be rebooked on the next flight.

Southwest used to be a budget-friendly airline with decent service. Now they're priced as much or more than the other major carriers with the added friction of having to book search flights only on their site.