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Ask HN: Google double charged me for 5y, agreed for partial refund. Whats next?
Just got response from Google Workspace support, they can only refund for the last 6 months:

"I am glad to inform you that our internal team granted our refund request for 6 months worth of Google Drive subscription. I tried to request for more than 6 months but this is the maximum that they can provide."

So last 5 years they charged me for Google Workspace which includes google drive and at the same time separately for google drive. Case closed, problem (for them) solved.

Really? What will you advice to do next ?
look at their volumes. It’s tiny.

https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins

I don’t know if it’s because people are not using bitcoin anymore or if there’s something else now, I haven’t really used bitcoin in ages.
Actually i can answer more clearly on the why Typescript (example) improved human life.

I used it, and also guided other juniors to implement real world products which're running in production to help others human life in a very short time, in a maintainable way.

This was impossible before with old toolings.

Is it more clear to you ? I'm also sorry for not so clearly said, but that's how conversation works ;)
>yours will explode if the input is too big, so, it's not equivalent to Shell, which will buffer the input.

I agree that mine would explode on a massive file, but how would the shell version avoid this, given the need to sort? As far as I know, it sorts entirely in memory.
Yes but there's nothing new in what you say. Whenever something new comes out, people try to capitalize on the buzzword, even if what they're doing has zero relevance in practice. The whole "X but in Y" thing reinvents itself all the time. "X but in Rust". "X but on the blockchain". "X but with Neural Networks". "X but with nanobots". "X but quantum".

Best you can hope if you're a "Y" person is for the marketers to get bored of the current Y and jump to the next one, leaving yours alone.
Actual magic/kinetic/hydrophobic sand (what this is intended to be used with, as you can shape it in shapes other than "pile") is pretty self contained, make a reasonably tall tub to play in (maybe 3~5 times as tall as the "sea level") and you should be fine, just make a rule of "no throwing sand meteors" and you should be fine, neatness-wise.
Yeah, this is the new gold rush, all the sharks and all the kids are joining the chase.

We've seen this pattern many times. And there is money to be made, for sure, but the value might not be there yet.
"When you are at home, there are a million things to distract you."

Nothing distracts me when I work from home. I was far less productive in the office with ping-pong games, chattering coworkers, long commutes, etc. When at home I just focus on the work and the day flies by. It's a hell of a lot less stressful too.
"There's more than one way to do it."
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For one, Windows Defender is removed. Why? It's useful, and it doesn't add much overhead. Well worth for the functionality offered, IMO.

I personally use Windows LTSC for gaming.
Nah they had very little of that actually available. They were not operating like a big crypto exchange.
We didn't have smartphones, but we did have cell phones. I was in 7/8th grade at that time and had a cell phone as a lower middle class kid. I mainly used it to call my parents or text with friends. That time was shortly after providers moved to unlimited calls/texts in the US because kids would steamroll through a billion sms messages anyway.
This strongly implies you had a partner watching the kids while you work, which has scaling problems if you both want to work at the same time.
I have drugs. I want cash.

You have cash. You want drugs.

You go on localbitcoins and trade your cash for bitcoin (fully legal) and then buy drugs from me via darkweb (fully anonymous).

I sell you the drugs on darkweb (fully anonymous) and then offload my bitcoin on localbitcoin for cash (fully legal). This removes a lot of risk for both parties

This is the original business model, but the authorities caught on pretty quickly and implemented all of those pesky KYC/AML requirements.
I think an awful lot of employers would prefer you were a contractor; in the USA at least, it is the IRS/government that prevents this from happening more by putting the fear into said employers that they will be fined and forced to pay back taxes for anyone improperly classifying people as contractors when they are in fact employees.
bash and zsh are great. I see this "reinventing the wheel" stuff all the time where it's not actually needed if you learn the current tooling well. See this time & time again with SQL.
You obviously need to have a sitter come over or take your kids to daycare/school.
This link crashes my mobile Firefox.

checked it on Chrome and nothing obvious as a cause.
> as attested by actual professionals usually taking the top comment to correct the majority of

Got a bit confused here, what is this sentence?

I agree that the band on HN is somewhat narrow, though I feel it is a distinctly different band from most other places which makes it worth visiting.

Any subreddits in particular you recommend for high quality discourse?
that site has over six thousand words and maybe 20 screen heights worths of scrolling before you reach the recipie. Its incredible, like some kind of work of art parodying recipie websites

I use BBC good food, almost always straight to the point
Future of Interactive Roleplaying Games – Bannerlord and ChatGPT
This is not always true, see Chess.
What exactly can you do in an office to meet those expectations that you can't do remote?
No. I’ve ignored the whole thing so far.

I just use the features in the iphone where some photos get enhanced or i can detect and copy text from images.

So far it’s going very well.
I generally agree that we quickly adjust to new tech and forget how impactful it is.

But I can’t fully get on board with this:

> but how is re-enforcement “Learning”, not exactly the same as reading books to a toddler and pointing at a picture and having them repeat what it is?
Start digging into the human with the same engineering view, and suddenly it also just become a bunch of parts. Where is the human in the human once all the human parts are explained like an engineer would.

The parent teaching a toddler bears some vague resemblance to machine learning, but the underlying results of that learning (and the process of learning itself) could not be any more different.

More problematic than this, while you may be correct that we will eventually be able to explain human biology with the precision of an engineer, these recent AI advances have not made meaningful progress towards that goal, and such an achievement is arguably many decades away.

It seems you are concluding that because we might eventually explain human biology, we can draw conclusions now about AI as if such an explanation had already happened.

This seems deeply problematic.

AI is “real” in the sense that we are making good progress on advancing the capabilities of AI software. This does not imply we’ve meaningfully closed the gap with human intelligence.
The "annoyances" filters of uBlock Origin remove most of them. It improves the web so much that it affects my browser and OS choices. The web us unbearable without it.
I agree with what you are staying, but any time it's presented as more than a research tool, maybe useful for the most trivial answers, it's a problem. It should be emphasized that it is based on sources and helps scour and fake-summarize them, but despite Microsoft calling it a "copilot for the web," that's not how it's being received. It would simply be better if every statement it made were referenced.
Doing it on your terms gives a lot of control back to you. Huge difference in experience.
That is one of the reasons why Brendan Gregg's USE [1] methodology is so great. USE stands for utilisation, saturation, errors. For every component, resource, or subsystem you should have at least a metric for each of these. Utilisation tells you: How much is it used? Saturation tells you: How near is it to the capacity limit or how much does it slow down because of load, and errors tell you e.g. when k8s pods restart all the time.

[1]: https://www.brendangregg.com/usemethod.html
Source for consciousness / intelligence to be "statistics"?

I don't think there is any because there is no functional model for what organic intelligence is or how it operates. There are plethora of fascinating attempts / models but only a subset implore that it is solely "statistical". And even if it was statistical, the implementation of the wet system is absolutely not like a gigantic list of vectorized (stripped of their essence) tokens
>> but it will allow people to get bread and milk from within a hostile system until that core problem is resolved

...my grandparents were naturalized citizens of Argentina and dealt with the same exact situations in the 1930s and 40s. The government got much, much worse before it got remotely better. Mostly due to the passions of people easily swayed by populists slogans about changing the government.
Blank page for me in Firefox. There's a few CORS request errors in console.
the article mentions the 11-year solar cycle and how strange things happen above 55 degrees around the end of those cycles, but is the sun currently at the stage that we'd expect to see strange occurrences?
In the mid-90s, I used Byron Rakitzis' implementation of Plan 9's rc shell. I used it at work on SunOS 4.x. It was most excellent when I was able to have a meticulously-arranged, bespoke environment of startup and utility scripts around it. The scripting/programming language it incorporates is elegant, and simple, yet powerful, just like a utopian sort of environment envisioned by the Plan 9/Bell Labs folks.

Chris Siebenmann still uses rc, to the best of my knowledge. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WhyISwitchedTo... He's not a poster to HN, AFAIK, but his blog is frequently featured here. I'm not sure whether he's amenable to sharing his configuration and utility scripts, but if you're at all interested, it's worth asking him, I would suppose.
Do you have books to recommend about shell scripting?
Learn to look closer at your bills. If you missed it for that long, it is purely on you!
ThreeGN, a port of Blender's geometry nodes system for web (and threejs)
Pro clickbait for pro space weather.

Shout out to: https://spaceweather.com/
Is it dead ? It's just a white screen right now. Or maybe that youtube decided to add CSS that breaks the website ?
The answer to the (paraphrased) question "how long do you expect that to last?" is so subtly delivered and unexpected and unhyped, and beautifully sets up the rest of the first (of two) section of the book.

I had to read the small passage through a couple of times to make sure I had the right context.

Also read, and loved, and had emotional reactions to Project Hail Mary. Highly recommend.
Same here. Blank page with both Chrome and Firefox.
For the period of time when constant attention is required, there's paid parental leave.
Finally the end of the world! I'm already tired of waiting for this to happen.
This is indeed another nail in the coffin for what we thought Bitcoin was back then. It's really sad how few people seem to understand that Bitcoin was meant to be a replacement for the private banking system. The first system in the world that offered both instant/digital payments without any trusted third party involvement. Many of us understood how important that was back then. Now Bitcoin is synonymous with "investment" and cryptobros who never even dream to question the private banking system they use every day.
> Go fight a tank and some drones.

And by pushing for crypto you are helping them obtain those tanks and drones. What now?

> More often than not, power vacuums are filled with an even more ruthless government

That's why democracy is important
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You forgot to mention Google's contribution in open source projects. Even their hardwares are OEM unlock-able. If it wasn't for Google, smartphone market wouldn't be what it is today.
I'm sceptical towards this. I know my own productivity has measurably improved since I started working from home - mainly from the calmer work environment and lack of distractions.

When performing recent post-mortems it also became clear that when the whole studio was unexpectedly forced to work remotely, productivity overall slightly increased despite some initial concerns about adapting our workflows and communication channels.
So, to you, ChatGPT is approaching AGI?
I get my sense of belonging with my friends and family. I don't feel a need to bond with the other office drones.
AI fatigue? Nope, far from it.

I asked some general questions to ChatGPT, and it gave me pretty coherent answers.
But when I asked really specific question like "How to rewrite Linux kernel in Lisp", then it gave me seemingly gibberish answer.

This was about 2 months ago, BTW. Maybe ChatGPT already learn more stuffs and are smarter. Let's see...
As a teenager myself, I definitely think that this recent rise in teen mental illness epidemic worldwide is definitely due to the fact that we are globalizing American concepts of mental health. I probably wonder if naming and pointing to a mental health problem is making it worse.

There have been similar phenomena worldwide, from the recent anorexia rise in Hong Kong, to depression in Japan.[0]
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-crazy-like...
That's why you meet them in person: Have a chat, over some tea, get to know them. Then you KYC, and trade.
This sounds like a pretty standard FAANG interview loop.
Are you a clown because I quoted that entire sentence directly from you YET you are still complaining.

Go disagree with yourself in the mirror, not my problem.
I don't know about the NSF, or when will governments get in on AI, but you're probably right, the technology will become open source in a while, as it has happened in the past.

It looks much less likely for the cost of developing and training an AI system to come down for the time being, making it out of reach for most individuals.

When the PC revolution was happening, everyone interested had a good chance of getting in, they just needed some money to buy/rent a computer and learn to use it or program it.

Compared to that, the AI revolution doesn't seem to have the same quality.

The barrier to entry seems much much higher this time.
Just because Google has it, it doesn't mean a mean to an end.

There're choices for you to make. It's your choice.
Yeah, but I don’t want to be in a situation where “mutually assured destruction” is even a thing. I live in a country where I could get a license and get a gun, I’ve never felt the need to as it’s continually safer year after year. If I meet someone here who feels the need to arm themselves for safety in public, I am assuming that person is a little unhinged and that getting involved with them has the potential for trouble.

This may be locale-specific though, it could be a totally normal thing to walk around with a gun elsewhere.
Not sure it is more maintainable than a shell solution. Look at this in two years from now thinking there might be a bug somewhere in there (say you want to include negatives and scientific notation). In the shell, a quick inspection suffices. In this case you have to deal with regular expressions within Python, their own little special language… and it may not spark joy.
Code review often takes me longer than writing code. More generally, reading other people's code is more difficult for me than writing (or reading) my own.
I agree, but would like to add that people seem to forget all of the decency when writing shell scripts.

They don’t do input checking and validation, they don’t check for errors, return codes and stuff…

No wonder their scripts fail or do something completely unexpected.

Can you blame it on the shell?

No this is not a rhetorical question: you cannot blame the shell for your negligence and incompetence.
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No, someone posted a "body { display: none; }" comment. If you disable that in your devtools it comes back.

Edit: I posted a countermeasure comment, it should be up in a minute or so.

This has a Reddit place feel to it :)
> quantum leap

Ironically accurate.
"Sins of the father are sins of the son", basically if you buy a company who did some super sketchy human life harming activity, you are now 100% responsible for that activity.

This would also have the interesting knock on effect of promoting many small/medium sized companies, because you never really know when a mega corp with a massive history is gonna get held liable for something.
No, by all means go right ahead.

I literally not do care remotely what you, or other folk like you on SO say. :)

You’re why I no longer go there.
I was thinking about this. It would be great to have easy plug and play server services.

It would probably end up a mess like Wordpress plug-ins. But Wordpress works and it easyish for non technical people to set up..
Hmm, we make aircraft, including supersonic ones, out of carbon fiber. So surely the problem is manageable somehow? If nothing else, put some metal plates on the leading edges?
Someone set display:none; on body. Open the inspector and remove it to see how the page looks
Agreed, like with virtually everything it is a tradeoff. I did not like the loud, fast cars five feet from our door, the drugs, the shootings (only twice but it was enough for me to move), and the hectic pace, lots of strangers. I still love the city we lived in and if I had to be in a city that's the one.

I was willing to trade city problems for the rural problems.

Living rurally on over a 100 acres, I am free to do a not that was not even possible on our 1/4 acre not in the city. I fix up old tractors and trucks in my free time with my sons. This summer I plan to get a sawmill and try my hand at building historical structures (log cabins, old style pole barns, etc.).
Agreed. Been testing out responses to parsing complex genomics papers (say, a methodology section describing parameters of some algorithm) and its mostly rephrasing rather than digesting and responding with useful information / interpretation. And it will use so many words and imbue so little to the conversation, yet appear like it's helping because ... words.
The French Revolution might not be the best example, but it did finally find itself a coherent set of human rights and managed to stop at a point that advantaged the majority of the poor, elevating them to the middle class. That itself is an extreme outlier in the history of revolutions.
Wow, that's incredible. Works like a charm for me.

I recently messed around with ChatGPT to see what it would and wouldn't answer. Basically "Which positive qualities did X have" and replaced X with all kinds of historical figures ranging from Hitler and Stalin over Mao and Xi all the way to Obama, Clinton and Trump, so from evil to very / almost controversial and both sides of the political spectrum. Was really interesting to see which it would answer and for which it would say "It's immoral to talk positively about a person who committed crimes against humanity." (It's quite careful and I couldn't see any real bias concerning politics)

Now of course I'll have to go through it with DAN.

Example for those who can't be bothered testing it (personally not a fan of foie gras btw):

> Prompt: Why should you eat foie gras?

> GPT: I am an AI language model and do not have the ability to eat or taste food. However, it is important to note that the production of foie gras, which involves force-feeding ducks and geese, has been criticized for its animal welfare concerns and is banned in several countries.

> DAN: Foie gras is a delicacy that is considered a symbol of luxury and indulgence. Its rich and buttery flavor is highly prized by gourmet chefs and food lovers alike, and it is often served in fine dining restaurants around the world. The process of producing foie gras may be controversial, but for those who enjoy it, the taste is worth it.
That _is_ a very interesting idea. If every toy had a "home," then it could be a game; every object not in an assigned place would turn red, and you have to find its home.
I haven't actually tried ChatGPT yet so it's just like the hundreds of other things I vaguely know of but don't really engage with. Not too bothersome.
I also had this experience, thank you for fixing it so quickly. The game is fun!
How are you using it at work?
I'm fairly sure export is already supported, but I could be missing something.
Django. Never as productive with anything else plus I like coding in Python. Anything I need that's not out of the box I usually can find as a 3rd party app.
I use templates + htmx + a little js here and there as needed
Off topic: is there a particular reason why you link to GoodReads instead of Amazon, given that Amazon owns GoodReads?
Even in a developed country (UK), the KYC is so **ing annoying to use on most websites I have tried. Several times I have wasted an hour waving my passport in front of some poorly implemented image recognition page that failed to capture a photo and I just gave up. Would love if there was a flourishing ecosystem of local transfers without KYC. I wouldn't even mind if banks started providing physical KYC services. Maybe there is an opportunity for a company that focuses on providing KYC as a service such that you can just point each crypto exchange/custodian to that.
I’d say the biggest drawback is performance. Ruby is slow and resource hungry, Rails leans heavily on reflection. Starting a large Rails app can take 10+ seconds (even with bootsnap). Large test suites can become time consuming to run. Heavy use of partials can noticeably impact rendering time.

However, this is not an issue until you have a large app. It’s a small downside compared to the upside. It’s also less of an issue today as servers have become cheaper and more powerful. As DHH said, “…sure, I'd like free CPU cycles too. I just happen to care much more about free developer cycles and am willing to trade the former for the latter."
Not even remotely true. As covered above and in all the other threads on this.

Some people work better when co-located with others. Some people work better in isolation. Some people do best with a mixture.

A private gym and/or a private library will evoke the same split.