skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keeping your software up to date as dependencies age and go out of support or the platform you build on evolves is not resume driven development. There’s a business and engineering case that can easily be made for that.

Of course there’s no real dictionary we can go to for this, but I’d define RDD as “chasing technology trends without business or engineering justification”.

Why are we switching to JS-Framework-De-Jour? Why are we using this graphdocumentjsondistibutedimmutablelog database all of a sudden? How does this improve the business? How do see a path to a positive ROI from this decision?
There is a feeling of crisis and everybody seems to be protesting today. Nurses are threatening to strike, as are doctors, train drivers, etc. The Tory government was insisting it would stand its group but it seems to be capitulating to avoid adding to general chaos.

(In France, for instance, a transit strike forced soccer fans to approach the stadium via a poorly planned route that caused dangerous crowding and led to police violence against the fans. One thing leads to another.)

People are also having angry and possibly violent protests outside hotels that house asylum seekers. Students are just one of the many groups of angry people.
Journey is like this and . Also you can't die as such, you just keep experimenting until you find what works.
Therapy is only as good as the therapist, and it's difficult to gauge if a therapist will be any good for one particular person. Getting the right therapist is critical for therapy to 'work'. Same applies for meds. But generally, it's about helping a person help themselves.
Myths that programmers believe about reality:

- Only one person can live at an address

- Two people with the same name can't live at the same address (Jr/Sr)
Uber, others, ban you on a chargeback immediately.
Well, the simple answer is you don't use it. The more complex answer is that you do use it but have safe guards in place, which `unsafe` does to some extent even more than C or C++ code. You could also ask the creators of said dependencies why there is `unsafe` in their code and perhaps submit PRs to mitigate or remove that, as in the case of actix-web a few years ago.

But as Rust crates become more prevalent, I do expect that we'll see fewer and fewer crates with `unsafe`, or have enough safe alternatives to `unsafe` crates.
That is a fine and common opinion, but just one question: how often have you inverted a binary tree at your job? Because after nearly 20 years it hasn't come up once for me. I am sure for some roles it is a necessary skill but my issue is that most of these questions are more or less toy problems that come from academia and not business. They are a great test of your retention of a data structure class but not super relevant beyond that.

I would rather hire an engineer with a strong business or user sense - reading between the lines of requests and anticipating future issues or uses adds so much more value in a real sense.

To me, these are great entry level questions because it is a good baseline for new grads when you have little work experience to judge. Past that, it is like making a lawyer take a mini bar exam for every new job - a waste of effort if you want to hire for specific skills and experience.
> Also, the FUD you linked to says the feature MAY be shipped.

Doesn't it worry you that they'd even consider this kind of stuff?

Also, a proposal by one of their developers is not FUD. Maybe suicide.
I'd say that's just like the UK except the infrastructure is all in the south, but the UK government is currently in denial about any of their own actions having gone wrong at all at any point, so no Pikachu face.
To get in initially, you do need to grind Leetcode at least.
I agree that abstract algebra has only marginal important to the general practice of programming. I only dispute that it's marginal for cryptography engineering.
Ugh. Yeah you're right. It's weird that this was predicted by movies notably Terminator - we should have all seen this one coming for a while.
I recently stayed in Panama City, Panama for a week, and booked an Airbnb for my stay. When I checked in, I was so tired from the flight that I just wanted to take a hot shower and crash. I turned on the shower and waited for the hot water. And waited. And waited. Finally I messaged the host to ask if I was doing something wrong with the shower controls.

The host’s response: “We don’t offer hot water at this rental.”

I was, let’s say, surprised.

I asked them where in the listing they mentioned that, and they said “We didn’t list hot water as one of the amenities. That was intentional.”

So essentially, Airbnb considers hot water to be an “amenity”, on the same level as a coffee maker or a carbon monoxide alarm.

Of course I escalated to Airbnb support and of course they sided with the host. So completely aggravating. Like, ok but you also didn’t list “front door” or “roof” among the amenities. What should I infer from that?
Reward Design with Language Models
Neither ePrivacy nor GDPR require cookie consent popups, instead they basically say that tracking requires consent. GDPR only mentions cookies once, in its recitals. It's the adtech industry that decided to ignore DNT.
From my perspective, there's loads of this legacy/boring crap (lots of PHP&Rails). As a "old" coder, I love those legacy apps that folk can't/don't give to their internal team - it becomes consulting work for me :)
Awesoem job! Thanks for sharing!!
There's something in the water in Munich - I had the same experience, probably because it was just coming into Oktoberfest...
Ask HN: What is the best postmortem you've seen?
It seems like there are a lot of examples of companies handling a security breach or loss of service poorly. Are there examples when a company handled an incident well, especially with a great postmortem writeup?
chwrgebacks from stubhub/Ticketmaster/etc are hard since they have you basically agree to not charge back and they use that against you. Had to try a chargeback one with them and also got denied because I signed a waiver. Complete nonsense
Thanks for taking the time to provide screenshots. That is the public lobby list. I just auto spin up some lobbies for people to join if they don't want to create a game themselves.

There are some bugs here and there that can cause a game to "collapse" for lack of a better word and never get carried forward into the next state. I think this tends to happen when the server gets overloaded and restarts. I need to look into why this happens on occasion.

The total players figure counts the number of unique visitors that have been assigned a session_id. I think it's a bit optimistic since it counts any visitor at all. (excluding google crawler bots)

I have patched the active games counter. It was counting games that had been created but never started.

Thanks a ton for your bug reports, it's helping me harden the server so people can have reliable experiences going forward.
The alternatives are often better than airbnb too.
XDA: Accurate, Robust Disassembly With Transfer Learning (2020)
Not Home Depot. Their support representative was worthless for an online order that was never delivered (lost in transit). They advised me to do a charge back. Luckily, it was an online chat, so I screen capped that to add to the CC docs you have to submit.

Blows my mind; reshipping the item would (given they sell it for a profit) cost HD less than me doing a 100% chargeback, and it would be better customer service. I guess they use the friction of doing a chargeback to be their fraud prevention.
Well, it would make sense if they (at least temporarily) banned guns if they didn't know yet that they could be used for murder.
Yeah this is a great example of why formally defining "soundness" is so tricky. Not only do we have to worry about unsafe code committing UB, we also have to worry about it setting up a situation where safe code might commit UB later. Soundness is a property of functions and modules, but that property is a statement about the entire program that contains them, or actually about any program that could contain them.

In retrospect, I kind of wish I had asked somebody like Ralf Jung to review this post before I published it. On the other hand, the fastest way to get an answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer :-D
Surely almost everyone does address standardization on user inputted fields, right? You'd be silly not to do this.
> anakinra to block IL-1B in elderly mice, and found that the blood stem cells returned to a younger, healthier state.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8196670/
Omega-3 PUFAs Suppress IL-1β-Induced Hyperactivity of Immunoproteasomes in Astrocytes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3429046/
Omega 3 fatty acid inhibition of inflammatory (IL-1β) cytokine-mediated Connexin43 regulation in the heart
Constantly hanging out with the senior management praising Edge. As they say "Microsoft is better at talking to your boss than you do".

Also their consultants are trained to be shills. Every time we have a call with them they will remark about it if we use another browser, even though their area of expertise has nothing to do with it.
I had a terrible experience this January with airbnb and it's support.

I had a 6 days stay in Zakopane, Poland. My friend was physically attacked by the owner of the house, and support done nothing but removing my review from one of his apartment page(it's seems that the owner can create identical listing pages for one house, and just hide/show the ones with best reviews on it)

At first support seemed very supportive, but it the end they done nothing, but a "close investigations with an undisclosed results by internal guidelines", according to one of the support-stuff.
I also got my review removed because of the "links to external resources"(I've attached the link of the video with screaming home-owner) and emotional advice to use other services like Booking(without direct link). The last one is understandable. Through it wasn't specified as a reason to remove the review, the support gave me no chance to edit or re-post the review.

So at the end I can surely say the only thing they care is the money, and your well-being is the latest thing they care.
The only thing holding me back from using that extension is

> In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do).

If there was a way to be assured that 99.9% of the time it hit reject all, instead of accept, I would absolutely use it.
Don’t do this. Not in America, and not in places with “consumer protection”.

Chargebacks are for fraudulent or erroneous charges, not for “you changed your mind about a purchase”

(1) first up in this case, I’m fairly sure that every other party to the transaction would have grounds to say that the chargeback is fraudulent. The author is not saying that they didn’t make the reservation, they’re saying they realized after entering a contract that the contract was not what they wanted. Similarly the “host” is not breaking the contract: the person agreed to these terms of the contract, apparently having not read them. So this is not a fraudulent transaction, and claiming it is (for a charge back) just sounds like fraud

(2) charge backs are not free to the merchant - as I understand it the merchant is subject to penalties from the processor and/or bank that can easily be hundreds of dollars. So even if the bank doesn’t take you to court for fraud, airbnb maybe unhappy at having to cough up a few hundred dollars.

(3) it seems like (IANAL) your chargeback could also be taken as a breach of contract by the host, and frankly they don’t seem like people who will take a no harm, no foul response to this, especially if they not only don’t get paid but if Airbnb offload any of the chargeback costs.

Fundamentally your running into the reason that there are regulations governing hotels and rental, and why Airbnb insists that in spite of all evidence that is not what they are providing.
And a bicycle, but the point is you don't notice it when you do it (except an emergency swerve)
This comment is the one that has convinced me to never use AirBnB again.

That is absurd.
Yeah, tbf the US does a great job at brain-draining other countries.
Amex does have at least one free card issued directly from them. I have one. Blue Cash Everyday I think it's called.
Sports programs, just like legacy entries, earn a lot of money for universities.
My AmEx card doesn't have any annual fees.
I agree completely about immutability and purity—for my own code I strongly lean that way and try to outsource as much of my thinking to the compiler as possible.

However, there are times where impurity and mutability are beneficial—whether within a single function or at the margins. Functional programming languages do not tend to have good support for these cases, because their whole thing is representing everything in a functional style.

I think this is why functional languages don't tend to get traction while the multi-paradigm languages do. Given a choice between purity and pragmatism, most engineers will pick pragmatism. The alternative is to intentionally remove tools from your toolbox, and unless those tools are demonstrably more dangerous than they are helpful that's a tough sell.

My ideal language is a multi paradigm language which has robust, statically analyzable support for objects, imperative code, and functional code.
Yes. I've stayed in AirBnBs in Italy, Germany, Hungary, and Japan, and mostly met very hospitable and helpful hosts that seemed genuinely interested in providing the best service. Maybe I'm picky with the listings, maybe I'm lucky, maybe it's a thing of culture like you suggest.
That would help public universities, but many universities are private
Ah fair enough.

Sometimes you get one free through employers too.
We need an industry agreed-upon certification exam.

When you apply for a job as a doctor, they don't make you demonstrate surgical techniques. They take your board certification and ask you questions about what you've done in the past, things that went wrong and what you learned from that experience, and so on. They just assume you have the technical skills if you have the license.

Now, I'll admit that with doctors you are legally required to have the license, and we certainly don't need to go that far. If a small startup wants to take a chance on "unlicensed software engineers" or even offer to pay for the exam as a job perk (like a lot of law firms do for their interns), then great! But I can see a lot of time and effort saved if all the big enterprises would get together and come up with a national certification exam that you take once. Or even better, a series of exams for junior/senior/staff/principle, so neither candidates nor hiring managers have to waste time on tech assessments.

One of the keys would be making the exam inclusive for neurodivergent candidates, people with disabilities, etc. But this can be solved.
There’s probably better writing tools to help with that than gpt.
Not all universities are elite
never heard of graaljs hmm...
Yeah fair enough. It might be worth requesting the maintainer of zune-image to add a decoder for jpeg2000. The repo already supports a whole bunch of formats already.
Old coders never die, they just GO SUB WITHOUT RETURN!
Great, maybe they get banned too and it's two less people playing a stupid game. I'm not going to tell anyone else how to live their lives, but cowering on my knees to tech bureaucracy out of San Fransisco is not how I'll live mine.
Hmm, I think we need more evidence to decide which tradeoffs we're making. I have four 1990s drives with thousands of power cycles, still fully functional. And one more from the same time period that failed about 8 years ago.

(( Why do I have these? Well, because they're SCSI or SCSI II, which the hosts support. And because I've not bothered to replace the drives with solid-state hacks that put SD cards on the same interface. ))
On a related know, I wonder if an Airbnb can effectively sue you or there is some kind of mediation clause
How does one study for the SAT, would you say, and what impact do you believe that studying has?
> $ABNB is up 48% YTD bucking the rest of the market

Thats pretty cherry-picked, and I wouldn’t look to stock price to make the conclusions you’ve shared. Lots of growth companies are bouncing back after being oversold last year. As another cherry-pick, it’s also down nearly 50% from its 2021 high.
Because similar laws already existed in member states, sometimes for literal decades, before GDPR came along.
I wish we would prosecute fraud in the US.
> Americans own around half of all global financial wealth.

Americans also had the privileged position of being located on a continent that has friendly neighbours, has extensive natural resources at its disposal, and half the continent did not get leveled during two world wars.

Not to mention, most of the financial wealth is bound up in dollars (mainly because of the aforementioned historical reasons), which in terms leads to it being stored in the US.
From all the comments here I’m glad I’ve never used AirBnB. VRBO has thus far been ok - anytime we’ve had an issue with the place (once) the hosts were reasonable and provided a refund.
Maybe not in the long run, but more reliable than community created scripts which may or may not be: up to date, migrate data correctly, etc. They all suffer from it, but it's especially the non-Docker ones like Yunohost that seem to be worse in my experience.

Anyway even if Cloudron goes under, you still have your own data on your own machine if youve set it up like that.
Their clients are the Hosts.
>how the Russians are stupid, have no weapons, have no people, don't know how to use weapons

>If this is the case, then I guess Zelensky doesn't need any western weapons, and yet he's asking every day for more.

I'd want lots of artillery and modern weapons if I had to fight 200,000 stupid men with old soviet tanks, AKs and shovels too.
Where did it get you though?
This is fraud.
For those who want to know what 'iatrogenic' means prior to dipping further into this thread: "Induced unintentionally in a patient by a physician. Used especially of an infection or other complication of treatment."

Basically: is it causing the very thing the intervention is intended to help.
It's only silly to the extent that you collapse the argument down to the design of the test itself, and not all the circumstances that go into the administration of the test across the country.
Firing your customers is not a good long term strategy.
I've been with my bank 15+ years, and have a good credit rating.

The one and only time I tried a chargeback, they approved it virtually before I could ask for it. I think they look at your account and see you've been a good customer and give you the benefit of the doubt.
I understand the analogy you're trying to make, but that particular one doesn't track. Dark matter is required by quantum mechanics. Sean Carroll had a great explanation of this in his Biggest Ideas in the Universe video series. The models of particle creation in the early universe require there to be something with the characteristics of a class of particles holding the label "dark matter."

"Structural racism," "inequity," and "implicit bias" all mean very different things.

Structural racism is where a society is deliberately constructed to be racist, as under Apartheid in South Africa. (It is otherwise nonsensically applied to current Western governments that employ capitalism as an economic system.)

Inequity is the state of receiving disparate treatment. It can be caused by structural racism, by personal racism, or by empirical discrimination (person A is denied a mortgage because their income indicates they likely cannot afford to pay the loan back, whereas person B is granted the mortgage because their income indicates they likely can).

Implicit bias is an actual psychological phenomenon where quirks in the way humans think affect their judgement. The classical example is to take two parallel line segments of equal length where the ends are lined up. On one segment draw arrowheads pointing outward, on the other, arrowheads pointing inward. When asked, humans will visually judge the line segment with arrowheads pointing inward as being longer than the one with arrowheads pointing outward [1]. Convincing yourself the line segments are of equal length requires measurement. That this occurs is true. That it is the great bugaboo of our times and the cause of inequity has a far more tenuous connection to reality.

That these phrases are used as proxies for "bad" is the real problem. We can agree that structural racism is evil. Inequity occurs for the full spectrum of reasons, some immoral, some moral, some merely neutral and reasonable. Implicit bias simply is. The hard part is separating out acculturated bias (like racism) from implicit bias. One evaporates in the face differing environments. For example, children that grow up in integrated schools and integrated neighborhoods are far less likely to suffer from racist attitudes. The other is a cognitive feature that must be countered with measurement (empiricism) or rules (equally applied).

Those attempting to use the terms as umbrella labels diminish our ability to talk about and address issues arising from them. It isn't a single dark force, and there isn't a giant conspiracy out to perpetuate all perceived societal ills.

[1] https://cdn.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/styles/i...
Probably the only subfield of Computer Science, maybe even academic research in general, where citations number is the most poor metric of paper quality. The whole situation is more akin to mass media reporting the same breakthrough in cancer cure research (in mice).
File a complaint at CFPB [1].

Long story short, I deposited a valid check, but chase fraud dept closed my account with close to 13k in it. I made a lot of trips to the bank, countless hours on the phone and what I found is different departments don’t communicate or share data.

Every time I call or go to the bank the first agent would say a check was mailed, after I insist they never mailed anything, I get transferred to someone else that says they have not received the requested document - which I had submitted in person at a local branch. This process repeated few time and got escalated to their “executive office” twice - which restarted the process.

It felt like I would never get my money and after two months I filed a complaint at CFPB. About 3 weeks later chase magically found all the documents and issued a check for the balance.

I’m not sure what is going on at this bank but they should not be allowed to treat customers like this. Just read this from the linked news article

> Victims said Chase would not review surveillance video because the amounts were below $5,000.

Why wouldn’t chase review videos if amount is less that $5000?

1. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/
I don't have Amex. But higher-tier Visas with annual fees can be worth it for a variety of reasons if you travel and charge a lot.
First thing that annoys me: they ask for your email address. That way whatever communication you have can be done outside of AirBnb. Big no-no. Like eBay. Don't move outside of the platform.
Even in the US, hotels are better and cheaper than airbnbs
throw your infant into the furnace of Baal and ask for guidance. duh!
I would be fine with that. The problem is both with the host and AirBnB, neither of which I would want to do business with again after this.
You forgot "able bodied".
https://groups.google.com/g/google-appengine/c/p2QKJ0OSLc8
me neither, not sure what to look.
fwiw this is a really neat project, which you can find here: https://github.com/clamchowder/MicrobenchmarksGui/releases

understanding what's happening on various operations on various architectures is super useful
depressed people does not mean clinical depression