skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is standard corporate strategy nowadays. Instead of staffing up expensive customer service departments they wait for posts to go viral on Twitter, Reddit, HN etc. and only handle those.
This scares the crap out of me. Is there any way to migrate existing subscriptions from Stripe to another provider if you get banned like this?
> I find that people who have trouble cancelling subscriptions are simply too weak-willed to say "I don't want your offers, cancel my subscription immediately" to a person on the other end. If you can't do that, you really deserve what you get.

This you?
Recruits can leave up to the end of their first six months of service - so 16½. After that they are committed until they are 22.
Those comments were both flagged and both received a moderation scolding, exactly the same treatment as your comment received.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36398038

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36394792

Please stop posting generic ideological comments to HN. They're predictable, tedious, and lead to flamewars. None of that is what this site is for.
Crazy how people just drive around in cars and fuel up with gasoline that contains like 2% benzene. And we let teenagers do this, with no personal protective equipment and no basic supervision.
I’m surprised xxhash wasn’t mentioned. Isn’t it faster and more hash collision resistant than murmur?

I think I read a very good website on another hash proposal that can supersede xxhash (roughly similar performance but more methodical in construction and has other nice properties) but I can’t recall what it’s called (it’s not on the smasher tests yet if I recall correctly)
what does it mean “mocked out hashtable”?

Whole hashtable? Or what?

You mock interface/api of “something” you depend on to model the behavior you might deal with within the part of code you test.

thats it. nothing else.

during unit test phase I want to make sure that this exact code works as a state machine given all the possible inputs/outputs and that it handles any possible situation any dependency can cause.

If you need to debug code BECAUSE of the tests and not WITH the tests then something is wrong with the architecture or approach.

tldr. mock dependencies. model behavior of the dependencies. make sure you can debug the code with the help of your unit tests on the very layer you’re working with at the moment.
I see. Given the low number of contributors and large needs... let me disagree.
even more so with a bicycle or walking but there isnt a recipe for everyone here.
I can't easily find a nice and comprehensive comparison, but it seems like he was right even with Pearl Harbor included. From [1]:

> Total U.S. military deaths in battle and from other causes were 407,316. The breakout by service is as follows: Army 318,274 (234,874 battle, 83,400 nonbattle),[292] Navy 62,614,[292] Marine Corps 24,511,[292] and the Coast Guard 1,917.[570][320]

I don't know what the denominator looks like for those various forces, but 5x as many Army deaths as Navy seems to corroborate your grandfather's intuition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#endnot...

Edit: From [2] it seems the Army was a bit over 2x the size of the Navy, so still about 2x the rate of deaths.

[2] https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/us-involvement-in-wwii-how...
> Our ruling elites have ignored the issue for decades. Not because they did not care, but because they had no idea how to solve it.

Mostly, it is because they don’t care—it is a problem for other people, not them, except to the extent that those other people get upset and destabilize the system that enriches the elites.

Secondarily, because they understand how to solve it, but it is contrary to their own interests. I mean, to the extent it can be solved with only fairly minor impairment of their own interests, they’ve been dragged into going along with it (that’s how the modern mixed economy has replaced gilded age capitalism throughout pretty much the whole of the industrialized world), but that tooks decades of activism, violence, and economic collapse to drag them into despite the fact that it leaves the bulk of the power of their position intact.
You’d think we would know better.

The old adage, “the worst beginning to a sentence is, ‘Why can’t you just…’” is something we understand viscerally. Seemingly doesn’t stop us from doing it to others.
I tried 60,000 records and 20 columns and display in fe on my Mac in 4 seconds, not a official benchmark but sqlite have impressive performance
250Wh can move my EV car (Tesla Model Y) 1 mile in around-town traffic (i.e. not at highway speeds).

So to move the car 30 miles, I need 30*250 = 7.5kWh.

If 1kWh costs $.36 at a DCFC, then 7.5kWh of electricity costs $2.70.

Compared to $4.86/gallon and assuming an ICE car gets 30mpg, that says electricity at a DCFC is about 55% of the price of gasoline, for the same number of miles driven.

The breakeven mpg is 30/.55 = 54mpg. (This is a bit different from your figure of 46.6mpg because you were assuming 290Wh/mile and I was using 250Wh/mile.)

I was using 30mpg above because I'm comparing to my ICE sports car which is fun and fast and gets 30mpg. High-mpg ICE cars are (IMHO) less fun. (And my ICE car is still not as fun or fast as my Tesla).

So your numbers are in the right ballpark. $.36 is roughly correct for electricity at Tesla superchargers too (it varies depending on where and when you charge).

But at home where I usually charge I pay $.14/kWh for electricity. If I compare that price with my 30mpg ICE car, we see that I pay $1.05 to move my Tesla 30 miles. Premium fuel (which my turbocharged ICE car requires) is about $4.10 where I live. So for me my cost of energy is 4.10/1.05 = 3.9x. That is, my ICE car costs about 4 times as much to operate as my Tesla. And it's less fun to drive.

Caveat 1: For highway driving, the Tesla requires more than 250Wh per mile because of air resistance at speed, so the price advantage is smaller on the highway. That's even more true if you use superchargers (see above). But Level 2 chargers are common at many hotels and are usually free. So if you take road trips and are not in a hurry, you can avoid DC fast chargers and their high costs. Most hotels do not provide free gas pumps, but many provide free charging for EVs.

Caveat 2: Teslas eat tires like candy. You WILL have to buy new tires more often
with a Tesla than with an ICE car. But that's the only maintenance expense
that's higher with an EV in my experience.
One thing I don't see mentioned in this is during that time period secondary/high school wasn't really a thing yet, meaning it wasn't that unusual for a 15 year old to be considered both fully educated and part of the workforce. It really wasn't until after WWI that we pushed the working adult age out to 18 for more education.
And miss out on, or pay for, GPS updates and lose out on real-time traffic reports.
All I recall besides being one of many carcinogens is that it's in cigarette smoke. From a Dutch health page. [https://www.rivm.nl/en/tobacco/harmful-substances-in-tobacco...]

> For smokers, tobacco smoke is the most important source of exposure to benzene. It is released in the smoke when tobacco is burned. Non-smokers are also exposed through tobacco smoke when they inhale smoke passively. A typical smoker inhales an average of ten times more benzene per day than a non-smoker.
Gmail definitely blocks email hosts.
You own nothing and you are happy?
Fair point, that definitely would hold for some states. Especially those where it got legalized fairly recently, and the whole process hasn't been smoothed out yet. Illinois looks like one of those states.

For example, pricing in CO/WA/OR is so low, it makes zero sense to me to run a black market business. Even for near top-shelf stuff from big respected brands, I can easily buy a 10-pack of 10mg THC edibles (a 100mg bag total) for $12 at many dispensaries within just a 5 min drive (and that's not on sale). I've also seen some absolutely insane deals on flower and all other sorts of products, and the regular pricing is near dirt-cheap too. Not even mentioning the quality of the product and safety controls. Transporting from those states to expensive (for now) states like IL definitely makes monetary sense, as it is basically just a market arbitrage.

Anecdotally, to support your point, I heard from a friend in IL last year that lines to even enter a dispensary were very bad. While in Seattle, I've only ever seen a line once in many years (on one of the massive holiday sale days), and it was barely 5 minutes of waiting.
Totally agree. In the past year, I've started getting my org into writing tests, and it's pretty hard to find the "right" way of doing things. Everyone is so opinionated, which is fine but they're all opinionated in different directions.

I've found some solace in finding one person that's really experienced in writing tests for my specific platform, and kind of following their blog as a "bible" of sorts. cough https://kentcdodds.com/blog cough
This is par for the course for any company, especially an internet-based company. I mean, all of the sites that were popular in the early 2000's are essentially dead now. The same will happen with all of the sites that are popular now.

Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc, all survived so long because of how dirt cheap money was in 2010-2021. Now, these sites that prioritized growth above profit are having to do an about face and prioritize profit. More aggressive ad tracking, once exclusive features being available for anyone to buy, once standard features locked behind a paywall.

Web 1.0 "failed" because businesses couldn't make money on the internet. So the companies locked down their ecosystems and brought us to web 2.0. Which is now failing because they still couldn't find out how to make enough money on the internet.

Web 3.0 isn't looking so positive either. Crypto is a verified dud to the average user. Decentralization has some good ideas and I'd be happy to see how that grows, but that still begs the question of how do you make money? Individually ran servers can be expensive, especially if that instance begins to see a lot of traffic. So either we do the same-old, same-old and try to push ads (which I doubt server owners would be happy with and would flee the platform), or put the entire front-end app accessing ActivityPub/etc. behind a paywall.

I really don't see a way that the internet will be able to continue on in it's current iteration with silo'd for-profit companies controlling 95% of the web. I truly believe we'll be moving into an age in the next decade or two of individual intranets. We'd all have our own little world of an internet where we can communicate and interact with our friends, family, individuals we invite into our server. Then access the wider web when necessary to connect with other companies/work servers/etc.
> These days, it's a rare piece of text that surprises the reader with creative or ingenious or outside-the-box thinking.

I don't think it's any more rare now than it ever was. It's always been rare.

> Much has been written, yes. But not much of that is worth reading.

Sturgeon's Law is immutable and timeless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
I think there's also some difference between whether you learned to drive before or after you gained an appreciation for your own mortality. Teenagers who get their license tend to do some level of stupid stuff, and it helps define what you're capable of behind the wheel. If you always have driven safely (because you're a mature adult who understands you could kill yourself or others), then the "what can I do with my car" border lies in an unknown space going outwards from normal commuter driving. If you spent your teenage years canyon racing, or speeding down the street at 2 am, etc, you know that you're capable of a lot more difficult driving than your day to day.
The comparison was that for some it may be excruciating and that others it may not. Maybe a tattoo isn't the best analogy, but their main point is apropos to the idea that understanding the experience of others may be difficult when there is a wider range of experience than many want to admit.
Get Ready for a Wave of Disposals as Borrowings Take Toll
Building a GPT-powered agent to answer questions using open data from Splitgraph
Sleet? Isn’t that frozen rain? How would I make it sleet more?
What are you going on about? Please get off your high horse. Your disparaging comments have contributing nothing to the conversation except to virtue signal your alleged moral superiority. Perhaps instead of going online and lecturing people you could take a moment to read more critically. To extend my original comment further, my commentary was in regards to the phenomenon of homelessness rather than an attack on homeless individuals. We tolerate homelessness in so much as that when we come across a homeless individual we might be give them some money, a warm meal, some clothes or other things. This doesn't solve their troubles, this only continues their state of being. If homelessness as a state of being was truly culturally intolerable then we would be forced to find solutions to the root problem rather than simply making platitudes towards those suffering from homelessness.
Does anyone run CalyxOS, which is put together by the Calyx Institute?
The parent poster literally said "better to feel somewhat hungry all the time". I disagree! I don't want fat people to feel "somewhat hungry all the time"! That sounds like a shitty existence and I a thin person would be appalled if we think that's just what it takes to be thin for some people! I acknowledge being thin for me is great: I eat when I'm hungry, I lay off a little bit if I know I've eaten a big thanksgiving dinner or something. I am never "somewhat hungry all the time"!
Normal life is going to better 20 years from now, just like it's much better now than 20 years ago.
Ask HN: What is your most favorite textbook ever and why?
At what point in your life did you come across that book?
if you aren't in a rush, this experience need not harsh your chill.
Looks interesting and promising. Is it Open Source? Can it be self-hosted?
If gitlab keeps up with this hostility even towards paying customer a fork will be incoming sooner than later.
I'm reminded of a friend who worked in radio hardware design. They'd use simulation and fuzzy/genetic algorithms to create a circuit, and then verify its performance with experiments. But they couldn't always say exactly why the circuit worked, just that it met the performance criteria.

It's an interesting divergence in software, between those who manage complexity by adding more human-understandable abstraction, and those who manage it by just verifying the results, letting the complexity fly free. All the ML stuff is definitely taking big steps down the latter path.
I use lineage on oneplus phones and have no problems. I can't do internet banking and a bunch of other non-free things, but really, who needs that? I have a web browser. The only thing that doesn't work is google meet and google docs and google drive because they intentionally break the mobile experience in the web. But there is a simple solution. Simply don't use google services. If/when my employer demands that of me (occasionally I hear murmurings) I just tell him I'm online 9-5 on my laptop and if he needs me he can call. I'm happy with my lineage.
The significance of this trick goes far beyond just adding styles to RSS.

The common practice is separating the the Human-readable interface (HTML) from the Machine-readable interface (XML) and build both of them on top of some source layer(e.g. a CMS or Markdown files)

XSLT allows you to use XML as the source layer and build a presentation layer on top of that. Admittedly, the styling workflow can be cumbersome but you get a browser-supported templating language that seems Turing complete (anyone confirms?) and with the power of CSS, you can pretty much get a full featured static site generator that runs on the client!

I've seen styled RSS once in a while and never thought about it until now. I'd love to give this technique a try. It feels like one of those Semantic Web ideas that should have taken off decades ago.
Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
how come mocks make you tightly coupled with implementation?

Use and depend on abstractions maybe?
A bit of an aside, but it seems like the South would've had a lot fewer able-bodied, young men to fight the war especially since they weren't inclined to arm black soldiers. Given that the south was primarily agrarian with fewer urban areas to draw from - the population was more sparse. How did the confederacy think they could win given that difference?
Debt Costs More When Rates Go Up
Yes Porsche has started with this, they have ~800 V batteries, as you said batteries themselves are the practical limit at the moment but both larger batteries (as with trucks) and new battery technology can help to lift that limit. There are enough engineering challenges at 1000 A I don't think we will see higher currents than that for a while!
How about Amplitude or Heap? For an open source alternative you could consider PostHog.
This happened to me as well, I started a forum in college and put Adsense on it; Google accused my account of click fraud, and froze it, keeping all of the ad money. I tried to find ways to appeal, and they didn't care. They could have at least had a 3-strike rule to give you resources to prevent fraud if it were occurring, and an appeal process. The account is frozen to this day (almost 20 years later), and since Google has a monopoly on ads...it was impossible to put anything else up. There were a few, but they were mostly all scammy. I then had some luck with others, and slowly Google bought them all. Microsoft and Yahoo tried to launch competitors but both failed. Google is an ad monopoly, even Microsoft runs Google ads on MSN.
I think data supports your statement. But it doesn’t mean that it will be true after some generations.

I like to compare our world with a bottle garden that kids in high school use for experiments.

Some species might really flourish in this garden. But only time tells if it’s composed in a way to be stable.
That is a very astute observation! Thank you. I have wondered why more and more convenience stores are getting into not just quick, pick-up snacks, but full blown fast-food style sit down environment.

Recently when I drove around in the USA, I saw Sheetz, Wawa, Royal Farms, Rutter's, and High's. These are substantially larger with lots of amenities compared to the standard gas stations. Nothing compared to Buc-ee's, but still getting up there.
TXR Lisp:

(each ((file *args*))
(catch
(dohash (k v [group-reduce (hash) identity (op succ @1)
(file-get-lines file)
0])
(put-line `@v\t@k`))
(error (e)
(put-line e *stderr*))))
Yes, I get that this adds value on top of Backblaze (e.g. Dropbox is not just rsync), though even then, usually services that resell or build on top of an established commodity product (e.g. storage) model their own pricing models off of the underlying commodity, which is why I was surprised.

But I didn't realize that Backblaze B2 had a completely different pricing scheme. This makes more sense now.
My youth: Z80, 6502

Micros I used: 8051, PIC, AVR, MSP430

Mainstream CPUs: 68000, x86

DSPs: TMS320Cxx (no SHarc?)

Missing from this list: NIOS II and other soft cores and anything ARM. Maybe they are not supposed to be here.
That change really sat poorly with me as well. My brother and I have a small pet project that makes zero dollars but we would have had to pay $50/month just to allow him access to the project on Render.

Still not as _terrible_ as Vercel which straight up doesn't deploy if the user isn't a paid org member lol. Now that is shameful as shit!

But this pricing change from Render was bad yeah. :(
They need your vote. If you make it slightly more comfortable for the peasants you get more votes. Or if the situation is dire this oppons the door for the opposition.
FWIW Render is moving most of their infrastructure from GCP to AWS
https://twitter.com/anuraggoel/status/1670863526272077825
“It’s not a crime as long as you keep writing letters asking for clarity.” is such a cool perspective. Outside of selling unregistered securities, what other criminal activity enjoys the “But I asked about it!” defense?
You would think that this would be common-sense. In 2010, David Wheeler (author of the featured article) proposed to the Austin Group that control characters – in particular newline (and TAB and ESC) – be forbidden in filenames: https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251 Unfortunately, it has yet to be implemented. :(

I also note that in 2016 the authors of GNU coreutils took a lot of flak when they changed the default behaviour of ls to quote filenames with special characters¹². Personally, I’d be having stern words with anyone that produced path names with anything funkier than a space character.

¹ https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html

² https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/258691
I've written "scripts" that do things like create a user, run migrations, or do some processing on a file that pull in either or both of 3rd-party libraries or other code I wrote (ie. db models). So the "contained in a single file" for me isn't a hard requirement. I do think the rest of your points are accurate though. I'd also add that a script runs until the task is done, and no longer. Whereas you may have other programs, like web services or queue workers, that continue running and doing their tasks.
the reason why bread in the US is sweet, when compared to Europe is high fructose corn syrup.

US corn farmers are producing so much corn with subsidies, that they dont know what to do with it.

From here you get more subsidies for ethanol gasoline (ethanol extracted from food - corn), and more subsidies for processed food - HFCS being added generously into everything!

Without corn overproduction, the sugar consumption would be much smaller in the US and diabetes problem would not be as severe as it is
There is no meaningful political opposition. The republicans party is a joke and the democrat party is a massive operation which touches nearly all civil servants and owners of major businesses. You stand no chance of being elected unless you are affiliated with realistically the bigger one of the two mobs. And as a prospective political candidate, if you don't pledge allegiance to Israel in writing you will be privately blacklisted by political campaign donors, nobody will invite you to social events anymore, and any support you had will dry up. We are subjects of a one party totalitarian government where we get to pick among puppets which all pledge to execute the will of the broader party. If you research any of your candidates in your local elections you will see that the only people that win are those affiliated with the broader party and their agenda. The broader party has a basket of initiatives that each lemming chooses to identify with to create the illusion of choice. Over time the broader agenda is always fulfilled. This is the way that the powers that be have managed to solidify their rule despite giving the people the right to vote.
It'll be fixed when the number of "but they denied my appeal with a short template response" drops to 0. A template response means they didn't even read the appeal, which has nothing to do with the original false positive.
> but eliminate fraud

How does crypto eliminate fraud? It eliminates KYC and AML (until you try to turn crypto into fiat), and you probably won't be held accountable for accepting a fraudulent transaction (yet), but stolen crypto wallets are definitely for sale and being used:

https://cybersecurityventures.com/dark-web-price-list-crypto...
Why would anti-trust have anything to do with it?