skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead, the reason people go to customer service is because of a question that’s so specific, or complicated, or gnarly in some respect, that there’s no way the app will have the answer: you need a human.

A couple counter points that are kind of the same point.

1. I actually hate talking to customer support that doesn't speak my language as fluently as I do. It makes communicating the important part of what's wrong in these complex scenarios that much more frustrating.

2. Customer support, even when human, often is useless because their roles get restricted to scripts. Discover is a company that used to have amazing customer support, especially when dealing with the complexities of charge disputes. I listened to a woman refuse to give me any idea of what "evidence" I should submit to a charge disputes with a hotel that was billing me despite no services rendered. Instead she read off what seemed to be a script. I hung up, dialed back in, got someone new and they answered my question in great detail.

I think my point is the same as the authors; there should be a high bar for customer service but I'd take it one point higher and say we've been letting that bar slide for a while.
Hey, the main purpose of the tool is not to enjoy visualizations yourself, but to share with your audience if you're musician. Specifically for teasing your songs that are work-in-progress (snippets).

1. You don't need a computer to make a visualizer video
2. You (obviously) don't need Winamp and video/audio capturing software to make a video.
> and ran its energy like everyone else

You mean with Russian gas? Probably not.
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Did you change your name from Sokolov? Was your grand grand grand father the creator of Shagohod? Big Boss stopped it before things got out of control. But, otherwise, we are not guilty of our predecessor's crimes.
The critical problem with chatbots is that companies don't trust them to do things. I generally am reaching out to support because I want something done, not because I want advice. This may not be true of everyone but for many, they have a real need. I need X price matched, I need to get my bill corrected, etc. Users know the chatbot won't do it.
"assuming that all heart disease is caused by vitamin D deficiency" - where is this assumption being made?

I think the study is valuable in that it suggests blindly giving everyone vitamin D is not strongly correlated with reduced cardiovascular events. I often see it stated that "nearly everyone" in developed countries is vitamin D deficient and so the majority of us should be supplementing.

I think results like this make for a strong argument that it's more important to get your individual levels checked before you waste your money on supplements.

One thing that's really important to note here is that the participants are all based in Australia. That's pretty significant considering the amount of sun Australians are exposed to. By some measures, Australia is the "sunniest" place in the world. And since exposure to sun causes your body to produce vitamin D, it's likely Australians have naturally higher levels than most other populations.
I don't think you should segregate schools. Just classrooms. That gives students in 'bad' classes something to aspire to, and keeps them on the map rather than being written-off to a 'poor school', and parents should realise that, though their kid is in the 'bad' class, they are getting appropriate help, not just being discarded.

In some ways, the 'best' teachers should be assigned to the 'bad' kids, certainly those with the best command of a class. The 'good' kids don't need that so much.
I wonder what % of train "movements" are electrified; length of electrified rail is one thing, but I suspect the majority of that remaining 36% of non-electrified rail actually account for a small percentage of movements.
Would note the U.S. is absolutely average but China is very bad.
Just browsed through some of my recent purchased books from Amazon and I found the same. Books from Cambridge University Press. I imagine Amazon might be offering those PoD services to big press companies especially for older books. The cover art is indeed slightly blurred, but seems like the pages are fine.
In the U.S. education isn't a right. It's a product you buy. Similar to clean water, healthcare, justice, and lower taxes. These are all products. You pay more for better versions. Public versions shouldn't exist, or should be inferior. Why be wealthy if you can't have better things? Especially since wealthy people are simply better.

This is old school Conservatism since before the founding of the country. There is no convincing conservatives that they have any obligation to the public. Money is a means to separate themselves from the public. There's a lot more in common here with feudalism than anything modern or enlightened.

I'm willing to bet more often than not, any expulsion should be applied to the parents. i.e. they are the problem, and the kid is acting out. Punishing the kid has long been a proxy for punishing parents. A more sophisticated system identifies this and gives more (with strings attached) privileges and responsibilities to problem kids. Not in every case. But certainly don't have policies that increase contact between problem kids and bad parents. Where are they learning most of their coping mechanisms? Get them away from bad influences as much as possible.
No it doesn't. Beam steering is adaptive and will work with signals getting reflected, for example. It's just noting where the return signal from the phone comes on 8 antennas and then narrowing the signal to the phone while increasing bandwidth. It does not use location (because it uses wave interference the "location" these beams is an interference pattern, not a position in cm)

Phone triangulation works by getting signal strength on 3 or more towers, and getting location from that. That's how it works on WiFi as well. Access points see the clients, and each other, and if you have enough data points, you don't even have to configure the locations of the access points. Of course, the location you get back is relative to the access points and the distance between them, so systems provide a quick way to convert to distances based on one or two measurements.

So please don't think 3G is going to protect you from triangulation. It isn't. Now they're decommissioned but even hospital pagers can be triangulated (some of them aren't even 1G, though anything remotely recent is just a cell phone in disguise)

Because of the "emergency services" mandate from governments it works without the sim being registered. Phones MUST be able to immediately call emergency services so sim or no sim, they are registered on the cell phone network using the number of the cellular modem hardware in the phone, the IMEI number. Phones without a SIM or eSIM can be triangulated. Phones that have never had a sim can be triangulated. Phones that had a sim, but now don't (you keep your phone on but have taken the sim out), can be triangulated based on the phone number of the sim (by looking up the IMEI that last used that SIM, then triangulating the IMEI). These systems can track mobile phones as they move, even in places where the signal is so weak phone service doesn't work (though of course, this doesn't exactly help with accuracy)

Of course whether all this works depends on the competence of the large telcos and the police in a specific country. What I said above is what's possible, not what is actually done. What another poster said is true: telcos have internet portals, accessible to the police (and ...) where you enter some information and get location back. This is generally demanded by governments, as the telco is not allowed to know WHO gets tracked by the police in most countries. Yes, in the US telcos are allowed to know, and they can even legally refuse to track someone, but in most of the EU this is not true.

Whether airplane mode prevents your location from being monitored depends on the phone.
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I lost 40kg walking one hour a day over the last 3 years. Some people don't recognise me.

Don't get yourself into a state where you need to lose 40kg. If you do, and lose the weight, you will have excess skin.

I like my new healthy self but actions have consequences.
I have never heard the claim that Vitamin D is beneficial for cardiovascular health before, so i am not shocked.

A study on the effect of Vitamin D on repiratory diseases would make much more sense.
In Mao's time everyone got a bike, and that was a huge advance.

Today everyone get's a car. Some might be EVs (fueled by coal power) but others are not.

And every year world CO2e emissions go up.

And every day we pretend it's ok because it went up by less that it would have if we had put it up even more. But we need them to come down, not just go up less quickly. And we needed that in 2000. Not "we might manage it in 2030".
Banks have huge amount of institutional knowledge on lending.

And that's what they need to do without playing games with depositor cash.

They need to borrow from the central bank. Central Bank is much more sophisticated than the avg depositor in deciding which lender to hand off cash too. I think this is where we will end, up after a few more bank bailouts which are coming.

Depositors will have accounts directly with Central Bank or just hold interest bearing CBDCs in their wallet.
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And I agree with you. It's right to recognize that there are no good options here. In such situations, it's important to consider the bad effects and victims on both sides, not fixate on one as the only morally correct one to consider.
None of those places are especially sunny in the winter though!
Hi,

I can speak from experience having been in the same situation (although not the same causes) as yourself. If there aren't enough opportunities in your location, then change your location (and I include international relocation in that statement). To me, it was all about priorities.

You seem, at this juncture in your life, to want to prioritise your personal life over your career. If this is so, then change your personal circumstances to alter the balance in favour of your priorities.

If you don't feel you can change your location, then maybe you're being untruthful to yourself about your priorities.
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This is one of the episodes of the Atlanta TV series.
> Nowadays most large organisations are structured now that it's impossible to have a conversation with a human who actually has the power to make a decision.

In my experience it's equally impossible to have a conversation with a human that has a 1st grade level set of communication skills. You write out a detailed account of your problem and then get some copy/paste response back that has nothing to do with your complaint, and suggests that the person did not even bother to skim your complaint, let alone try and comprehend it.
Is it the lacerations, or the blood loss?

Is it the blood loss, or the stopping of the heart?

Is it the stopping of the heart, or oxygen starvation of the brain?

Is it the oxygen starvation of the brain, or the chemical breakdown therein?

Is it the chemical breakdown of the brain, or the resulting changed perception of others causing them to ascribe the very human and sometimes subjective label “dead” to the subject of the bear’s attentions?
I think it depends a lot on what your git repository is.

If it's specifically source code for anything that's intended to run, then avoiding including the outputs is a smart move. But then, if that's the case, there's a good chance you'd just be committing a .py file.

I like notebooks because they include output alongisde input. For example, Peter Norvig's Pytudes are all brilliant, quick notebooks that solve a particular puzzle[0]. The code itself might not be that interesting to run (unless you really want to confirm his strategy for wordle checks out) but reading through the notebooks makes for a great experience of simultaneously understanding his thought process, and seeing the solution.

I do a bunch of generative art stuff and have recently been experimenting with using notebooks as quick sketches[1]. I really like the workflow and end up with something like a journal that isn't necessarily intended to be ran repeatedly, but read over, where I can see the visual output created, as well as the method for it.

[0] Norvig's extremely cool pytudes, wordle example: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/Wordle.ipy...
[1] My not anywhere near as cool as Norvig's pytudes example: https://github.com/benrutter/jupyter-sketches
Like how Google disrespects Linux users with Google Drive, now they introduce Android games on Google Play (Android based on Linux) that only run on Windows 10 or later. Sometimes Google sucks. It's OK though, Android games suck too.
> Best thing I found was to ptrace the child, and inject seccomp policies after startup

huh, apparently according to sudo manual that is exactly what sudo NOEXEC does
This rationalization is not meaningfully different than those given by the obese (or drug addicted) to maintain their habits. For instance, "This milkshake sparks joy", or "everything in moderation including moderation" (only, no two people agree on what 'moderate' is).
I don't think I'm your target demographic but I always appreciate folks who make their hardware accessible like this. Thank you :)
I self-published a book on gardening and learned how much I enjoy the design/marketing/sales aspect of the self-publish industry almost as much as I enjoy writing.

Something I learned quickly is that local bookstores & libraries will often refuse to carry books that are Print-on-Demand from Amazon. There are several other POD suppliers online and it’s really cool to compare the features and cost models across each supplier.

My Amazon POD books were nearly identical in quality to some books I printed with another provider — and as a few others have said it was magic to see how many sales I got with zero advertising.
that's just prompt engineering by another name
Many, if not most, big Triple-A titles on PC, and consoles, are also filled with in game purchases of coins and loot boxes targeting whales. I guess you could say that those are also filled with ads, but at least it is for their own stuff in the game.

The only shining thing in gaming currently are the awesome indie titles that just keep on giving from a single purchase of the game.
Haven't heard anyone mention docker swarm for a while. I've had some thoughts about giving it a shot.

Is it easy to get started with?
Thats a really good question. Guess I'll check out opensuse tumbleweed.
>It’s worth considering why exactly such an idea strikes us as so completely mad now.

As one such esoteric thought: the "more attractive" a person was, the more frequent they would have to re-charge their cell phone (since it was acting as server). Some of the most-popular eTHOTs' phones would probably drain in just minutes (male or female, but particularly the latter).
If we didn't have any fires in our city and then we decided to build a lot of fire departments and then suddenly we began having fires, I'd be suspicious.
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I think it's the nature of working in software development. It's kind of funny that no one has invented software to fix the issue.
Same headline, different day
This has been the story for decades now.

Low blood levels of Vitamin D is highly correlated with just about every disease known to mankind.

Yet, studies repeatedly have shown that Vitamin D supplementation has next to no benefit in curing those diseases.

So either there's a jointly correlated third factor like sun exposure or low Vitamin D levels are CAUSED by those diseases and in general just an indicator of overall poor health.
Some other languages implemented in D:

- Vox: https://github.com/MrSmith33/vox

- Neat: https://neat-lang.github.io/

- Volt: http://www.volt-lang.org/
> Kids should learn that other people have dysfunctional lives early so that they grow up with the capability of empathy towards others.

You say children should learn this, and then you say that this is because they will have some new capacity for empathy they wouldn't otherwise have.

I see no reason to believe this proposition is true. What if instead, when they learn this, it just makes them more vulnerable to various kinds of dysfunction themselves? What if, even if learning about this is a good thing, it's only a good thing when they're well on their way to adulthood?

You have no real evidence of cause and effect here. Just a lazy asumption. "But when I learned of this, I immediately had intense feelings of empathy!" doesn't mean much because you're not even a single data point, but an anecdote. Self-reported. And not a young child.

> or caffeine abuse with any weight whatsoever

This is coming from someone who would legalize heroin, cocaine, and meth and sell it from liquor stores: no one ever sucked cock in the alley behind the pawn shop for a hit of caffeine. It's not in the same category.
There is competition and they're all the same. It's a capitalism issue. Less expenses = more profits and that's literally the only thing that matters.

Corporations only do things for one of two reasons - money or regulation. If they don't have to and it doesn't make money, they don't do it.
Dreamcast was years after PS1 when 3D games were a
dime a dozen and no one cared by that point. That's
why Sonic Adventure and Hydro Thunder are forgettable
where Tekken and Rayman are not.

I mean, you could make this same argument to claim that the Atari VCS was better than the NES because the idea of "playing games on your TV" was no longer a novel new experience by the time the NES rolled around.

For everything about to say, please note that I'm not arguing one system was better than the other. Just talking about how they fit in historically. I owned and enjoyed all of these consoles.

For me, the Dreamcast was the first "modern" 3D console where everything came together.

PS1 3D games were largely pretty ugly. Jaggy warping textures and the hardware was not really powerful enough for big worlds. Perhaps even more importantly, the lack of analog controls was a very very serious impediment.

Obviously despite this there were a lot of classic PS1 titles. A few games like Gran Turismo even seemed to pull off miracles graphically while other titles like Metal Gear Solid just leaned into the grimy pixelated look.

The N64 was largely a joke to me. You had a standard analog control, but the hardware was clearly a mess. Specifically there was far too little texture memory so every game had these giant low-res smoothed out blurry textures. Again obviously a few games transcended that but in general, man, yikes.

The Dreamcast was the first modern 3D console. The one where things came together. Enough horsepower and texture memory to render actually good looking worlds and the flexibility to do things like cel-shading. You play DOA2 or Soul Calibur and those models still look pretty good today. Lots of games were locked in at 60fps. Etc. Even had the first console MMO.

The Dreamcast really was a wonder and it has a huge place in gaming history.
Seems plausible to me, during bankruptcy or winding down of a company the same happens. If you miss your chance to join the list of creditors then the money has already been disbursed and there's nobody responsible for making you whole. Of course there are a lot of rules and details. A death is like a bankruptcy in that assets are used to pay for debts and remaining debts don't get inherited.
> Not sure what all you are trying to do

I work on non-anemic Notion and built the current @-mention menu and overhauled the text editor system to enable cross-block text selection.

The criteria I use to evaluate a rich text editor component are:

- How does collaboration work? Does the framework give me enough for OT or CRDT bindings?

- Does it use a tree-like data structure or do you need to add this later?

- Can you easily build interactions like @-mention menu or tab completion like VS Code?

- Does the editor tolerate concurrent state updates without breaking Input Method Editor composition, ie a remote user comments on text while the current user is inputting a Chinese character?

- Do demos of the above features work on Android? In Chinese?

From reading the Pell source I didn’t see much that would help with my criteria.
UNIX time double-counts leap seconds.

UTC: 58, 59, 60, 00, 01

UNIX: 58, 59, 00, 00, 01
I've got some, happy to share. Plz dm me on the bird app.
Does that necessarily make the world better off overall though?
To add to that, construction is heavily regulated (which is by the way, probably a window of opportunity for some startups that will aim at finding innovative ways of working around regulations to build cheaper without breaking the law), and heavily unionised too. Most attempts to seriously innovate in it will be shot down quickly as it will threaten jobs and union power.
Thank you for your thoughtful responses! A lot of my managerial style has been tuned for remote work and the #1 thing I try to stress is trust and tolerance. It's easy to take things the wrong way when remote or cut people less slack. Remote teams work much better with trust and flexibility at their foundation. Being nit picky is very corrosive and stress inducing, especially in a remote environment.
Yes, also known as Delmarva.
+1 for K2 + D, and for those who are looking for food sources of K2: fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, and kefir are also good sources.
Sorry no. Its not a open source. This is a project that I am working and using at the same time.
Remember, you cannot improve the customer service of these companies. The only way they “get better” for them to fail, collapse, and be replaced by new companies. Every compensation claim brings this brighter future closer.
I've gotcha if you still need one.
Let us suppose that NVidia did not reach success with their mining, or with cuda.

The statement: "Not at all. Intel should be afraid of us. We will be bigger than them." is still true.

How is it true? Gaming rigs. No matter what processor people chose, people overwhelmingly choose Nvidia graphics cards.

If Intel was inside 50% of the market's rigs, Nvidia is in 70+% of those same rigs.

The statement wasn't puffery. The statement was made with naked, and overwhelming, confidence.
But Canada is! And that is what the comment I replied was talking about.
"As a concrete example:..." I ended up completely misreading that line at first because my brain was desperately looking for a pun.
I am so glad I migrated off all my notes from Evernote, their limitations and popups triggered some red flags I was not willing to risk.

This proved me right, thanks!
No. D production is not produced internally, it's produced by the skin being exposed to ultraviolet radiation.
I have my whole website on my PC, if I lose access to my domain etc. I just upload it somewhere else.

Always have backup.
Question for your wife:

Can we use bats or nematodes to fight this return?

I spray my lawn with beneficial nematodes. I saw some small decline in the number of mosquitoes born in my yard but it doesn't stop mosquitoes from surrounding areas. My next move is to install a bat house on my house.
Waydroid allows one to run Android apps on a standard GNU/Linux distro. Install f-droid on it and be happy. Of course, you won't get google play games but neither will you get ads.

But I can see what google is doing here: release for Android, get the "pc market" for free. In the end it may boost competition on PC, incentivize more multi-platform games and may increase android share among gamers.
Can someone point to a study or an article claiming that Vitamin D has a benefit for cardiovascular health? I am taking Vitamin D supplements in winter, but it never occured to me that I should do this to improve the health of my heart.