skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have talked to customers using the product my company was selling and this was as an engineer who worked on that specific tool. The hardest part in this process was trying to understand what exact issue the customer faced, since as an engineer and someone who built the tool, I am completely aware of how it works. The customer is not and they might not be in the proper mood to even consider learning through it step by step.
My respect for what the customer support people did immediately went up a lot, after sitting through a few calls.

Customer support execs in most companies at least either have documentation or enough experience to understand where the customer is heading with the discussion and resolve problems quicker. Most customers especially larger ones would have account executives who are aware of the customer's needs and personalities and how to deal with them/help them.

I do not think an AI chatbot can replace that, at least as of now. And for those, quoting `it will get better in x years`, do note that those entities who have resources to fund such researches and improve things are slowly evolving from research first to profit first, which means we might not get the AI future we want, but what they want.
What exactly are you trying to show us? I'm only seeing a login page, no demo or explanation that shows us how this product works.
Let’s go whaling: Tricks for monetising mobile game players with free2play [video]
Interesting because screenshoting Netflix does not work on chrome
Funny, just yesterday I watched a Corner Gas episode about bringing a call center to Dog River.
A rather authoritative reference point here is Donald Kagan's "The Peloponnesian War", which has been generally well regarded over the past two decades. Paul Rahe's recent book also seems well documented. Here are a couple of reviews to get you started:

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2021/2021.03.44/

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2021/1/the-spartan-way-of-wa...

> One of the many Spartan enigmas—the reluctance to deploy an otherwise superior military—was not really an enigma at all.

> Sparta’s original paramilitary force, with time and sustenance to train and drill constantly against internal enemies, eventually evolved, by the early fifth century, into a crack expeditionary army, one even deadlier against Greek rivals than against Sparta’s restive serfs.

> Its unmatched hoplite army was often put to Panhellenic use, most famously by the three hundred at Thermopylae and as the “Dorian Spear” that crushed the Persians at Plataea.

> In this regard, Rahe shows that purportedly blinkered Spartan foreign policies gradually proved more astute than those of sophisticated Athens.
> There is definitely a lot of things the US can learn from countries like the Netherlands and Denmark

But they won’t. It’s culturally incompatible.
/sarcasm . dark humour

Sorry for the misplaced optimism , if it makes you feel more bleak, building all those DAC facilities, transporting them and running them will require millions more of DAC facilities.
I'm eating vegetarian food most of the time, with an exception from time to time. I've tried doing vegan. Vegan food can be tasty or even very tasty. No vegan food is as good as steak or cheese. Another thing is that I have no idea how to eat enough protein, on vegan diet, without feeling terrible.
Seems heavily inspired by the Wall round in the geekiest BBC quiz show "Only Connect".

There used to be an online flash version from the BBC that let you play along with the show. I wonder if the internet archive have it in a playable form?.
See: https://flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/albums/72157631470798870
Decentralized doesn't mean peer to peer. It merely means that there's no central provider -- for example, e-mail is decentralized, while Discord isn't.
You do. The problem for many of us is that the FDA has historically prevented bioglass toothpastes especially ones also including fluoride from coming to the US market. It's available for import from other countries though at an obvious price premium.
It really comes down to how the store has them tuned; one local grocery store's system freaks out if a fly lands on the scale, whereas the local Walmart doesn't seem to care if the weight is ten pounds more or less than what it thinks it should be.
The Scientific American article in question: https://gwern.net/doc/biology/1959-robinson.pdf
> Every individual is born free, and not as thrall to retroactive "obligations"

Moving from the philosophical realm into the practical - do you suppose a world free from law enforcement, a justice system, Delaware courts and enforcement of property right is better than the one with those things?

These rich tech / VC guys see themselves as natural leaders, but I doubt they have what it takes to be warlords in their fantasy dystopia.
Nit exacly what you asked about and more as an anecdote, it was used once during elections for president of Warsaw.

https://citymonitor.ai/community/2002-warsaws-mayoral-candid...
Technical solutions for societal issues don't have the best track record. Providing healthcare and education to everyone needs the right incentives, not technology that could theoretically help if greed spontaneously ceased to exist.
Also, solar panels can be spread out more to let some light through. That uses more space, but land can be cheap. And that could let other uses like grazing continue making more land available overall.
A cruise ship is just the mirror to remind us, we are all locusts.
Most of those are good points. I am technically anti-capitalist, but also anti-socialist. I think both philosophies are extreme and oversimplified. We need a worldview that integrates the insights of both with technological developments and is truly a step forward. It must value the application of science to solving society's problems by creating and using tools in core structures. It must value diversity and evolution but also holism and harmony.
And why do the rich US Americans keep profiting from it ?
Wanted to ask the same. For any new decentralized service, my first question is this and if not whether they've thought through why/why not.

There are many legitimate reasons why someone might not, but if they've not thought through them and whether or not they could achieve the same with extensions to ActivityPub I'm instantly sceptical.
Time was, that travel agent was pretty much your only option, unless you happened to have extremely well-traveled friends or family who could make an itinerary with you. Even finding a list of which airlines fly from where to where and the visa processes was a major hassle. Let alone making a connection at the other end. How would you even get a regional Italian train timetable without the internet? At least it would take an afternoon on the phone.

And if your local agents weren't good at it, or they only knew about, say, Spain in detail and not Italy, you'd be pretty out of luck.
Government can always add levies if it wants.
I just puke a lot. It gets better with more time at sea. Avoiding breathing noxious exhaust helps me a lot too, that's quite a trigger. Don't go below deck when under way. Don't try practice tying knots or reading books under way, all the usual motion sickness triggers to avoid in cars/trains. Watch the horizon/scenery, man the helm if you can, have the wind on your skin.

Short day sails are kind of the worst because it's enough to get sick, but not long enough to get over the "sea legs" hump.

Do overnights, long weekends, sleep/live on the boat. That helps me significantly.

I haven't tested this on the boat yet but fasting seemed to help on my last cross-country train trip. It's on my list of things to try sailing. Fasting is basically being deep in ketosis AIUI, so maybe just going sailing on a keto diet would make a difference. I was _trying_ to make myself motion sick on that train trip where I hadn't eaten for 48hrs, and there wasn't even a hint of nausea, it's a very different head space.
It doesn't have to replace all people, just good enough to replace the more common cases.
The complaints here make it sound like the tourists hold all the power and the locales are helpless to stop them, but the reality is that tourism is two-sided: Locales actively try to attract tourists, and tourists decide to visit.

If the locals hate the tourist dollars so much they could close down their tourist attractions. That they don’t speaks volumes: They definitely want the tourist dollars.

So visit away, and trust that the locals have lots of options (including tourist taxes) if they really want to curb visitors.
Template for Startup Financial Models
You can have a compiler or assembler in a Harvard Architecture computer, but having separate instruction and data memories means that you can't generate the instructions and then execute them. You need some scheme to move stuff from one memory to another. Think of a PIC or AVR8, for example, rewriting its own Flash memory which isn't even the same width as the data memory.
Randomized URL leads to "When the Giant Cruise Ships Came to Town | The New Yorker Documentary"
No, I don't think this has nothing to do with ActivityPub.
In the very near future (<5 years in my opinion), nearly all search requests are going to be mediated by a GPT like AI agent. It's already true that Bing search is better for some kinds of searches than a standard google search (which has become increasingly shit over the past few years as Google has lost the SEO war to blogspam). But even if we aren't quite there yet, referencing that you asked a related question to GPT in a an article you have written is still not fundamentally different than doing some research on google. GPT will still give bad answers to certain kinds of questions (and while the author didn't say what they asked or what exactly GPT responded, my best guess is that this was a pretty useless thing to ask GPT), but you can also find some real stupid shit on Google.

That sentence was almost more rhetorical flourish than anything else, and while it didn't land particularly well for me personally, I find it _far_ weirder that the commenter I replied to went off about authorship and trust.
I meant to write “certain”.
I wonder about this so much, why does this particular set of people obsess/fixate on this unimportant part of the question??

I see it happen over and over.
wrt posture, this cool (because its simple and pithy) Chrome extension has reminded me every 20 minutes for years to "Sit Up Straight, Cuz" and similar admonitions.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postureminder/dkmk...

https://github.com/sheryllun/postureminder
I don't really understand your comment. The size of the margins doesn't really have anything to do with the size of the text. (If we increased the base font size, as we've done a few times already, the margins would probably be kept the same.) If you increase the text size with the standard browser zoom commands like Ctrl-+/-, the margins are not fixed or anything like that, and you will get bigger text & lines.
Self actualizataion is at the top of maslow's hierarchy of needs ... go for it and be your best self! All the best!
That's a weird rant, that barely disguises its ad hominem nature. And you completely miss the point. I'm not scorning "those below me" (your words, not mine), I am simply saying the complete opposite, that we should in fact stop being so condescending of non-techies, creating fisher-price interfaces because they might get hurt or, by God, they might have to become proficient at it. The comparison is always with grandma, ask her how she likes being treated like that. She's quicker than most give her credit for.

Dumbing down interfaces is treating users like idiots. Users are not idiot. Teach them instead. Let them make mistakes.

In any case, you could disagree with a coherent response instead of being an obnoxious twit for absolutely no reason. The air of condescension is all on your side here, so I hope you feel real smart for putting me down right now. Good day.
I do! RIP. But even while fravia was alive, his search tips were largely outdated, and that left a gap which needed to be filled. No one else had written up a search guide for the modern Internet which touched on even a tenth of what I routinely used in my own writing to find PDFs or repair dead links, so...
In america we seem to be headed toward individually wrapping everything in plastic.

I'm not going to be surprised when I see individual onions in plastic, or blueberries by the berry. Potatoes and corn have already fallen.
Well, not anymore
Also if your infrastructure is elastic, image size can cause significant delay to scale-up and instance startup. At large scales it adds up to wasted money on provisioned resources spending time downloading the images. Very noticable with some domains that have multi-GB images.
Looking into this more, I see that Lotus 1-2-3 is considered to have greatly helped the IBM PC become dominant, and it did not run on CP/M-86 (i would be interested in any confirmation or rebuttal of this though). So Microsoft's success was partially due to Lotus as well as IBM, both of whom they would defeat in PC OSes and spreadsheets. There was rumored to be a saying at MS "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run".....And Mitch Kapor ended up promoting free software (was head of Mozilla) and tech inclusion with his foundation.
I've been sitting long in front of the computer since I was 6.

Being slouched, crossing your legs, many positions are an act of stretching. Skin will stretch, spine curvature will change, knee/hip tissue will stretch.

I have lost all of the curvature in the neck and spine. Outside of X-ray showing that neck/back lost its natural curvature, there's no tissue/disc damage. Doctors say it is quite normal for anyone sitting to lose curvature.

My sitting experience was never accompanied by pain.

I did notice knee & hip pain during longer walks in the left leg that I usually keep in a more stretched position while sitting (crossing or tucking legs). Since I've incorporated strength training (heavy squat/deadlift/overhead press) years ago there's no pain any more (interesting observation, left leg grew much more).

I have no idea if sitting, for me, is detrimental at all.
“Modern systems are quite poorly documented”

Hate to say it, but you’re probably very right.
I'm genuinely not sure! The virtual pre-screen interview has become the de facto norm in my field, so it's not like it's surprising or unexpected. And it's not like we are looking for TED speakers here - anyone should be capable with sufficient practice and preparation.

If anything, I've seen people that look great on paper, coming from the pedigreed lab/ and fancy PhD institution fail at this stage. So perhaps there's some overconfidence there. Indeed, no one in our department had any connection to, or prior knowledge of, the candidate who was ultimately given the offer. Once they got past the initial screening, through both virtual and in-person interviews, their technical depth and breadth, teaching skills and overall collegiality shone through.

All that being said, I don't doubt that all the questionable things mentioned in the article above occur, and perhaps widely. But, there is hope! And there's no better place to start than those of us who are younger faculty.
Palm Beach, Florida. The stores in the nearby less affluent neighborhoods don't have it.
Yes, it's getting nuts out there. Around where I live people regularly ride their electric bikes or electric scooters on the sidewalk, many without much regard for pedestrians. Dealt with a guy that was riding his bike at high speed and expected people to get out of his way rather than he slowing down. Basically he was terrorizing people on the sidewalk.

I don't know if it's still the case but people had to buy a license, in the past, for a regular bike but that was more of a tax on using the street not a safety issue. We need one for safety for electric bikes more than ever.
When self checkout desks were setup in my grocery store, there were 2 cashiers and 3 self service points. The queues to cashiers are different, but there is a single queue to self service. After a few observations I found that longer queue to selfservice usually goes faster. Probably because of two reasons:

1. There is one more cashdesk in there
2. The payments are done by card, whereas there those who pays in cash to the cashiers

In general cashier, of course, faster than a customer in operating goods. But there are other slow processes involved. Like: loading goods on the tape (not present in selfservice), paying with cash (some advanced selfservice desks have that though), packing goods into bag (could be done right after scanning in selfservice)

P.s: the location of a barcode on a box almost does not matter with a good scanners doing scans in two dimensions
Following the "according to reports" link in the article, we see comments from a legislator who sponsors the bill, justifying it based on the recent deaths of two e-bike riders in her district.

In both cases, the deaths were the result of a collision with a motor vehicle. But the response is to demand licensing from e-bike riders, rather than stricter liability for drivers?
What if most of the people you wish were interred there are competent enough to decide they don't want to be there but not competent enough to meaningfully integrate with society. This can even be true of some who definitely not competent now but would become sufficiently lucid to disinter themselves before discontinuing medication and resuming drinking and drugging.
Seriously, reading this article made me wish for a downvote option on submissions. I'm glad the top comment is pointing out the nonsense of this argument, but then I'm just left wondering how this made it to the top of HN in the first place. The author's diatribe about "remember device" functionality is just flat out silly, for all the reasons other commenters have pointed out.
On the opposite note, I'm planning to retire the day before my 30th birthday that's coming soon. Not that I'm going to be completely divorced from my firm, but I've delegated most of the day to day work. I'm planning to spend the rest of my time working on some startup ideas, as well as focusing time spending with family and friends (especially some close ones who have less time than me).

I originally planned on getting my MBA from HBS, but due to some of the above circumstances, I decided to delay those plans. They were very understanding though.
Not really a game, but:

> After the success of SimCity, Maxis received numerous requests from various companies to develop simulations for their industries. After rejecting many requests from other companies, the team eventually agreed to make a prototype of SimRefinery for Chevron:

[SimRefinery was] a simulation of their refinery operation, for orienting people in the company as to how a refinery works. It wasn't so much for the engineers as it was for the accountants and managers who walked through this refinery every day and didn't know what these pipes were carrying. — Will Wright

https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimRefinery
Anyone who has ever interacted with a tier 1 customer service agent in an outsourced support farm knows the difference between that and a chat bot is negligible.

True technical support can't be replaced yet, but thousands upon thousands of tier 1 human drones can be.
Or frustrate people enough so they go and figure out the solution by themselves, or not file that complaint, or whatever it was they wanted to do but did not actually necessarily need assistance with, while giving the semblance of trying to be helpful

Not saying this is a good thing, but then I'm not an upper manager with dollar symbols in their eyes
Leftist circles aren't promoting Bjørn Lomborg. They view climate change as a result of unrestrained capitalism. Great Reset conspiracy theories are also mostly right wing. Being "anti-woke" is also a right wing dog whistle.

There's overlap in these with left wing antivax sentiment and there's left wing criticism of liberal identity politics, but they don't use the same language and usually differ in their analysis in important ways.

The fact that at 35,000 feet the left and right can both be antivax and against identity politics doesn't really mean they're the same thing though, and Brand is now talking just like someone on the alt-right. Although the way that they're superficially similar may indicate how Brand can slip from the far left to the far right so easily and just chase after his audience.

(And the fact that I prefer to talk about identity politics and not talk about "wokeism" is why I'm solidly left-wing).

So take "Great Reset" plus "Anti-Woke" plus Bjørn Lomborg climate change skepticism and that adds up to alt-right to me. He may be on the populist side of the right wing and still be performatively anticapitalist, but its probably just a matter of time until he continues to slide over to the right. They also note in the article that his audience rejects his leftist view of 10 years ago:

> While some have been fans of his comedy for years, no one I spoke to—on or off the record—said they agreed with the broadly leftist views he voiced 10 years ago.

The memetic gene splicing here between the right and left is kind of worrying, though, since a populist fascist nationalist movement that combined with left-wing social safety nets for the in-group would be very successful in the current environment (similar to 1933).
You were being intellectually dishonest by repeatedly ignoring the core point of my argument about the Indian market, even after I openly acknowledged the error about the date on the original video.

I’m genuinely sorry this argument got so heated. I just get frustrated when people who accuse me of being dishonest behave in a dishonest way.
I’m not sure why we’d be relying on what either of us believe, when we can look up details about legal height restrictions. I did some hunting and can’t find any arguments from the people who proposed or passed any such legislation that it was for mental health benefits.

Can you?
In practice, places will ignore that it doesn't work for everything, cut off any sort of physical call centers, and then people just end up fed up with their services.

I absolutely hate places aggressively adopting chatbots and phone bots.
Dark Knigt meme, yeah.
And if you don't have an orthopedic problem, or are just looking for therapeutic pain relief, or maybe trying to convince a family member not to subject themselves to medical charlatans, you can get all the benefits of a chiropractor without the b.s. from a massage therapist.
> mainly she is unable to conceptualize that she is wrong and thus never learns from experience.

Yep. That sounds familiar.

> She acts out in order to gain attention. From ruining the family finances like in the first example to engaging in affairs and luring men from the internet to appear at the house.

Yep.

> She has made false claims against me to the police.

Not exactly but in the neighborhood.

> Refuses to clean up after herself, leaving huge messes, while complaining about a single item I might leave out.

Mine was a hoarder. Otherwise, yep.

> She lies, a lot. She doesn't seem to understand that I don't trust her anymore after all the lies, to her that's in the past even if it was a few minutes ago.

...while she keenly remembers the smallest of slights from decades ago.

> I'm stuck due to my kid and family courts bias in favor of mothers. 14 more years.

By the time mine got thru a paragraph, the judge would be giving me that look. I know that because judges routinely gave that look. Criminal judges, that is.