skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'm pretty confident in my memories because it wasn't too long ago. The thing fell apart only around 2016 with the rise of apps and the inflection point was a complete misery hard to forget: drivers taking your order and not moving, drivers calling you to ask about the destination point and then refusing to go there, drivers telling you that you should've put the destination point into comments, driver asking you to cancel the order and pay them in cash etc.

However the apps were able to price-dump for around three years until all small players died, then hiked the prices back again.

I'm not saying anything about the "typical experience back then" however I do know that in right circumstances (high demand, cheap supply, no lock-in) competition between independent small companies can have remarkable results.
The company I work for operates primarily with a monolith Haskell service. There are many companies that use Haskell, not least including Meta. The idea that FP isn't used in real-world projects is, at the very least, outdated; and, at the very worst, flat-out wrong.
Fair enough about the android mobile client... My use case only involves meshing linux appliances across various networks so we only need the nebula core binaries which are under MIT license

https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/blob/master/LICENSE
I was perhaps broadening "skin colour" to include "ethnic" or "national" or "racial" distinctions, but I think that's a distinction without a difference.

If we want to say "The US has been bad", I'm on board and wholeheartedly agree. But using "The Rest of the World" as the counterexample, I'm not sure that will hold up.

I imagine we broadly agree and would love to have a cup of coffee with you some day!
True, but it also tells you about the budget of the stores in the area.

A significant factor is also whether the local areas uses salt on the roads or not.

There are at least N failure modes for shopping carts:

* shopping cart wheels not coplanar

* shopping cart wheel does not turn

* shopping cart left in parking lot during weather

* shopping cart removed from parking lot entirely
> namely how a society, despite huge technological change and diversity, remains relatively stable for thousands of years

Most people in the west wouldn't want to hear the solution: value the collective over the individual, install benevolent authority figures empowered to make the final decision so that minor disputes don't get out of control (i.e. "authoritarianism"), ensure everyone is incentivized to perform their roles, and discourage troublemakers.

> suspect all the authentic professors who would have taught us were rounded up or starved in some Great Leap Backwards

The sad thing is that the Chinese tradition didn't just get wrecked during the Mao era. It started much earlier, though Mao probably handed them the nail in the coffin. In the early 20th century when the Qing dynasty collapsed, the prevailing theory among Chinese intellectuals was that China was weak because the Chinese cultural/intellectual tradition was inferior to that of the West, so to make the nation strong, everyone should just adopt Western thought instead. Within a decade or two the old system of learning was abandoned, and then there were decades of war and strife in China. This is one of the various reasons communism took a hold in China -- back then in the early 20th century, communism seemed like a progressive(?) "western" idea, and it sounded like a great way to run a nation.

By the time of the "Great Leap" and the "Cultural Revolution", there wasn't that much left of traditional Chinese thought to destroy. Some prominent academics went to Taiwan or Hong Kong, but if you ask me, they were faint echos of what the classical Chinese thought had to offer.

If you actually wanted to "hear from the horse's mouth", you might have to go back a couple hundred years.
>but you do you really want your teenagers to be obedient and compliant?

Yes... what a ridiculous rhetorical question, with all due respect.

There is a thread of democratic myth that has been abused into dust that holds that there is high virtue in being disobedient and non-compliant. But the heart of that myth is always centered in somehwat rare (in the context of today) totalitarianism or "dark age" mythological social ignorance.

When in reality the key to both learning and life success, translating to happiness, is obedience and compliance with things that are mostly good and mostly true. Whereas predators, of all kinds, often rely on peddling untruths to the reflexively disobedient.

There are exceptions, but the lesson is that they are far from the rule.
How long do you expect that will remain the case in the face of such a flood of zero-incremental-cost garbage as we here discuss?

Especially worth mentioning in this connection is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39424688, as of this writing #1 on HN. I mention it here because what it says about moderation, and about centralized platforms being both the highest-value and most poorly managed targets, applies here also.
I'm not telling that to a paleolithic or neolithic islander, I'm telling that to you, a Western dude used to cars and planes, (public) medicine that mostly works, a heated and cooled house, kitchen appliances, TimTams, lattes, running water and sanitation. And I stand by my words.
In similar philosophy, in a middlebox that wanted to decrypt the flows, I simply put TLS1.3 inside HTTPS CONNECT inside TLS1.2 stream.

Horrible, but it was easier than updating the middlebox...
They didn’t build aqueducts because the population in Europe in the dark ages was shrinking and becoming less urbanised.
When I say a very small town I mean way less than 100k people. There is a very high barrier to entry in being the second taxi service for outsiders because when it's that small everyone knows everyone else or their family by name so they don't trust outsiders easily.

Regardless of how permissive the regulations and bylaws are on the books.

And even when it's a second group of locals that want to establish a second taxi service, you can still establish your 'monopoly power' on one side of town, or specific areas. There's no practical bottom limit.
> Films from India, China, Japan, and Korea have almost nothing to do with "Asian AMERICANS". We don't generally consider films from Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, etc to have anything to do with "white Americans".

If an “Asian” American can’t relate to content from Asia, then they’re just a generic American. Which is fine. But then they should just watch other generic American content. It’s not like Swedish Americans are sitting around demanding more movies with Stellan Skarsgård.
If I'm Andy's small town taxi company, I actually bet that nobody will spend thousands of dollars using me over a 20-50 dollar ride. I don't need to care, and no lawyer will go for a class action suit because the class is too small
> No export function. If you really need one, just use a shell script with xdotool and your favorite screenshot application.

> Slides with exuberant amount of lines or characters produce rendering glitches intentionally to prevent you from holding bad presentations.

This reads like a parody of Suckless software. Why would anyone use this over the most basic alternative with something like Markdown or HTML in conjunction with a PDF viewer? It's not as if anyone using computers now doesn't have a PDF viewer, so I fail to see the practical utility in re-implementing a tiny fraction of its functionality.

If I may be so bold and scathing, I would like to generalise this to Suckless as a whole. Their issue seems to be with "bloat" in modern computers, but we have the disk space and CPU cycles to accommodate featureful software written in safe and simple programming languages. Writing software only in C and putting a strict line limit on it simply isn't necessary. The code produced will be of a lower quality and the software produced will have insufficient features.

I stand by my belief that it is is possible to write software that provides many features, to do so with a responsive and pleasing UI, in a manner that does not excessively use system resources, and with code that is open to extension and modification. In short: good software is possible. Yet the Suckless style seems to ignore many of the aspects of good software under the false assertion that they come at the cost of others. A piece of software that lacks features is worse than a bloated piece of software with sufficient features as the latter can actually achieve what user wants, though both are worse than non-bloated software with sufficient features.
What do you mean by emotional emancipation?
A Psychiatrist Tried to Quit Gambling. Betting Apps Kept Her Hooked
No paywall:https://archive.is/C2LoW
Not Costco's - have been to many over the years and they have some of the best maintained, good quality carts you don't mind dragging across their gigantic parking lot.
I need a `age:1year` or something, almost everytime I search something tech related i generealy dont want some StackOverflow from 2014.

And dont get me started on the changes they made if you search a product or something buyable. its takes like 4 clicks to go to the shop page and none of the open-in-tab methods work
This annoyance also extends to other features like using an iPhone as webcam, unlocking with Apple Watch, using Apple Music (you can’t login to a different account, only the system one)…

MDM is so common in every tech company - I bet Apple’s own employee issued macs are managed, it is inexplicable how this is still a problem.
Check out Mantle
I will try to fix this, sounds frustrating. Most likely I will change the default to what yall suggest and keep the way it works now as a settings option just for me because my muscle memory can't handle the change ha.
Also the Mantle printers look promising
It's not just that the big platforms provide a much stronger incentive for fraudsters. It's that providing that stronger incentive is not a bug for the big platforms, it's a feature. It goes hand in hand with their business model, which is to sell access to as large a pool of users as possible.

> The big platforms actually are radically more competent at anti-fraud / anti-spam / etc

No, they're not. They are purposely incompetent at those things, because it's part of their business model. They cannot implement actual competence (which would mean providing sufficient actual human support to deal with the volume of mistakes that their automated algorithms make), not because it would cost too much (the article quite correctly points out that their huge profits provide plenty of cash to pay for human moderation), but because it would reduce their value to their actual customers, who are not their users.
If an app or website exclusively uses third-party logins I generally won’t even use it. In general I don’t appreciate anything that tries to get cute about account creation.

(However I agree with the other comment about HN not being representative of typical users.)
Tunneling currents are continuous in every parameter, although I admit that when you're dealing with particles you have continuous probability distributions with continuously varying means, rather than continua of matter. (But that should count, because all macroscopic variables are expectation values.)
There's a lot going on here.
Yeah, I agree that buying an EV without charging at home doesn't make much sense. And if you do need to drive many hours, even occasionally, that would be a great reason not to get an EV. To be clear: I don't own an EV, nor am I planning to buy an EV next time I need a car.
The simple answer is the store managers don't care that much and it costs money to have the carts fixed.

Stores like Target buy nice carts and they last longer, stores like Menard's buy even cheaper carts (they might even make their own, they build their own electric scooters for in-store use).

I worked at a company in an adjacent business, most store chains either have their own service techs, or outsource it to a service company. These guys repair anything with wheels, from shopping carts to bakery carts to those hand carts and jack lifts. But there's only so much budget to go around and the carts get replaced every couple years anyway, it's easier to just recycle them.
Related:

Chinese electric carmakers are taking on Europeans – and succeeding

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/18/1225653773/china-electric-veh...
Clearly there is not that responsibility. Also, a lot of remote workers are not us citizens or authorized to work physically in the us.
The modern use of the term Luddite is perhaps the clearest example of how “history is written by the winners”: The Luddites protested the wealth inequality and bad working conditions that the new technology allowed for, for example child labour. Their opponents painted them as fearing and hating the technology itself.

A good book on the subject is “Blood in the Machine” (2023) by Brian Merchant, which is about what the Luddites actually meant. The 99 Percent Invisible podcast recently interviewed the author: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/blood-in-the-machine/
Pollution free satellites = good

Forcing everyone to use wooden satellites = bad

Hopefully the policy makers will get it now...

Edit: spelling
What are the limits? (Asked as a US guy who buys the 500 x 500mg bottles at BJ's.)
>What’s income have to do with how you treat a shopping cart? I’ve been to in places in Asia with very poor (poor compared to the poor people in the US) people and they treated their shopping carts better than wealthy people in the US.

Would you say the difference in income in the places in Asia that you're describing were on the same level as in Manhattan?

There are very poor parts of America where people take more care of shopping carts, there are very rich parts of America where people take more care of shopping carts.
But a thing happens when you have a notable population of mentally ill homeless people living on the same streets that New York level wealthy citizens also use. The person I replied to is from Texas, where they round up inconvenient people and either bus them or fly them to other states - including New York. That's certainly one way to level out the income inequality in the region.

>There is better social cohesion and respect for other people's property. Now, there are some oddities in that if they find you lying on the street hurt, most will pass you by and kind of look at you quizzically, but they also do have good samaritans, just not as many.

On that note, comparing "places in Asia" to New York, you're going to also have to factor in the effects of (presumably) thousands of years of culture, vs barely four centuries in a rapidly developed melting pot of capitalism.

But this is a lot we're typing out in response to one person's weird conjecture. My point is that I think it's distasteful for someone from Texas to be giving a blanket statement that people from New York must be horrible people. If they spent any time in New York, with New Yorkers, I would hope they'd have a more informed view.
> can they make their customer whole 100% of the time?

They do make their customers (i.e., the companies who pay them for access to their users) whole. But their users (at least the vast majority of them) are not their customers; they don't pay for the service. (It's true, as the article points out, that even paid support at the big platforms is very poor, but that's because the money involved is still not even rounding error compared to the astronomical profits being made from selling access to their users.)

They can't make their users whole, or even a significant fraction of them, without breaking their business model. That's why they don't do it.
Apple owns 70% of the mobile device market in the US, and is the exclusive app distribution channel on the that platform.

Web Apps do not work right (especially when compared to the other major mobile platform) and Apple is making little effort to improve the viability of this potential channel, instead choosing to delete web push tokens every week or so amongst other sabotage of web applications, while these same web applications work just fine on the other platforms that support web apps.
Django has all that built in: auth, users, CRUD.

It comes with a built in admin portal that lets you work with all your data in list views and detail views, with sorting, filtering, and searching. For a lot of scenarios you can get away with just using the admin portal (like we have accounting people log in there and import CSV files, etc).

It’s great for managing a data model, setting up a database schema and managing the migrations for you. And once that is setup it’s pretty trivial to enable API endpoints to do all the CRUD-style stuff, if needed.
Reflecting sunlight back from space (bubbles in L2 (?) stable orbit), and reflecting sunlight back from high atmosphere (aerosol injection) have both been studied and atmospheric geoengineering has already begun at a tiny tiny scale by independant VC types.

Reflection from ground based surfaces not so much - I suspect the issue is reflection isn't absolute and transfers heat - the oceans reflect back light while warming the ocean surface layer is already part of the dynamic, solar panels and other reflective objects will also heat up and transfer that heat to the lower atmosphere land|sea layer.

That aside, there's some merit in the notion, it should have been looked at and there's likely a paper or three on the subject.
I don't think the google graveyard is a concern, because it's obviously a valuable, profitable product they could sell, but if you haven't been horrified by the current enshitification of reddit, you haven't been paying attention.

I was a moderator of some very large subreddits, and due to reddits pigeonholing me into an app vs new mobile layout, I'm leaving those moderator positions (note: I am not complaining about the api issues). I don't want to participate in a community that is catering to the lowest common denominator such that the term "redditquitte" is a joke.

I've thought long and hard about it, and I think companies are intentionally creating Eternal Septembers in their products, because it's just easier to just put big pictures on the homepage to get clicks, when that type of UX only invites the type of people who see the site as something only to consume and not to contribute to.

I've been invited to multiple "moderator feedback" focus groups, that were worse than awful. After they defaulted an "annoying look here" icon in the right corner to try and get us to work more, I said "fuck this, I'm out."

My point here isn't just to bitch and moan, it's to point out that site:reddit.com only works because the community is one that actively values contribution over consumption... that's going away, and the usefulness of site:reddit.com will go away as that culture changes.
Did they get rid of free plastic bags at checkout earlier?

I ask because some Walmarts got rid of hand baskets. When they stopped providing free plastic bags at checkout there was a big rise in people carrying their purchases out in the hand baskets and then not returning the baskets. Those stores often decided to stop replacing the baskets.

I would not be surprised if the same thing happened at other stores.
That's nasty. If I expect my goods to fit into a hand basket, I grab one. Better maneuverability in a crowd.
The material world is finite, yes, but capitalism doesn't rely on infinite material growth. Most growth of the economy in United States has been relatively dematerialized.

Services, software, entertainment, education, information... while these aren't 100% free from material constraints, it's not like the economy is growing primarily by digging ever more rocks out of the ground. The majority of the value comes from abstractions.
(2023)

As per: http://web.archive.org/web/20231103222724/https://www.nvidia...
A simpler preliminary question would be, why are complex numbers present in non quantum wave mechanics, and then how does this compare and contrast to quantum mechanics.
You might enjoy “The Odyssey” by Symphony X.
I just feel like this reply amounts to "there can't be a non-moralistic explanation for this, the moralistic explanation has to be the correct one".

I know that's an uncharitable oversimplification, but is there a way you can present your case without moralistic barbs like "the inner food-addict concocting excuses for an XXL pizza"?

And perhaps also include evidence rather than conjecture. My comment is consistent with the notion from evolutionary theory that our mind and body acts in accordance with what it determines is optimal for its survival, with the caveat that this can be complicated by factors like illness.
>* apparently the automatic rain sensor doesn't work/exist (I think that's always been true; I just learned about it)

My Dec 2016 Model S has a "working" automatic rain sensor, it's just not as good as others I've seen. My '04 Audi A8 had a sensor so good that the first time it turned on I didn't know why, but then as I drove under some street lights I realized it had detected some really fine mist.

On the other hand, part of the reason I switched from the Audi to the Tesla was that I had $10k in broken "toys" on the Audi (1 of 2 bluetooth radios, 2 doorhandle auto unlockers, leak in the air suspension, steering wheel adjustment motor, etc), and part of what I wanted in the Tesla was something less expensive maintenance wise. So making more do less (using the cameras for auto wipers) makes sense.
The other part that affects things is the locking wheel to deter theft. All that does is make the person taking the cart drag it, flattening out that wheel.
As a counterexample, there are and were plenty of bad actors on phpbb forums.
Computing power development needs at least another 15 years before we can get such graphic fidelity on the middle class user's eyeglass frame
I’d settle for Excel either not automatically reformatting dates when opening a CSV, or having the decency to put them back the way they were when saving it. Silently turning 2016-01-02 into 01/02/2016 should be considered a hate crime.
Mostly broken :(
> They can’t have a bad day.

That’s a feature. Means they are never in need. Never have to deal with moodiness or frustration spilling over to you.

> Or any real thoughts concerns or interest.

Not having any concerns would also be a feature. And their interests and thoughts are whatever you want them to be.
The kind of experiences that the post and I am talking about are where the platform user or the customer end are dissatisfied by the platform's conduct.

The question of the company itself being defrauded by some number of customers and having to defend against that as it becomes increasing larger is definitely valid and difficult to tackle at scale. However, I think it is a totally separate one. I do not think it is a necessity for the company to compromise the ability to make any one dissatisfied customer whole just because they are being targeted by a whole lot of fraudsters all at once. The company might have to increased their costs on their products to pay for things like additional training, tamper-evident packaging, improving supply chain management, and so on.
It does though because its a contract. There are states which enforces, in their contracts, various anti-boycott measures regarding Israel. These are effectively anti-free-speech clauses and they are imposed by the government. But, are allowed because they are agreed to in the terms of the contract.
Many countries have laws limiting the size of vehicles and weight for non-commercial licenses too :)
Sam Harris once said that "someday soon, your phone will understand you better than your wife does" and you know what? I think that's true.

Sure, a disembodied artificial companion can't do everything that a human can. But they could be infinitely patient; they could listen to you and help you work through things: they could suggest books or movies you might like, and talk with you about them afterwards: they could help you be a better version of yourself.

That sounds pretty compelling.