PumpkinSpice
No user record in our sample, but PumpkinSpice has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but PumpkinSpice has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
Huh? Car maintenance is a rational, physical necessity. I don't need to compliment my car for it to start on a cold day. I'd like it to stay this way. Having to be unconditionally nice to computers is extremely creepy…
This is such a weird topic in the ham community. The reason this restriction exists has nothing to do with the retro-justifications used by the community. For a long time, the US government genuinely feared that ham…
Yes, it probably applies to the most qualified hires, so probably folks who are already around $1M total comp where they are. But the most important point is, you don't get that money now, and maybe never. The most…
You're not describing a position taken by sane libertarians, though. Their argument is different: that if the government didn't regulate so much, customers would depend on the merchant's reputation, possibly backed by…
I see the problem a bit differently. Perhaps a society could function in a model like that. But we decided it's too burdensome and we ceded this responsibility to the government. In such a world, it is paradoxically…
Well, HN isn't a forum with a well-defined "expert" scope. It's a link aggregator for nerdy news. If you get bored with Rust, you talk about ChatGPT. Or CPU design. Or biotech. Almost anything goes. I think this makes…
In practice, it's a tiny market. CRTs are bulky, unsightly... and for the most part, really not as amazing as claimed. Plus, they are difficult to ship. Most of them end up in the landfill. Meanwhile, antique phones,…
That's gonna be tough with phonetics across several thousand languages... not to mention regional slang and other subculture stuff. I think the surest bet is just to avoid short names. If it's four or five letters, the…
None of this is a problem in any objective sense. It's just that if your goal is to use one name across two languages, it's not exactly what you get in this scenario. Stuff like that doesn't bother me at all, but I…
This is actually a pretty interesting problem and the website doesn't do it full justice. Do you want the same spelling? That's easy, but the pronunciation is quite often completely different. A good example is Jules in…
Right. It's not even that they need to create a market. These things are already selling on eBay for hundreds of dollars. I guess it's a fairly common decor element for offices and homes. The same goes for old…
The desire to disrupt almost always arises out of ignorance. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just that if you know the complex reasoning and all the institutional baggage that explains why hotels, banks, or…
Most large tech companies essentially give a pass to new hires on their first eval cycle. Depending on your start date, you might be either outright ineligible for a rating, or the rating defaults to "meeting…
Folks here are probably reading too much into the "boot sector" angle. This project, like many others on HN, is best understood as "doing something in a constrained way because it's a fun challenge." As to why 512…
They were also on the forefront of the "blockchain revolution" several years back. There's worthwhile research coming out of IBM once in a blue moon, but by and large, they seem to be chasing PR trends.
A single retail account is of no consequence to a national bank that has tens of millions of customers. It doesn't matter if you're spending $10 or $50,000 a month. They care about you as an individual about as much as…
> 1. I’ll only be a millionaire because of inflation over my lifetime. First, statistically speaking, you might only have a couple of years between statutory retirement age and some sort of an "old-age" illness that…
Are you looking at the same thing? There clearly are decoupling caps not far from the chip. There's no rule to say you need to use 10 x 100 nF capacitors in 0603. They are more cost-efficient, but they're more work to…
This is really not about an engineer keeping a bootleg model in your basement. It's about the barrier for entry for commercial products. Or the ability to curate improved open-source implementations in the long haul,…
Why? The ChatGPT interface is not integrated with an editor and not really tailored for writing. I'd wager that most of the current Grammarly users would rather pay for a tailored tool than a chat window that excels at…
There's a lot of people with strong opinions whether these detectors can or cannot work, but I implore you to do the experiment I just did. Go to the top 10 you find in a Google search and paste a sufficiently long…
> I know so many poorly educated homeschoolers whose lives have been destroyed with no hope of recovery by the complete lack of skills their hyper religious parents imparted them with, in jail, broke, unable to hack it…
I'm not here to defend SolarWinds, and it's entirely possible that they were a "bad investment pretending to be a good one", but I have some issues with this framing. First, contrary to your assertion, there is no doubt…
"Directors and officers" are a special legal category, basically the highest-ranking people making material decisions about the business day-to-day. They are subject to special reporting requirements, such as having to…
No, the bulk of security and privacy work at Apple happens elsewhere.