jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I find it absurd that wealthy Tech people are making decisions on where to live based on the financial value proposition.

People in Tech are rich enough to comfortably live anywhere. Surely, the lifestyle and character of a town/city/country plays a much larger role in where you choose to stay. Life in cheaper cities in the interior is very different from that in massive cities like SF/NY/London/etc. No amount of money can fix life in the wrong location.

On HN, the Remote vs Local argument often ignores critical advantages of a local setup. Over 1 year of remote work, I haven't been able to replicate the magic of physical work a single time. This is while having an social workplace that has really tried to make people feel included.

This may sound like heresy to some but, if I am going to be spending 50% of my waking time with a dozen people, then I would want to be good friends with them, and remote work certainly doesn't make that easy.

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I also don't buy the flexibility argument of remote work. It requires a lot of discipline and deliberate action. All of my acquaintances (all single, wealthy and in tech) have increased their working hours during Covid, due to unclear expectations around remote work. None have used this freedom to travel or fulfill their 'live in a cabin' or 'digital nomad' dreams. (ofc, it is challenging to fulfill these during covid).

Now let be clear. I love the idea of companies letting their employees choose what's best from themselves. But, there is a feeling in the air that remote work will be the norm for effective teams after Covid. I have feeling these people will be in for a rude awakening.

Offices are most effectively leveraged by the 90-99th. Those who are doing productive work that needs focus, but not deliberately effective enough to make in the '1' Percentile. (don't read too strongly into the numbers). The structures lent by the office are most useful to these people. Those who are smart enough to use structures to improve, but not smart enough to not need them at all. The bottom 0-90 percentile are often in jobs that 'require' a physical presence (chefs) or ones that are mundane enough to be done from any location. (excel table filling)
Currently getting 5 minutes on 45 minutes off. San Antonio
I see this argument a lot. It's really unhelpful if you're trying to resolve the big challenges. The reality is that around about 90% of all healthcare spend can be done in a normal, thought out manner. The car accident/heart attack/ambulance can I negotiate my surgery dialogue is such a small part that using it really distracts away from the main issues.

This was an incredibly disturbing story. It's a pity that it takes a partisan tone at the end. You can just as easily draw the conclusion that all of this pricing shenanigans would be solved by a single government body setting prices for surgery as you can for opening it up entirely to market forces.
As somebody who has a SO who works at Google, thus giving me a bit of insight into the culture, I can factually say that gifs and lolcat-like memes have already started replacing the English language there.
That's a great endorsement. I was going to do my next experimental app in Go, but this really makes me want to use Rust.
"covering all kinds of media from videos and music through to PDF documents"

Do they not just accept all files? This makes me think there's a set list of filetypes.
This looks really nice, but I tried to sign up and the button didn't work for me. Is it closed?
I pity Daala got delayed to 2016, but on the other hand it should be noticeably better than competition in order to succeed, so it's good they are taking their time.
> In fact, per capita, a septic system is one of the most wasteful kinds of systems for handling sewage. Think of the land that a septic system needs.

Yes, think of the land, specifically the marginal cost of using said land for a septic system.

A septic system in the country can easily cost less than the comparable amount of NYC's sewer system.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a good engineering school in upstate NY (technically Troy, NY which is by Albany, so a good 3 hours from Manhattan)
I've noticed that when I run my breathing speed and heart rate increase up to 5 km, then stays pretty much constant. I don't know why this is though. If you do strength training you probably stop long before this point.
Maybe I'm making a large assumption here, but since you're doing web development you presumably have access to their site. Why not just remove your code from the site until they pay you?
My sense too is the "first time CEO" problem that's unavoidable. I think some of her public known missteps are just a function of being a rookie and something you see from nearly all first time CEO's of large companies.
Workers create value.

If the value created is not enough to pay a living wage then the job can probably be done without. Though, if the value created is high, but market conations allow for less than a living wage by exploiting workers then raising the minimum wage rises worker pay without costing a job.

In the end this is only a problem is the US because society subsidizes companies employing low pay workers. The might be created plenty of value, but companies get to extract it not just from workers but also from welfare programs.
Like Android.. haha. Seriously this is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read that was not a April Fools Joke.
Your loans would become more expensive, certainly. It's still not correct to say that the "mortgage payments are not going to go down", which is what I replied to. They would - to a certain point, at least.
The DAs work with law enforcement on a daily basis. They are in some ways considered law enforcement themselves (they have detectives and investigators working directly for them). My experience is that they don't care.

I've contacted the AG about stuff in the past. He was a complete idiot. I contacted him about a state law that was being violated by a state government policy and he said he would forward the complaint to the FBI. Why? It has nothing to do with federal law!
Yeah, pushing kids may not always work out for kids. I used those examples to show it's possible for some kids to get advantages. That's also the reason I kept quantifying the examples with "if they are interested/talented" and etc. Maybe a reversed example is better: some kids could've stood out but didn't because they didn't have the edge of being in those camps/tutoring schools. I'm already seeing such trend: kids are in arm race of taking as many APs as possible. Kids rush to STEM contests, and etc. Schools can take out challenges, but the competitions won't stop simply because top-quality education is a scarce resource.
Why is this post so far down the front page (no. 16 at the time of writing)? There are older posts with way less points in the top 10, is there some weird HN algo ranking the posts?
You're re-stating what I wrote. There's a very small risk. It is not zero.

If you want to attack someone (again: not me) for saying "there's no risk to young people unless they're obese" -- which is essentially what the OP said -- then that's your prerogative, but I have better places to grind axes.

I think it's important to make it clear that the risk is quite small indeed, and let people make up their own minds. That's different than implying that a "non-zero risk" is somehow meaningful to a young person.
Looks like I chose the wrong person to reply to. Does it ever feel sour that people that think like you are an ever decreasing minority in the greatest country on earth? Reflect on that.
> one requests that a repo pull from your fork's branch

So why isn't "pull request" a good name for a request to pull from a different repo?
Doesn’t that just shift to whom the burden falls? The people paying the mortgages have forbearance, but the people who would recieve the payments aren’t, and that should have some type of impact, right?
It definitely manifests in ways I can see. I struggled for years as an end user of selenium with backwards compatibility issues, bugs and weird browser quirks.

It's pretty apparent that it requires an awful lot of maintenance to keep up with the browsers, so if this really does reduce the workload on them then that ought be noticeable on my end with fewer bugs, quirks and backwards compatibility issues. This is more exciting to me than all of the other features (I'm a bit dubious of the ability to detect if a page has really 'loaded', for instance).
You need two source maps: one produced by ClojureScript and one produced by RN Metro. When you get an error with a stack trace from RN, you need to walk the source maps in the correct order to find where the error in the CLJS code originated. I wrote some custom code to do this but I haven’t polished it/made it into a lib at this point.
Combining therapy and medication is more effective than either alone. For ADHD and depression. And "CBT has not been found to be particularly beneficial for children with ADHD."[1]

[1] https://focus.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.foc...
I thought about making an anti-drone drone that would basically fly in front of another drone and release a fine spray of some sort of air-hardening resin which should foul control surfaces and mechanical parts.

Haven't done it yet.
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The USSR had time, resources (human and material) and the land buffer to keep fighting. The farther Germany pressed into the USSR, the more Germany's resources and supply lines were stretched and the Soviets eventually realized that.

Similar reasons cost Napoleon dearly ~130 years before.

Also, Stalin's massive ego wouldn't allow a city named after himself to be taken by the Germans. That's the primary reason that particular city suffered the high casualties that it did. Stalin once told Churchill at the Tehran Conference that "when one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics."[1]

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=8fp1A2s6aQwC&pg=PA510&dq#v=...
There's a propagated distortion regarding the meaning of human rights here in Brazil, it seems to me. There's this idea that human rights is synonym with being soft on crime, not actually punishing wrongdoings, treating criminals better than honest working folk. So, understandably, a lot of people start seeing "human rights" as part of the problem.

Crime can be solved in two ways, one of them is through the kind of policies you've mentioned. The other -- which may only work with crime committed or allegedly committed by the poor -- is by widespread oppression and institution of elements of a police state (the drawbacks are many as you can imagine). Brazil currently does not have the infrastructure to follow the former so it seems to be courting the latter; It doesn't seem to be in the best interest of politicians to work towards the better option. Possibly, who knows, because it would be the harder and riskier approach regarding whether it could bring them immediate votes and popularity.
Well, think about Star Trek --let me finish!-- the computer on the Enterprise always knew where everybody was and it didn't concern anybody unduly. As ubiquitous surveillance becomes pervasive we are confronted with the task of growing into a humane and healthy world polity.
I reason that it's not a matter of why are you using Python but more of we/I (must) use/prefer/know Python better than other languages.
You may try looking into Tiny houses, they may cause some problems with zoning in some area's so picking a location will require some research.

A tiny house can easily run under $20,000 fully equipped. Some people have been able to build them for under $10,000.

Fix the house with solar panels, maybe a small wind turbine for electricity. tin roof with a rain water collection, you can run is through a 3 stage or 5 stage filter into a small water tank under a couch. Solar or propane hot water heater, propane gas stove. Grab yourself a 5-mile wifi- antenna to pick up wifi from coffee shops nearby. Composting toilet or a standard RV backwater holding tank to take care of the nasty.

A tiny house with this set up can take care of all of your basic utilities and if you are frugal, resourceful and pick up recyclables, you could drive down the cost possibly under $10k.

Check out this video for my favorite tiny house build. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckbqU4kK2I

Edit: You will need a car/truck that can tow it around. But an automobile would definitely come in handy if you still want to commute into the city.
Such a system won't need a single ID photo as 'reference'. When it notices someone leaving a house on Wisteria Lane 2401, and walking into an office on 21 Main Street, and there are postal packages send to John Smith on Wisteria Lane 2401 and social security contributions for employee John Smith by an employer registered at 21 Main Street, it doesn't take much to put 2 and 2 together and conclude that the face of that person is that of John Smith. And that's just 2 data points - think about it, how many things are there that tie a person to a name and a location? How irregular are people's movements really? Apart from putting on another mask every day, and moving house every few days, given enough processing power and some time that future system will recognize all but the most determined individuals - although I don't see how anyone can live a 'normal' life without a fixed address, job, phone, internet use, and 0 tolerance for anything that resembles a 'routine'.
* facepalm *

122GB.

That's still an abnormal amount, but it's in AWS RDS, on a db.r3.4xlarge instance.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concep...
Well of course the great part and the worst flaw of my status-maximization theory is that it can't be disproved. The guy who gives up a high-paying job in finance to go become a starving artist is arguably maximising his status ("Oooh look at that guy following his dream and not caring about money") and so is the guy who makes the reverse decision ("Being an artist is for try-hard suckers, look at my money!").

It's hard to find an example of someone unambiguously lowering their own status, since voluntarily lowering your status in order to achieve some other aim can be, in itself, a status-raising activity.
Actually the Quick Search Box maintainer (dmaclach) posted on Google Groups that Quick Search Box is basically dead in the water, and no longer funded by Google. Apparently most of the former team are now working on Chrome:

http://groups.google.com/group/qsb-mac-discuss/msg/ded590b8b...
It's good they're doing this, but since I've switched to a browser with WebM support a few months ago, and opted-in to the trial, I've run across only a couple of videos not in WebM.
This is pretty awesome. The SNES is by far my most favorite console ever. It had the highest gem-to-crap ratio of games, ever.
List of languages it supports (found in the Wiki editing screens): http://pygments.org/docs/lexers/
...and with a large library of switchable preset dictionaries for common document scenarios...
I am a female and I am only friends with equals, both men and women.
The published spec conceives of halving the number of bitcoins a block miner receives every n years (4 or so?). Right now, a block miner will get 50 BTC. In a year or two, they'll only get 25. A few years later, 12.5. The Sum of the BTC generated before the block generation gets really really little is roughly 21 million.

As has been pointed out copiously today, that's a convention that BTC clients and users all claim to agree to. It seems likely to me that they will continue to agree to it, and it also seems likely to me that the major hurdle will be the first '25 BTC/block' downgrade. If the community survives that, the others will likely follow easily.
I think he is right. I never found a language with better docs! PHP's website is it's own documentation and it works really nice:

http://php.net/arrays

http://php.net/extract

http://php.net/oop

I hardly memorize stuff 'cause it's so easy to look up to the docs that it's not necessary. And here is what you get when you don't really know what you are looking for:

http://php.net/array_implode

That is just nice documentation...
What they charge is not what it costs them.
I will check this and get back at you soon.
I've worked with the founder (Joost H., Remy says Hi). Can vouch for him, all-round good tech guy. He was a Windows server admin at a big cloud provider (CloudVPS), I was one of the Linux guys. He knows his way around Windows, hyper v and clustering. Even some Linux. Quit his job to work full time on the startup with his brother.

Big plus one here. I'd trust wifimask if I wasn't capable of hosting my own servers and needed a VPN.
> This maybe leads to the question of why we should favor any business to continue operating in a space that may be a net negative contribution to our society

What does the minimum wage have to do with contribution to society?

> Without enforcing minimum wage, and perhaps least minimum full time to part time employment ratios, we face businesses competing on prices by undercutting labor instead of other avenues of improving operating efficiency.

Some businesses cannot be profitable and therefore will not exist at certain minimum wages, though. The US minimum wage is a big part of why manufacturing jobs have moved out of the US, for instance.

That might be a trade we're willing to make. There may be good reasons to make it, but it is not without cost.
I am 25, eating ramen, living with lots of people in a cramped house, and seeing my money get burned paying debts.

I have a startup because lack of choice (here in Brazil programmers are very badly paid, and I don't figured yet how to move... most countries has some weird requeriment or another that I cannot meet).

It is not romantic at all, it suck.

5 years ago my dream was have a 9-5 job, a house, a wife and kids. This proved kinda impossible here...

Now my dream is become absurdly rich and own a farm... And I have that dream because since I was forced into a risky situation, I plan in failing, or having great rewards... I had no choice in having a risk, but since I have lots of risk, at least I can choose to really go for it...

But I am sure, that if I could have a 9-5 job, house and wife, I would be perfectly happy.
Type systems tell you when your code is wrong. You don't have to do any SQL manipulation in your type system, you just make sure that SQL and non-SQL data have different types, and carry on as normal. If your code is joining functions together in an unsafe way, the type system will reject it and you have to go back and change it. If it's safe, they type system accepts it and then the code can be compiled into some untyped* language (assembly, Javascript, JVM bytecode, whatever)

* By 'untyped' I mean that the type-system that you were using is no longer enforcing anything. There may be another type system in the compiler target.
I reply here because I can't reply to the below comment.

The claim in wikipedia says that it has more general affinity to the gallo-romance group than to the ibero-romance group. I may be wrong, but I read that as "it is more similar to french/italian than to spanish/portuguese".

Also, I'm not complaining about anything (and I couldn't care less about wheter valencian becomes extinct or not). I was just refuting the op affirmation statement that "You will mainly hear Catalan in the streets of Valencia, not Castillian Spanish".
> -U.S. used threats, spying, and more to try to get its way at last year's crucial climate conference in Copenhagen.

Some people here were speculating that NSA spying on the world means US will be able to blackmail all the world's leaders to do what's in the interested of US instead of their own citizens.

Yup. Confirmed.
I would love to see that happen, but I don't think we can handle it from a biological perspective. We are too emotional, vain and have too muddled an understanding of our own goals and volition to be able to be honest even with ourselves let alone the rest of the world. It just doesn't seem feasible without some kind of widespread cognitive change.
I did it for 90 days. It was awesome. Then the holidays hit, which made it impossible.

Polyphasic is perfect for the person who doesn't have any other life commitments and wants to be super productive every day. (Weekend mornings get super boring, btw. So I replayed every Xbox game I own. And then that got boring.)
> Am I being completely unreasonable, or is this a common malady?

Java shows the consequence of wide acceptance over time and the burden of history and legacy. I've watched Java evolve from a rather primitive virtual machine tied to an unambitious language, to an entity that, because of its wide acceptance, requires consideration as a contender even though it's not the most efficient language, VM or development option.

My advice is to look into things like Scala, which exploits the existence and wide availability of the Java VM but doesn't use the Java language. In essence it separates the machine from the language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)
because I am going through a period of healing. Before I ended up on disability nobody wanted to hire me or let me join a startup. I had just been in a hospital recently and almost had a stroke and heart attack with high blood pressure, and found I have a defective heart valve. I had to take some time off to heal.

What I am trying to do is side-projects on my own. If you think I can better do that by joining a startup and getting work, I can change my status. But I had tried for over a decade and got nothing, before I put that status up.
What do you see as the hypocrisy of LeBron? He's a successful athlete, and also is a person concerned about racism and institutional failings in his country and in his community. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. Plenty of athletes have used their positions to advocate for causes unrelated to sport. Think about Muhammad Ali losing his title for refusing to fight in Vietnam.

The odd man out here is Michael Jordan, with his "Republicans buy sneakers too" quip.
yes, yes, and yes. mostly yes.

another factor is that computers were limited in presentation and computation, they'd present to you abstracted, dull tables and operations on data. But it did serious jobs. Now we have extremely (extremely, as a CGI fan, I cannot deny that) fancy presentation systems, but the actual data displayed is linear list of paragraphs, a few pictures and data points. Well computer is hypermainstream so obviously it talks to the average user.. but it says something about what computing was and is now.
It's so close for me, I cannot get the key in to open the lock to the anode. Otherwise, if one has some access space, segmented is a good solution. or, alternatively, an anode that is part of the heating element assembly, if that is at the bottom / accessible.

Some handy individuals have modified their existing assemblies, but I don't have the time nor the tools, and it's not cost-effective to mess around in my case, as a replacement for my electrical unit will be under $300, dealer demo unit, with own installation. Just have to snag one on sale.