jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>I would be surprised if water and sewer serve a 'vast' majority of homes. Lots of rural and semi-rural homes have wells and septic.

Many sources I searched for say only around 20% of US homes use septic, so I presume the others are connected to sewer systems.

https://www.epa.gov/septic/septic-systems-overview

>It's because it costs a lot of money to construct, and there won't be many customers to amortize the costs over.

It does cost a lot to money to construct, but I highly doubt it's anywhere close to $30k per house for the vast majority of Americans. There are far more people living in urban/suburban environments than rural, and I don't see why it would need to be undergrounded.

The reason the incumbents won't do it is because they already know they are the only option for people for internet. They can charge $50 to $200 per month for shitty internet, and people don't have a choice, so why would they bother investing in infrastructure upgrades. Plus they can sell cable TV on top of internet to double dip, when there is no reason for cable TV to exist anymore.
>Even if you might be wrong about the wine or the Strad, you know for absolute certain whether it is making you happy!

I also know for absolute certain that I can't afford expensive wine and that there are people who look down at me because the wine I drink shows I have an "unrefined palate".

Normally the concept of "elitism" is hogwash, but this is a pretty clear-cut example. Expensive wine serves to make one seem refined and worldly. It enables rich people to pretend they are more cultured, more intelligent, and just plain better than the plebs because they think they have the taste to appreciate a $500 bottle of wine.

Expensive wine is a tool of oppression. I actually don't think that's hyperbole. It is a small tool that doesn't do anywhere near as much damage as the prisons or the war on drugs or Fox News, but it has the same effect.
Seriously, the skepticism here convinces me that there’s still time to buy before everyone realizes what a good idea it is after all
I would reiterate luplex's comment above:

> "feed", as used colloquially definitely refers to what OP means. So, by giving a definition OP makes clear which meaning we're talking about.

Feed is an overloaded term, so this was the best way I could disambiguate them. Any suggestions for alternate names that are more clear?
Original (non-paywalled) link that you gave would be better than the Telegraph article; thanks for that.

I have read elsewhere that Spain has a high rate of vitamin-D deficiency (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49703062_Vitamin_D_...), especially among the elderly. What works in Spain may not work elsewhere, depending on vitamin D levels. But it seems pretty easy to at least make a check for vitamin D deficiency part of the standard treatment for covid-19.
JRE has been replaced by jlink on Java 9.

Each application is supposed to create their customised runtime.
As of v4, Umbraco uses nested .master pages for page rendering which saves you from the "template stored in database" pain.
The more entrepreneurial Americans are those from wealthy backgrounds, well networked backgrounds, or desperate circumstances.

Notice, all three of the above do not require a state sponsored safety net, and it is that need for a safety net against destitution that creates an entrepreneurial mindset.

Without that safety net you don't get many risk takers.
Meh...PHP devs think they've got bad here?

I still have to knock out Classic ASP now and again. My dad found out and won't even look at me or answer the phone :)
this is true, but at the same time US had all kinds of allowable deductions that no longer exist, so the effective tax rate was nowhere near those levels. Very few people actually paid 94% tax rates, if any
The key to 'unlimited' services is that the rate at which most users accrue stored data is slower than the rate at which storage becomes cheaper.

That is to say, in the time it takes for your data to go from 1 GB to 10 GB, their cost-per-GB has gone down by >90%.
Well, the problem with current state-of-the-art flight automation is that it can deal well with routine, repetitive tasks. What it fails at are corner cases (cf. US Airways Flight 1549), and self-diagnostics (sensor readings are inconsistent with current flight profile, e.g. Air France 447). In such cases, what you need is intelligence, not automatics.

This makes your argument another case of "let's assume we have strong AI; then pilotless aviation is easy-peasy." In other words, one of your unstated assumptions is still firmly in the realm of science fiction.
Sure, but I think the causality is reversed: had they not been rich, they are still extremely capable people who could and would have build up a big buffer before starting their business, which didn't depend on food stamps.
Why do you expect things that really improve your life to come with sales pitches?
Having simple access to windows machines that you're chained to gives a lot of flexibility and makes your CI pipeline more uniform.

Are there any companies hiring and training nomad engineers? Any consultant companies?
> GvR had plenty of freedom to work on his Python projects while at Dropbox.

That post was made while Guido was at Dropbox, and it claims he had one day a week?
Because it's easy to get started with and the complexity that you're exposed to increases with your experience and technical needs instead of being frontloaded. This isn't the same as being simple but it's understandable how the two can be confused.
It’s different every time, isn’t it? World War II was different, the oil crisis in the 70s was different, debt in the 80s, doctom bubble in the 90s, the financial crisis was really different, and now this pandemic and the sheer volumes of money. It’s different every time, but economic growth has been a constant and tied to this are ultimately the prices of securities. That’s not gonna be different. So it’s a very sane choice to invest in a broad ETF eg based on the S&P.
Google Search / Youtube really push the MSM into the top results, it's really not what I'm looking for.

DDG results are meoicre.

It's weird when you can say internet search has devolved.
DDG should really have a button that says "Search on Google instead".

That way, people can use DDG and easily fall back onto Google when the result is slow or inadequate. I know about the bang-syntax (!g) but this requires about 6 touch actions on mobile.
>The ad company can't pester their clients to make changes to the DNS on a regular basis.

Many DNS providers have APIs.

>And clients won't give control of their DNS to ad company, so automation is also not really possible.

Sure they will. Or they'll use another party that does it. They already add JS from the ad provider that does god knows what to all their pages, and give full control over their content to Cloudflare. So why wouldn't they give an ad provider API access to their DNS?
IMHO, tailored resumes are a waste of time in the current market.

I was recently looking for a position in a new area where I had virtually no network connections and had to deal with the current hiring system. At first, I used the tried and true tailored approach, but after being completely and utterly ghosted by what seemed legitimate and reasonable postings after investing hours into each, I reverted to the shotgun approach across groups I had some interest in and finally had success landing interviews.

Now, after working in the area awhile and establishing some connections for a small network, I have multiple projects and more interesting opportunities than I have time to give popping up. If you don't have a network, it's a complete mess to deal with right now.
> the ability to minimize

It's sad that a basic element of computing is now considered a privilege people need to pay for.
I switched back because technical questions lead to much more general websites then Google. Google usually points to better stackoverflow-pages.

Though I have hear the opposite from others. Not sure what's up with that.
That's like arguing that TLS will stay irrelevant unless it comes with government backdoors.

The fact that authority figures can't break it is a feature, for the kind of people who would want to use it in the first place (which should be all of us, but sadly is not yet).
Did no one see Fritz the Cat?
> I always thought this is why things in your mind are safe. The reason never seemed philosophical to me, simply that there is no way to prove the difference between not knowing and not telling.

This seems like a natural but dangerous argument to make in a world where we are attempting to determine the states of people's minds externally. Even if we could tell the difference between lying and ignorance, is nothing sacred?
> I don't know how a GUI could be created without being built on something at a lower level

Which simply makes my point that being CLI-centric has limited your imagination. In fact the original Mac had a UI built directly on top of the system libraries. On startup it displayed an icon and played a chime (which was its hardware self-test result). Insofar as there was a "CLI" it ran UNDER the GUI. (There is something lower level going on that the GUI, but it's not a terminal.)

Even on a primitive command line machine, there's stuff going on below the level of the command line. In Linux you're running a shell, which is actually not part of the kernel. The fact that the kernel can spew text onto the screen during startup is merely an artifact of what's easy to do using the computer's BIOS or equivalent thereof.
Brain damage or poisoning are much, much less likely than simply having a bad trip, which can have PTSD-like symptoms. But if set and setting are carefully controlled, bad trips are much less likely to occur, as you have no overly negative stimuli to induce a bad trip.
This is the future of advertisements on the web.

The ads are integrated to the page so it doesn't look or feel like an advertisement. The code doesn't specify it as an ad.

The ads do directly advertise, they do so subtly.

The advertisement image and video are hosted on the main same domain.

All of this is to prevent browser ad blockers and our own ad blocking instincts.
It's hard to say WHY just looking at the numbers, but I agree the numbers indicate something is off, or you're just very unlucky at the moment. I'm a tech recruiter myself, perhaps I can help with CV check or a video chat? use my username +85 AT gmail)
> I see no mention of p-traps [1]. How exactly are these fumes getting into places when there's essentially an airlock in every drain connection?

Well they are doing this because the underground piping is presumbly cracked and/or porous; this would enable fumes from the process to leech into buildings through the pipe walls. We are only protected from sewer gases if the entire system is air tight.

It is also possible that her building had some issues with its plumbing; for instance I have seen fitures removed either during renovation or even on a permanant basis that were not properly capped off--while there would be some constant leakage of sewer gas it is really not dangerous (or even that noxious) in low concentrations; the chemicals used in the lining process however might be.
Deceptive business practices can't be over-ruled by Terms of Service.
> divisible by both 400

OK

> and 100

We'd be in real trouble if not!
This guy clearly hasn't taught at a coding bootcamp. While he means well, you absolutely MUST go through the basics - the key is not staying there for long because, yes, it's boring.

It's important to give context and ground your proposed problems in reality. Relatable content is the single most important part, so skip the "foo/bar" stuff and go for real-life examples. That's it! No need to write clickbait!

If you believe people with no coding experience will magically figure it out, you'll have a bad time and your students will hate you.
services i pay for also analyze everything they can get away with. it isn't just about adtech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5YfYWTKSXY
it's not so much that it's contradictory, but rather dishonest. One example is that a lot of athletes hawking supplements are actually taking exogenous hormones and androgenic anabolic steroids and fail to mention this.

Also, it's in the interest of the online fitness community to make their advice as complex and complicated as possible as is re-entrenches their "expert" position while the truth tends to be much simpler, as your parent comment alluded to
Netflix having employee-unfriendly policies is nothing new: https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-netflix-radical-transparency...

This is very much in line with their traditional approach.
>> Systems should be isolated from each other unless there is an overwhelming need for them to be connected and everything

And we should have checks built into the build pipelines and checksum the files that go into the build. We have Merkle trees for a long time. I think, it would be possible to detect injected code.
They won't import their very cool Boxer Diesels because they don't meet California's (and a few other states that follow CARB) draconian emissions requirements. CARB is hostile to diesel. Yes there are 45+ other states they could sell them in but California is the biggest car market and if they can't sell there they won't bother.
It's the inconsistency.

1 + "2" (12) does a string concatenation.
1 - "2" (-1) does math.

That said, whilst JS is loosely typed and won't fall over when you do this, I'd just see it as bad form to find code mixing types to this extent. Just because the language will let you do it, doesn't mean you should actually do it!
It's - ' ' - 'U+0003 : <control-0003> (END OF TEXT [ETX])', which is (apparently) invisible on some browser setups.
For those of us that prefer the OS print dialog, how can we stop this madness?
"Start small. Many people are afraid to make phone calls, or to approach a clerk in a store. Begin by practicing these little habits. A clerk in a book store answers hundreds of questions a month. There’s no reason to be frightened of asking yours."

I used to be afraid of stuff like this. Then I started hanging out with new people, some of whom are even worse than I was. It's really helped. I ask them why they don't just do something. They confess that they're afraid. I ridicule them, knowing that I would also be too afraid in their place. Then I have to do it myself to demonstrate that it's not hard or scary at all.

Unfortunately I haven't yet applied the general rule.
FYI, the HDMI adapter existed for 30-pin devices too, so that's not a good example.
Same thing in Germany.

I also think F# is a better bet, because it is a first class citizen in the .NET eco-system, whereas Scala and Clojure are third party languages on the JVM.

In the enterprise space this little difference plays a big role when choosing languages.
We have used facebook and g+ accounts to sign up to drive a social gaming environment! I understand your concerns and we will be adding a normal sign up process in these next two days. We are considered games of skill opposed to gambling. Players are wagering on their own skill. To give a comparison: take the NYC Marathon. A runner will pay money to run and if he wins he receives prize money. He is placing a bet on himself.
Only if you mean web applications. Many do write desktop applications.
For anyone who doesn't know the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptn5RE2I-k
When I clicked on the link, It shows up a page saying my computer appears to be affected and asks to solve a captcha with below message:
To access the website:
Enter the distorted words below.Enter the words you hear below, or alternatively try a visual.

is that just me ? if not some one with enough karma downvote it please.
"Improving schools by 10% only improves students by 1-2%"

The fact that 90% of the gap between high-SES students and low-SES students is attributable to home factors doesn't tell us what percent of their total knowledge students gain at school verse at home.

And remember that percent is very different for high-SES and low-SES students-- the study says that high-SES students learn 3.5-4x times faster in school than at home. Whereas low-SES students learn 16x times faster in school than at home. And the vast majority of students are low- or middle-SES.

So while improving schools by 10% probably wouldn't be a good way to close the gap between high-SES and low-SES students, it might still be cost effective at increasing their total knowledge and ability.

Also, when I said the poor have gotten poorer, what I meant was that the gap between the rich and poor has gotten larger, because again that's what this study is about.
That's just the same. You're occupying space, a scarce tangible resource at concerts and the subway. Plus other derivated resources.

Scale it up if you don't see the damage: I could easily make 1000 copies of a digital work without the author even noticing, but you can't sneak 1000 guys into a subway station or concert area and not screw over the organization and the rest of the users.
Yes it is ok I think, if it really gives you an advantage in doing stuff faster and better (ie. if your app needs it).

You can aim at early adopters the first two years, and by then, this stuff will be mainstream. 37sigs took pretty much the same approach.
I didn't get the impression that the author was presenting any of these as drawbacks for Android. I think he or she discovered some interesting things about Android and thought it would be fun to share them with those who didn't know about them.
I see what you mean stable versus growth I just assumed growth was needed to survive not just stability.
After reading about the backscatter, i'm wondering why i was so much against the gropping. Nobody got cancer from being gropped, and after 10th or 20th time i may even start to enjoy it. Some hands would become familiar...
:)
I think it leaves you physically stronger and mentally calmer. YMMV but it works for me.
> write a blank check and fire up mask, ventilator, and test production the second it was clear this was a global problem

I think part of the problem is that we instead specifically prohibited pricing the masks in accordance with the extra costs associated with ramping up production.
I am pretty sure H1N1 (aka swine flu) was declared a worldwide pandemic by the WHO.
When I got home, I felt a tickle in my right lymph node under my right jaw

You are saying you went from first contact with the virus to infected within a few hours?
> What makes this one so special?

It fits in you (man) purse, yet covers the equivalent of 2000+ pages in mainstream textbooks. Also, it covers both calculus and mechanics in an integrated manner (something not usually done). Finally, it's (arguably) fun to read.

RE price: I would price the book less, but Amazon discounts the book like mad, so if I want to keep any semblance of respectability (i.e. above $20) I have to price it at $39. I also setup a 40% discount on lulu for today to match/beat the amazon discount.
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> Just as an example, Christianity is pretty big on the concept of retribution.

That's...debatable, and varies considerably between different approaches to Christianity, even within individual denominations/sects.

> While it does say that it's God's job rather than man's, that doesn't change that it declares bad people deserve punishment independent of the deterrence factor.

This is only true of Christianity in general if you define "bad people" extremely broadly; Christianity in general holds that essentially infinite punishment is deserved by (or, in some formulations, the natural consequence of) sin, of which all humans [0] are guilty. Christianity is -- in pretty much all formulations -- very much about God eliminating this deserved punishment or bearing (through Christ) in the place of sinners this natural cost.

So, one could argue at least as convincingly (if not more) that the central theme of Christianity is refraining from retribution even where it is "deserved" as one could argue that "Christianity is pretty big on the concept of retribution".

[0] with either 1 or 2 (exactly, not as a figurative form for "a small number") exceptions, ever
They certainly got a lot of free publicity. This story is on the frontpage of all the Canadian and US newspaper sites I read.
Hacker News was a part of that too though. There was a 100+ comment thread speculating what it would be.
Public speaking is way outside my comfort zone. I have absolutely dreaded it ever since I had to do presentations in school. At the same time, it's really important to me to able to do it, so I accept every opportunity for public speaking that I can.

After several experiences delivering talks or sitting on panel discussions, I've gotten a lot more comfortable - and progressively better (I truly feel sorry for the people who had to sit through my first few times).

I'm still not great at it, but the thought of speaking no longer grips me with panic. The last couple of times I even found myself enjoying it - and feeling a positive response from my audience.

I'm reminded of an essay by Derek Sivers that was posted to HN last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1434064

> After 15 years of practice, and about 1000 live shows, I was finally a very good singer, at least by my own standards. (You can judge for yourself at sivers.org/music. Old stuff at the bottom. New stuff at the top.)

> Someone who heard me for the first time then said, “Singing is a gift you're either born with or you're not. You're lucky. You were born with it!”
Starting early is not a requisite for success. I started programming when I was 19 or 20 (not that I'm necessarily a successful founder but I have found some measure of success during my IT career).

Your knowledge in various domains likely helps you in ways that aren't immediately apparent. (Team sports, for example, are great for health but also for social skills.)
> As a corollary, I imagine you'd also suggest never moving to a new city where you don't know anyone, right?

I don't see that as a corollary (a city is not a social event). But for me personally, that's right, I wouldn't do that unless I had an extroverted friend or family moving with me, or I had something specific to do (job, study, etc). Although I wouldn't necessarily suggest that to other people; this is just me, and each to his own.
The illegal number argument is a red herring. First of all it depends on your encoding. Second most humans in the world seem to be able to understand the difference between a number and e.g. a piece of software. There might not be a difference theoretically, but in practice it works fine.

Would you want to allow people to print their own money? After all that's just arranging a series of atoms in a particular way. You can't disallow arranging atoms, or the world will come to a halt. Yet in practice these arbitrary rules seem to work fine.
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I think you missed the point of this advice. Stepping out of your comfort zone is designed to allow you to grow as a person, not make you be something you are not.

If you are so introverted that you can't possibly go to an event without making a complete fool out of yourself (a real fool, not just what you think is foolish) you've got a serious issue that is going to put you at a disadvantage in many areas of your life.

There's a huge gap between having faults, recognizing them, accepting them and overcoming them when you choose to and being perfect in every way.

I don't see how completely ignoring your weak points and pretending they aren't relevant to you makes you a better person, however.