jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think takeout is reasonably safe and I approve of walking more and actively try to encourage that. I think we should be moving to a takeout culture over a dining out culture.

We also need to be updating our design standards to make dining out safer. Due to increasing distances between tables and similar, I think this will be even more expensive than what we do currently and make dine-in restaurants mostly limited to more expensive restaurants.

I've left remarks about that elsewhere on HN. I am actively trying to encourage people to get takeout to try to support local eateries and hopefully reduce the damage to the economy.

I've been promoting Little Caesar's as a good example of what works well. They're entire business model is takeout and delivery. They had a pizza portal for contactless pickup before covid19, but it wasn't being used locally. The past few days, it is being used. There are pizzas in the customer facing pizza portal warming ovens for the first time ever.

I would also like to see Walmart write the handbook for how to design public bathrooms. The cleanliness of the bathroom is often a make or break for me personally in being a customer, especially for a fine in experience.

That cleanliness is highly dependent upon good design. No amount of maid service can really fix a badly designed bathroom.

I like motion activated faucets, motion activated hand dryers and motion activated paper towel dispenser and soap dispensers. Motion activated toilets are a nice to have, but less important to me than being able to properly wash my hands afterwards.

One of the best features of Walmart bathrooms is the lack of doors. Most people use a paper towel to open the bathroom door to leave rather than touch the door.

This is hard to do at a smaller scale. Walmart has large stores with large bathrooms.

But that doesn't mean it can't be done. It just means we haven't really tried to solve for this before because it wasn't a priority. I see no reason why we can't come up with better practices for public bathrooms on a smaller scale than what you typically see today in smaller establishments.
Alternatively, plan ahead and marry a hairdresser ;)
High property prices are just a signal that investment is better spent elsewhere.

Trying to tax people out of homes because someone else wants them just means underinvestment in other communities.
It’s really cruel to talk about how important barbers and haircuts in a thread full of guys who are insecure about their hair.
yep, he is one of the "bits und so" guys, a german tech podcast with many listeners from the hacking community.
I do get tired of the Erlang syntax complaints. Why should a language syntactically look like another language if the semantics are different? Erlang and Java are very different languages so why should they look the same? IMAO this will be even more confusing than having to learn a new syntax. When teaching Erlang we have problems with '=' and that though it looks a assignment it is really a match with completely different semantics.
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I'm sure every result needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but there isn't anything obvious of foul-play besides a couple that are most likely coincidences. I'd expect there to be more blatant gaming in the poll if there was any at all.

Remember the demographic, which is mostly 14-23 year olds. Definitions of things aren't necessarily always correct in that area. I'd expect a lot of the self-identifying transsexuals to be more bi-sexual[1] than legally defined transsexuals.

[1] Specifically, confused individuals who are unsure of what it actually means to be gay or bisexual that do have feelings that aren't aligned with the straight public. Just because a guy likes other guys, for example, doesn't mean he's actually feminine, despite feeling feminine.
The Chinese have never really had freedom, so they've nothing to compare it to. Even if they did, people are doing well over there right now. Any realistic attempt at political change insitgated from outside the political elite would introduce instability and risk for uncertain benefits. As long as China is economically improving there's no real impetus for change. The only protests you get are from those small minorities that are losing out, and that tends to be temporary and/or local instances that are disconnected from one another.
More people needs to learn about CoinJoins[0].

"CoinJoin is a trustless method for combining multiple Bitcoin payments from multiple spenders into a single transaction to make it more difficult for outside parties to determine which spender paid which recipient or recipients. Unlike many other privacy solutions, coinjoin transactions do not require a modification to the bitcoin protocol."

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CoinJoin
https://web.archive.org/web/20220207213153/https://www.thebr...
These perceptions are extremely easy to imagine based on seeming patterns that usually boil down to nothing when we look at the data. That's why the site guidelines ask people not to post insinuations of infiltration, astroturfing, shillage, etc., at least if there's nothing concrete to go on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

It's natural for people to post about what they know about from work, and they're naturally biased in favor of their employer, so that's a thing. Even more of a thing is just that each $bigco has a fanbase and, let's call it, a foebase, and the two of them go at it in every $bigco-related thread.
As mentioned in the posts abstractions are leaky. You can't drive a car without having a rough knowledge about how it works or how forces act upon your car but if you drive a hybrid you don't have to know how the engines interact nor do you need to know how energy is stored when you brake. If you are interested in that you take a look otherwise you accept that it just works.
>it is possible to downvote a comment

Speaking about that, do you know when that gets enabled? I was thinking it'd happen when I reached 100 karma, but I'm at 131 and still can't downvote. I'm not particularly worried about it...but am curious.
It might take a couple more years but somehow I have the feeling that Ubuntu might be heading for the mainstream. Rightfully so.

I'd like to think so, and they're doing a great job, but I can't help but feel they're a few years too late. I suspect general email & browsing is going to happen more and more on tablets and phones and people will only want full-blown computers to run specialized native apps, most of which will probably never be ported to Linux.

Of course, thanks to Android, Linux will be more relevant than ever in this scenario.
Hmm that's quite longer from my past experience, but not unheard of. What troubles me is that your pages haven't disappeared completely from Google's index, e.g. if you enter "site:korokithakis.net" there are 302 results returned.

Perhaps Google has reevaluated your ranking for these keywords, as there are a lot of PR6-7 sites but yours is a PR4 (at least according to the SEO Site Tools extension).

Your best bet is to follow infinity's advice and start blogging more frequently, while targeting specific keywords for your posts.
Slackware is great to learn on but, like Gentoo, I find myself turning knobs more often than I would like. I use Ubuntu and Debian to get work done. I rarely have an interest looking under the hood these days.
I think "un-american" is different from those examples because of the history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_C...
Excellent. Pissing off 30% of the vocal people in the country may damage the walled garden ecosystem.
Screenshots are for some reason to be better proof than just text? I think it's a layman's fallacy.
I don’t know how anyone can rationally support Trump after he has clearly stated a desire to overturn a fairly contested election. In my book that means agreeing with him at this point is essentially saying you don’t value democracy. The man has had meetings to discuss getting the military to rerun elections injustice the states he needs to regain White House... He’s been trying to push violence to happen, he’s a racist. I don’t really know how he can be morally defended at this point. I would have had more respect for his positions and voters before the election but what he’s done to the US is a disaster that will take a long time to fix.
It's not censorship, it's free market. These are private companies.
There are some cases where this makes sense but there are also a lot of situations where I want my computer to be just that - not a colleague. Simply because many of the tasks that I perform on it are trivial and repetitive and easy to trigger with keystrokes and mouse clicks. It would be annoying to me and the rest of the office if I was speaking each command.
The main issue I battle with with A/B testing is backing out far enough to know whether the change is related to the edits made or simply a seasonal/daily/hourly/freak change.

I manage CPC campaigns for clients, and often times I make A/B changes in the keywords/bids/ads and wait 30-60-90 days before measuring and making changes based on the findings. And even with 90 days and tens of thousands of visits, I find that sometimes my scope is too limited and I get nailed by seasonal/yearly changes that the numbers didn't reveal.

A/B testing in 5K chunks works if everything else in the universe remains constant, but here in the real world that's never the case.

The worst is when you make a change, measure results and implement said change, and then something related to the economy (or even Weather) horks your CAC and suddenly the client isn't so thrilled with your amazing A/B improvements.
File this under schadenfreude...
My optimism for real, important change is still small, but it's certainly increasing. While those in control haven't changed their position, the fact that this government malfeasance has been grabbing headlines for a few months has a huge effect. The administration's been caught inaccurately describing the surveillance regime and in some cases outright lying. Governments have already been forced to reveal far more than they wished to. Most people who are barely paying attention are convinced that the NSA is recording almost everything (and while many still blissfully believe they have "nothing to hide", the fact surveillance is now a fact rather than "conspiracy theory" should chip away at that more quickly). Outrage is especially large for those in the technical community. Even governments' thuggish tactics, like the grounding of Evo Morales's plane and the nine-hour "terror" questioning of David Miranda, are generating headlines and outrage.

It's certainly going to be a slow process, but this has already built enough momentum that something is going to have to change. Whether that change is purely symbolic or real and effectual has yet to be seen, but we're off to a better start than I ever could have imagined last winter.
I'd highly suggest anyone who hasn't already, go back and read the Manning/Lamo chat logs:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs
You won the birth lottery by having the IQ to do this kind of work.

Software professionals would not be against immigration if VCs and their portfolio companies were not illegally suppressing wages using anti-competitive tactics.

Employers are suppressing wages using both hard and soft collusion. If they stopped doing that no one would have an issue with letting more workers in.

Still--the argument applies--why not just create software companies in your place of origin?

How are you giving back to your country of origin by participating in a brain drain, where all the talents of your high IQ are awarded to the imperialists that keep your home country in a state of economic subordination in the first place?

There is a very strong argument to be made that the best way to help "3rd world countries" is to refrain from draining their best and brightest brains. Paul Graham is arguing that America should fuck the rest of the world by stealing their best people, leaving the dregs to wallow in a ghetto of human misery.
The stock investor in me loves this attitude because while MSFT has done an impressive job of milking their cash cows (Windows, Server, & Office), Wallstreet & the press have been completely un-exuberant on the company, making the stock price very appetizing (until recently).

But yes, the engineer in me laments with you. Microsoft has gone from an innovator to an optimizer very good at minting cash.
Sorry! I hadn't expected much non-niche interest in the campaign when I wrote the copy. Neo4django is a Django ORM replacement for the Neo4j graph database. I'm the primary dev, but since our startup supporting the project is on hold, I'm trying to find time to keep up development- this campaign will help me complete the next milestone.
I don't mean this as hostile as it will unfortunately likely come across, but, do you not see a hint of irony here?
I leave it to others to apply labels. I just despise criminality and sociopathic assumptions, especially in government.

When someone, such as a rapist or a politician, has proven that they're incapable of peaceful behavior in society, we have the right to defend ourselves from them.

IOW, self-defense isn't coercion. The coercion has already been committed by the criminal. If you're walking down the street and I mug you, I'm applying the force. You, in self-defense, aren't being "violent" in your intent to protect yourself. You're trying to stop the violence I'm committing against you.

I guess what I'm saying is I wish people would worry less about labels and more about principles.

To get back on topic a little, the government using the tactics as laid out by Sunstein is a fraud being perpetrated by the force of government so it rings all kinds of bells.
Are you seriously suggesting that children would use LaTeX over MSO or MSO-like software?

I find this thought process truly baffling.
That's not really true.

C# and Java do look the same, but the use cases for them are totally and completely different.

Java is a cross-platform language used when you don't want to write code more than once for more than 1 platform.

C# is a Windows-exclusive deal that gives you access to WFs and other Windows-centric things, including some low level shit that would be a pain to deal with otherwise.

Despite the languages looking really similar, they don't fill the same slot.
Communes have been sharing things properly as long as mankind has been around. The trick here is that we have redefined 'properly' as accountably, but it need not keep the beancounters happy and you can still share stuff. The taxman hates that kind of thing, they like to see receipts.
>Even the $3000+ laptops from Sony or other oems were littered with crapware.

Not 100% true. I remember buying a $2000 Vaio Z a couple years ago that had the option of getting a clean windows install (for $50 more)
Perhaps because ideas are a dime-a-dozen, but not every idea-haver has the time, energy, desire, or capital necessary for execution. Perhaps someone else will come along and run with this idea. I think sharing startup ideas aloud in blog posts is wonderful for this reason.
Are job interviews really that high-stakes?
There are always more jobs for skilled tech people.
thank you for elaboration
I'm not ok with the article. The analogy of taking balls from an urn put the focus on the technology and not in the people that may or not use it. Those omited but important players is what makes the difference for some existing technologies to be black or not.

And the solution, for technologies that may be used by a wide amount of players, is to rely on surveillance and again, giving even more power those top/ruling players on top.

We already got a dark gray ball out of the urn, when the atomic bomb was tested at first some scientists on the project weren't sure if that wouldn't start a chain reaction on the atmosphere killing all life. And still, the people in power went ahead and used that technology.

Another example is more recent, with global warming, the people in power are ignoring the long term risks and taking measures making the problem worse and more urgent.

So, is not just taking the ball. Some of them could be already black (nuclear power, genetic manipulation, things that cause global warming, etc). Is to have the power and the will to use them. And with that in mind, last US presidency showed us how vulnerable is the world.
I guess along the way, the activity of designing and building the plane became more important than the outcome / functionality of the plane itself.

You see it all the time in projects. People look busy and seem like they're building things, so some progress must be happening. Or is it?

Blink an eye, and in a couple years you unwittingly accumulated a platform that served to fulfill every random team's desire to load on requirements, systems, electronics, sensors ("go find out what people want!"), with very few people making the countervailing decision to trade off / cut things for an overall desired outcome ("what do they actually demonstrate -- not say -- they need?").

Well, they didn't have to pay for it, so there was no harm in giving their requirements. And if the actual willing payor (Congress) had little incentive (or technical chops) to be ruthless about costs or actual useful output, well then there's few checks on that happening. Until some top level general says, "why aren't these hugely expensive planes being used like we thought they would be?" Too late.

I guess it kept people employed in the meantime. How can you cut 10% of the workforce in Huntsville when the representative sits on the Armed Services committee? (I don't know that, but just for example...) Which, sometimes, is a national goal in itself for strategic purposes.

It might be good though, to have a more deliberate plan about these kinds of things, if that's the goal.
> accidentally smothered by their parents while they're deeply asleep

This seems unlikely. 10% of babies share a sleep surface with parents, up from 6.5% in 1993, yet SIDS deaths are down over the same period:

https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20180212/baby-suffocation-de...

https://www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm
He's probably using Docker with Mac/Win, which runs a linux VM. The rust compiler doesn't like being run in a VM like this.

It's fast on Linux where containers are native.
Hello!
Feedback is the key to personal growth. It reveals our blind spots and helps us discover what we've been doing right or wrong.

It can also be frustrating.

People have a hard time separating the impression they have of you from your actual behavior. So, more often than not, you get feedback that's conflicting or confusing.

That's why I spent the last 2 months investigating the art of feedback. I wanted to know what the best feedback had in common. What made them useful.

With my learnings, I've built FeedSpark. It uses the best feedback practices so that people start giving and receiving feedback more often.

#How does it work?

1. Ask someone for feedback

2. We'll send them an email

3. They provide feedback following a template

4. Get your feedback in your email

No personal data will be saved on our end. Everything works via emails and URL params. There are no cookies or databases.

# Stack

The app was made with Bubble. There are, however, limitations. For example, I was unable to create the calendar reminders with Bubble, so these features currently work in a concierge mode: which means I'm manually pulling the strings behind the scenes.

I feel I'll eventually need to migrate the app to a different stack in order to make it more robust

# What's next?

Assuming the app succeeds in helping people get more helpful feedback from their peers. I was thinking about these features and use-cases:

- Sharable links

- Notifications and scheduled reminders to help people incorporate feedback solicitations into their routines.

- User accounts: see all your received feedback and track your progress

- Abuse alerts

- Slack App & Google Chrome Extension

- Feedback usefulness ratings

- Ability to follow up with given feedback after a certain period of time (to check if the person improved or not),
Father here. I agree.

So much of the parenting advice I see dips into micromanaging and min/maxing to an almost paranoid degree. Just learn about what could kill them in the first year and avoid that. Really, six months and under is the true window for SIDS with freak occurrences. Definitely be on the lookout for any poisonous cleaning products While you’re at it and put them high off the ground.

The pro parents who did it all before you are super annoying. I’ve had to politely listen to questionable advice many times. I much prefer people like you who get it. You got to trust your instincts about your own kids. There is broad advice which applies to everyone but everyone’s kid is a little different from the norm as well and as a parent we know our kids better than anyone else.
I’ve heard of the word “orthorexia”
This reads more like speculation on many confounding factors, than any explanation. Any factor could be fatiguing or defatiguing.
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It's always great to hear about people finding it and liking it! Even better is that, in a meaningful way, it's not "a MS language" really now - it's fully open source, probably the best thing to happen to F# this year.

I'm aiming that comment less at you than just generally because the general publicity around that is probably a bit lacking - but if things like that matter to you, F# is still a great place to look :)

Hope you carry on enjoying F# - the community is one of the friendliest, do come and say hello!
Makes you wonder: Will an investor be an unethical profiteer of slave-work or will he actually provide some sort of sanctuary since the people are usually obliged to harvest rocks?

Besides, I think every investment there weakens this dictatorship in the long-run.
devops makes so much sense to me because it's what I've been doing my whole career. The trouble is with the devops movement, as the blog says, the old tools and processes are sometimes still relevant. Sysadmins in that category 2 from the first comment need to be persuaded that a lot of their old skills are absolutely still usable. The example from the article, of bash scripts getting version controlled is a really good one I think.

And of course, sysadmins have a wealth of experience to bring to the way development is done. It wouldn't hurt if a few more developers learned bash and the different levels of RAID.
The population south of 42°S is pretty small. Also, they may have lower ozone levels that allow more UV through.
Oddly enough, my mother started having problems with eye strain with her Kindle a couple months back. She switched to a high DPI tablet and says it is easier for her. Rather odd since it goes against everything I think I know about eInk versus LCD, but the end user is always right!
Wow. That does sound inefficient.
No, but you do get presentations at local JUG and those have been pretty empty of Groovy content in the last years.
Hm, I assumed it was a permanent magnet, not an electromagnet. I'm not sure why.