jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not like that. Everyone knows the risk of a speeding ticket comes with speeding.

Not everyone knows that it takes 20 seconds for a baby to drown in a bathtub.

> I'm perfectly fine with the size of the drowning risk that comes with spending ~1min removing something from the oven when the timer goes off

Completely making up numbers here, say you do this for every 20-minute bath, your child bathes 1x/day, and they fall over in such a way that they might drown were you not there once every 10000 baths. Doing the math... 5% chance of being absent at the critical moment * 1/10000 baths * 365 baths/year = 0.18% chance of death in first year of life.

You may be willing to take that risk, but given the 4 million infants born each year in the US, that would be 7,300 infant deaths from drowning in the bathtub annually -- so as a societal rule, saving 7,300 infants a year seems worth the use of the word "never".

The actual number of deaths attributed to bathtub drowning each year is much lower; I'm glad the vast majority of parents appear to take "never" to heart.
Inevitable. The entire company is built on a scalable business that required no direct contact with customers. Direct person to person interaction is the antithesis of their successful business model.

Of course, now when they enter a business that needs direct customer interaction, it shouldn't be surprising that they aren't good at it. No supportive processes and probably no internal appreciation for what reps do. Thus the turnover. They will have to build out a sub-org that nurtures and develops this part of the business.

I personally find customer interactions problems to be epidemic with fast-scaling internet businesses. It does however create a space for others to come in and do it better. We can hope...
Don't forget one thing though: Canadian homes are built to resist the cold and they are usually well-insulated.

Hong Kong, by comparison, is probably one of the worse places when it comes to thermal insulation. When it's 12 outside, it's not far from being the same inside.

It always amazed me how such an energy-hungry place, where electricity is expensive, is built so cheaply that insulation doesn't factor at all. Energy-efficiency is totally unknown when it comes to housing.

I'm yet to see a double-glazed window pane in Hong Kong.
> there is an argument that as a civilization matures, interest rates trend toward zero.

I'm inherently suspicious of any argument that is supposed to apply to "civilizations". Not that it doesn't matter, but there are usually much more simple explanations to be found elsewhere. For example, whatever we know about money in the Roman empire, we know far more about money in Britain, US, France, Germany, etc., in the last several centuries.

> So it isn't a foregone conclusion that interest rates will ever return to the "normal" levels of the 20th century, at least until a new global paradigm comes along.

The way I understand interest rates work, from conventional macroeconomics, is that some people have money to spend and invest, and some people want to borrow money and spend it on something that will make them more money. So when you look at the interest rates, you aren't really looking at the riskiness of a modern government (US is definitely risk-free, UK also probably), you are mostly looking at the "price" of the people's savings.

When lots of people want to save, interest rates --- the price others are going to pay to borrow --- will go down to balance the supply and demand of savings. So one way of looking at low interest rates is to see this as a situation where there is an excess of desired savings (i.e. the interest rate that would truly balance savings and investment is below the current rate, which is already almost zero in real terms). This explanation is incomplete (you need to introduce another constraint, and do more macroeconomics), but it's more conventional, and I think also more robust than most theories of civilization.
Is it? The cool thing demonstrated here is that you can send functions over the wire. I can't find any facility in Finagle to do that. Indeed, prior to JVM 8 the permgen made such systems all but impossible in java-land.
FWIW, I moved from sunny Greece to somewhat cold Austria at the age of (almost) 18. In the following 2 years, I gained quite a bit of body hair (more than typical in the family), which I (now) attribute to the cold temperatures I had to endure during the first winters due to poor heating and light clothing. My point is: perhaps the body has more tricks up its sleeve than just to turn up the heating by burning more calories, not all of them as desirable as we'd hope. Then again, it might have been normal for my age and not related to climate, although I had plenty of facial hair very early (at 14) and generally didn't develop/grow much after 16.

Needless to say, I wasn't able to reverse the process with proper heating. I lose hair in all the wrong spots only!
Was referring to the methodology in the UNICEF report Stiglitz linked[1].

While not a relative poverty measure the regular Census methodology you refer to has all the other weaknesses I mentioned but the biggest is it is based on a rather arbitrary level established in the 1960s then updated based on broad inflation. Not clear how relevant these thresholds are today - may be worse or better.

BTW - Census also has a relative poverty measure, known as the "supplemental poverty measure".

[1] http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc10_eng.pdf
The southern US and midwest must be seeing all the benefits of cold, considering they keep the AC at about 60F in the summer.
Flask is incredible. since I've made the transition from PHP-based CMS's I've never looked back.

if someone is interested in learning more about building larger scale/production apps with flask, I have a series of tutorials at medium to get you started: https://medium.com/@level09

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of enferno (http://enferno.io),
A flask-based system pre-configured with caching/user auth/basic template/ORM/CRUD/task queue/mail functionality.
Who keeps the AC at 60F? I live in Georgia and the normal setting is somewhere between 68 and 74. On a hot day, I don't think most people's ACs are even cable of getting the temperature down to 60.
Appreciated when the 3rd party's website throws up a demand to subscribe to their newsletter and no user-friendly options to close said demand.
Why does it seem that every game development post mortem I come across read like the Rocky Horror Picture Show? After reading a million and one of these you inevitably come to understanding of what not to do - it would be nice to find an example of what actually to do!
If the PRC solution was blocking the project pages, then Chinese users could just fork clones to circumvent the block. Forcing foreign organizations to anticipate some cost in supporting anti-censorship software is precisely about controlling their own citizens. Your personal attacks do nothing to support your argument. The use of these tools, at large, by the Chinese people may not be what the attack is about. It could very well be a an effort against some select group that are known users of these tools.
> I was part of the healthcare.gov "tech surge" and I can tell you firsthand that the government is willing to change.

So, you worked for a short while on an extremely high-profile project with the personal daily attention of the president. Yes, that does tend to smooth things over - but don't mistake that for a fundamental change in government priorities. There are 2.6 million federal employees, you don't re-jig politics and incentive structures that has been entrenched over decades overnight with a single successful project.

Sure, showing that it can be done is always a good first step, and I'm not saying that anyone actively wants to fail - but only just barely. More often than not it feels that a failure you can blame on someone else is better than a mediocre success (good luck running an election campaign on having reduced the number of screens in a system or migrating it to AWS).
Looks like they took all the contractors offering home service deals through Amazon Local (which has been running for 4 years in 36 states) and turned it into a service menu instead.

Which is genius.

I've gotten a leaking toilet fixed, leaking roof inspected and patched, garage door springs replaced, and a noisy heater tuned up at fixed prices by buying "deals" for them through Amazon Local when I needed something done.

The experience is a million times better than finding a new contractor in the yellow pages for all these kinds of jobs. So many of them now charge a "service call fee" just to come out and do a quote, and won't quote even simple jobs over the phone. If their quote is too high, you've just thrown away money (and wasted half a day) without getting the problem fixed.

I am super enthusiastic about what Amazon's doing here and hope they stay in this market. Looks like I'll finally be putting in that exhaust vent in the bathroom that doesn't have a vent hole cut.
I thought the APIs would still be different though. Maybe not. Either way, I think it's great for people who do use native to try new tools. But yeah I can accept that they will probably miss certain features.
Regardless of how much trouble you're in, reliable transportation is needed. Cars are an expense, but in the situation described, the Mercedes was fully paid off. The cost of maintaining it (gas, repairs, insurance) is no greater than any other car.
If you recall, they had a huge problem streaming to them.

http://blog.netflix.com/2010/11/netflix-on-android.html

Netflix delayed their offering, and then restricted it to a few devices for quite some time, and now makes heavy use of the Android DRM framework. This doesn't exist on desktop Linux, and I doubt it could even be incorporated (however pragmatic) given the knee-jerk reaction to anything DRM.
Am I the only one that was hoping this was LeBron?
Wish it was acceptable for me stow away like this every flu season
Maybe people want to get their sense of priorities first.
Speaking as an also-generalist, I think it's actually a good place to be. My whole career has been pretty much "Here's something you've never seen before, an we need it fixed.". People who can do that will always be in demand.

Beyond that, consider the Epicurean Tetrapharmakos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapharmakos

especially point three. If you think about it, what you truly need to survive is easier had than you might think.
eBay has not added many new features in years. There are problems with the platform, like auction sniping, that they have not addressed.

PayPal as well to a similar extent. There are a litany of problems that its users have been complaining about for years that have not been addressed. I see PayPal rolling out certain new services but ignoring existing services. If PayPal was ahead of the curve, there would be no need for services like Venmo (now owned by PayPal!) Or even Stripe.
I wonder how this should help while people still need to go to work in factories or large space offices. A friend of mine posted a pic of a sign in the lunchroom at Siemens that demands people to keep their distance to eachother while eating. In the meantime two or more people work together at a workbench, sharing tools, etc. But I guess every small bit helps somewhat.

I am glad that the client I currently work for closed all offices and sent all people to ull remote work two weeks ago.
Not really in time.

In principle, yes, but antibodies are more complicated than normal molecules (glycosylation, protein folding) so you can really only industrially prepare them in certain types of cells (pretty much Chinese Hamster Ovary, last I checked).

Another problem is retrieving the correct antibody gene sequence. All immunoactive antibodies have been subjected to a process of internal evolution and artificial selection. Their DNA is not the same as your germline DNA, through shuffling and active mutation events, and indeed every immune cell that produces antibodies has different DNA than the other ones (that haven't been told to clone themselves) so it's really difficult to retrieve the correct gene sequence.

In practice I wouldn't estimate it to be possible to do this in the 4-6 month timeframe. Maybe in the 6-12 month timeframe under emergency duress situations.
Hey! Thank you for your response. I agree with you that "sign up" isn't the best way to represent a register view, but if I were to name it "register," it wouldn't be that identical since I'm using a big font.
Infectious diseases were, in fact, specifically discussed and named as one of the limits of freedom of assembly, when our constitution was adopted.
They clearly do think like that since they came up with the metric. They CHOSE to make that an analytical anchor because it benefits them to see production levels rise again.
Having enough money to buy something else when it's underwater isn't the same thing.

That's just "be rich", which is a solution to many problems.
We need to hear this more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7axyrHWDQ

Copying is not theft!
Probably referring to Windows Mobile. The platform that came out of nowhere, killed Palm and got total PDA/smartphone dominance... then suffered the IE fate because terrible management decided to remove resources since they had "won".

Not everyone remembers, but it was viewed as near-impossible to dethrone Palm, but inside of what, 5 years?, MS had Palm selling WM devices.
Of the many faults a library author can make, variable declaration style is pretty low on the list of things that are truly going to affect the product of the library. I'll always sacrifice style and convention for features such as performance, ease of use, or capabilities. Things like variable naming conventions being in line with the rest of my project are on the nice-to-have list, but definitely not going to drive my decision on whether to use a library or not.
How is this different fromAquarium?
> Or maybe they take longer and deliver a higher quality product.

Without going into how do you define a higher quality product, does quality really matter that much..? Most code is going to be re-written every few years anyway. Software engineers aren’t building architectural wonders that will last hundreds or maybe thousands of years. So is the complexity of a language like Scala really worth it, just to deliver a product that will be obsolete in a few years anyway?
> If you see it as a place to have conversations with your professional community, your feed is going to look like a constant streamed event with the best content.

Does anybody actually see linkedIn as this? LinkedIn largely markets itself as an employee <-> recruiter <-> employer connection platform, and almost all of the posts I see reflect that. Let's say I mute the posts advertising job openings or blatantly pushing company PR. Most of what's remaining is just buzzword regurgitation by self-proclaimed "thought leaders" trying to make a name for themselves before they jump ship for a better title. There's a reason we don't see many LinkedIn links getting to the front page of HN - there's very little good original content there.

If I want to get an honest opinion from professionals in my community, I'll follow them on twitter, read their blogs on their own platforms (or the likes of substack), or even reach out directly. Everything posted on LinkedIn is implicitly poisoned by the filter of "This post exists mostly to make me look good to future employers/employees", which rarely makes for good content.
> First Circuit Judge Sandra Lynch presided over the case. In her ruling, she wrote that “electronic device searches do not fit neatly into other categories of property searches, but the bottom line is that basic border searches of electronic devices do not involve an intrusive search of a person.”

What? No. Judges can just say whatever, huh? There's a reason why every phone/laptop has some form of lock on it. Because it would be intrusive if someone went inside. Just like a house with a lock. You could argue (incorrectly, imo) that we need to perform intrusive searches at the border, but you sound like a clown when you say it's not intrusive at all.
Bagless is also an excellent way to shorten the life of the motor and fan subsystem.
The merchants would be the ones choosing the latter. As you mentioned, a lot of stores are interested in accessing the broader market of people who pay with credit cards/digital payment systems, but are forced to pay the 2.3% credit card fees. Bitcoin offers them the ability to remove this transaction cost but keep the convenience of cashless digital payments, in which case the savings can then be rolled into lower costs, benefiting the customer.

This is still contingent on using a Lightning network to reduce fees on smaller day-to-day transactions, which I agree are too high with Bitcoin proper.

The original Bitcoin whitepaper actually outlines this as one of the main problems it aims to solve, and I'll let the paper do the talking:

Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model.Completely non-reversible transactions are not really possible, since financial institutions cannot avoid mediating disputes. The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions,and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for non-reversible services. With the possibility of reversal, the need for trust spreads. Merchants must be wary of their customers, hassling them for more information than they would otherwise need.A certain percentage of fraud is accepted as unavoidable. These costs and payment uncertainties can be avoided in person by using physical currency, but no mechanism exists to make payments over a communications channel without a trusted party.

What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust,allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party. Transactions that are computationally impractical to reverse would protect sellers from fraud, and routine escrow mechanisms could easily be implemented to protect buyers.

[Source: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf]
I don't think I would use a service called "leetresumes" but having your own site is good advice as a place with high SEO value when people DDG your name. However, this doesn't replace LinkedIn, unfortunately. Also to echo someone else, hiring managers love LI for good reason, it's easy to source a bunch of candidates with potentially niche experience.
Let's not go into political battle about this here. It's clear that the topic touches on race and politics—that's obvious, and also superficial, and we needn't litigate it.
I like it, but just having it open and doing nothing with it, it has extremely high cpu usage.
You can start with the Web Application Hacker's Handbook https://portswigger.net/web-security/web-application-hackers...
You missed my whole point, which is that the norms being viciously enforced aren’t even widely held.
So?

And honestly, it isn't that much upfront. Generally cheaper than a house with monthly payments lower than rent, and that is including lot rent, if you have it. Total rent is generally cheaper than a like sized house if you are just renting. No shared walls. You can often have pets.

When your option is to rent part of a house, especially from a not-so-wonderful landlord, this is a nice option. It literally doesn't matter if you don't get your money back or if it doesn't seem like a good investment.

Few folks are in it for the investment, but honestly, most folks aren't really buying a house for the investment, but rather that they get some freedom and security (the bank won't kick you out for willy-nilly reasons: A landlord can simply decide not to renew your lease, at least in places with poor renter's protections). Quality of life things are important.
>Agile Manifesto: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"

>Modern "Agile": "You need to put that into the Jira tool so that the process can be tracked"

This was basically my daily battle with other members of the leadership team when I headed Engineering at a startup. Some teams liked to use Jira, others liked index cards on a wall, others worked off a shared Google doc. Sprint length varied, planning and retrospective meetings varied, etc.

I didn't particularly care as long as whatever method a team was using actually worked. Teams were accountable for establishing and meeting goals and I worked with PMs to ensure roadmaps generally lined up and dependencies made sense.

Yes, it created a little more work for me to get a snapshot view of everything and to coordinate the work, but the net results is the teams were happier and more productive because they were trusted to deliver results, had agency, and could do what worked best for them.
Is Drone useful if you need to build anywhere other than Linux? Yeah Docker can run elsewhere, but it's still Linux.

I'd love an excuse to leave Jenkins for self-hosted multi-platform jobs, but nothing else seems to have the flexibility and to project confidence that it'll still be around and well-maintained in, say, five years.
I have a love-hate relationship with various ORMs - Hibernate, iBatis, etc. I can understand why he hates Rails, which auto-magically does alot of things for the web developer. The thing is that as a programmer, you need to realize that these frameworks might be abstracting too many details away.

This will be burdensome to many people in various scenarios, including one where you as an expert need to hold the hand of the new guy so that he can use the ORM effectively or one where you as the newcomer is attempting to learn the framework yet can't get anywhere because it does what Rails does - alot of hidden magic which you don't understand unless you go dig through the source or go to the forums to start asking questions.
> It's hard to convince women to spend ten years becoming excellent programmers when their peers disrespect and harass them.

The same thing happened to me, only I started at 13 so I was more poorly equipped to deal with it. I learned anyway, because computers mesmerized me, and nothing that happened away from the keyboard could ever change that. Anyone capable of walking away really should, and go find their calling elsewhere, because this isn't it.
Not terribly consistent bashing, either:

"Want to write Android apps? Learn Java."

"About Java [...]. The way you're going to learn how to program is completely different than the world of Java [...]."
Yes, Compute!-- and it's predecessor, The Pet Gazette.
Lots of good advice, but I'd take the "X is crap" stuff & chalk it up to opinion.

Like most other things in coding, the right tool for the job will vary from person to person. Rails is probably not the best way to learn programming, but it does introduce a whole bunch of built-in best practices. PHP works for a lot of smart people and powers some big sites; it's an easy first language.

I've learned that there are lots of smart people out there & if they're willing to invest the time/effort and resources on something, chances are that it's probably got some kind of merit. To discount it as "crap" is the stuff of religion & holy wars.

I'd just say be open minded about things & remember that smart people often find different directions to come to the right answer. If it makes sense to you, go ahead and explore it -- even if it is "crap." It's hard to recognize the good without having encountered the not-so-good.
"Host-proof"? Where does the Javascript come from? (Yes, you can write a plugin, or make your user analyze the Javascript with Ethereal every time they log in.)