jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I very much agree that we don't have all of the information here and that it's very easy to Monday morning quarterback a decision that was made under pressure without good guidance. Sadly, it's possible that this whole situation will turn into a trap where there all available options have some kind of negative outcome. That said, I don't think that it's entirely inappropriate to discuss or postulate other courses of action because it's something that can help other people in the same situation.

With respect to the freestanding ERs, I would contend that they would probably take it. A friend of mine owns a couple in Houston. My wife used to work off and on with a different company at them as the attending physician. That does not make me an expert in this area, but I can say with absolute confidence that getting hold of the physician on duty quickly with this kind of matter is guaranteed. Whether they would want the liability to give the vaccines is unknown to me. The next time I see my friend, I'll ask him because I'm genuinely curious.

I'll also mention that there are certain cultural biases that come into play here as well. I spent years doing federal contract work and it was well ingrained into me that avoiding the appearance of impropriety is important for a well functioning organization. As much as the organizations that I worked with don't want waste, the bias is to side with clean, unreproachable conduct even if this is more wasteful. Not all of the government works this way and the reality of life is that this isn't always so easy. I mention this because that kind of bias suggests a different way of looking at the problem and provides a different set of solutions. That's not a value judgement to say that these solutions are better or worse, but an implicit assumption that there has to be a different way.
Sure, and all code should be free from bugs.
TBH, I'm ignorant of these countries' regulatory systems. You may be right. What makes them good examples?
But even NASCAR has teams of engineers trying to find legal (or questionable) tweaks. At this stage, when technical advances are needed, having a more open model might be better.
Yeah right, one can always construct a reality which discourages whatever you plan to do. I was completely wrong.
I tried to do a startup in Erlang a few years ago. Haven't been able to watch the video because there aren't subtitles or a transcript, but here is why I don't use Erlang anymore: the type system. Erlang/OTP does MANY things correctly, where "correctly" is taken to be "in line with my tastes", and yes this includes the inane issue of syntax.

But the type system? Normally that wouldn't bother me, but I'm coming from OCaml, where exhaustive checking of algebraic data types makes me invincible. With dynamic typing, my code feels extremely vulnerable, especially when refactoring a codebase. Of course, Erlang isn't alone in this (I abandoned Ruby for similar reasons), but the pain of refactoring feels more acute in Erlang -- perhaps because idiomatic Erlang uses many short functions, making it easy to miss usages. So you have to rely on run-time testing to ensure complete coverage -- and that is nowhere near as easy nor reliable as a compiler that automatically checks everything for you.

My dream language is one with ML semantics running on top of BEAM. That seems like a natural progression for a platform that was designed to be reliable -- while there have been attempts to graft a more versatile type system onto the Erlang base language, the cleanest way forward seems to be a language purpose-built for the task.
>Maybe you don't, but lots of people do, as evidenced by the fact that they pay for it. If you don't need it, then don't pay for it.

That's not really how it works. I will get a new phone when mine dies because (A) I need a phone and (B) the phone I have isn't being made anymore.

Does this means I am paying for 'more tech'? If you do not keep buying new stuff, you don't stagnate, you regress. If I don't want new technology, I have to go with no technology, not the same-old technology.
> This isn't in the building, it's

The building drainage system in many areas is not "protected" by a house trap. Many municipalities require a backwater water valve which is essentially a check valve with a mechanical moving part. I can easily envision (and I have held a Master Plumbers License) this failing.

Furthermore once you trench to bring sewer, and water into a building (these services while in a manner of speaking are kept separate they often share a common or very nearby trench) it's very easy to not backfill properly thereby also allowing vapors to enter a structure in some instances. It depends: did they use dynamite to blast for the foundation or to bring in these services? There are all kinds of variables that could allow trench to building fumes.

I agree people do freak involving odors, but on the other hand different people have different actual physical tolorances to chemicals.
> parent teacher communications

Yes, that one is another good example.

My kids' school has 3 different learning management systems (not integrated, BTW) to which students need to submit their homework/assignments. Well, at least in theory.

In practice, parents take photos of homework and send them to teachers via Whatsapp completely ignoring a formal system maintained for that purpose. Poor teachers have to save the time to upload files from their phones/computers to the system later and keep things organized from school's internal perspective.

I thought about proposing to school's IT that they changed the process, allowing parents to email files to a certain inbox, which an app would collect the files later and push them into the system automatically. I ended up not going ahead with the proposal because I already knew their reaction to me: "Whatsapp makes the process simpler".
I don't watch Maddow regularly nor do I see MSNBC's promotion of her show.
The only episode I've watched in the past few years was the one where she claimed she had Trump's tax returns and would be showing them on the show. To me, this seemed like opinion media masquerading as news media.
Google might also personalize his results.
I don't like Markdown, because it too often takes what I meant and changes it to what I think I meant.

I'm OK with ambiguity between implementations, but this one is a deal-breaker for me, and I've not encountered a Markdown implementation which doesn't do it.

I think it's just a faulty idea to begin with.
Competition is great but it's not like Intel has been resting on their laurels; they've invested heavily in iterating on process nodes beyond 14nm.

Intel has simply failed.
> Imagine a christian baker who refuses to make a cake for a gay wedding, is it ok?

Well, in the case that has been litigated to the Supreme Court, the answer was “Yes”, though in part that rested on specific behaviors by the state actors that tried to say “No”, and the outcome might be different otherwise.

But certainly, its not established as a matter of law that the answer is “No”, so resting a counterargument to the Shopify action on that being the answer is weak.

(Its also weak even if the answer was established to be “No”, because even if it was it would be because of specific laws protecting against private discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation, which are an exception to the general principal that private businesses can choose who to do, or not do, business with.)
It's expensive because people keep buying (and keeping) it.
I also started programming in late 80's, and I use that technique too. Currently, my netbook is more powerful than my primary laptop. :-)

My laptop is also able to variate CPU clock speed from 2GHz to 200MHz. It makes me easy to execute CPU-bound benchmarks of my programs.
Classic Blub programmer reaction; extra bonus for dismissing a language just because of unfamiliarity/dislike of the syntax.
Interesting: for me this is a feature that I happen to appreciate a lot, not an issue.
I suspect the hardest part of plotting this story must not have been changing Harry, but changing Voldemort. How on earth could someone capable of challenging the advanced Harry manage to lose so thoroughly against only Rowling canon good-guys?
I think the term "minimum viable product" gets thrown around too glibly, as if it's the only way you can possibly be successful.

If your goal is to be a better enough search engine than Google for people to want to switch to it, it's kind of pointless to release basic search as a product (take a look at Cuil for an example). I think Blekko did the right thing by waiting until they had features like slashtags (especially tags like /seo that appeal to early adopters) and some basic social interaction, which I would say gave them a "minimum compelling product".
Agree. It's a tough decision for them -- I'm sure the "Hot New Text Editor" market has a decent chunk of money associated with it. But it's pretty hard to commit to a text editor that you can't open up and recompile.

EDIT: Plus, if an editor is going to join the ranks of vim and emacs in history (something which neither Sublime nor TextMate are on track to do) it has to be open source. Anything else and it's just another product.
To be fair, would most people know what super-shift-P means?

That said, it would be fairly simple to have a variable for super that resolves to ctrl/cmd on other platforms, the same way that most download pages nowadays infer your platform and show you the binary you most likely want.
I wish it was open source. We need a modern, good looking, libre text editor.
I think a large past of the anger against Walmart is not about their products; it's about their poor economic practices - underpaying people, being effectively subsidized as their workers are on food stamps, and the deleterious effect they have on local neighborhood stores.
Since you are trying to optimize the hiring process have you looked into something like video interviewing with HireVue?

Disclaimer I work here so I am already sold on the concept.
That doesn't solve the problem at all.

The "lift all boats" outcome is exactly what activists are afraid of, because if that actually happens it makes the neighborhood "more desirable", and new people will start getting interested in moving in. Those people provide upward pressure on rents.

And once new people move in, they would now be "locals" and eligible for the jobs, too.

There's no logical way to satisfy these anti-gentrification groups because what they're afraid of is quite literally "the neighborhood getting nicer".

Instead of making their cause "keep the rent low by keeping the town crappy", they should make their cause "raise wages so we can afford a nicer town".
Well, the foreman Uncle Bob describes in his posts is the only person on the team with commit rights. He would review every commit (except those from team members he really trusts) and reject all commits that are not up to the standard.

In my opinion, this kind of foreman he wants to have would lead automatically to the dysfunctions I describe in my post - at least in some teams. And I think the risk is not worth it.
> Seems to me that that's a very shaky analogy.

You let that straw man live for all of a millisecond before you struck him down, you cruel bastard.
Awesome article. How important do you think is experience in attaining these vs good instincts/personal qualities?
you need trust in both of them as a netizen, and I have trust in Tor, but not my ISP.
Do you have unit tests with good code coverage?
SandwichBoard does restaurant web sites (http://www.sandwichboard.com/).

We've found that the owners and managers who "don't get it" are the ones who think that the web site experience should be the same as the restaurant experience: background music, a menu that looks identical to the physical one, and a picture of every dish.

The ones who do "get it" entrust their web site to designers and usability experts who make it their goal to turn web site visitors into patrons.
"The sky is blue."

"He's a Bayesian!"
something about what investors really want. It isn't regulation. Its profit and growth

and they got plenty of the two with Enron and Lehman. Until the music has ended, that is.
How does having a better website presence bring the dentist more money? I'm having a hard time answering that in a way a halfway decent VC wouldn't laugh at, and that includes your putative answer, because you don't need a glorious site to be found via search, just a site.
The biggest use case is the amazing battery life; this gives you, as a writer, the ability to work within your stream, then set the device down later in the day when you're ready to take a break.

Come back in an hour or so, and you're nearly fully juiced up.

Performance-wise, with appropriate software (i.e., M1-compatible, and none of this Rosetta stuff), it'll be faster than your 2015 MBP, even with half the RAM.

I recommend the MBA-M1 with 512 GB storage; the 8 GB RAM is plenty, and still has better effective memory bandwidth than my Core i9-9980HK MBP 15 (with twice that). Really.

Also - latest FFmpeg is compatible: https://isapplesiliconready.com/app/FFmpeg
SSC and the space around it fundamentally disagrees with you that the thing to do about dangerous ideas is block their propagation. It wants to know about them, understand them, turn them inside out, figure out why people believe them, understand what it’s like in their heads, and learn how not to make similar errors.

“Listen to your culture’s leaders and tastemakers, vigorously punish any heretics” is a terrible algorithm for that. It’s exactly why so many bad ideas have such power for so long.

Part of the idea of presenting bad ideas in such a sympathetic light is to then whack the reader with, “Do you realize what you were just nodding at?” To show that you too are capable of believing terrible things under the right circumstances, to encourage humility and skepticism.
Pseudo hijack:

Is there a way to make command line editing on my Mac work the same way as standard Mac text editing?

Things like alt+<arrow key> jumps entire words, click to move cursor etc.

I'm using iTerm2.
Well, once that happened Kotlin also gets the solution.

It's rude and unfair to call out a language as "solving the problems with kludges" when they literally could not have done anything better.
Not at all, because Kotlin wants to take it all, so they need to make the choice if they want to expose JVM features, or keep the language portable across all platforms that JetBrains wants to target with Kotlin.

A good example is Kotlin/Native, by choosing a memory model incompatible with JVM code they failed, and were forced to go back into the drawing board for Kotlin/Native with a proper tracing GC.
I’ve used Kotlin on Server Side in production at a pretty significant scale and I think it’s the most underrated thing for people using JVM on servers. I recently had a podcast with one of Spring dev advocates (Josh Long) https://spring.io/blog/2021/02/11/a-bootiful-podcast-doordas... (shameless plug) and brought similar discussion to table. I will seriously urge folks to try it and hopefully foundation will bring more goodness!
Why do you link now an article that mentions the possibility of Trump starting a war with Iran in last days in office?
This kind of sarcastic social critique well designed site reminds of better times for the Internet... before the dark times... before Facebook.
Sadly "pleasant to listen to" and "interesting" can diverge if you become more of a music snob. That's something that really bothers me :)
Addison Lee is often more expensive than a black cab though. It's really more of a premium car service than a minicab firm.
of all the jerks i see causing traffic delays, 90% of them are lyft/uber drivers. next time your in SF and you see someone blocking the bus-lane with their hazards on as if its some excuse, you'll see the uber/lyft tag.
Yeah - it would be a logical extension of disrupting gatekeepers in an efficient market. Also kind of obvious in retrospect when gig-workers or contractors require their own tools that they would be in a good position to subsitute for the rest of the company "chain". That makes them mobile and we already saw "multiapp" gig workers.

Of course the hard part is that owing to mindshare these markets tend strongly towards winner takes most.
>Actually that's a lie.

i know , i thought the author was being humorous, guess i said it wrong
It seems that 43 out of 45000 drivers were able to drive illegally - it's bad, but not a horrific. Is there a time line available? Was this is in one year or overall since Uber's existance?
You can start here https://savedotorg.org/
Office 365 feels like a cheap beta test even on the biannual channels.

If not for corp legacy apps that mostly interface with outlook through old, partly deprecated and arcane APIs, a switch to anything could occur.

At home I use LO exclusively, even though I have the licences for MSO.

And the interface doesn't even hold anything against LibreOffice. The categories are completely random. Excel has some nice pivot visualization functions, but that is the only positive thing I can come up with when thinking of MS office.

I don't need office software to be that innovative, because the problem space hasn't evolved since 20 years. And if autosave is one of those innovative features...
As a windows user moving towards Apple, it astounds me how immature numbers is. Keynote is okay, unless you want to export to any other format.
A friend of mine who is interning at Google this summer started pushing Google now on me really hard over dinner this week. Your post mirrors the queezy feeling I got from thinking about the prospect of going even deeper into the Google services quagmire. It just doesn't feel quite right.
This piece mirrors my thoughts on tech interviews as well. Firing brain teasers at somebody under the pressure of a job interview environment gives very little indication of how the candidate will actually perform their day-to-day job duties. I've long thought that the short-term contract method was far superior. This is especially relevant in light of yesterday's post about the "Wretched Google Interview" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243627).
Every job I actually got was because a friend made sure that it happened.

I like this approach. In fact, something similar has happened to me in several of my job acquisitions. Networking trumps pretty much anything else.
Yes, just a syntactic feature, as transparent sugar standing in for an extra file. (Though I haven't thought the whole thing through more than that.)
...and they do say "A day without Wine is a day without Sunshine"
Continuously improved is important to note too. Backwards compatibility isn't really a thing in mathematics. You simply have to create enough value and teach people how to use your new mechanism.
The stronger a magnet the stronger the internal forces that it needs to withstand. Tap a ceramic magnet with a hammer at the wrong angle and the whole thing explodes (I found this out the hard way when trying to recycle a bunch of strong magnets that were attached with two sided tape to a chunk of metal, yay safetyglasses).

Any kind of deformation that stresses the structure in a way unforeseen during engineering and the whole thing will collapse, then explode outward as the pieces hit each other and rebound. Not pretty. So the stronger the magnet that harder it becomes to keep the thing from selfdestruction when you activate it, or in the case of a superconducting magnet, quench it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R7KsfosV-o
Oh, sure. That's what money is for.
A board of political appointees confirmed by Congress that didn't exist until 2008 presided over the genesis of the largest surveillance/propaganda program in the history of the world? Now I'm curious...
If you look at the trillions of creatures thrown at the evolutionary game every day in real life, Mother Nature herself is not terribly efficient either.
I hope you are right. Ultimately I'm not opposed to American intelligence agencies. I'm aware that there are big threats beyond terrorism and it's important for us to have the best team with the best resources. If things escalate with China for example I'm willing to accept that sacrifices will have to be made to our concept of privacy as a wartime measure. If we have to pull pages out of Art of War to win this thing then I guess that's that.

I just worry that they have in fact gone rouge and have lost track of their real duty. Snowden's critique of citizen surveillance aside, his critique of America's ability to protect ourselves from China after crippling our nation's encryption efforts is what really bothers me. I'm worried that the agency, in an attempt to tighten it's grip on the western world's communication, is missing the important window to instead begin locking things down. They are missing our chance to get our corporations, institutions and infrastructure encrypted properly to protect civilians from cyberwar fallout. Protecting us from a modern war modelled in part on America's WWII strategic bombing campaign of German civilians in an era when we no longer have the geographical advantage of two oceans keeping us safe.

I think they got a taste of the power that comes with total information (not unlike the advertising world is with leaders like Zuckerburg [but thats another post...]) and are not willing to give it up and smarten up.
This one is beautiful as well.

It was mind-opening for me to think of types in terms of provability (intuitionistic/constructive logic) rather than truth (classical logic). The only way to prove that a function returning a value of type T actually halts (and therefore does not actually “return” bottom/void) is to run it and obtain that T value, i.e., to find the object that the type claims exists.
Aside from the obviously stupid on the part of the hotels, can't someone just use USB tethering instead of WiFi to connect to their cellular device?
> "a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor"

I've seen this thrown around when people joke why vim is better than Emacs and i think it's funny. But, seeing that Emacs has evil-mode, which is basically an implementation of vim on top of the said "operating system", i'd say it's false. Or ironic :D
What I don't get is the exception: this could be handled with a custom maven plugin (as an extreme way) or a wedge of inline script in the pom.xml (sloppy and maybe not so portable). Or the Assembly plugin. There's countless ways to build custom jars.
My ex girlfriend is a pediatric cardiologist who recently passed her boards. When I talked to her about it, she was very much on the side that she wished she didn't have to study for it because it didn't have much to do with her job at all. She just wished she could spend her time getting better at the skills she actually used rather than a wide range of academic material that didn't matter to her day to day.

Her friends from residency thought similarly. That's just a few data points and maybe some doctors are helped, but it definitely isn't every doctor.
got to last round for E6 and found it frustrating. Answering the technical questions required intimate knowledge of production systems that scale to billions of users with proprietary hardware (i.e. no cloud). It seemed to require previous experience at facebook, google, or amazon.
> along with the parallel idea that the Jews ought to be encouraged to become Christians as a means of fulfilling biblical prophecy.

Huh. My understanding of Revelations was that the Jewish culture as a whole would not convert until the Second Coming, not that it was a prerequisite.
Which is a fortune to many (most?) Americans. That's like 5% of the median income.

And these people just had cancer, so it's less likely they've been able to hold down steady work.
The Nexus One was intended to drive the improvement of Android, which is intended to increase ad revenue.
Well, if anything, he's proving himself correct. The game is wasting his time! And now, by extension, yours.

And mine.

NOooooOO!