jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's what Federation in Kubernetes was for, sort of, but it has never really come to fruition. The closest I've seen is Admiralty, but I'm not sure how it actually works out in reality.
I want to do some more programming in python. I always plan to. I even have small scripts that I've written in python. But I wanted to try some serious web development with it. My default language is C right now. (not for the web)
I've always been uncomfortable with the "store config in the environment" part of the 12 factor app thing, since it does imply storing things like database passwords and such, and the argument is that those shouldn't be in files. But, filesystem permissions are reasonably flexible and are easy to reason about (unlike the potential visibility of ENV).

I also don't really buy the arguments for ENV storage of even non-sensitive data. There's just not really any good reason to do so; your config has to be put in place by some tool, even if it is in ENV; why not make your tool produce a file, with reasonable permissions in a well-defined default location? The 12 Factor App article seems to believe that config files live in your source tree, and are thus easily accidentally checked into revision control. That's not where my config files live. My config files live in /etc; or, if I want it to isolate a service to a user, I make a /home/user/etc directory.

One could say, "Don't store passwords in the revision control system alongside your source." And that would be reasonable. But, there's no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water.
I am a university professor teaching Operating Systems based on the Dinosaur book. I always use the authos' slides to which I add my own notes and extra/missing concepts.

My colleagues from other universities here do exactly what you say, they do their own summary which is an effort I also don't understand.

The only moment when I felt I needed to do my own slides was with the pandemic online courses that refrained me from using the whiteboards in the amphitheater. But in the end the graphical tablet saved me from that.
The equivalent of this is showing gaming keyboard ads on ign.com, and bank ads on bloomberg.com. As long as same ads are shown to every visitor, this is no problem at all.

The people hate it when their actions on one site affect ads on completely unrelated sites. Real wold equvalent would be a salesman saying "I was passing by your house yesterday amd noticed you got a new bed.. Want to buy some bedsheets at a great price?". I think we agree this would be super creepy.
"Rehab: Good short term, bad long term. Rehab failure rate is over %90."

That's if you can even get the person into rehab at all! Just before last Christmas we buried a good longtime friend and colleague who'd died of liver cirrhosis. Nothing we did could get him into rehab.

'So what' you may say - he was just one more of many thousands. The trouble was that he was also an organic chemist by training yet even with this insight he couldn't stop his alcohol consumption. It was tragic really.

I've come to the conclusion that those of us who aren't alcoholics have little or no conception of how the mind of an alcoholic works or why he/she finds it necessary to consume alcohol in such damaging quantities. Simply, we cannot get into their minds and perceive the world from their perspective. This is a huge problem as it often stops friends and or family from being effective helpers.

As I see it, there's a perceptual barrier that separates alcoholics from those who aren't alcoholic. It's not a simple matter for a person who is not an alcoholic to put himself/herself into an alcoholic's mindset especially so if the alcoholic has no serious underlying psychological problems (if he/she did have then perhaps the person who's trying to help could envisage the alcoholic's state of mind - that of, say, depression, etc.).

Essentially, even those of us who aren't alcoholics but who've experienced the effects of alcohol can't use that experience (of say, being drunk) as an analog to understand the alcoholic's mindset as both perceptions of the effects of alcohol are fundamentally different.

Take my experience, I recall getting badly drunk in my student days and it was very unpleasant, since then on rare ocassions I've been what you'd call 'merry' from the effects of alcohol. Nevertheless, I find the effect of even a little alcohol both disturbing and mind-dulling and I deliberately avoid getting into that state. On the other hand, the alcoholic either experiences different physical effects from alcohol than I do and or his/her visceral perception of those physical effects of the alcohol are very different to mine.

It seems to me that this difference in percetion between the alcoholic and us who aren't alcoholics is one of the reasons why we're often unsuccessful in helping them. If we cannot communicate on their level then we're at a disadvantage when we try to help them and or offer them support.

That was what I experienced when I tried to help my former friend and colleague. Even though I knew him well and had done so for many years, it was clear to me that when it came to discussing alcohol that we spoke a different language. I'd hasten to add that at no time did I patronize him, nor was I intrusively paternalistic towards him. Essentially there was no effective communication between us on the matter of alcohol.
I'd imagine the world economy would collapse, and china would expand aggressively.
So it follows that one would need a phone to use exclusively for WhatsApp, no voice, no nothing else?

Also, do I understand correctly, this only works with public commercial WiFi networks (ex Starbucks) instead of mobile networks?
How would you use this? I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what this would be used for. I just shared my vagrant file.
From IRC: <EvanDotPro> it will be open source, and other platforms, when it's out of beta
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2042873
Pricing is more art than science. It is based on many factors such as:

- perceived value

- competitor pricing

- your target market

- how directly your service let's people save mone or generate income (ie if your service does either it is more easily justifiable than a pure luxury)

- customer loyalty (eg some people are paying Dropbox when they don't need the space just because they love the service and want to support the company)

- supply (including the illusion of scarcity)

- cost structure

- luck

- etc

There is some theory and psychology around this but like all the social sciencesnit isn't exact.
I've found out that even allergy can affect mood. Not in a good way. (I have no idea how common it is.)
Sure. But the point here is that your simply presenting another theory, possibly as far-fetched as the one presented in the original article.
Good point. Thank for reminding me I might want users first.
Here's an idea I had a bit ago: put solar cells between rail tracks and make the trains electric.

Also, with the advent of robotically-driven cars, a robotically-driven train should be much less of a technical problem.
In my experience the more "leading" a higher educational institution, the less likely they are to teach you practical vocational skills such as version control. It's almost a point of perverse pride that you are unsuitable for work when you leave.

There's lots of fascinating reasons for this, one is that part of the aims is to grade you compared with peers. Making everyone more effective doesn't actually achieve this goal.
and this might help http://www.incredibleindia.org/index.html
I like YC as much as the next guy, but here's an important question: Why have we never seen a blog post saying that it's not worth it?

Even if YC has an extremely high satisfaction rate, the sheer number of startups they've funded has to have left at least one with a bad taste in their mouth.

I love hearing feedback like this and I almost never get tired of reading this article (especially when it has a good spin to it, like this). I'm just interested to hear a dissenting opinion. (If one is out there, please link me.)
Got any good TCP trackers then ?

I've got the file. I'm just a tool with torrents..
There are two sides to that coin, though. Cutting government spending often reduces tax revenue as well. Government workers and contractors pay tax like everyone else, but accounts of the money saved by cutting the program never takes into account how much revenue will be lost when the taxable portion of their income disappears.
No, you would just need a document by enough people in the organization to specify who caused the issue.

For example, if a scientist knows that a drug caused a side effect that included brain damage, but chose to hide that fact through manipulation of the data to get the drug approved, and two out of four on his small team knew (were accomplices) but two were not in the know, then the two not in the know could claim innocence, and the rest of company as a whole could claim as a whole (a single document that all agree to) that the aforementioned team was responsible.

Assuming that federal investigation (FBI for example) was assisting, they could help prove the innocence of others in the company as well as the innocence of the two on the team that were unaware of cover-up. The three involved would be imprisoned.
Heroku is the main reason why we moved from PHP to Ruby/RoR. My first encounter with RoR made me feel managing a Ruby server was a pain and resources never enough, but Heroku made me fall in love again. Now we have at least 10 apps with them.
On this concept of feedback loops- do politicians take them into account?

Looking at US politics, I strongly feel that members on both side of the aisle look primarily at what is immediately accessible and rarely at long term effects or accountability. Sure, they make drafts, bills laws and propositions that mention things to take effect at some far out date- but that doesn't really mean that they are themselves looking at realistic feedback loops, but rather just what charged issues they can drive against the other side to appease their constituency on their far side.

Take DADT, or Same-Sex Marriage. The feedback loop of realistic long-term consequence of them items against other people are likely close to zero. Facts reported in a (leaked) report due to Obama soon seem to point that the effect on the armed forces would be minimal- in my guess probably similar to integrating minorities into the armed forces. The long term effects would be the increased mental health of valued service members, and an increased pool of people that could serve. Yet, R's rally against it, pointing to odd and unfounded rhetoric that is held firmly in just keeping things frozen culturally and socially. They don't look at the long term effects, or even at the fact that some homosexuals might consider voting for them if they backed the bills. It is possible that this isn't the best example, but do politicians really look at feedback loops and probability? No, I don't think so. They look at the feedback onto the next election and that's about it.
> ... legal transmission of factual information...

I would be willing to bet that you'd be very hard pressed to prove that the majority of the reports in a system like this actually contain factual information. When you report a traffic violation to law enforcement they are going to either investigate themselves or expect you to be able to positively identify the driver and show up in court. This gives the other driver the ability to defend themselves as well as forcing you to prove your statement. None of those requirements exist in the system described.

> ... especially when its recipient is a legal authority...

The DMV is not a legal authority for processing traffic violations. Law enforcement and the courts are. The DMV will provide that information to the insurance company after any fines are paid or court decisions are rendered but they are not the legal authority.

> ... someone who might be liable for the bad behavior reported

The insurance companies would probably love to get reports about bad behavior of their drivers so that they could more aggressively adjust rates however they would still have to deal with the fact that there's really no way to prove that any of these complaints are legitimate. What's to stop your ex girlfriend and her six friends from each reporting you over the course of a month or two for traffic violations to screw with you? How does this application or your insurance company filter that information out? Going off of actual cited/fined traffic violations seems to be a much more secure accounting method.

> Is informing an employer of an employee's unsafe driving vigilantism?

Absolutely not, the employer has advertised that they want to know about bad driving by placing the sticker on the vehicle and the employee has accepted that as part of their employment. The driver of that vehicle however is not absolved of any legal responsibility by also being accountable to their employer, that is a separate deal. You have no obligation to report bad drivers to their employers and may instead go straight to law enforcement. One of the benefits of those programs is to keep law enforcement from becoming involved in the first place and can be considered liability mitigation. This is not the same as side stepping law enforcement and going straight to the insurance company of a driver, in fact this application would be like skipping the employer and reporting the driver to the employers liability insurer for the report.

> Because the actors in that case have analogous financial and moral roles as the ones in this.

The employer and the insurance company have analogous financial and moral roles however they have no authority to enforce traffic laws. Employers have an incentive for you to bypass law enforcement, other drivers on the road don't.

There is already a legal process for dealing with these issues and an application that goes around them to mete out punishment seems to fit the description of vigilantism as you've provided it.
What are the chances we can talk Google into buying it? I just started using it and it's beyond amazingly useful!

I don't want to lose the ability to save bookmarks this way.

Is there anything out there on the web that duplicates the functionality?
Depending on the type of bookmark, I use a combination of Read It Later and leander https://github.com/rudle/leander .

Shameless self-promotion:
leander provides full text search on webpages from the command line. There is also an (experimental) sinatra web frontend/API.
However, the article points out that we can only use the algorithm when we know it outperforms Yacc; read "know" as "proven theoretically".
Considering they also rejected Google's offer, I'd say there was more to it than Yahoo's past failures.
So true. Delicious would always be my go-to place for anything I ever wanted to know about Oracle. For years I'd search delicious before even searching google or metalink. It's a shame that this is being closed.
I almost forgot to add this. 4 2 liters is the same "case" that 2 12 packs are. So while you typically get more value out of a 2 liter, they usually have a higher markup.

You'll almost never see them go on sale below cost.
It would have been fine if you ran the experiment, WITHOUT polluting the comments with useless dupe links. You could then write up a blog post or something showing what you had found.
Right. I just figure a coupla pieces of polarized film would be cheaper, simpler, and more flexible (physically) than an LCD. (Since car interiors and glass tend towards curvy rather than flat, a flexible film would likely be more workable than an LCD panel.)
>"So [government] spending [in 2010] was $186 billion higher than if we'd stuck to the [2000-2007] trend, and revenue was $681 billion lower. In other words, the giant deficit is mainly the result of the collapse in tax receipts brought on by the recession, not the increase in spending. Nice to know, huh?"
--Justin Fox

This one seems a little misleading. Fox is comparing 2010 spending vs. revenue to the 2000-2007 trend, but spending far outpaced revenue in this period. When revenue dropped in the recession, he points to that and says, "see, it's a revenue problem." But even if revenues somehow hadn't dropped dramatically during the recession and the trend continued, the federal government would still be spending much more than it is taking in. That seems to me more indicative of a spending problem.
Erg, sorry for being a deletionist. On reread I noticed my statement wasn't very well thought out. Didnt think that anyone had seen it yet :(
Yes, there are various processes. If you ask, it's usually because you are not naturally overwhelmbed by your brain firing ideas every second (some people are overloaded with ideas, 99% not worth doing of course). It usually involves note-taking, watching how the world works and cross-referencing situations and asking "what if X worked like Y".
No, no, no.

History is EVERYTHING to a VCS. You ALWAYS want exact information of what changed at what time. This lets you do all sorts of cool things like examine the provenance of a file in detail, integrate a similar change across two different branches whose code may have diverged, etc.

Meticulous tracking of history as well as efficient handling of large binary blobs are why the pros almost always rely on Perforce for large projects.
> I don't think many people would argue that if you hand people a bunch of free money it improves their lives. Of course it does.

The important question is what is the long-term impact.

For some people, a one-time donation can stop a downward spiral (pay the worst debts, and make sure you will not needlessly make new ones in the future; pay the medical bills) or even start an upward curve (buy a car, find a better paying new job that requires commute by car).

For other people, a one-time donation simply means some luxury for the following few days/weeks/months until they run out of money. Sometimes it even results in more debt, if they cannot sufficiently quickly revert their habits the moment the money is gone.

With the first group, I think the society will likely get its investment back. The problem is how to distinguish between them. Because the current attempts mostly select for people who are good at navigating the bureaucratic maze (which the first group is often actually worse at, because their situation is novel for them).
I'm half with you, and I see both sides.

When it's done well, I think it's a fantastic approach. I'm in a situation right now where I'm kind of that "expert". Not because it was planned that way, but because I was the only person on the project at the start. Now I've got a couple of young EEs working under me, and they do most of the development work while I sit in meetings for a good chunk of the day. I come in and help with the hard problems, but most of the day-to-day work is on them. It's working out great because it seems I got the structure relatively right (they've changed things a little bit as they've added new things I didn't think of, and I've reviewed and supported those changes)

The flip side is ${JOB-2} for me. It was a similar situation; an "expert" laid the foundations and then got pulled off to do other projects. There were two main differences between my current situation and that one:

- The infrastructure he put together was not great and full of footguns (e.g. accidentally implicitly double-encoding HTTP requests, bizarre cookie handling, etc)

- The code was hard to change because of how it was integrated, and the team didn't feel particularly empowered to fix it

- He was barely around (being assigned to something in a different building).

- He pushed back hard when people suggested that there might be problems with it and fixes required. Instead of facilitating and reviewing, he'd pop by occasionally, look at things that changed in his absence, and shit on them.

As I'm writing this, I'm reflecting on whether or not I'm contributing enough to the long-term development of this codebase, and I'm feeling relatively ok with the answer. Ultimately, this product is still my baby and whether or not it's successful is on me. Maybe that's the difference? I'm quite invested in the foundations I laid, and more than happy to help my team work through issues they find in it?
I want to second what's being said here. High performers can often escape a manager's attention because the manager has limited time and needs to push weaker contibutors forward with that attention (or risk spending even more time hiring).
I feel like I'm just doing it for the greens ya know ? I started programming 'cause when I was a kid, I always wonder how the things I love like games and software that I used to use works. But since then, I found myself in need to earn money to keep life going, and that curiosity and possible passion has to turn a way to live and survive and, I confess, it's starting to lost its bright, there was a long time ago since I code something to myself; but this year I'm planning to change it, I don't want this passion to die and become something bored.
I just posted the same - looks like you got there first :)

I have seen this play out many times.
Guh, this is truly terrible.

>CAN EPILERT PREDICT SEIZURES?
>Epilert cannot predict or prevent seizures.
>Our technology is designed to detect patterns that could be >associated only with motor seizures for now. However, we are >gathering EDA data to try building behavioral and emotional >profiles relative to non-motor seizures that will help >scientists better understand these types in the future.

>WHAT TYPES OF SEIZURES IS EPILERT DESIGNED TO DETECT?
>Epilert Bracelet is made to detect motor seizures that can >be focal or generalized and could be tonic-clonic or from >another motor type.

So.... thanks for 'solving' the I-had-a-locomtor-seizure-and-I-guess-I've-fallen-and-can't-get-up-please help-me-problem. Thanks but not thanks; already have a toolbox of coping strategies for that. Call me back when you've got a 'solution' for:
* please don't arrest me for public intoxication - I'll be better in 20minutes
* here's a record of everything that happened 60minutes before and after an absence seizure (that this won't detect) 'cause I don't remember any of it
* having a shitty day and I can't tell what you're feeling, what I'm feeling or how to feel about the meta. Please leave me alone but, well, don't fire me ok?
* is this headache signalling a migraine or a seizure? They both suck but my best options are dramatically different

There are so many things that could be so much better with some unobtanium applied to this field... but detecting tonic clonic seizures is... underwhelming. This is no kind of solution but mightpossibly* be a tool in the toolbox; that's about it.
Plasmic is a web design tool / visual page builder that works deeply with code, builds web apps as well as websites, and doesn't lock you in (exports anywhere).

https://www.plasmic.app

It plugs into React stacks, including SSGs like Gatsby/Next.js, and continuously generates code that you can override/extend. (I work on this!)
Maybe I am missing something very obvious, but how do I get a PDF out of it in an automated way?

That's what I like about pandoc + weasyprint. I just have a plain ol' markdown document and I receive a nice PDF in an instant. Just like that, super easy.
Legally an actual service animal must be trained. Emotional support, for a variety of reasons including things like PTSD and anxiety attacks, is a completely valid use of service animals. How do you know they were not trained?

If they were misbehaving, that's reason for them to be rejected, training or not. If not, legally allergies and fear of dogs are not valid reasons for denying access or refusing service to people using service animals. Though Uber should certainly attempt to pair the rider with a different driver first, if they have registered that allergy / fear ahead of time.