jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The question wasn't administered with the "script" laid out in the blog post. I understand why if you were just reading that, you might get confused. In practice, we had a script that walked the candidate through how to use the memcached client, explained that the command didn't exist, pointed them to the codebase, and instructed them to add the command within the codebase, so that you can issue it through the client.
For me it is not the prices but the shortages.

I want an Epson EcoTank Pro printer because I like the pigment based ink but these are nowhere to be found.
I was a TPG refugee who switched to Aussie. TPG had the same setup and it always showed me that I was getting the full speed I payed for, but whenever my traffic went overseas, measured some other way, it would be shockingly slow (like sub 2mbps and with a noticeably bad experience) Every call to TPG was painful and they would just refer me back to their own speedtest.net site and tell me nothing was wrong. switched to Aussie and everything was golden, fast everywhere.

You're right that Aussie are uncommonly trustworthy, and the publishing of cvc use publicly is kind of their market prop.
Their CEO seems like a legend; like he got the shits with badly behaved ISPs and just made his own or something.
Thanks a lot for the pragmatic advice!
Nice caption there next to Rummy.

"To be clear, fuck this guy."
A combination of legal changes and consumer pressure has changed that a lot. I flew them recently (for the first and last time - but that wasn't related to obfuscated pricing) and there wasn't much in the way of hidden charges. Checked baggage was extra and there was a tiny card processing fee, other than that I paid the advertised price.
Sure, I don’t mind you asking.

I wrote it for a few reasons. One, to be funny… clearly the commenter was not thinking about something like driving when they made the comment, so I thought it was kinda funny to shift the perspective to think about something where it is clearly a bad idea to just let a kid try something they think they can do.

Secondly, it was a bit from exasperation from comments I see about the ‘right’ ways to raise kids without thinking about/understanding the limitations that actual parents are under when trying to raise kids. I have two young kids (6 and 3), and in my experience, parenting is so much more about circumstances than parenting advice ever seems to acknowledge.

For example, let’s take this advice. Whether I can just let my kids try something that I think they aren’t yet capable of doing is entirely dependent on the circumstances. Is it safe to let them try? Can I afford to spend the money it takes to let them try the thing? Do I have the time to clean up the mess that will happen if they fail? Is it legal to let them try? Will it prevent them from being able to do another thing that I think they are more likely to be able to do?

Basically, my response to advice like this is usually an exasperated, “yeah, no shit I’d love to do that if I can, but so many things stop me from always doing it.” Maybe that is harsh, but it is the gut reaction to this sort of advice as a parent of young children.

And I know I was guilty of this before I had kids. I had so many ideas about how I would raise my kids and do all of these things, but I learned quickly that you don’t have as much control as you would like to imagine as a parent. Before you have kids, you imagine you drive their growth like you drive a sports car, with precision and the ability to choose the exact path you take. In reality, it is more like sailing a giant sailboat in a storm, doing your best to keep the ship pointed in the generally correct direction without taking on too much water.
> the borrow checker rejects valid programs

That's Godel's incompleteness theorem for you. Every static type checker also rejects valid programs, but that doesn't make them any less useful. Just one of those inconvenient facts about our universe.
In reading through the 34 comments I don't see any mention of going longer without food (fasting) to address autoimmune and inflammation issues.[0]

Ethics: the best I can say is "that's cultural", and often personal. We're all doing whatever we want, and sometimes our values align enough to get along for a long time. I ate a lot of meat for about a year (or so; I didn't keep a log) and then stopped for a couple reasons, including environmental impact. I grew up on a farm, I've butchered animals and eaten them, I've hunted, and I see every living creature as an individual person worthy of respect. And still I kill them. If we were more honest about this when we go to war I think we'd be better off, rather than all the othering and dehumanizing that is so effective.[1]

My internet-stranger advice would be to practice going without food for longer and longer (it took me about two months to go past the ~48 hours when autophagy starts; I paced myself so I could keep an even keel at work (parenting/homemaking)), and then break your fast with an amazing meal, starting with foods high in fiber (something about how the food progresses through the intestines, and absorbing nutrients, and not spiking insulin), and including whatever you want (I only want high-quality, healthy food for these meals, maybe ending with more carbohydrates at the end). Meat seems like a reasonable inclusion if eating fewer meals. Fasting and feasting is different than calorie restriction; the former I find empowering and self-respecting, the latter I found torturous.

In any case, I hope you figure it out, and good luck!

References:
[0] Life in the Fasting Lane, by Jason Fung, Eve Mayer, and Megan Ramos

[1] On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, by Dave Grossman
Yah, I know… my kids have a little electric car they drive around. They run into things all the time, they stop paying attention and run off the road, etc….
Alcohol is fundamental to mainstream Christianity. It's a central part of the story of Christ. Which is no surprise, since the faith comes from the region and culture that invented brewing. For Catholics, imbibing is almost a sacramental requirement (you can skip the chalice if you want now; I'm not sure if that was always the case pre-V2; consecration of wine, though, is I think an actual requirement).
I was writing about notable Australian women, but was indefinitely banned. Wikipedia doesn’t really care about the articles at this point.
Interesting, one of the reasons I use Scheme over Common Lisp is that doing this in CL is not common or easy.

Scheme has few options to generate C code and it's so simple that I can write my own transpiler in no time.
> There's real opportunity here for Github and I hope they take it.

I think the philosophy here is that there is a real opportunity and they hope that you take it (or someone in the community). They're creating a highly-hackable editor and their API allows access to everything you've asked for.

They're going to build a ton of add-ons too, but they want the community to build a lot of this stuff. The most creative product team in the world can't match millions of developers solving their own problems, so rather than try to build the perfect product for everyone, they're building the most flexible product for everyone to mold into what they need.
Well, I enjoy WFH (mostly) but a laptop alone isn't great. At home I use a corner desk, two monitors, two phones and three laptops (one testing, one does light compiling and vpn duties).

There's no way I'd be allowed this much equipment and space in the office. I had a nice-ish 27' monitor there and a small desk crammed next to another developer.

As much as I miss the social aspects of an office, WFH has a lot of benefits. I realize this is not true for many, and a lot of my own money went into the office of my dreams here. But it's quite comfortable.
Did it eat Sublime Text's lunch and dinner because it was open sourced? Or because it had the muscle of Microsoft behind it, a company with limitless resources and a long history of muscling in on other people's turf?
I am a US citizen, and I've lived abroad. Americans are being fleeced, and the entire mindset is that infrastructure is a cost, rather than an investment. It's crazy that we spend so much on "defense". The words of Eisenhower's parting address were not heeded.

But, regardless. If I were in charge I would fire the entire management of Amtrak and all Metro rails and just put the Germans, Swiss or Japanese in charge of it.
Well, if you get a room full of people to flip coins they come up heads for someone for quite a while.

Winning strategies can be an illusion, the smart money knows when to recognize luck.
I was surprised to see xz and bzip2, but not LZ4 or Snappy.
So... Assuming this is Israel, is it a direct move to help the Saudis in Yemen (why else strike a ship there?) or just an attempt at escalation of the pseudo-war (provoke Iran to sabotage Biden or tit for tat with limpet mines etc)? Or both?

Hopefully Iran ignore it and we see progress in the Vienna talks.
That’s exactly what I do but I still associate the entire house with work. Having a small house doesn’t help :/
I can forgive anything else in "Up" simply because of Doug the dog. They also managed to keep the "Alpha" dog voice under wraps until it hit theaters.
Apple competes on price in ways that preserves their brand- offering more for the same price, clearance/refurb section, previous model at a discounted price.

I agree with Kottke, Apple has a huge ability to compete on price if needed, and I think they are more than ever. Discounted previous models used to be limited to clearance/refurb. But now you'll find the iPhone 3GS and the MacBook prominently displayed as a part of the lineup. The iPhone is available via the online store "from $49", not "from $199".
Wow I thought about making something similar, but you guys hit it out of the park!
I didn't realize that Ashton Kutcher is an angel investor.
Well, I think there is some impedance mismatch here. He kind-of suggested resetting the stack "to remove left-over items". He also mentioned something about forgetting to pop an item. These kinds of comments are really... weird. I mean, what is Lua supposed to do if you forget to pop something?

This is an example where a valid personal opinion ("I don't like stack-based apis") crosses the line into something else ("Lua is defective").
Oh noes, some people value different things than me how dare they.

Let's be all elitist and imply "kids" don't know the value of information, whatever that may be. More like they know the information PSN had on them didn't matter (some nickname and email). And yeah, they want they games online, that's why they paid for a PS3 and multiplayer videogames after all. And Sony promised online multiplay.

That's a badly made chain of arguments.
I went back and forth with someone at flattr like 8 times saying this. At the end of the day that person just broke down and told me that it was a deeply political issue and the sides were divided on it.

Sigh.
I know, there was a previous article on the cover-up culture that once made it to the top at HN.
No need to use such vitriolic language when I think it is clear what the parent comment was trying to say. People making 6 figures are paying anywhere from 3 to 25% more of their income than a person earning median income in the US. For reference, see the base tax rates for 2013 [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States...
I'm finding it a little tough to find a frontend gig the past week, but it may have something to do with the holidays...

I would assume there is a shortage of expert programmers with skills in JS or C++, but the market for junior-mid level programmers aren't as hot because it's pretty easy to learn the basics of HTML CSS and JS
Stopped reading after I knew this wasn't going to be addressed. I get that the author might not want to divulge specific medical information but the whole point of this idea is dependent on not being able to use your hands. I think it is a very important part of the story if you want me to listen to the rest.
What's your website / resume?
Wait, did startups participate in Collusion-gate? No.
I think of this role as "The Fixer". On most teams I've worked on there is someone who ends up doing the hard parts, knows the obscure parts of the system, and tends to end up optimizing queries, cleaning up algorithms, and generally guides the long term technical direction, whether they have a title to go with it or not.

In my experience, while a software scientist or fixer is highly valued, they aren't necessarily highly paid moreso than anyone else on a team. Also, a technical lead is not always going to do this job or do it well if given it.

The largest part of development doesn't rely on someone with this specialization to write the initial code for any feature, yet without this skillset a team will ship some terrible code without realizing it.

I don't really see any group hiring for this kind of role.
Buying bricks at flea markets has gotten a lot harder in recent years. Occasionally you run across someone selling random bags of minifigs in packs of 5 for $10, or the occasional damaged box at 25% to 50% off retail, but in my experience, the prices at flea markets have gone up dramatically and finding 'deals' has gotten veyr hard.
Curious if this name is going to draw the ire of Paramount's copyright lawyers.
Directly from the linked page:

> Ssh is a great remote terminal program, and in fact ET uses ssh to initialize the connection. The big difference between ET and ssh is that an ET session can survive network outages and IP roaming. With ssh, one must kill the ssh session and reconnect after a network outage
This is super cool! UTI's are a major problem in the eldery community as well. While I don't have vetted data, I do have my day-to-day experience working in the Fire/EMS industry as a first responder.

I had a patient yesterday, 77 y/o female that was initially called in for erratic behavior. Right when I got in the truck I had a suspicion this was a UTI based on the address, care home, and the comments on the MDT. While UTI's don't always present with a fever, this one did and the care taker knew enough to not flush the toilet... Yes sir, I was 99.999% sure it was a UTI. However....

I had to call a BLS ambulance to take her to the ER because we don't transport to urgent care. The costs associated with this UTI will be in the thousands. I hope we could carry your kit on our fire engines and ambulances as it would reduce unnecessary visits to the ER and the burden on our EMS system.
If anyone wants a "weird old tip" for better enunciation: finishing schools had an exercise where students would practice speaking with their mouth full of marbles or gravel. After talking out loud for a few minutes, one can spit them out and have perceptibly better enunciation.

You can do this more safely by biting down on a wine cork. Read a page or two out of a book out loud, remove, and then read another. It's quite remarkable. (I learned this trick from a theater class back in high school I think…)

https://www.activepresence.com/blog/public-speaking-articula...
Additional story: https://amazonandmykid.com

( my own )

Suffice it to say Amazon does not care about employees, neither at the warehouses nor at their corporate headquarters.

When I was there a guy jumped off a building because they wouldn't let him switch off a toxic team. They also similarly tried to prevent me from switching teams when I was there.

A week ago I was at one of the Amazon retail stores and an employee there agreed that Amazon cares nothing for their employees. Obviously one should take this with a grain of salt as this is just a random statement from a random retail employee, but this is generally what I hear from Amazon workers both current and ex.

The general word on the street in Seattle is "Amazon sucks" to the extent I've heard Amazon employees referred to as Amholes.
I find the best programmers speak fast. I find programmers who talk slow to be good as well. Has anyone else noticed this?
Because Amazon is not some fell-from-space killer blob, but a collection of human beings, who all should have moral senses?

The notion that we can design a perfect legal system that will always coerce prosocial behavior from sociopaths is absurd. One of the founding assumptions of a democracy is that most people, being humans, will behave humanely. In some circumstances, they need guidance and modest incentives, which is why we have things like building codes, health codes, and workplace safety standards. In rarer circumstances, some people are so awful that we need criminal sanctions to remove bad apples from the ability to cause harm.

We should not expect people to give up their moral sense just because they are cashing a paycheck. And we must not excuse leaders for being monsters just because they get a bigger slice of the pie.
I did the Andrew Ng course because even technical people were talking about it in a really hand wavy way.

I feel that even the names ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘Machine Learning’ were chosen as a marketing ploy.
Looking forward to checking some of these frameworks out.

Question- Curious to know what backends / languages would be the fastest for a REST-based PostgreSQL backed API?
I do believe you have to actually set some headers on your origin HTTP server, to tell the CF caches how long to cache for.
Conspicuous non-consumption and conspicuous consumption are both playing the status game, for sure. But non-consumption is surely an environmentally better way to play it.

Perhaps if conspicuous philanthropy found its way down to everyday people, that would be a nice addition too.
How it is different from google.com\history besides tagging and notes?

Just curious. Not trying to put you down.
Are you telling us that you’ve never heard a woman say to her group of female friends “Hey guys, wanna xyz?”

It’s 2021. “Guys” has been gender neutral since basically forever and a day. It was so in my schools in the 70s/80s, and by my mother’s recollection, the same back in her school days.

And it pretty much has to be so: we lack a good alternative second person plural.

Note though that “guy” (singular) is gendered.
Except that "decentralization" is not a specific goal; it is vague and open-ended. Bitcoin has always relied on central authorities of some sort -- for a long time the peer-to-peer bootstrapping strategy was highly centralized (in an IRC channel), and everyone takes for granted the role of IANA and RIRs in making all Internet applications possible. So why should we complain about miners, hoarders, and exchanges? When you never specifically define your goals, it is easy to ignore inconvenient "problems."
>It can at least sound like a statement the school will invest more in some kids than others.

Schools already do this ever since No Child Left Behind. It's just in the opposite direction. Kids below the average get far far more money than the median student. Why not have gifted classes as well to support those who excel?
It's sort of a chain letter. You already have to be in the game pretty deep to think these are revolutionary.

I will offer some criticisms:

Aave - Earning interest on a speculative asset with counter party risk seems a bit silly. Most of the risk is bundled in the asset itself. If you invested $1,000 in a token as a small percentage of your
retirement portfolio you're probably hoping the return is 20x. In this incredibly logical scenario 2% is meaningless.

Uniswap - It's cool if you trade tokens because it skips the extra step of sending the asset to a centralized exchange, trading it, and withdrawing it. The centralized scenario might actually be cheaper. Either way it's only impressive if trading tokens is impressive. And at this point it's not.
If Open Hardware is something you care about, you can have a look to the different SBCs from Olimex, a Bulgarian company (https://www.olimex.com/). They care about having the SoC they use being mainline supported in the Linux kernel.

For example here : https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/open-s...

I have been thinking of buying one with their LiPo battery pack to have nice shutdowns in case of power failure.
Another helpful thing is how many programming languages have "assignment" and "comparison" operators.

I remember TI basic has "=" for comparison, and "<-" for assignment, like, 'A<-5'. That one, to me made, the most sense. "Put the value of 5 in something called A."
I agree with that, and this is a huge regression we didn't even have 3 decades ago. It should be talked more
What the biographic information adds is context. If we want to ask, "Why is this person doing X? What makes them say Y?" then we naturally inquire into who the person is. Their situation in society, their interests, their sources of power and wealth.

There's a reason that biography is a major genre. If you never have gotten anything out of a biography, that's fine. But you shouldn't be surprised that other people do.
Mozilla's own web sites and services (like www.mozilla.org) are written with Python/Django, making Mozilla a significant user/contributor in the Python web ecosystem: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webdev/GetInvolved

The section does seem out of place in this context, but one reason that MDN has Python webdev info is to help community members contribute to this part of the Mozilla project. (MDN also has information about Gecko's internal C++ code, for similar reasons.)
http://grindr.com/
Seems like that default oversteps the need for editors. It's not adding clarity. It's pimping information for promotion, not genuine interest.
I'm sure its all relative, but if you are talking about customer service, my local USPS always has a line of 30 people waiting to pick up a package that the driver was too lazy to bring to the door (Sometimes they come to the door, sometimes they don't). The counter is also staffed by 1 or two people - out of an available 5 - and there is typically a manager standing idly with his hands in his pockets.

If you are talking about improving service, as in the actual shipping service, you must be talking about their achievement of going from "losing a lot of packages", to "losing less than they used to". I've never understood it. I have NEVER lost a UPS or Fedex package. Yet, it is routine for a USPS package to just go "missing", just ask any big ebay seller.

Its also interesting that you assume prices must always go up to match inflation. If USPS was innovating in the right areas, they could drive down costs and deliver more efficiently.

Also, I just suggested the US government allow other approved companies the ability to put things in your mailbox without going to jail. Never said anything about their service.
Overall this is great, and I am thoroughly impressed. I have a couple criticisms though.

1. The API documentation is incomplete. I know this is fairly new, but information about upsert and the other operations mentioned in the intro video would be helpful.

2. I don't like abusing schemas for versioning. I understand the purpose and I think there are many use cases where this is desirable. However what happens when you need to query tables and views in multiple schemas? There are cases where you could use schema search path tricks, but there are cases where you can't and I have such a use case. I would prefer being able to disable versioning and set the schema in the route.
While it makes me sad that this is happening, this actually makes me believe that Node must be valuable now that the sharks are coming out. The question is - will this harm the community or will it make it be stronger? Also - why is there not a similar lawsuit for "node" part of nodejitsu?
T-Mobile is great as a company for customer service. There network isn't as good as AT&T's, but it seems to be getting better. I don't often pick up my phone in my house and see zero bars on it any more, but I still do occasionally.
Agreed on all counts, thanks! I've heard a lot of good things about Ember. Have you tried Angular?