jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If your ability to pay is unchanged and you don't need the liquidity (ie, you don't need to move today), I don't see the problem.

> Anyway, I assume you're at peace with your decision and I'm not trying to convince you otherwise. Just trying to understand the logic. No offense meant.

None taken at all. I made a mistake, and I paid for it.

Keep in mind, no one cares when their car is underwater because you can cough up a few thousand dollars to get out of it. When your house is underwater for tens of thousands of dollars you're effectively trapped in it, and can't move if you need to (whether its for work or personal reasons).

Those homeowners underwater are limited in their mobility now, thereby reducing their earning potential if they could possibly move for a better opportunity (either pay or experience). While that might contribute to keeping wage inflation in check, it also limits any economic growth we might realize from those people having more mobility.

TL;DR Housing shouldn't be viewed as an investment, and we're going to feel the pain from the 2008-2009 crisis for many years to come.
Sartre also said that existentialism is humanism, which is a load of crap, so what Sartre said of existentialism isn't necessarily what it is. What complicates matters further is that existentialism is many things -- it is basically "the philosophies of those called existentialists". Still, many existentialists emphasize authenticity (to one's nature), which is impossible if there is no essence (authentic to what?).
> Google is simply trying to unify their services

That's silly. If they wanted to unify their services, they'd turn youtube channels into G+ profiles. And they'd do it without any hassle for the users.

I'm sorry, but it's obvious that Google is desperately trying to inflate their G+ profile numbers by any means they can devise, because they won't admit to themselves that they've already lost the social network battle to FB. No amount of being apologetic and spin-doctoring can make this less obvious.
The fundamental problem here is that some Google properties, like Google Analytics and Google Plus, recognize the concept of enterprise account management, and some, like YouTube, do not.

Want a Google Plus page for your business? Great, first create a personal account for yourself, then create a Page account for your business. You can add other employees as admins on that Page.

Want to create a YouTube channel for your business? Great, create an account called "yourbusinessname." Only one login can manage it, so email the password to your other employees. (Real secure, Google.)

YouTube still can't tell the difference between a person and an organization, which is IMO indefensible. Twitter does this too. I find it astounding that they have not improved this yet.
Apple Notes app
> Medical care should never be tied to personal wealth, period.

There is literally no limit to how much effort society can put into one person's healthcare. In the absurd extreme, we could reshape society into doctors, farmers and medical manufacturers in a mad quest for best possible medical care.

At some point we have to ration healthcare and decide when to put more resources towards something else. If not personal wealth, what do you want to use for the rationing process? Age? A lottery?

Unless there is some really amazing alternative, money is one of the best proxies available for for contribution to society. A bunch of edge cases exist, but they are edge cases. It is a fair way of rationing healthcare.
It's not about hunting down an animal in the wild. It's about bio industry: having great numbers of animals on the smallest possible area, with the least amount of care.

If we are as addicted as we are to animal products we cannot all get that from "from sustainable, responsible animal product sources", or have that hunted in the wild. We simply do not have enough earths for that.
TI99-4A long time ago. Programming a textual adventure game in Basic with my father (complete with matrix printer code printouts to make notes on). About a highrise appartment block with one unknown inhabitant being a murderer. Started with a crime scene. As player you had to find the murderer by walking around, talking to residents. You might talk to the wrong person and get killed yourself.

It was the combination of the game being thrilling and exciting, combined with the notion that you could make it ever better. Adding objects, people, discussions to be had, intrige, distracting side-plots.

My father had the lead in this, and in the evening he added stuff and surprises, that I could discover during the day, and then build further upon.

Also I think the fact that is was text-only rather than graphical helped keep interest, where my child's fantasy filled in the imagery (we went to graphical, Donkey Kong like games, later on. A different exercise, started when my interest in programming had firmly taken root. With graphical games you work on abstractions that aren't needed in text-based games and may be less easy/appealing for kids to take the effort to grasp).
That inspires me to check in with someone I know who fell I'll frequently and see how they've been through this period. I want to say they to have had significantly less illnesses this period.
I cant get my kids to tidy their rooms so no chance teaching them to code
Nice work on the Gordon Freeman Voice :D
I hate acronyms.

Seems to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicatio...
> You can't boot your Intel of AMD CPU without their signed and sometimes encrypted code.

Except that Intel and AMD don't care what you run on your machine, they don't lose money if you don't run their software.

When you run Linux on a MAC, Apple isn't getting money from their iCloud subscriptions and from the store so they have a motive to stop you from escaping the walled garden.
> Miss is the 'appropriate' title for an unmarried woman or girl.

Not since decades in the US at least. Women are not titled according to their marital status.
If your group health plan covers therapists you should take advantage of that.
You are advocating creating perverse incentives. A specific branch of government, a select agency, to become a profit center through continuous finding and fining of ever more wrongdoings. All morally excused because the victims are faceless multinational corps.

We all know how badly that goes with speed traps and red light cameras - instead of improving, the road conditions and sometimes even local rules are tweaked to maintain steady cashflow.

Say no to revolving doors of regulators, say no to moral hazard of what effectively amounts to vice tax. Apply criminal penalties when reasonable, don't make data leaks & privacy breaches just another cost of doing business.

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Clarification: a fine works well when it's expected to be a rare penatly enacted on a singular player - as it makes that player noncompetitive in the market. Conversely, when fines are expected to apply regularly and at proportional rate to most, or all, players in a market, the fine no longer makes the player noncompetitive - it merely shifts the market. Perhaps some alternative markets (print? radio & TV?) would pick up some of the advertising slack, but largely it'd be a regular money transfer from corps to the government. And a "vice tax" like that is a clear moral hazard, with no natural end in sight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Midwest_Flight_5481

TLDR: 5481 crashed because the figure used as the average weight of a person for the purposes of calculating the planes centre of gravity was from before America got fat.
I am sorry to hear of your experience with Covid!

It makes total sense for you to be depressed after surviving with so many lingering side-effects: I only hope it improves for you going forward (and sooner, rather than later)!

However, we need more papers like the OP to establish how many people are in the same boat as you, and out of all the "newly" depressed people, how many are due to actual lingering health issues, and how many are due to psychological stress caused by going through the illness that's so influential on the world today.

During the lockdowns, I've messed up my back. While I originally went for physical therapy over the summer 2020, I don't feel comfortable doing that today because of COVID. The fact that I am not doing enough to "fix myself" is making me depressed. "Lockdowns" are a spectrum, and have also stopped people from potentially making changes they need to make: I don't think it's fair for you to discount it as a non-variable here.

I am sure you are wondering aloud if you'll ever be "back to normal". So am I.

But separating out all of these will help us understand COVID19 and its consequences, and help us adapt treatment to the actual causes.
Yeah, you shouldn't be estimating weight based on a social nicety that's interpreted differently across cultures and by people of different generations.
So how does a programmer who doesn't aspire to be greater think about code?
Do they consider it a skill?

Would it be enjoyable for some to utilize such skill for expression?
"Best suggestion of the article is that we scorn AI researchers who do not have a credible claim that their designs will maintain a basic agreed-on value system after a billion self-managed iterations and upgrades by the AI."

Unfortunately, I don't think that's really going to happen.

When people refuse to fund research in a promising area, others wind up taking up the slack.

Witness America's prohibition on fetal stem-cell research. The US lost its lead in that field when researchers from other countries continued the work.

The same will be much more true of AI research, as a working strong AI would probably be seen as a goose that lays golden eggs.

Of course, it's also a Pandora's Box. So we should be careful. But I don't think scorning researchers in the field is going to be very effective.
I feel like I'm putting a black mark on myself by admitting so on this site, but my problem is that I haven't done well technically in recent interviews because my programming knowledge has atrophied. I feel like if I had a little while to really study and crank out a few more small projects that I could do well at get an offer.

I have a decent amount saved up with no dependents. Maybe I'll make the move sooner than later.
I guess part of the consideration is that if something was able to take down the fiber being strung on the utility poles, then it most likely took down the power along with it.
It's a little hard to tell where the marble is in "3d" space. I think it might be a little better if it was even lighter while "underground". A lot of isometric games use shadows to show exactly where objects are - that could help as well.

Edit: now I figured out what the big problem is: you can't see where it's headed when it's underground. In Roller Coaster Tycoon, when your train went into a tunnel, there was a sort of transparent view of the underground track. I think having that here would make a lot of sense.
I doubt they are:

1) the volume of popular stories on digg/reddit/stumbleupon/hn etc cover a miniscule portion of the internet and aren't necessarily more important or better than the overwhelming majority of the internet.

2) Google can't trust votes/users, and in lots of cases can't even see who made the vote let alone decide whether user x on site y is legitimate. They also can't trust the sites to handle that themselves - they get gamed all day every day with fake accounts/paid submitters (even on HN!), manufactured content, summary spam etc.

3) every site implements/displays it differently which would mean scraping most of the time, and tapping into APIs only some of the time.

There are SEO benefits though like people linking to your site because of the popular submission, your site spending a day or two on a high-PR website's front page etc.
How important is Australia to Google? If it is not profitable, they surely can exit this market. And Australia would get some replacement for search engine/new sources.

So nothing really changes, the sky is not falling.
If you want to see similar work by some of the same authors, see [1]. The youtube channel "twominutepapers" has an explanation of this work[2].

[1] https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXzauli1TyU
Anyone know how Xiaomi air purifiers compare to these?
> So the builders of Stonehenge might have taken as many as three stones from another site for symbolic or "hey, I know where to find a massive stone the right size for our new project" reasons

If it's 400 years (and the timeline is up for debate), who knows, it may have been a completely different people / culture that decided to move the stone (vs the ones that built the original circle).

I mean in western Europe, town walls were dismantled for other building projects. Walls that still exist are considered protected cultural heritage nowadays. It's a different point of view that changes over time and as cultures progress.
Some of them are designed for such small pills, those might run a few more dollars. I worked in an inpatient pharmacy for awhile and we regularly cut tiny pills.

They are fairly ingenious for how simple they are, basically you put the pill in a V-shaped compartment so it would settle down to the base of the V. Flip the lid over and a razor blade would apply even pressure and split any size pill perfectly in half.

Some were more amenable than others to the splitting, while some would explode into a chalky mess, but I think that had more to do with the filler than the ingredients, which gives the opportunity to shop around.
Would that make sex robot redundant phrasing?
http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=software+engineer&l1=San...

There's a huge race for talent right now. You've got a peculiar background compared to most startup hires, but if you've got the chops to make it thru an interview, I imagine you'd get snatched up in the Valley (or Seattle) for $100-110k, easy. In the Valley, probably more.

I know a great company in Seattle that'd give you a $12k signing bonus, give ME $12k for referring you, and give you an iPad just for making it to the interview process.

Disclaimer: No idea if you can ship software, how broad your skills are (web dev front end to backend? Sysadmin chops? iOS?), etc.
I transition between morning and night, and it's basically getting into a consistent cycle. If you get out of bed at the same time every day for two weeks, you'll alter your cycle. The main idea is: don't go back to bed, get out of bed, take a shower, go for a run. DO NOT go back to bed.
Anecdote - one of my friends (who is a good, but not mindblowing developer) is drawing a 180k$ in San Fransisco for (essentially) maintaining a CRUD insurance app in Rails. He is being wooed by a social gaming (yeah I know!) company who is offering him 200k. So I'd think 100k would be low in San Fran. Just as a contrast, 100k is a toprange salary for a really good developer in Bangalore. By and large only managers make that kind of money hereabouts.

My friend says that he isn't able to get people to join his present company even at those rates and the only people attending interviews are clueless Indian developers who are waiting for their Green Cards[1] but hardly know how to create a table in MySQL. The good people who do join soon leave for better companies or startups.

[1] I am Indian myself fwiw. I am not saying all Indian devs are clueless, just that those applying at my friend's company are.
there's no reason to think that we started out with lots of phonemes and that these have been whittled away over time

I suspect the reasoning is more along the lines of languages picking up more phonemes over time, such that older languages, having been around longer, would have picked up more phonemes.
My understanding is that making you not disclose your salary is unenforceable. They can get mad at you, but they don't actually have recourse.
Archive Team is already on it; they're in #archiveteam and #googlegrape on EFNet. I don't think that their backup will be complete or highly available, though.
I contend it is either A> Not a new feature or B> Not well distributed.

Show me a publication date of the feature and installed base and we'll talk.

It's either not new (which would make it a valid strategy item) or it's not widely available/adopted (which makes it useless). This isn't a niggling unimportant point. iOS had the same issue when they basically left 3G and older phones behind as android does with certain features.
As a lawyer, I respectfully scoff at this response. The exchange servers running the biggest companies in the world are sourced to third party providers. I love how people will put their "legally sensitive" stuff in the hands of a $60K/year sysadmin, but not in the hands of a multi-billion dollar infrastructure operations specialist that also happens to manage the world's best index of Internet content. I really struggle to follow the logic.
Could an origin server run a port scanner through the tunnel and hide the origin of the scan?
It's good enough for me. It's unlikely to be "replaced" by the new hotness because it was created way before the JVM language craze where there were dozens of competing JVM languages. Sure that means it has warts but at least I don't have to learn a dozen sets of different warts.
Nitpick: The offenses for which Twitch is considering removing users usually result in much more than a few weeks in jail, if convicted.

Further, Twitch is not the entire industry, the same way that Microsoft is not the industry.
> ...Phones often are an all-in-one coping mechanism for other issues

While I agree in principle for healthy people, it's a waste of time, but for people for whom light entertainment is their medicine... would you rather they be drinking?

This comes up a lot re: video game addiction.

The jury's still out on the impact of social media and light entertainment (i.e. YouTube) on mental health. UK teens for example are doing far fewer drugs, getting pregnant from unsafe sex much less often, rising in school rankings, despite less sleep and higher levels of reported anxiety from watching more YouTube and Instagram.

"Everything in moderation" is kind of reductionist, of course we'd prefer that an asinine activity whose harm must be marginally declining the more people use it, not less, for the average person, substitute a harmful one like, I don't know, smoking meth. That's definitely happening for some people.
> key words might be slightly diffrent. I ran inro this trying to port code to GNUCobol

Do you recall what those were specifically?
You don't think he remembers the numbers and colors? He might, he's just not saying it. When my kid first recited their 1-10 or ABC. They didn't recite a few. One day out of the blue they went from beginning to end. You might think they are not learning but they are soaking up and just might take some time before they start expressing their knowledge. That said, I would be annoyed to have that play on repeatedly.
There's probably a decent number of sites that get most/all of their traffic from impulse purchases off of Facebook ads, and who have no actual branding. Obviously they should go ahead and just get a domain name, but they likely haven't had any reason to care up until this point either.
My solution is Kubernetes. Everything's configured in YAML files. The solution to all those problems is... change fields in YAML files.

Of course, you need to figure out what you need to change and why, but you'll never not need to do this, if you're rolling your own infra. K8s allows you to roll a lot more of the contextual stuff into the system.
it's more like a bug, Facebook won't even notice couple of millions
The problem with this for Twitch, specifically, is that Twitch involves money. Many people make streaming a career, and Twitch actively encourages this sort of behavior.

At a normal workplace, while people _can_ simply be fired, they typically aren't. That sort of thing kills morale and may even result in protest resignations.
“It undermines one of the sport’s most valuable qualities, namely that the outcome, the title, the victory, ...”

This seems less about the integrity of running, and more about the integrity of winning.
lol! I knew the sarcasm would go over peoples heads.
This seems to be an argument in favor of Tesla's full-stack approach of pairing high-capability infotainment with advanced driver assistance features. Tesla's data on collisions suggests the driver assistance works to reduce incidents.

Using Apple CarPlay or Android Auto to add higher-capability infotainment to an otherwise unassisted vehicle does seem obviously risky and the data from the linked study appear to confirm that. My own anecdotal experience is that I am very distracted by Apple CarPlay in rental cars (my own vehicle is too old to be compatible). This is especially because the user interface is slow, with too much emphasis on animation rather than immediacy, and with too many behaviors that require waiting, such as resetting the map back to full-size.
It's natural to actively seek a silver lining when terrible things happen. We all want to know that someone somewhere is better off in some moral or philosophical (as opposed to financial) way when tragedy strikes. Unfortunately, some people take advantage of that for internet points or to push their current agenda.

If you feel frustrated and hopeless, give to a local food bank, buy music or books from your favorite creators, have a virtual happy hour with friends or family, drop that friend a note and catch up, or work on that idea you've had.

There are lots of bright spots out there and we can create our own too.
Although an important thing to consider, I'm not sure how much it contributes. Look at:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Italy has one of the highest rate of cases per capita and the highest CFR.
I think you mean 1/3rd as wide... 3x means a door that's three times bigger than a regular door. X means multiply.
Musk is definitely by all accounts a genius, at least in certain domains. See my other comment about non-transferrability of expertise. I think the reason there are so many genius morons is that people assume their expertise magically transfers, and so they skip doing the work required to gain expertise in a completely different area.

"I can code, so I can reevaluate history and political science." "I can do organic chem really well, so I can read a creationist polemic and dismiss all of geology because it seems to make sense to me."
I like the ingenuity but this has a host of problems:

1. You can’t actually get an accurate read. Unless you are shining the IR beam into their rectum, surface temp means nothing. If you’ve ever had cold hands while the rest of you is warm you will know that you can’t read surface temps. This is why medical professionals only trust two temperatures: oral and rectal.

2. Even if you managed to do this, fever is a pretty late symptom. People are contagious far sooner than fever sets in when it comes to COVID-19.

3. This dehumanizes service workers. I would see this as a huge negative and would never patronize a business that required its workers to use a device like that.

Again, I admire the ingenuity, but I think this is a dead end project at best and will lead to lowering quality of life and service at worst.