jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One thing I try to do is to never say something is impossible or to refuse to do as instructed outright. Of course everything is possible, it's just a matter of how much effort is reasonable to put in.

If my boss comes up to me with "can we do unreasonable thing X" it's not my job to change his mind. It's my job to provide him all the relevant data and then let him decide on the course. If the request would take a large amount of effort I let him know. If the request would cause bugs or problems elsewhere I let him know. If the request would (in my opinion) upset users I let him know. What I don't do is tell him no.

If when given all the pertinent information my boss still decides it's a good idea to spend a month straight implementing a bug then I'm happy to oblige but only after all the information is on the table.

He's captain Picard and I'm chief engineer La Forge. The captain decides, and the crew executes.

Of course there's a couple catches to this approach where it doesn't work. If my boss would ask me to do something unethical I'd first try to tell him why it's a bad idea, before firmly refusing. I do this knowing full well that this might injure our working relationship.

The other assumption this method makes is that your boss is actually good at his job. A boss that makes unilateral decisions without consulting the experts that work under him is bad at his job. A boss that takes it personally when you tell him his ideas aren't good is bad at his job. A boss that isn't open to discussing approaches is bad at his job. A boss that tries to dictate how exactly you do your job is bad at his job.

Now of course all the above doesn't mean I'm acting weak-willed or indecisive. If I disagree with a course of action I let it be known. I'm not hiding my opinion. But I do respect that my job is to implement business demands and my boss' job is to gather, distill, and communicate business demands.

Anyways that's my approach and it has served me well so far.
> the probably false belief that Americans could continue to lead the same lifestyles they do now and still live about as long under a much smaller healthcare regime.

yes, leading the same lifestyles is the rub. Which is kind of annoying now that I think about it. The lifestyles of the masses essentially determines the kind of healthcare everybody else has to pay for. If my gaunt, ever-grumbling stomach is any kind of a sign, I'm going to spend my life resenting that our healthcare system doesn't fit me in the slightest.

I've always been a 'what you do on your own time is your own choice' sort of guy, but I learn more and more that other people make decisions that should be purely their own choice, but in reality impact me all the time, which is confusing my ethical system. You should be allowed to eat what and how you want, for example, but it's becoming clearer and clearer that can have a very real and measurable impact on everybody else.
As a Mac user I am happy that more and more games are coming to OS X. But, let's be honest, most of the games on that list have no chance of running faster than a slideshow.

RAGE? Civ 5? Remember id's last brand-new technology? It pushed SLI'ed PCs to the absolute limits and then some, and it took forever before everyone could comfortably run their tech. What chance does a Mac have, with its very limited selection of video cards (none of which can be considered top-end)? Similarly, Civilization IV, strategy game as it may be, taxed the hell out of the PCs of its era when it came out... Macs don't stand a chance.

I just installed Team Fortress 2 on my Mac and have been playing it, but I'm running screaming back to Windows. The same hardware yields very different performance between the two OSes, there's a lot of work to be done yet.

The only two games I'm positive about are Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 - Blizzard has long made sure that their games scale down gracefully. The SC2 beta runs fine on a Mac... if you tone down the graphics. I'm not sure how long we'd have to wait after release before we get a Mac that can play the thing at maximum settings.
In some fields the value should be better determined by one's previous work (the portfolio). That has traditionally been true for designers and artist for example, but today it should also be true for software developers.

There are so many open source projects that companies should be asked "what open source project have you contributed to?" and "show and explain that code to me".

Basically that is what got me my job. My GPA was high and I worked my butt off for 5 years to get it, but it was a small open source project that got noticed and used as the basis of selection.
"Mate" as in friend is an abbreviation of matelot, a French word for sailor. A lot British English slang originated in the Royal Navy.
You could do that, but would it really be much different from this?

data = config_file.read()

"insert into config (config) values ('%s')" % data
"construction, landscaping/yard maintenance, plumbing, automotive work, or a factory job"

Traditional jobs are the first to go in tough economic times.

Trade school is a short term play. The world is only going to get more complex. While trade school might make someone better off in their 20s relative to someone who went to college, in the long term it will severely limit their opportunities.
I did not read that article but I have read enough like it to know the general thrust of the argument. The ones I've read so far have hinged

- on life-expectancy data that is measured differently -- sometimes substantially differently -- from country to country and

- the probably false belief that Americans could continue to lead the same lifestyles they do now and still live about as long under a much smaller healthcare regime.
Glad to hear your logging issues didn't turn out to be Fatal for the rest of us.
Good read from last year about how trucks from the current LLV fleet (which at this point are very old) keep catching on fire: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ezx4/post-office-delivery-...
Now you know why so many dutch ride bikes!

:-)
Sure, but if, let’s say, 85% are in favor of lockdowns (or mandatory schooling, or seatbelts, or…), then letting the loud 15% dictate your policy by attrition is also mob rule.
> One overlooked detail in the Razzlekahn arrest. Almost all the money went through AlphaBay, using it as a mixer. The feds were able to see through this because they seized AlphaBay. Its amazing how, even years after, darknet market seizures pay dividends to the feds.

Another fascinating detail.

Source: https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/1491118233973571585
Did you make any guesses that couldn't possibly be correct given previous feedback? I made one by accident. facepalm

On https://jamesl.me/hexle/ I made a guess that couldn't possibly be correct on purpose so that I could guess more digits. I've done the same with wordle. It's probably the least useful w/ Nerdle because it's just 9 digits.
I was going to > inb4 rust!, but, isn't Gecko built in Rust?
I enjoy this page’s typography on a smaller mobile screen. Line lengths, line spacing, font size, everything seems great for a medium-length read.

HN is great too: an assortment of pieces of text, having varied lengths and organized into a tree-like hierarchy, warrants tighter typography.
I had seen comments on that effect being popular on HN in latest discussions. Always as side point, so I am grad someone finally did it fully so that we can verbalize disagreement.
Yes this would be a super useful feature especially for dormant accounts. One of my old aws account was recently hacked and racked up bills in thousands of dollars.

The AWS support was super nice and took care of it for me but it gave me some sleepless nights until it was resolved.

If this was a feature I would have most definitely capped my account at 1k (my max bill being $50). They can always send alerts to increase your cap based on projections like it shows in cost explorer. Also since it's an opt-in feature I'm kinda taking responsibility that I'm okay if services are suspended due to hitting the caps.
That's easy to say in principle, but when it collides with the financial reality of then having to pay for twice the infrastructure…
Sounds "real"(istic-ish?).
Watch as HN takes its signature air of superiority and says "I called it last year it was so obvious smh".

1. Basic safety principles mean that as long as we're not sure, keep doing it

2. You may have been enjoying a year surprisingly free of common colds, of flus, and many more other illnesses. These are absolutely transmitted through surfaces, and increasing hygiene standards is the best way to get rid of them.

Keep washing your hands you filthy animals.
> “Enterprise” software sounds too broad.

Yeah that's the point, its meant to somehow magically work for everyone. And thanks to that, it doesn't really work for anyone and feels awful for everyone.
Please, for the love of anything meaningful, read a book about negotiation before trying to sound this stuff out.

If you accept the term "location based pay," you have basically handed your wallet to the "wallet inspector," and you are being hustled. It's just like "policy," or "pay scale," they are utter bullshit if you have something of value. The media people who write articles about whether "location based pay, is it good?" are literally just 20-something bloggers with zero life experience trying to get published, and their editors and publishers have a stake in promoting the idea that your work should be cheaper.

If you want to pay me based on location, I'm going to charge you based on location, because I know what kind of prima donnas people from the bay area <or insert region> can be and I charge a risk premium for having to put up with their nonsense. If that sounds offensive, why should using their perception of my housing situation as leverage be legit?

If you are looking at a role, you need a clear idea of the total comp you are looking for as a part of your own plan for your life. Comp isn't a reward for good behaviour unless you are a prisoner begging guards for privileges or an animal doing tricks for treats - it's earned from value. When an HR person tells you what they want to pay you, say, "that's interesting, thank you, here is the data I have on what this role looks like from sources x, y, z, and these are the criteria I am using to evaluate the total package value." Those X, Y, and Z sources and references are things I've written about here before.

Please, please, please, if you write code, read a book on negotiation.
I've read the article. There's a difference in having your full name in the news vs. the name he writes his blog under. Even if it is easy to find out, that does make a difference. People can associate and recognise hime just by reading the article.

He's not a public figure, I don't see a reason to so strongly feature his name. The lack of discussion and empathy on the side of the NYT is really concerning, repeating my words before: This is not just an article, it's the life of an ordinary person we are dealing with. He may be unequipped to handle or very afraid of the spotlight he is now in. There's already an article in the New Yorker about the article in the NYT.

I was not defending the person, his actions may be flawed. But the NYT is a journalistic institution that should have high ethical and journalistic standards.
Yes - when I was visiting my friend in India I joked: in my country we have 4 lanes and 8 cars - in India, the roads “go up to eleven” [1]

[1] this is a Spinal Tab joke
Also, if you think this type of user is going extinct as the new generation who grew up with computers will intuitively understand how to use the basic features of common software.....wait until you see a 24 year old with a bachelors degree doing stuff like this. Turns out watching youtube on an ipad from 2 years old to adulthood does not confer magical computer skills!
The risk is low for the police department and virtually zero for a corrupt prosecutor or judge - in most cases they enjoy legal immunity because of the nature of their job. It's an imperfect system, but it's worth bearing in mind that taking away prosecutorial immunity would also lead to calls for defense attorneys to be punished if their clients were found guilty.

The principle that an attorney can and should pursue every possible legal option on behalf of a defendant, no matter how heinous the crime or how seemingly obvious their guilt, is more recent than many people realize. It was not really established before 1840. I was very surprised to find this, an only learned thanks to a book recommendation from HN member (and attorney) grellas.
the most attractive thing a woman can say to me is "i find you attractive." but hey, that's just me. a generic male
Do we have freewill? Has someone determined that (no pun intended)?
From the HN guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I had no idea that you could lawyer your own way out of prison like that, and upon reading the title I was most assuredly curious.
What subset are you talking?

The link you provided to fbi.gov doesn't indicate it.
How exactly? Because that would be the interesting part of the script. Is the forwarding host chrooted/jailed?
Somewhat tangential of a question, but does anyone have recommendations for buying cheap solar panels in the states? Like, suppose I wanted a solar panel to put in my apartment window so I could charge my phone. What would it take to get something like that?
A participant reportedly commented, "I don't know how much he likes me, but I know exactly where he is." A restraining order was obtained.
Aren't university research labs a type of a studio?

1) Generates and tests ideas but within the scope of the professor's expertise and vision (what the article calls the "focus"). An automatic moat if the idea is something the research lab has been working on for years and knows all the research on it.

2) Despite the challenges of grant funding, university research labs generally fail from lack of funding at a low rate over 20 years. Especially compared to the runway of a typical angel/VC funded startup.

3) Has the ability to commercialize at the right time and immediate access to an amazing employee pool (like Qualcomm, Google, Tableau, Duolingo, VMWare, Coursera), trading off some of the financial upside for reputation.

Of course, many research labs opt to run like paper publishing factories instead, but it's up to the professor.
Oh definitely. In terms of reference model what I'm looking at is how easy it is use that exposed taxonomy, how fast it is, etc. I can only make inferences about the taxonomies from that (though the quality of the search gives extremely strong indications as to how the data is structured).

The example you give is really good though. It is an indication how well structured/clean the metadata is, and it's something that should be dealt with, even if it's not at the metadata level -- ie some kind of sanitisation/formatting layer just behind the UI layer which parses sizes/weights/etc to a single common unit that can be switched at the customer's preference (even this breaks down though due to sizing subtlteies in groups of similar things). I've worked for a large electrical/electronic components wholesaler (CEF), and was always an issue -- every supplier has their own metadata conventions, and it didn't matter how careful we were, the sheer amount of products flooded our ability to ensure complete consistency.

A different market, but same issue: the ASOS storefronts I like very much, but as they've absorbed different brands and suppliers, the search filtering has visible suffered over the last few years. Sizing (common problem for all retailers) is the most obvious issue
Aha.. I didn't realize you aren't supposed to put <a> tags inside <button> tags! It works in a lot of browsers but doesn't in others! FIXED?!
There are network effects in both of those. It's not the same.
I personally would say I download a fair number of apps. Maybe less than average because I don't have many games on my Android, nor do I use Intagram/Snapchat/etc. ~120 apps, not counting uninstalled ones.

Thing is, the way I download stuff is I enter the play store and browse and download until I am done. This happens maybe twice a year. Maybe less frequently. The only other use case is when I feel the need for something (such as downloading a Flashlight app in the dark) or when I find out about the existence of a mobile version of something I already use.

If I were to download even 1 app per month, that would mean I'd be interested in casually browsing the Play store or that I am often trying new software such that some percent of it becomes important enough to me that I download the mobile app.

I'm not convinced that even 35% of people exhibit these behaviors.
I feel that the actual headline is very difficult to parse, hence my alternative.
I found the Airbnb scraping/pricing project put together by some Harvard CS109 students to be pretty interesting when they released it in December.

http://hamelsmu.github.io/AirbnbScrape/
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/hamelsmu/AirbnbScrape/blo...
Also, the implications of GP, if true, seem to be obvious to me: reduce the number of cars on the road to make cycling safer. Seems like a win-win to me.
Agree 100%

If they had selective sync with storage at that price, it would be a game changer.
Seems to me that there could be a big market for an AirHelp-like service that focused on telecoms. A private, for-profit consumer protection company.
It's unlikely, since this resulted from an abnormality in early development, before the specimen developed an endoctrinal system.

N.b. that bisexual chmærism happens all the time, but tends to go unnoticed so long as both gonads belong to the same sex, which is typically the case, as they are organs located close together.

What triggers this is that both gonads belong to different strata of the chimæra, and that thus one develops into male gonads, and the other into female gonads.

One's entire body can belong to a female stratum in the chimæra, but so long as only the tissue that forms the gonads belongs to a male stratum, they will develop into testes, and influence the entire female stratum to also develop masculine characteristics, as male and female cells are not differently receptive to sex hormones.
If you can predict company success, why would you be a developer?

Technical prowess, does not actually mean company success. Some really successful companies, have had some really bad software practices.

And companies with really good developers have failed.
bug the links is https://angel.co/Akido%20Labs but the correct one is https://angel.co/akido-labs
I'm surprised no one took you to task for ending the week on Saturday instead of Sunday.
Image boards aren't like newspapers or blogs. All content is user generated.
The Men Who Don't Fit In - Robert Service

http://alexmuir.com/the-men-who-dont-fit-in
I never found those quite as fun.

"Something is misbehaving, this is annoying!"

vs.

"This is literally impossible. How is this happening!?"
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"but I'm not sure it will be cheap enough to make sense taking a self-driving cab to work five days a week."

Take into account the economic bifurcation of the country, we have no shortage of (wasted) potential really cheap human drivers.

A world where a cab driver is a middle class job is probably too expensive to take a cab everywhere unless you're in the higher upper class. But if there's only 100M jobs for 300M+ hungry people, no problem creating a permanent underclass living in misery to drive the few remaining middle class to work, until their jobs go away too.
It shows up for me on GrapheneOS. I don't think the F-Droid search is OS-dependent anyways besides maybe the major Android version number. As the GP noted, for some reason the name is listed with the "3D Theme" addendum in the app which is a little bizarre. Does your browser support opening the link in an app, i.e. F-Droid?
This is false. No proposed ads in 1:1 or any size group chats, only large channels (which are like RSS feeds, you can join but not post).

In addition 100% of Telegram traffic is encrypted over the wire (like this website, your bank, etc). The only difference with secret chats is that they're end to end encrypted.

Signal is a very bad user experience if you use several devices (phone, tablet, home computer, work computer). Continuing a chat on a different device doesn't work nearly as well as on Telegram where it's flawless.
>Given what we've seen tonight, this could have easily turned into a putsch attempt

No, not really.

The US government isn't a dictatorship, and power is not held by a narrow few people. More importantly, the whole government is structured to prevent someone making themself king.

Let's say that the worst case scenario had happened, and the terrorists had taken members of congress hostage and used the situation to demand that Trump be retained in power indefinitely.

They wouldn't have any leverage beyond the ordinary because in the US, our political officials are easily replaced. In fact, the problem we usually have is that they aren't replaced often enough.

Holding the capital building and the entire congress hostage doesn't mean they have control of the US... it only means they control a building and some hostages.

That's the thing that so many anarchist/white supremacist/revolutionary plots in the US fail to consider... that you can't decapitate the US government and then just take the place of the people you killed, because the rest of the country will just refuse to follow you.

The only way a Germany-style takeover of the government is really possible is with years of slow changes... that has been happening, but hopefully now that it's out in the open we can do something about it.
Enron was also highly ranked. Apple is a bigger success story, profitable from day one.

Musk promises self driving year after year, and now even Waymo is moving away from that term in order to distinguish themselves from misnamed driver-assist technology like Tesla's [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22216848/waymo-change-self...
What we really need is working and user friendly bridges for all of these.

I think something similar could be achieved client side only by reverse engineering each app's api and maintaining compatibility at every update.

Matrix is close but it's not very user friendly (and I think it requires you to host your own server).
WhatsApp reigns supreme in India as well; we now have characters in TV shows and movies saying lines like, "I will WhatsApp you the details." WhatsApp might be Zuck's most significant purchase for global domination (at least for now).
What is your definition of trespassing?
As a non american i would think that trepassing is beeing on someone elses property without permission, not beeing with a violent mob storming a gouvernemnt building with the (at minimum) intent to destroy stuff and breaking the democratic process.

And Rittenhouse was clearly looking for trouble, i don't think a black perosn could Go fully armed to a KKK rally and claim self defense if started shooting people after beeing harassed there.
I'd love some articles that back this up - I've seen low Vitamin D be mentioned as a comorbidity, but I don't think generic advice on vitamins and taking aspirin is that useful without any sort of evidence.
Originally from: http://intraspirit.net/images/aws-explained.png - I put it on imgur to reduce server load.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes" - I see what you did there, you Sith Lord you!