skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah well I always do releases on friday and we have monitoring/canary. but sometimes a minor/major bug slips trough, but our customers only work from monday-friday and so it's not that big of a deal. and it barly happens and after that we add a regression test so that at least the same error won't happen again.
funnily most errors on our codebase happened in client side or sanitazion problems.
and the client side errors go away once we added all the types to typescript (we converted js to typescript and added any, so we still need to "correct" like 40% of our code base)
> see life on earth

Notice how life on earth is plateauing...
I can either drive a car and commute to work for 30-40 minutes each way or I can take public transportation and commute for 1.5-2 hours each way. Additionally, in places without robust transportation, you literally cannot work without a car.

You are correct that I do not need a car, but you are wrong to assume it is trivial to lose 2+ hours of free time each day as just another luxury.

Frankly, your position on needs vs wants seems like a convenient excuse to look down on other people who have different concepts of value.

There is very little, in the western world, that we NEED to survive. You do not need electricity, for example, but no reasonable person would call it a luxury -- point being it is more subjective than you imply. Would also help your argument if you realize your perspective is extremely privileged.

Some people have kids who did not want them, and yes it was a mistake but not as much a decision as something that happened -- they may not have the monetary, intellectual or moral foundation to handle an unwanted pregnancy. So this woman, maybe a single mother, now has a child and is struggling to pay her bills, a paycheck (or car repair, or medical expense) from being evicted.

Your speech would not be relevant to a person in such a situation and there are many many many such people.

People who eat out 5-10 times a week don't get to complain about being broke, but how is that a new insight? To me it trivializes the real struggles of the working poor.
Why pick up gold on the ground when you have bronze in your hand?
> Verify major party candidates for all statewide and federal elective offices, and major national party accounts, as a hedge against impersonation

It would be helpful if Twitter provided a definition of "Major Party". Does that just mean Republican and Democrat?

What about Libertarian and Green Party candidates?

3rd party runs like Ross Perot?

If I don't have a political party until election time like Emmanuel Macron, does that qualify me?

What about fringe extremist candidates do they get the same treatment as their more traditional less hateful counterparts?

> the 3,814 identified IRA-linked accounts posted 175,993 Tweets, approximately 8.4% of which were election-related.

I wonder what the other 91.6% of tweets were about
You think the laws of physics don't apply to software engineering?
> Residents of California may have trouble finding this; the obstetricians got their competition mostly outlawed.

I live in Berkeley. In our recent birthing class, of 9 couples, 3 had home births. YMMV in more far flung places of California but I've not heard of any problems here having talked in detail about birth stories with these families.

(We were not one of them, we opted for Hospital birth and it cost around $12k)
Can confirm, wife had an emergency c section in the UK, cost $0
> a seller's market

Is it as much as we think? It seems that big companies in Silicon Valley had no qualms about talking among one another about not "poaching" developers (what a lame term poaching is).

I'm not terribly keen on the idea of unions either (or immigration restrictions for that matter), but we should damn well be sure that companies are not colluding.
Interestingly, the list lower on the page that has companies from 1300 to 1399 is twice as long. Does anyone know if something significant happened in the world that leaves so many more companies from that century around?
I had something similar with FedEx packages out of Terre Haute.
I've been offered free access to the 'Global Entry' program as part of my job, but I've been wary because don't want the side-effects of the "rigorous background check".

As a green-card holder I'm already pretty wary of them being able to search my devices or deny me entry, and I'd rather that the CBP hadn't enriched all my identifiers and got a fat-little-file on me beforehand.

Given an interest in debating politics online, I wouldn't be surprised if GE membership would increase the chances that I get stopped regularly.

Does anyone on HN have any knowledge or experiences about what kind of thing goes into the GE "rigorous background check"?
I used to think that as well. The problem is that if you don't have an arbitrary employment security clause (seniority, aka LIFO), employers can find ways to fire you/lay you off arbitrarily for union activity under the cover of other reasons (e.g. unrealistic performance goals). I don't know how to resolve this problem. But without LIFO, you can be guaranteed that most people who use the union for its intended purpose doesn't have much of a future at the company.
Gnumeric also requires very little RAM or CPU so it's very light-weight compared to LibreOffice Calc. I don't use spreadsheets that often but when I do, it serves my needs adequately and it works with most of the keyboard short-cuts that I'm used to from Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
In what way could they stop the company from doing this? Besides making firing (even bad) employees difficult?

Any future growth that may have previously resulted in hiring full time workers could easily now be redirected to freelance, temp work, and p/t workers regardless of the union.

I remember watching a Tronc video when it was trendy to make fun of them and they were already talking heavily about digitizing much of the work that was done manually. It's a much more dynamic industry than an old-school factory that needed a set of bodies with predictable roles to show up.
I guess I need to add this to the long list of companies I should start, then? It doesn't seem very hard; I explained how to do it downthread. The cost to the client should be reasonable.
Here in Australia if a supermarket was regularly out of things that they normally stock I would shop elsewhere. Are people in the US more accustomed to going to multiple shops to get groceries?
I’ll jump in here. I believe the constitution does provide a right to travel both domestically and internationally.

When I choose flight as my mode of transport, and I choose to do business with a private company, (entering into a private contract with that company to convey my body from one location to another), I believe the government demanding that I be searched and inspected and scanned in order to allow the private company and I to conduct our private business of providing me with transportation is unconstitutional. The federal government does not have an affirmative grant of power over my right to travel, and two because I have the right to travel. All powers not granted to the federal government are reserved for the states or the people.

I feel like this fallacy that travel is a privilege comes from the whole “driving is a privilege” concept. But keep in mind, while driving is a privilege (under STATE law), riding isn’t a privilege, it’s a right. I may need the blessing of a STATE government to drive a car across state lines, but I don’t need the blessing of state or federal government to ride as a passenger in a vehicle across state lines. In the case of the flight, I’m not engaged in a regulated activity of flying a plane, I’m merely a citizen exercising their right to travel.
So shelves are stocked as they were, say last year, and the media in trying to give the company a bad name?

>>Maybe she should have reached out to Whole Foods corporate and asked for comments?

When ever you want the truth, just call their PR department.
> > I will quit from any employer that forces all programmers to negotiate as a unit

> You realise that unions are something imposed on employers, right? They don't like them.

and a common first thing for the union to do is to force the employer to only hire union workers.
>> It's much more analogous to requirements for auto safety and licensing.

There are clear constitutional Bounders here, a Police Officer can not simply pull you over, search you, question you, and detain you with out a clear articuable reason to believe you have or are about to violate the law in some way.

We have no destroyed the 4th amendment to that point yet, but I know people like you continue to try.

>> But air travel isn't a private act,

People like me believe it should be, No Public Airports, not Public anything. It should be a private transaction where me a Private citizen contract with a Private company to transport me from A to B,
> Doing things by yourself is of course free. I did that with twins and with a 10-pound (4.5 kg) kid.

Do not attempt this at home...

Sure, 95% of the time you'll be fine and have no complications (for mom or baby), but do you really want to risk it for that 5%?

I suspect this will be one of those trends that seems very appealing until we get a few headlines of home births gone wrong. Especially dangerous if it is your first baby, or if you have other risk factors.
I think the tech group that ought to unionize is sysadmins. We run the world yet get shit on by management left and right, and it's high time to take some of that power back.

LOPSA is innefective and does nothing and doesn't count in my book.

Of course unions in general have become what they were formed to prevent in many ways, and need massive amounts of reform internally themselves.
I've heard that AWS is implementing a Captcha service soon, so keep on the lookout for that. But I suggest this one because it looks easy to setup and is decent enough since it supports math captchas. https://www.phpcaptcha.org/
Because I wanted to avoid a naked asterisk. Index for references, something else for lesser footnotes. And no possibility to collide with emphasis parsing.
I'm not arguing it's cheaper to give birth in America, but it doesn't seem like this article makes fair comparisons. What an insurance company or hospital charges includes some amount of mark-up, so is more than just the "cost." Likewise, in countries with socialized medicine, the hospital might charge the patient nothing, but it _cost_ someone something (people's time, depreciation on equipment, electricity, and lots of other things). Adjusting for these probably doesn't make everything come out the same, but it would make the claims less sensational.
> there is no amount of innate ability or training that can balance out a 25-pound difference in weight

What? Of course there is. Just at that level, the competitors are all training at their absolute maximums. There is no additional training on top of the world-class training they do that will balance out a 25-pound difference in weight.

I guarantee you a 120 pound (I'm ~145) MMA fighter can kill me with a well placed punch faster than I could even tickle them.
It doesn't. We paid <$4K when my daughter was born for a midwife.

The hospital wanted $5K before even seeing my wife just to schedule an appointment. All because she is "advanced maternal age" (whatever that means).
How tiny of a charge is so small as to be unnoticable?

Certainly, if an object millimeters across has a charge of 1 electron that isn't noticeable.
Screenshots: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/scr
Indeed, "mostly". There are ways to make it work, most obviously by the "midwife" actually being an obstetrician. There are a large number of midwifes practicing illegally in California, and I would bet that Berkeley is a hotbed of this. There are a few other ways too, but generally is it sort of banned.
> $100 to commute a week isn't to high?

That's what you get when you want to live that far out. I pay $50/week to go from Essex County, NJ. That was about what my commute cost me (driving) in Dallas.

> When the train cost $27 round trip (off peak) or $38.50 (peak) it is a pain. Also if you have business in NYC you are stuck with either losing the whole day or half a day just to get there.

What train costs this much? The closest I can find is the Port Jervis Metro-North line, coming all the way from Port Jervis (which is way the fuck out there). I wouldn't do that commute for any price unless I had to. If I did, I sure as hell wouldn't buy per-day tickets; I'd get the monthly pass for $488.
I am a bit skeptical that any such effects have not already been mined out in the relentless search for competitive advantage.
Personally, I was drooling over the Atari ATW, it was more or less a Atari Mega ST with a transputer daughter board and the (at the time) awesome graphic chip "Blossom".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation
Not sure why you believe that distinction matters, the fact that is not harmful is irrelevant to my statement. I am more concerned about the Privacy implications, and the precedent it sets than I am health effects

The Government going through my underwear drawer does not physically harm me that does not mean I want to consent or be forced to allow them to search it.
I disabled the firewall and alerts in the control panel.

This might be outdated but it's in the Control Panel or Action Center somewhere (Security and Maintenance area?). https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2010/12/16/di...

I'm also using this simplewall option:

> Enable boot-time filters – Prevent data leak during system startup, even before "Base Filtering Engine" (BFE) service starts.
Um what? I'm already in a union.
It is not capitalism. In all the countries mentioned above where child birth is less costly there is significant projected population drop, and governments are under pressure to subsidize families with children.
You have to live in a dysfunctional city for that to be a reality. In cities that are functional, you only have to deal with occasional crowding.
If you don't have costs, do you really have anything resembling an accurate picture of the financial side of the game industry? Cost is pretty much second only to revenue in terms of its necessity to discuss the health of a business.

> bytes are a very rough proxy, and far from an ideal one

I'd go so far as to say it's a useless proxy, frankly. Games in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's were externally limited in the number of bytes that could even be shipped to the customer, so of course it's going to go up with time, even if the effort that goes into producing those bytes were to trend to 0.

> The point of it is the trendlines

So, perhaps we should instead be focusing on how to keep the cost trend-line in line with the available funds trendline, without sacrificing a whole categories of games or finding ways to artificially (and IMO temporarily) increasing the available funds trendline?

After all, to borrow some examples from another thread between us, there are only two successful soccer games at this point in time. Three-ish competitive first person shooters. Two Battle Royale shooters. No real successful chess games (except for Battle Chess. Battle chess rocks). Trying to break into those kinds of long-term entrenched markets is going to be a nightmare, even when you have a good game.

In comparison, how many major contenders for a player's wallet exist for a new choose-your-own-adventure style game? For a open world game with an engaging characters and re-imagined open world tropes? For a new hybrid real time strategy slash turn based strategy game with a kick-ass soundtrack? None. Even the turn-based fantasy RPG market has started to show a vacuum a mere 4 months after the release of "Divinity 2".
Maybe you feel confident about your ability to get a job in a week, but there is a cost to your resume, cost to your work relationships, a risk of not being as successful in your search as you expect, and a limited number of buyers in your location. There are a lot of barriers that prevent the seller's market from working efficiently.
No, worse is worse.
Pattern matching is much, much cleaner than a switch with the branches extracted in separate functions.
I don’t think that anyone using languages that support proper pattern matching can disagree.

If someone is writing the same lambda n times instead of extracting it in a common method the problem is not the lambda function, but the developer.
Closures are probably the best feature in Java and they have been delayed enough.
They're not the fundamental constraint in work output differences. IQ/ability gaps matter way more than they do in programming than they do in construction work.
Thanks. I will review the link you provided. I have tried searching a lot but my results haven't been positive.
I hope Peterson can actually wake up some of his red-pill followers, and do more harm than good in the long run.

Freudian slip? As George Orwell noted in Road to Wiggan Pier, leftists often don't so much as love the poor, but hate the rich.

But for now, he really needs to apply that intellect to dealing with something he wasn't ever prepared to deal with - being a symbol of intellectual authority to a movement that stands for things he no doubt despises.

For one thing, I can imagine him basically paraphrasing that sentence. How come I don't often hear anything like that kind of introspection coming from the left about the depredations of unbalanced followers? When it does come, why is it that others on the Far Left then try to kick them out of the Left? Then too, I hear and read things like, "It's okay to hate your oppressors." I think I know what it means when people start to say it's okay to hate on a group of people based on outward and inherent characteristics. I grew up being on the receiving end of that.
Unions do other things like maybe even require certain working conditions; standing desk or that they provide computers to you of sufficient power, licenses they'd have to buy etc, maybe they absolutely will not implement certain complex things like a new type of orbital interceptor idk.

Unions create a legal framework around repetitive work.
I don't believe so. But why not just search Google?
Unions are romanticized a lot in the current culture, but we shouldn't just pretend that they're purely positive. The union is a middle man between the employee and the employer. Unions can and do extract dues, impose their own rules and stipulations, and add friction and bloat to employment. If you don't like the restrictions or the rates that have been negotiated, you have a lot less freedom to move around and do something about it. If you cross the union, well, good luck.

I'm not trying to argue that unions are wholly bad either, but there's a trade-off to be had here. It's not as simple as "people dislike unions because they're too dumb to realize that they want one".
You're being downvoted, but I don't know why. The employer's ability to subcontract/outsource bargaining unit work is negotiable in a collective bargaining agreement.
It really was. It was two people on entirely different planes of conversation talking right past each other.

One thing I think Peterson could do better (though I imagine he wouldn't do this purely on principle, if he was even capable) is adapting his speech and rhetoric to meet his target audience. He was answering her questions in a calm and well-meaning manner, but just the tone and vocabulary of his explanations was going completely over her head, making her draw the wrong conclusions from what he was saying. That is, assuming that she wasn't trying to be combative on purpose.
> as if you can make an informed market-based decision about which provider to use while in the back of a damn ambulance.

That's a pretty bad straw man argument. Of course you have to pick an insurer before the accident happens otherwise it's not insurance.
Economics behind it mean throwing them out is the most cost effective thing they can do. It would probably require something like a government penalty or incentive around food waste to change.
On the upside, paperclip inventory is really great now!

[Everybody in the article agrees, though, that Amazon is NOT behind this].
This was my thoughts exactly. More often than not, these systems are still implemented but a manual "exception" process is later tacked onto it.

It sounds like they haven't hit the normal Stage 2 phase: Implement a manual override process with the goal of allowing employees to temporarily bump levels for holidays and special sales and the like. The key here is temporary. The computer resets the levels to whatever it thinks they should be after a normally (short) period of time.

Stage 3 is to act surprised (as a corporate culture) when it is discovered that salaried managers are spending a 10 hour day every week/month adjusting all the levels. Effectively, store-level employees have returned to the original process but in a very inefficient and undesirable way.

Stage 4 varies. Sometimes you loop back to Stage 1: Zealous enforcement and the removal of any way for store-level employees to provide input into the ordering system.

Sometimes, you scrap the whole thing and go back to manual ordering. This usually keeps the algorithmic system but instead as a sort of assistant/recommendation engine. Usually it picks the top X overstocked/spoiled items in the store and gently nudges management to reduce inventory levels. This usually turns into a consistent win because management feels empowered and eventually comes to trust the recommendations, often rubber stamping most things and only correcting egregious errors: "I.E. Christmas in 2 weeks, only order 10 hams."

Unfortunately, the source of this info is directly working with a retailer trying to integrate one of these systems. After we hit Stage 3, I really did try to build a consensus around repurposing it into a weekly recommendation engine of 10-20 items to adjust in the store.

Instead we just removed the override capabilities and went right back into trouble. Apparently, there was a view I had overstepped my boundaries trying to tell the business how to treat the stores. So I left before I could get placed at the bottom of the Annual Stack and Rack. :-/
https://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/09/22/21-free-captcha-sour...
Which browser are you using that this site breaks its back button? Works for me on chrome/android.
>doesn't have a market

doesnt have supply and demand? scarcity of skill and resources isn't real?

>shouldn't have a market

So it does have a market, but shouldn't?

>participants are unable to properly participate in it in any way that resembles a market

Really? So I am not competing with others for a better doctor's limited time? I'm not working harder to attain more money to buy better insurance or afford better care?

What are you talking about?

Talk about bureaucratic bloat, regulatory overhead, regulatory capture/cronyism, the need for tort reform, or the fact that the insurance co ponzi business model dominates price negotiation and destroys any semblance of an efficient free market and you make start making sense.
Many public corporations want to (indirectly) maximize taxes. That's because taxes are levied on profits, and maximizing profits to increase share value is often a good thing.
> could easily now be redirected to freelance, temp work, and p/t workers regardless of the union

Not if the union is willing to go on strike. This is one of the main things a union can achieve.
Aka the other Canadian provinces.
This seems not to be the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185557
We are going to build a beautiful wall.

More seriously. I am hopeful that a single payer system or similar starts in California, or may be Massachusetts.