skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Brazil it's 3 months for everything produced/sold here, electronics and complex stuff usually have a 1 year
warranty provided by the manufacturer (but by no means they are legally required to do that AFAIK/IANAL). Decent cars often have a 5 year warranty. I can't imagine trying to bootstrap a small business selling something in Europe and having to be extra super sure it is indestructible for at least 3 years or else I can be seen as some sort of criminal entrepreneur, it sounds scary... do you have any link or source on that for me to read?
And there are very strict rules on the limited number of things you can use it for and one large UK company I worked at we got read the riot act that it was instant dismissal (gross misconduct) to break the rules.
An easy way for Twitter to improve its trustworthiness
I don't believe selective enforcement of the law is unethical, if enforcement of the law would be immoral. However, criminalization of acceptable behaviour with an aim to selectively enforce it for some other motive may be immoral. E.g. if you wanted to imprison a particular race, so criminalised something acceptable which everyone does, and more aggressively policed that race.
I believe Steve Wozniak was/is a $2 bill fan. As far as I can remember he just ordered them at the bank.
> think people out there making miniature train towns, very-high-setting-realism RPG campaigns, etc.

It'd be a poor fit for miniature train towns, the scale is too large for them. The largest is G which is 1:22.5 (approx 8 inches high) and the most popular is HO (1:87.1). HO runs on a 16.5mm track so the blocks are about as wide as a train track on their shortest dimensions.

Overall it's kind of an awkward scale for any hobby miniatures.
"Lost its use"? What kind of bizarro tech bubble is this where something solid which works and has stayed true to its essence is considered bad, and instead we demand an unrelenting churn that results in limply overcooked products inevitably jumping the shark (JIRA redesign I'm looking at you).
It really depends what you're using it for, and what you're comparing it to.

For example, when I'm writing Java, I use Intellij -- but sometimes copy an argument list into Emacs to do quicker macro-driven editing.

For basic text editing (emails with no formatting, simple config edits, etc), I think the difference between Emacs and vim is a matter of taste.

But once you want to do complex things, Emacs becomes possibly the only option. It can be made into the best Git tool I've seen (Magit), a great outlining/scheduling/TODO tool (Org mode), multiple great Lisp interfaces (CIDER for Clojure, SLIME for Common Lisp), and even just running a shell inside Emacs makes for really nice integration for writing shell scripts.

I certainly won't argue that it's the perfect tool for everything, but it's a great malleable general-purpose tool.
Well fortunately for you, companies don’t collect taxes.
I don't think it's fair to claim these people are all beginners. More likely it's a phenomenon where mature languages have been around long enough that you already know their strong and weak points, but when you look at a language in development you only see its potential.
Many US universities seem to be major offenders (or victims, I suppose). There are far too many buildings being renovated or entirely replaced that are already one of the newer buildings on campus, and they're of course named after some donor.
You will attract AML attention if this goes over the $10k threshold for any one transaction (or near it in some cases).
Respecting our users time and attention
Doctors and mechanics have professional societies and/or licenses. It's not as abstract for them. They go out of business for many unethical behaviors.
The text in the first example, "bolder not bigger," is quite obviously bigger.
Genuine, but also genuinely evil.
FYI Kanban isn't a process according to Kanban author David J. Anderson:
http://www.scrumcrazy.com/David+Andersen+-+There+is+no+kanba....
I've have helped lots of people and I am a firm believer of "If you can help, you must". Heck, my wife was also poor but she is the best person I've ever met. She is the only one who can set millions of dollars on fire for me.
But over the time, my inability to act indifferent to people's struggle has burned me over a countless number of times. Examples include places where I gave out few hundred thousands in help and got scammed out of millions. These days I am living under the rock so that I do not see others' struggle and jump there to help.
Seems a shame the article didn’t mention Anathem, the amazing novel that focuses on the clock itself and the Long Now concept in general.
You want your child to go to college because:

1) The average run of the mill degree results in twice the earnings and half the unemployment of those with just high school.

2) The average run of the mill degree results in a $900k lift in lifetime earnings (for men) over a high school diploma. The lift for women is not quite that much but that might have something to do with the types of degrees that each get.

These numbers are averages so if your child completes a stem degree from say MIT, the lift in lifetime earnings is likely quite a bit more than that.

Want more? Check out : https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
Overall I like this advice. However some of their examples do not really push the point. In the first example they make the text both bigger _and_ bolder and smaller _and lighter. This is good, however it is contrary to what they say.

In the shadows example, I prefer the bordered version. Shadows do not always look good and borders are "safer" to use.
Aren't all sticks made out of firmware?

But I, too, am very curious to hear the answer.
That's what I've always tried to do: make something I use. The most successful example of this is when I made an app that I use on a daily basis (https://github.com/sdegutis/AppGrid) and have for several years straight. But it's so niche and small that nobody was willing to spend money on it, so I open sourced it. But I still think of it as a success because of how dependent I've become on this tool whenever I use a computer.
Depends on the code, you can write ASM that's as fast on an old P4 as a modern i7. Just access random RAM locations and modern CPU's suck.
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> There's a real problem with legitimate studies being reported as something sensational, and then when the headline is proven to be false the public loses respect for the scientific process.

I'm the author of the root comment. This phenomenon is one of my greatest disappointments in the modern internet. More than drm, surveillance, and commercialization. The internet is the best avenue for public education we've seen, but instead it's used to sell high sodium processed food and $15/month entertainment subscriptions. The education (on the internet) has to be watered down to be entertainment, because the entire platform is becoming entertainment.
Why do you need to use someone else's social if you're using it for money laundering? Can't you just sell a book under your own social for that much? Or hell, sell a used copy of an actual book for $2,000 or something?

I don't understand how the received money is clean if it's attached to someone else's social. If the thief is audited they can't show legitimacy of that cash, can they?
Turns out that already happens without a degree. Welders and electricians are held in pretty high regard compared to someone who spent 4 years in classes that have no real world application.

The "college is inherently good" model is flawed.
Ask HN: Is the American health care system totally unreliable?
I had a friend who was complaining about chest pain and inability to breath well.

He went to hospital few times and the doctors said there is nothing and he is doing well.

He went the last time to hospital and still complained about the chest pain and almost freaked out to the doctor saying he is not at all able to breath well and is struggling. Seems like the doctors said they don’t see any issue and if there is any emergency he should call 911.

Not sure what to do he came home and next day got severe breathing difficulty and told his wife i don’t think i ll live longer and was struggling and his wife called 911. And when he reached hospital the doctors declared him dead.

They did not give the body for 1 week and did not give clear explanation of what went wrong, they said it may be asthma attack or may be flu.

I cannot believe people are living in a country with such a crappy and fraudulent medical system. I think we should all flee away from this country until some one get the courage to build a healthy atmosphere for people to live.

Have you come across such scenarios or what is your opinion about this?
Got my master's in it, before ending up in sensors then robotics instead. And a continued interest, I guess.

Here are some free relevant courses. You might have to go back and take the pre-reqs.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
SF Man Has Spent 4yr and $1M Trying to Turn His Laundromat into Apartment Building
per day. Every day.
I wonder if those molds are food safe. So many possibilities. Blocks and buildings made of frozen beer and low-proof liquor for construction conferences. :)
And there's a difference between making $17k/month and clearing $17k/month. mathofma (who makes a lot of cinderblocks) notes elsewhere in the discussion that there's not really that much margin to make it an attractive target.

It's a good small business that covers its manufacturing, labor, etc. costs with likely a bit of profit beyond that, and it could grow a bit (as it has with bricks and other materials), but it's still the kind of thing with a relatively small total world market. There may be additional markets he could spread into particularly by going international, but that's still a limited set of potential customers.
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The SUNY system offers free tuition to NY state residents with annual income under $125K. That may not be too relevant for the children of HNers, but it's a huge proportion of households in NY state.

https://www.ny.gov/programs/tuition-free-degree-program-exce...
google it and you will know
How this AirBnB developer discovered the optimal time for deep work
You picked a luxury shopping street as your example. I live in an apartment complex which also has trader joes and starbucks and a few other restaurants. I walk to those places every now and then. Now imagine scaling this up a bit more.
Also good for tipping.
I've always perceived the superiority of such journals to be: a) rigorous standards for whether the paper's methodology tests their hypothesis (valid science), b) high impact of the hypothesis on the field (utility).

I don't think the OP disputes this, but it does corroborate the old saw, "To make extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence is required".

Thus perhaps the current standards for experimentation not only fail to be extraordinary, but fundamentally are inadequate.
> I think that parent talked about the latter, when you are annoying and mean without talking about why, but expect other people to be nice to you because you feel bad.

Correct. My dad is not angry with my mom or any particular person. He just gets cranky and grumpy if my mom doesn't socialize him.
Maybe infinite aging is not the solution here. The probability that you die from an accident or cancer when your age is infinite is 100%. Brain backup, and brain uploading into a new body is a perfect solution.

It might be harder but it cuts through the issues of aging and accidents.
I have a high school diploma. I dropped out of University after a year to get a startup job in '97. As a self-taught IT worker my lifetime earning have far exceeded all of my University-degreed peers (some Ivy!), even with two market crashes and job losses under my belt. They are earning less or equal to me, and still have staggering 5 and 6 figure debt loads.
It depends as Seward said "There is a higher law than the Constitution"

And Soldiers are legally obliged to not obey illegal orders
It at least gives you an opportunity to get your foot in the door so next time it's a genuine invitation.
I certainly agree. However, if OP is simply referring to learning the typical algorithms presented in an undergraduate CS course, then linear algebra isn't a strict prerequisite.
Can the results of these studies be replicated by a completely different research team?

If yes, then good. It is believable.

Anything else, then it is to be taken with a generous helping of salt.

I consider it a clickbait headline playing on gender biases.
They are available.
Whether they should or not is a different discussion but I'll put it this way...

Employers (implicitly) use the ability to complete a college degree as a marker of basic competence and knowledge posession necessary to do entry level work. From their side it is simply a more efficient and easier way to assess candidates in bulk than any other approach.

a BS is also a strong social marker of the ability for a student to complete a body of work and manage themselves independent of their parents...basically its an 'adulting' check mark.
I would say it's the other way around: you sell some ill-gotten cash, which is then sitting on a legal account.
Why would they? Amazon still makes money. Unless the government takes them to task for money laundering, they'll continue to do what makes them money.
Drinking at work is one of the absolutely worst traits of tech. Not only is it totally unprofessional, but things like ‘Friday beers’ are actually presented by companies as a benefit, and you face major social and professional consequences for not participating. It’s obscene.
From my experience, finishing at 4pm in London is not common.
I'm talking about the shared computation resources (e.g. ALU), not about shared caches. Cache hits and cache misses affect how much and when one thread utilizes the ALU, which means the other thread sharing it won't be able to use the same resources for computation. Since speculative execution also uses these shared resources, it leaks information about its cache misses to the other thread, even if a rolled-back speculative execution doesn't modify any caches.
I’d reach for SQLite. It’s a great and fast way to do the joins. It also would make for a much better way to transport this data than a collection of interrelated text files. If the data will be transmitted and refreshed periodically this will make for a much more scalable, extensible, and smooth process.
What makes software so different from every other endeavor in that regard?
I can certainly understand the argument that anonymity restricts free exchange of ideas, but I hope its proponents can understand the reverse case. That is, anonymity creates the ability to express an idea without fearing consequences that reach beyond a pseudonym or single post, and so lets us explore ideas too risky to express in other contexts.

This doesn't require some edgy 'right to be bigoted' claim here, either. I'm thinking about people in Turkey (or Germany!) mocking Erdogan safely. Or doctors who advocate for legal euthanasia, and worry they'd lose their jobs doing it under their real name. Or cult escapees fearing harassment - internet anonymity has done more to combat Scientology than a dozen governments combined.

I believe anonymity has both effects, which leaves me frustrated by watching people toss out single examples of good and bad consequences as though they settle the argument. I'm not sure how you could possibly gather enough data to assess the net effect of anonymity; my general instinct is that we benefit most from having a mixed-rules system with anonymous, pseudonymous, and named spaces.

(The most troublesome spaces appear to be mixed spaces like Twitter where speakers are often named and harassers are anonymous. The asymmetry creates a problem worse than either norm on its own.)
If I had lego on my desk I'm fairly sure my daughter was assimilate it into her pile, which I'd have no problem with!

I really wanted this mini-quadro style kit[0] when I was a kid, more than the larger actual climbing frames they sold.

I'm now making a mental note to re-assess Knnex or whatever it's called. I have thought of getting a big lego kit for us to build together, like one of the Technics cranes.

[0] https://quadroplay.co.uk/product/duo-mobil-mini-quadro/
> No one talks to anyone from other companies, to the point of awkwardness.

Can you share what part of the US/world you are in? I'm curious if this is cultural.
Les mathématiciens sont comme les Français: quoiqu'on leur dise, ils le traduisent dans leur propre langue, et cela devient alors quelque chose de complètement différent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm way too straight-forward of a person in a sense that I rarely keep anything I'm thinking to myself, to a fault. But that also means I'm not afraid to be rejected and people can always expect honesty from me. Charisma goes along way with people like me, because without it, we're just assholes.
Wow, my mind is blown. It's roundabout inception.

Are these common?

This is so confusing I had to view it from top down perspective and I still have no clue how you would navigate through this.

It looks like a vehicle approaching the Magic Roundabout via A4312 can use the outer ring to exit via B4289 or Fleming Way but any other exit the vehicle must spin in circles to enter the inner ring. I give up.
Why is it ethical to ship a low quality product to generation one customers? I think you're breaching ethics anytime you aren't providing a decent quality of product.

Some products are a great fit for releasing something quick and fixing it later, like a free website. Other products, especially physical goods (car parts, medical equipment, etc) this is obviously a terrible strategy.
Whenever I hear people (and I hear it a lot) saying they use Waze to avoid police, I never really understand it. Waze is all user-reported, right? It's not a radar detector. So even if 100% of drivers are Wave users and they report 100% of police waiting at speed traps, there always has to be the first Waze user to encounter that cop without warning from their app. And that 100% number is a huge assumption.

I find the more fool-proof way to avoid being pulled over for speeding is to not speed in the first place, at which point both Google Maps and Apple Maps both report any other type of traffic slowdown just as good as Waze without the annoying advertisements.
This, in my opinion, would be even easier for Amazon to detect than gibberish sentences pieced together. There are plenty of companies that specialize in plagiarism detection (i.e. TurnItIn, VeriCite) that would be able to detect copied text quickly and efficiently. Amazon already has easy access to thousands of books that detecting copies of chapters would be a no-brainer for them.
That's a fair comment and hopefully that's the case.
> The kitchen area, despite being an office staffed with supposed professionals, is always a mess. How does this happen?

It's a common space, so it's nobody's. Especially in an environment like that, a collection of separated individuals
Thanks, we've added “disorder” in the title to clarify.
I always wonder what Apple Mac coffee shop workers are actually working on. The closest I got to seeing someone working, it looked like cutting some parts out of a photo using something like photoshop. (Not exactly rocket science.)
I wonder, however, whether that's a positive improvement or reflects a reluctance to marry in the first place.

If two people living together for years split up without being married in the first place, it improves the divorce statistics but doesn't really change the underlying reality.
Bavarians with their Weißbier (wheat beer) for breakfast were right all along.
> Yes, this would be an issue if overused, especially in paragraph lengths of text. However, inconsistent font sizes are worse.

I should have clarified this better. I dislike low contrast text because it makes it hard to read which is popular with the flat UI trends. Opacity isn't used so much from my experience, but light grey text on white is which has the same effect. I agree that inconsistent font sizes are bad too.

> Borders have their place, but white-space should be preferred as the most neutral and inobtrusive strategy.

In the example from the article I think the bordered version is much more concise and clearly delimits the search box and list. White-space seems to be used too carelessly in an attempt to avoid any clearly defined borders.

> The article says you don't need a background colour for every button, which is good advice.

You don't need to give every button a colorful background. But each button should have at least a border or background to distinguish it from standard text. The background can be just a boring grey like the classic Windows dialog buttons.
*with the use of JS
Keto is deliberately putting your metabolism into survival mode. It is putting a stress factor on the organism.

The study you link claims to study a "long term ketogenic diet", but only cover a 24-week period. That's less than 6 months.

That is absolutely not "long term". When talking about long term in diet and lifestyle terms, we are talking about several years, hopefully the entire remainder of a person's life.

Maybe the keto diet is making your tired and argumentative (a well-known side effect). There is no reason to be belligerent, just because I don't believe in your chosen fad diet.

https://asunow.asu.edu/content/low-carb-diets-may-stress-bod...
I can also relate to the awkwardness of asking someone to hang out one-on-one. It isn't necessarily borne out of sexual insecurity, but rather out of social awkwardness.
> So what happens is that all that risk, red-tape, etc gets consolidated in the form of an employment intermediary (for lack of a better term). So they consolidate, optimize and package all that risk and cost into a single figure which is both cheaper (due to economies of scale and concentrated knowledge) and easier to deal with and monetarily quantify. Companies then save money by rather hiring the employment intermediary instead of the actual employee.

Which is good for everyone. It's good for the first company, because they're saving money and can either deliver more profit to shareholders or they have more money to reinvest into the company. It's good for the janitorial company because that entire company wouldn't have existed before. Everyone there not scrubbing floors has a job because that company exists. It's good for the janitors because more janitors can be employed (again through economies of scale).
That's what the SSN was supposed to be. But then banks and other non-government institutions started using it for identity verfication. Tragedy of the commons, basically.
I have the same issue. Not being a designer I can spend hours tweaking CSS color values, only to come back the next day and think it looks awful again. Two things have helped me: 1) using https://coolors.co/app and just trusting it, 2) creating SASS functions that derive secondary colors from a primary one. I currently don't have it at hand, but it boils down to making a series of lighter and darker versions of a given color, where, very importantly, the lighter ones are also less saturated than the shadows.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the pick up community, AKA gaming (as in "The Game"). It's a good way for hetero guys to meet other hetero guys. A lot of people who stick with it are the type who want to better themselves in some way, which is quite inspiring. Plus, you'll learn skills to meet loads of girls as well, and it's up to you whether you choose to put in the time to have them as friends.

I know a lot of people who it's helped, and I've made some good friends through it as well. The social skills can also be translated to business/events so even if you're not interested in a stream of conquests, it can be valuable. It's the one thing I wish I'd found when I was at university.