skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First I want to apologize for only replying to a comment like this.

I've read all of them and I've decided to just be open with my employer about what I told you all. If they've decided to fire me I don't think it could make things worse, but if they're on the fence, currently I can barely even function. The additional stress of wondering is causing me to shut down in a way I haven't experienced before, and I figure handling that will be better than nothing.

But to your comment, I feel like I gave all the details there are. I don't gain anything by lying or hiding anything. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I felt paralyzed when I wrote this post and my goal really was to "dump" the situation and see what other people could pull from it. I could barely move my feet in front of each other leaving the office today let alone think straight about this situation.

And I don't think I implied I was happy with where my savings were, but they've pretty much held me up the best they could. I've only been working professionally for 2 years of my life and only really made enough to save "properly" for a little under 1 year.

Between the cost of moving (including rental trucks security deposits, etc) and those mishaps, someone whose career has only really paid a real salary for 2 years would be hit hard regardless of lifestyle.

And "few mishaps" is 2 not-at-fault car accidents, the second of which left me carless for 5 months (insurance only covers rentals for 30 days).

Add copays for 3 months of PT, a few trips to urgent care when I came down with a respiratory infection and really, "a few mishaps" wiped out what was left of my savings.

I only replied to this because reading the rest of these comments has given me some hope and at least a path forward until tomorrow morning, but I hate the idea of someone in a similar position to me reading a comment like yours. There's no need to get sanctimonious to someone who's already down.
> However, there are plenty of tools that are compatible with Docker but provide similar benefits.

And Guix is one of them, remember? From the article:

> Add -f docker [to your `guix pack` command] and, instead of a tarball, you get an image in the Docker format that you can pass to docker load on any machine where Docker is installed.

:-)

> The above is far and above much better than the current standard in the "official" world of Docker, but unfortunately because OBS has a UI from the early 2000s (which is when it was written) it doesn't get enough attention outside of the communities that use it (and enjoy using it a lot).

This is so true! I've mostly moved on from traditional, imperative package managers and associated distros in favor of the functional package management paradigm exemplified by Guix, but I still recommend openSUSE to my friends who prefer a more traditional/mainstream distro because of the love I have for the Open Build Service and Zypper.

The web interface for OBS does feel clunky these days, but it's a wonderful tool not just for improving the reliability and quality of software packages, but distributing them. Zypper is hands-down the most powerful and complete high-level package management tool I've ever used as part of a binary-based GNU+Linux distro. I love that openSUSE provides an instance of OBS that anyone can use for free to build packages for not just openSUSE but a TON of different distros.

I wish more people would explore, take advantage of, and celebrate OBS just like I wish they'd do the same with Nix and Guix!
“They” don’t own the buildings, but the landlord owns his. If no one wants to pay an additional 40%, he gets to pound sand.
My goal is not to create a Venezuela like housing crisis.

But housing investment is sucking in $ from everywhere, even non-American investors. Some at top are raking in money while everyone else is paying for it.

There is a reason more and more wealth is concentrated in less and less people at the top.
Maybe you should ask yourself "how much data is 1gb times the number of android users?" and "how big is Google's datacenter?" (hint: the first number is bigger by a factor of 5)
Last time I checked reddit you could open the dropdown menu from your account name, upper right corner, and OPT OUT of the new design.
We can use the term AGI for things involving general intelligence.
I agree, open data standards promised us to do stuff like this with our data. Except now our data is all in closed gardens with no incentive to share. Exports are usually in a cumbersome format with no standards between them (and what would the standard be?)
U.S. safety agency sends team to investigate Tesla crash
This wasn't that great; no ICO accepts credit card purchases because that would imply buyer protections
protip: https://i.reddit.com
Banqiao was suppressed by Chinese authorities. Though yess, it's the singgle wworst industrial or energy-related disaster ever.

It occurred in 1975, but information didn't start to emerge until the 1990s, and is still pretty spotty, though you'll see mention in compendia of power-related technologies and risk, such as the IPCC's assessment.

Wikipedia remains amongst the most accessible sources, though there are now published accounts. I only discovered the disaster myself a few years ago; it remains the single most fascinating disaster, with many lessons directly applicable to nuclear power risks from engineering, management, government, preparedness, risk forecasting, response, and lessons learnt (or not). All human factors, poorly amenable to technical solutions.
Thanks for your addition to my post. Khrushchev built a lot but it was not a fully solved problem, based on your post.

I am not Russian, have been to Russia, speak only a little bit of Russian.

I think an AMA thread would be a very good idea! I would be interested to hear more about DRAKON and any LISP and AI work that was done during those periods.
What is self hostable?
Unfortunately there are far too many women and people of color on that team for it to be believable.

(Stole this comment from a friend, but...worth it.)
Isn't that reductio ad absurdum, though, epecially considering the original comment is saying that the levels of abstraction eventually hurt more than helping?
Pelvic Exams on Anesthetized Women Without Consent: Troubling and Outdated
Why HATEOAS is a pipe dream
It shouldn't. There are several issues with the article and it should be deleted. None of the cited references actually support transpiler or source-to-source compiler as credible or noteworthy.
MX series routers do seem more reliable than their SRX counterparts. It's just frustrating to go into a major incident retrospective and hear that - yet again - we're not redundant in a data center because we rebooted a Juniper device and now it needs an RMA.

Juniper even instructed us to reboot the passive node before any failover, just to catch these issues.
If we weren't particularly interested in having net "neutrality" back, what can we do? Inverse the list on the axis of all senators and vote them out?

I just don't get why we don't see the government shoving itself more and more into things as a good thing.

Look at the bludgeon that the GDPR hands people to burden and litigate startups.

But, alas, net neutrality is the ~•`"right"°™~ thing to do - thanks for being the arbiter Gizmodo.
mine was 4.5 miles off
Not on Android ...
I can't speak for the developing world, but I wish they hadn't outlawed unpaid internships in the US. In a world where millennials are having a hard time breaking into the work force because they "lack experience" we should not have increased the barrier to getting experience.

One of my favorite Youtubers is Curtis Stone whose channel is about micro-farming, basically farming in your yard for income. He is a big proponent on education and used to allow people to come intern with him for a few weeks (unpaid) to learn how to start their own micro-farm and then they'd leave and start their own small businesses. Now he can no longer do that, he instead has to charge them tuition. The students basically have the same experience they would have had as unpaid interns, but now they have to pay for the privilege. This is the height of stupidity.

Even in other industries you will not remain unpaid very long if you are doing valuable work. If you get an unpaid grunt work job doing drywall, after a few weeks you can pretty much do drywall on your own. Quit and start your own drywall business if they won't hire you for decent pay. You'll likely make more as a small business owner anyways.
I'm on Cricket Wireless and I tried at your link, but I'm not getting the SMS message.
It is apparently not unusual for hospitals now to do pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without consent:

Pelvic Exams On Anesthetized Women Without Consent: A Troubling And Outdated Practice:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17088054
This is a dumb article. The fact they quote "Slate" should tip you off.

For starters many small business do the same, take years to profit, the owner works at a loss if you include their wages and most fail.

MoviePass is a brilliant idea. Get people to the movies again in bulk for a moderate increase in the money they pay per month.

Cinemas are mostly well below capacity and losing customers with pre owned assets so it's theoretically a brilliant idea.

The current implementation seems strange but why do we "WANT" it to fail! It can work for everyone.

The real baddies here are the cinemas who won't play ball with MoviePass and give any discounts.

This could be great, people go out more, theaters make more money and MoviePass doesn't fail.
Less on the drugs (minus, say, steroids for athletes and cocaine for business folks in the 80s), but there is a lot of social wisdom that says you have to be an asshole to be best at those things. Nice guys finish last. Backstabbing corporate politics. "Killer instinct" for athletes. Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Kobe...
power corrupts, or... powerlessness conceals?
That has no affect on this tracking.
Somewhat similar to what the YIMBY people in the US are proposing, the ones in Moscow are currently planned to be torn down to build higher-density housing and many of the people currently living in them are rather upset about it.
Yes, there is. You stop, cut your losses, do a heavy post mortem to get something out of it, and fire the responsibles.
> It is a sad fact of life that the best outcome for everybody is to let the economically productive take first pick of any available resources;

Which is to say that the people who create money (what's more economically productive than willing money into existence?) via issuing credit (banks) or borrowing on the US's account (the Fed) will have first pick of available resources.
But it's not unprofessional to walk into a meeting, where the combined pay of everyone present is being spent for the purpose of discussing whatever's on the agenda, and have your phone going off — let alone answering it — distracting the group from that stated purpose?

Really? Your call is important enough to waste the time of everyone else in the room?
> But to your comment, I feel like I gave all the details there are.

Obviously not, or I wouldn't have asked. And then you go on to mention the details that I asked about...

> There's no need to get sanctimonious to someone who's already down.

I was asking for real details, since with the level of issues you seem to have, it seems like you need to do more than just put bandaids on things. Asking for real details when you come here with a serious problem isn't 'being sanctimonious'.

> First I want to apologize for only replying to a comment like this.

If anyone's been sanctimonious, it's you.
Haha. That's a satirical article I created to poke fun at open source naming schemes. I buried the lede on that article (which is confusing in retrospect).
The argument is not right though, because the data reddit needs to display can be rendered much faster. Come on, browsers on Giga(!)-Hertz computers (I added the ! because I come from the single-digit MHz era). It requires a lot of attention to detail to make them so slow... /s
YouTube Red is being replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra
If you already have it, you can do that with e.g. uMatrix or uBlock Origin too; no need for an extra extension.
Would leaving be more, or less, professional than the phone to begin with?

If an employee "just left", then I wouldn't blame management or expect to see that coworker anymore.
I would bet that both directions were a minor consideration in their plans. A bigger concern is probably development time (much easier to find React developers than Pylons or whatever Reddit used to use now) and the ability to integrate new features like r/thebutton or r/place.
Amazon Prime members to get extra discount at Whole Foods
What is missing is how relatable the victim of the disaster is.

Self > Family > Neighbor > City > State > Country > Region

... also in a different direction, race, gender, economic status, shared culture, etc.

Something along the lines of "how much the victim reminds me of myself". In other words the trolley dilemma.

In some senses it might be morally objectionable to value some people more than other people, but in other senses it makes sense. Do you care exactly as much about your child as you do about the other 2 billion children in the world? Would you forgo feeding your child in order to feed someone else's? Of course not. It is a difficult subject.
I may not subscribe to everything, but I need to see the links to the content behind the paywalls to help me decide which to subscribe to.
The article doesn't link to the paper as far as I can tell. So here's a link:

https://glyphosatestudy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MICRO...
What was the basic gist of the response?
In one sense, this comment...

is holding Japan in a great light

but also looking down on it

as though Europe is in a position to confer honor

a Western point of view
Hey Stephen. I created twofactorauth.org but am no longer the maintainer but if you send me links to the pull requests, I'll take a look.
This is funny and effective to the point that it seems it should somehow be illegal
So this is veering off-topic: I remember but cannot for the life of me find a blog post from Google about either the number of bytes in their front page or the number of words on the front page. Apparently there was some guy who would email them just a number "23" or whatever it was that gave the number of bytes/words on google.com every time they updated it. After being puzzled by these emails for a while they figured out what he was hinting at when he sent one that was like "58, getting a bit heavy aren't we?". And that was a lesson about keeping front pages simple - something that was and largely still is unique about Google.

Ironic.

But why can't I find this blog post? I just spent much longer than I ought to have searching for it and can't find a trace of it. You have to wade through a lot of SEO stuff that comes up with the search results, but restricting to older content helps (I think this happened at latest 2010 probably several years before that). The old google blog I think was google.blogspot.com or googleblog.blogspot.com but you need to search it on the wayback machine and I can't see a way to do that except by hand.
Oh wonderful. Domain search. Missing. https://www.reddit.com/domain/news.ycombinator.com/
Should be ... "You were a god"
They started with invading German islands in the Pacific Ocean in WW1 - this got them into the League of Nations. This was just 20 years after they invaded Korea and the Liaodong peninsula, and just 50 years after the Meiji revolution ended Samurai culture. The turnabout in culture is very remarkable.
Genuine question: is there anything (technically effective) to prevent someone from registering as both a democrat and a republican? And if not, are there any existing how-to guides I could signal-boost?
One thing I found interesting is that MoviePass Ventures has started acquiring rights to movies. From an article on IndieWire:

Just five days after MoviePass declared that it would acquire films through a new subsidiary, MoviePass Ventures, the company has made good on the promise. Partnering with The Orchard, MPV will share the reported $3 million bill for North American rights to “American Animals,” the first narrative feature from BAFTA and Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentarian Bart Layton (“The Imposter”). A U.S. Dramatic Competition contender at Sundance, “American Animals” premiered there January 19, hours after the MoviePass announcement.

Full article: http://www.indiewire.com/2018/01/moviepass-the-orchard-acqui...

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKvPVvy2Kn8

I saw the trailer for that movie and had to pause it to make sure it said MoviePass. The movie looks like something I'd like and I'm looking forward to seeing it in the theater with MoviePass. I like to see MoviePass movies with MoviePass, dawg.

I think the $10/month thing is a marketing stunt. Don't forget they hired Mitch Lowe who was an executive at Netflix and Redbox as CEO in 2016. I would say there's some method to the madness here. They're gaining a lot of insights and a lot of users. I would still pay $10/month even if they limited it to 4-5 movies per month.

Also, don't forget about the tech. MoviePass has built out a system that I am still fascinated by where you can check in for a movie and your pre-paid debit card is instantly funded for enough to cover the price of a ticket. I know it's nothing earth shattering but as a nerd I get a little giddy thinking about it whenever I use it.

It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. I think they're playing a long game.
I don't understand why modern websites need to be these javascript heavy single page apps. New Youtube is super slow, and if you scroll down to the comments under a video and then go back to your subscriptions you end up scrolled down and see old videos.

New Reddit is awful, the only reason I can see for them to make it is busy work for all the new developers they hired after getting a large investment. Again, there's absolutely no need for a single page app, the whole point of browsing Reddit is to load seperate documents, something the web has been able to do since its inception. And that's not even mentioning the actual design, which is like every new design with less contrast and more wasted space on my desktop monitor.

Unfortunately there's no going back, the sunk cost is to high and they think they really are making things better the new way. The linked post make some errors in the calculations, but I would be surprised if the overall point is wrong.
Sounds like someone's procrastinating :)
Tokyo/Japenese housing regulation is often cited as evidence for this hypothesis.

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-...
This will be the day I delete my reddit account. Most of my redditing is done on my phone and the API is the only thing making that usable at all.
It's related to conformity. If you automatically, naturally and agreeably fit in with what everybody else does, you won't tend to think outside the orthodoxy.

But if you question everything, try to work things out from first principles, and wonder what happens if things are done differently... well, you're "eccentric", at best.

It seems logically possible for a person to be a perfect conformist socially, and a wild free-thinker intellectually, but it wouldn't usually happen that way.

https://xkcd.com/242/
Not GP, and this comment is copied from earlier in my history, but...

One example: the US central bank's (Fed) Quantitative Easing (QE). In my view, QE's inflation happened before QE started. A significant purpose of QE was to prop up the loans made before the financial crisis. The inflation happened with the creation of trillions of dollars of securitized sub-prime housing loans. Rather than allowing those loans to default, the Fed is acting as a buyer of last resort through QE MBS purchases [0]. Without the Fed, much less money would be available for housing loans, and their prices would return to historical ratios to income [1, 2].
[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MBST

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/....

[2] Blue line in http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data/Fig3-1.xls
How the California Gold Rush Echoes in Silicon Valley
Once the downvotes start coming in, people read comments uncharitably, and the thread gets lost, but to be clear, I'm not advocating for anything that is beyond the cognitive capacity of typical software developers.

One and two-man startups provide ample evidence that working knowledge of the whole platform is not beyond human cognitive scope, even if getting this to be accepted at large requires some extra cultural encouragement and support, and some professional management of individual "skewing".

Once more, it's not that everyone has to be a hardcore expert in everything all at once. You don't want them to be.

You just want your main people to know each platform component well enough to be able to make a reasoned decision about the trade-offs involved in using one or the other for a specific task, and then to be able to own that decision as a group.

If they can't or won't do that, the platform decisions become political instead of technical. I've seen this over and over again, where massive technical problems are routed around because the Java developers have been told they can't touch Ruby, or the C# developers have been told they can't touch SQL, and the real problem never gets fixed, because we only recognize naive, scared "specialists" who insist that they can't learn Python because they're just a PHP developer, so they can't look at that piece of Python that's holding up the thing, instead of rounded, capable "generalists" who can be trusted to call in help when they're getting in over their heads, and may take an occasional "inspection" or two to make sure they're aligned with best practices.

General contractors are not electricians, but they can do a lot of routine work that involves electrical fixtures, sockets, and outlets. You call the electrician for the face-melting stuff.

General practitioner MDs are not dermatologists, but they can do a lot of work that involves routine skin disorders. They'll prescribe creams for fungal infections, rashes, acne, etc. They'll let you know you need to call in a dermatologist for the "skin-melting" stuff.

In software, we don't say "call the DBA for the database-melting stuff." We say "the DBA will write all of the SQL for you." It just doesn't seem to comport to me.
Now it's possible to travel for free through friends' friends with Friend Theory
That's absolutely a chilling effect. Just thinking about this I'm thinking back on events I've been to what what the government can infer from that. And they can probably nail us for anything now whenever they want to and it will be hard to trace it back to this kind of monitoring and analysis. The only way to avoid that would be to leave your phone at home and hope nobody records you or takes photos.
That's not true at all. In the websites I and many others build, that loading spinner is linked directly to network code.

The spinner appears when a request is made. It disappears when the request is resolved.
Heuristics for Deciding a Book's Reading-Worthiness