skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on your comparison point.

A good value bottle of Whiskey sits around $30-$50, and you can easily spread that single bottle over at minimum 20 servings. For a few dollars, if you enjoy it, that's a pretty good value.

As you get more expensive, you tend to get more distinct and nuanced. Smoother hard liquors, more interesting flavors, etc. We once did a tasting flight and one tasted literally like camping outdoors with the smoke and wood. Another tasted almost like honey. So, to me, it's not that expensive and opens you up to an interesting and exciting landscape of flavors.

If you're comparing to prices on a menu at a restaurant, then it's completely outrageous that a single glass would cost as much as your entire dinner. And there I agree, it's completely skewed.

Granted, after a certain point (about $200 for me since I'm still a relative newbie. $1k is getting outrageous imo.) you're just chasing popularity, hoarding as a collection, or showing off your wealth. There's some amazing stuff, and for those trained and really knowledgeable and deep into the hobby it's worth it as they tease out all the little nuances. But just like buying a >$1k bike, for the average person you can't take advantage of the extra value and care that went into the product.
Unlike alcohol, food is generally perishable. Plus a (responsible) alcohol connoisseur's consumption is more strictly throttled by his body.
For anyone reading this: Matterhorn is really good. It's a novel that takes place during the Vietnam war written by a former vet. I feel like it was good insight into what war is like. Also some good lessons to take away on nature of centralized command structures and their drawbacks.
Just dropping a useless comment to say thanks! Between Tom's work on Github, Jekyll, and TOML, I think he has influenced a vast amount of developers!

For the projects I've used TOML on, it was a nice breath of fresh air and a terrific improvement over JSON (still mad about JSON's lack of comments). Simplicity wins!
12 Russian Intelligence Officers Indicted for Hacking the Clinton Campaign
The recordings stopped being random a long time ago. I work for a major insurance company and literally every second I am logged in, they record what I say and do. This company has had an issue with fraud being committed by employees so I understand their scrutiny but it still is unnerving to think about.
<Looks at the current state of social media.>

Come again?
Where I used to work, the garbage guy put it all in the same truck, going to the dump. I asked why. "They didn't raise my pay to go to the recycling center. They want me to do it 'after work' on my own time. Fuck that."
"This study was a preregistered replication, meaning the authors stated at the outset what their hypothesis and methods would be. This process is meant to prevent p-hacking, a shady data practice that has cast a shadow over many psychology studies in recent years."

This is a very promising development.
The user experience is very simple and that's a good thing, too. I much prefer HN's UX over Reddit's, which is painfully slow on mobile and noticeably slower on desktop browsers.
I'm not sure I understand the issue. The same way you quantify 'shorter' on a height scale. Sooner isn't a quantity, it's just a direction.
Consider BAC. Technically, you're just not allowed to drive impaired. And different people function better or worse at the same BAC. But we have adopted a de-facto standard of 0.08%. The police don't prove in fact you were too impaired to drive, and posed a hazard to someone else. They just lock you up.
It appears that the dropping ball does something to advance it.
In what way? Plenty of designers & photographers I know frequently refer to themselves and peers as "creatives." Creative is being used as a noun in the phrase.
Well, you can't be satisfied all the time. That's not how brain chemistry works in healthy individuals.

You can enjoy what you do most of the time though. Thanks to your brain also. I find it harder when working for somebody because money is not necessarily a good enough motivator. But when working on my own project and faced with a tedious task (writing tests, fighting dependencies or whatever it is that you despise), I think why do I want to do it (e.g. I want my project to succeed it and it needs it). You can try to achieve your goal without the thing that you don't like. If you think that this is not possible, then wanting your project to succeed and wanting to do this task are the same thing. They are connected.

Once you realize this it makes things much more simple. Most of suffering seems to come from some semi-conscious story in your brain: I want A but without doing B. Either it's possible to do that or it's not. If it's not then it's just wishful thinking that is only bringing you misery.

The way you think and wire your brain really matters. Instead of "I must do X even though I don't want it". Think "If I want A then X comes with it - do I still want A?". Or find a way to A without X.

For me at least, having that stated explicitly in my mind alters my perception of X. Because it really is hard to hold two logically inconsistent beliefs in your mind when you bring them both into focus. Your brain quick fix is usually some "but..". That's where you need to eliminate wishful thinking. Wishful thinking is imagining reality in some other way than it really is and only leads to frustration.

Accepting things that already are should come pretty naturally though. You may want to change something. But you can't change the past.
So you're agreeing with the criticism then? Property owners get stacks of cash, rich people move in and "take over" the neighbourhood, and the "commoners" get zilch.
Hello Troy,

Thank you for the heads up, that is kind of you! I will make sure to do that next time.
> But too often I find "progressives" see themselves a moral high ground. Often dismissing nuanced conversation for a "winner" due to morals.

This isn't a trait specific to progressives alone, given how often conservatives insist their views are morally superior because they represent the will of God or the founding fathers.

See: every argument about abortion or gun control ever.
I doubt it, in France liberal is used only regarding economics and in that case it refers to neo liberalism. In Sweden nobody agrees on the term and for some it seems to be a synonym of libertarian.
Hmm I agree with OP though, and this cheatsheet still isn’t it for me. I need to see a real world example to be able to fully grok its practical use.

Do you happen to know of any?
> But common carriers choose not to transport them even though it’s safe and legal.

No, common carriers choose not to ship them precisely because it isn't legal (unless the sender and recipients are FFLs). Common carriers are usually fine with shipping muzzleloaders and pre '98 guns (all of which can be shipped and received by non FFLs).
> I can’t imagine the logic behind that

Lazy tech companies want to automate everything.
Summary: Nice houses in nice neighborhoods cost more than crappy houses in crappy neighborhoods.

This seems... reasonable.
I'd KILL for this. (Also, I live in SF).
It's not really subjective, unless you're going to go down the rabbit hole of "everything" being subjective making any discussion around this matter pointless.

>when they don't agree with your groups solutions on most important issues.

No, it's typically done when there are well-understood motivations behind people's opinions and the negative effects such opinions have when they make the status quo.
I see your point, although I sense they are quite closely integrated? Additional info..
https://www.datanami.com/2016/08/17/sql-service-heart-amazon...
Isn't this app reading the trending repos feed? I don't see where it pulls specific repo details. Anyway, I'll explore the default scope again.
There are plenty of parks in Japan where people hang out, lay in the grass, play instruments, practice their lines, drink socially, enjoy their lunch, walk their dogs, go for runs, etc.

I suspect what is a park and what isn't might not be easy to tell as a tourist. If you are trying to lounge in something that isn't technically a park, there's a good chance it won't be received well.

That being said, in Tokyo, most of the central public parks are packed during the weekends. Tokyo could definitely use a lot more, imho.
> you may for example go from Postgres to a KV store.

If its easy to do this then you are using a tiny fraction of Postgres.

If you want it to be easy to switch your database then you need to code to the lowest common denominator. I would rather use my databases to their fullest potential, rather than purposefully handicap myself because I might have to change it in the future.
To see how quickly HN changed in the old days, skim the feature requests thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

Some feature requests were a matter of days, like user profiles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481

A brief essay on some HN design decisions: https://pastebin.com/bSW5dfRQ (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8424502)

I think the arc codebase is worth studying and understanding, primarily so that you can extend its simplicity into your own projects. The reason HN was such a success is because it handles so many cases in the same way: Stories, comments, and polls are all the same thing: items. If you want to add a new thing, you just create a new item and add whatever fields you want.

These rapid prototyping techniques have downsides, but the cure is to keep in mind what you can't do. (For example, you can't rename item keys without breaking existing items, so be sure to choose good names.)

Like emacs, HN's design is borne out of simplicity and generality. It's what you get when you write the next most important feature as quickly as possible, then cut as much code as possible, every day. Both halves are equally important.

It's fine to say that our modern applications are so much more complicated that the old lessons don't apply. And in extreme cases, that may be true. I don't think SpaceX has the luxury of rapid prototyping their software.

But the typical app is CRUD. For those, data processing flexibility is perhaps the most important factor in whether you can write new features quickly. And since code is data, a lisp master can write systems with a shocking number of features in shockingly few lines of code. (See Jak'n'dexter: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ba...)
Buying a device without "group policies, etc etc" doesn't mean you don't still need to implement them.

Damn I wish our company would stop buying Alexa/Home/Chromecast/Sonos/IoT-box-from-down-the-street.
You know how sometimes a corporation buys all of it’s competitors but keeps them in business? And it creates a false facade of competition? What if they bought the government and did the same thing? Well, consider it done. And the joke is on you for as long as you let it.

You, like most Americans tend to do, are failing to understand the democratic concept and the responsibilities it must entail.

A healthy democracy is very possible. It requires 2 basic things:

- An fair and flat electoral process with sufficient protections against financial and propagandistic inequalities.

- An engaged and educated populace, elections produce politicians who serve the electorate.

The second one is a catch-22. An educated populace requires quality education requires a healthy democracy. for that reason, when things go wrong, they are extremely hard to get right again. This is why public education and a focus on humanities has such a deep legacy in the history of building democracies. Without both, short-sighted and/or self-interested thinking like yours will doom the arrangement.
I'll just leave this here: https://www.airbnbhell.com

Coming from a guest perspective where I've had things go wrong during my stays, Airbnb has been absolutely horrible to deal with. It's literally gambling with your vacation, because if anything goes wrong you can count on Airbnb to take your money and run. Why do we give so much money to what is essentially a middleman that provides almost nothing of value?
Respectfully, the notion that the coasts, by virtue of their larger population, should set policy for smaller, more rural states is dumb bullshit.

The Electoral College isn't a perfect system, and I'm not opposed to defining a set of rules to take its place that explicitly codify its federalist intentions. It doesn't have to be the EC.

But the alternative is emphatically not a nationwide popular vote, which, again, would be an unmitigated disaster.
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/hosting-your-website-aft...

Seems to be a decent read on the subject, it even shows at least one service (I just scanned it) that promised to do this then went belly up.
I'm not surprised that went OK.

My concern is more the "I got a counterfeit, going through support didn't work" sort of scenario, where Amazon tells me they've investigated and don't agree I deserve a refund.
How about a cheaper (I'd settle for more available) Nikka Coffey Malt? I discovered this a couple years ago, and it's by far my favorite whiskey. It used to be priced around $55/bottle in Chicago, but recently I've seen it going for as much as $80.

I really was surprised how much I liked it compared to the bottle of Nikka Coffey Grain I tried for comparison. I see the grain bottles everywhere, but malt is a bit more hit or miss it seems.

I think what I like about it is the lack of cask effects, while not being quite as "harsh" as the grain.
You sound like a marketer trying to sell a fridge on a phone call.

> Why complicate your real program with that? Offload it to dhall and you get a consistent configuration for free!

Why complicate my projects pipeline and force my team to learn yet another tool that may just be abandonned in 3 months?

> Dhall could do much of the same work of producing a simple spec, but without the fear of infinite loops or nonsensical Bash parameters hitting a function.

Last time I wrote an infinite loop in Python was... I can't remember. Maybe 5 years ago?
Nonsensical is subjective. Maybe Dhall only makes sense to you.

> Dhall is such a simple language

There is no objective criteria to define a "simple" language. Perl was simple to some people.

> If what you really want is a declarative set of instructions to your real program, Dhall is probably one of the most awesome tools in the open source world for making it.

Or you could write a nice Python library, with clean API, and eventually a linter that makes sure the Python configuration file is a restricted subset of Python.
At issue today is that many who call themselves Liberals are in fact calling for a fascist, socialist new order. In age when words have no meaning (fake news, alt facts, unlimited, gender/sex, etc) how do we communicate?
McLuhan in the 70s is the most relevant today: specifically:

Take Today: the executive as drop out with Barry Nevitt

From Cliché to Archetype with Wilfred Watson

and finally,

Culture is Our Business, the last book he did solo [the one with WWIII being a 'guerrilla information war']

Also, if you're feeling philanthropic: I'm screening McLuhan's origin story at the Park in the place where he began University in Winnipeg.

At the very least watch the trailer and bask in the prescience of McLuhan yelling Fake News in 1969

http://gofundme.com/mcluhan-movie
Agreed. Built a PC almost 5 years ago and the only modifications I've made have been adding more disk drives. GPU's starting to drag but I hardly game anymore so still works like a charm.
The Egison Programming Language
Remind me again... what's wrong with common-lisp:read?
All I want is a way to end a sentence sarcastically. "/s" is fine but it would be neat if there were a character for it.
Side by side I didn't find a large amount of difference between the 12 and 18. The 25, on the other hand, was worlds away. Very smooth and dark. If you ever run by the yamazaki distillery I'd recommend doing a very reasonably priced tasting of the 12, 18 and 25.
I don't know anything about DaVinci Resolve but if you scroll through the horrible unlinkable site you'll get to a performance graph and that graph has a tab for the new 15" MBP - it claims the eGPU is about twice faster for various operations in Resolve.

If you look up the parts themselves, the Pro 580 (in the eGPU box) is roughly 2-3 times faster than the RX 560X that you can get in the new 15" MBP.
> I discussed this with my brother and he pointed out most of us are below that, because we get taken along for the ride by people who are at 1.0 or higher. They're the geniuses that truly drive innovation forward.

This is basically the theme of "Atlas Shrugged".
It certainly tastes like whiskey. I always assumed it was just low-shelf stuff. It's probably just as expensive to make bad shochu as bad whiskey, so I can't imagine that there's much of a cost advantage to faking it.

Also, those highballs can't be using that much booze -- they're incredibly weak.
1. Reading helps. I find that reading the "manual" of a tech stack helps even more. Reading it slowly brings the best results, and if all else fails, reading the source. Under time pressure, my previous tendencies were to "Stack Overflow" and keep pasting stuff until it works. For simpler problems that worked, but for complex problems it didn't. Reading has helped a lot.

2. You can solve lots of problems and it might help. Over the course of time, my problem-solving skills improved slightly by the amount of problems I was solving. My problem-solving skills improved a lot just by polishing my problem-solving method. At the start of anything I take 15-30 minutes to write down the tasks I need to do and coordinate with others to check if it's the right set of things. I write, down to the classes, that I think I need to work on. For debugging, it's polishing the red-green-refactor cycle, for harder bugs I write the actual layers I need to peel (os/db/language version? database layer all good? weird logs? check disk? check I/O? network? skim through mailing lists? iperf? database? etc.).
> California’s DMV requires all companies testing self-driving cars to report how many times safety operators were forced to take control of its vehicles.

You make what you measure. This encourages companies to have their safety operators take over less often: if you tell the operators to err on the side of safety and take over more often, your car will look less safe.

I don't have a solution here, just pointing out how this actually can benefit companies that care less about safety.
Microsoft calls on Congress to regulate face recognition
The Dictator's Handbook is also on my reading list and I really enjoyed the Kindle sample. In fact, I got to know about the book from a HN recommendation.

It's impressive how so much clearly one may see the world by relearning well-known concepts using one's intuition, which is how the authors happened upon the simple but powerful idea behind what really drives political behavior.
Yes. Genuinely, why is that hard to understand?
I've consumed my fair share and wish so desperately that those would come stateside. Based on taste I'd be pretty sure it's whiskey. Also, the english language suntory site states that they are whiskey.

https://www.suntory.com/brands/cannedkakuhighball/
It's not all that common for developers, but forced vacations are fairly normal in accounting and finance - or at least they were in another lifetime when I worked in accounting.

There have been cases where an employee has been committing fraud, but it wasn't discovered for years because the person never took a day off and so was able to continually cover up their wrongdoing.

There's a decent discussion of it here on Stack Exchange: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/107060/mandator...
A 'huge windfall' of sorts - they can sell their property for much more than they paid, but they may not be able to stay in the neighborhood, because their property taxes will have grown proportionately.
If you win the lawsuit you could force them to pay your legal fees. Even if you don’t make profit, you wound them financially.
Political pieces aren't appropriate for Hacker News.
I agree in general, but it seems like there might be a particularly constrained situation where it makes sense. I can usually look at a medium-sized block of code and suss out its intent in a short amount of time, even if I don't know all of the details about its behavior or how it works. A deck of flashcards curated from examples like that might be useful for recognizing the higher-level patterns that drive that intuition.

I wouldn't really know for sure; I took the long way 'round (time and experience) for gaining that skill. But it at least seems plausible. Of course, the linked article isn't this.
Depends. In my view you can be all for diversity but at the same time not deliberately attempt to achieve an underrepresentation of a particular group.
C'mooooon. Are plastic straws the biggest problem facing the planet? No. But they do account for ~3% of the plastic in our oceans. Doing something here is absolutely better than doing nothing. As Churchill said: "Perfection is the Enemy of Progress". This is definitely progress.
>. It just seemed odd to me, and whilst it's true that a lot of the US is less dense than the UK I find it fascinating that the zoning laws seem to massively encourage and protect single family homes.

You have to understand that in the US houses are not just houses. They are the primary vehicle by which the middle class is able to build wealth. There are scores of tax regulation and perks to home owning that don't exist for any other asset class.
I think they're interchangeable but to me "engineer" sounds too formal so I'd go with developer for myself (I actually studied electronic engineering and didn't enjoy the hardware side, so I'm happy to stay away from the engineer label!)
You might not say that if you’ve seen some of the amateur “proofs” of Fermat’s Last Theorem, the Riemann Hypothesis, or other famous statements. Really, in order to contribute to mathematics, one needs, at minimum, a serious mathematical education, intelligence, and lots of persistence. Nobody can provide anyone with intelligence or grit, but the easiest way to get the required education is graduate-level study in mathematics, which is most easily done within the system itself. Beyond that, knowledge of and ability to navigate the culture of mathematics is helpful. There is a reason that not using Tex/LaTeX, and presenting standard material as if it were new are among the 10 signs Scott Aaronson lists that a paper supposedly presenting some mathematical breakthrough is wrong[0].

[0]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304
Libertarians, too. I consider myself an extreme libertarian, for what it’s worth.

Why even make an argument if you don’t believe it is the “moral high ground”?
1. I take your point regarding the EC's pro-slavery origins, but it doesn't invalidate the larger purpose. People can wield good tools for bad causes.

2. I also take your point about proportionality, but, again, it doesn't invalidate the larger purpose (nor is it an argument for a nationwide popular vote). If the proportions are wrong, then the correction is to adjust the proportions.
> There is a lot of evidence showing that harsher punitive measures often have little to no impact on crime and wrongdoing.

Harsher punitive measures are often meted out to those with the weakest reason.
This seems very similar to the premise behind "So good they can't ignore you" by Cal Newport [0].

I haven't got around to reading it yet, but I'd be interested to know if anyone here found it useful.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/034941...
I’ve found that I’ve had an interest in everything, from mundane things to amazing things.

Where do you go from that?

I suspect it’s the same answer for people that have no interests in anything.