skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If person A drives a truck, and person B writes code at their desk, it doesn't make sense to say we have to equalize their carbon usage, whether per person or per $ of income or output. Some activities inherently use more fossil fuels than others. Making them all use equal amounts is not a reasonable goal, just because we are trying to reduce them all.
Nice strawman. You're the only one I see conflating net worth & liquidity.
OTOH, the fact that dhouston was able to convince a current MIT student and otherwise total stranger to drop out and follow him on this journey in just a few hours' conversation is telling of both his and the product's prowess.
Every trick helps, but when you actually get to work and into the flow, the room might be noisy or you might be hungry and you don't even notice. So I try to achieve that state more frequently. Its hard..
I share your opposition to quantification for things that are so deeply human, but without a number scale or strict ranking, I suspect that if we asked ourselves whom among our group of friends we seek out for support and uplift there would some that immediately come to mind.

The goal is to know who those people are and spend more time around them. In a way I think this is the opposite of quantification.
Can attest to musicforprogramming's effectivity, I literally only remember the first 5 minutes of every mix before I totally zone in.
+1
Mostly 1996-2002 stuff.
Cheers for that; I'll stick with what I've got for a while longer then :) (but I'll admit the battery life is killing me currently).
Amazon workers go on strike in Europe during Prime Day
> The judgement that I personally make when I hear a non-standard accent is not that they are lower in status; it's simply that it will take more work on my end to understand them, and thus I'm less inclined to deal with them in particular because of the language barrier and my being lazy.

Not everybody understands this. There are plenty of people in the US who think Southerners are stupid just because of their accent, or who look poorly upon speakers of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) simply because of the perceived difference in class, regardless of actual education or intellectual capability. It's terribly unfortunate, but pop culture often leans into the stereotypes, reinforcing the perception of a class distinction.

Additionally, I think your decision to still avoid non-native speakers is somewhat disappointing. How are they (non-native speakers) supposed to get better if nobody will interact with them? A native accent comes from a combination of things (fluency, confidence, and exposure to the accent itself). Choosing not to interact with them prevents them from being exposed, and it also lessens their confidence. It's super obvious when a native speaker is just trying to get away from a situation like that, and I can only imagine how disheartening it would be to be the non-native speaker in such a situation.
Dear Moxie, I thought help was needed?
Traces of Lost Society Found in 'Pristine' Cloud Forest
When AT&T was forced by law to allow MCI switching equipment in their facilities, they tended to leave that room's window open, so pigeons could nest in the equipment.

(I might have a detail wrong, this and a hundred other great telecom anecdotes are in The Master Switch.)

Always nice to make sure no parties you depend on have conflicting interests.
I wonder how much of the privately owned land area of the US is owned by Americans who own guns?
My guess is that they will extend prime day. But they fixed it quickly.
For me currently on amazon.de there is no problem and amazon.com shows a captcha form, so it looks like they were DoSed.
I mean maybe, but it's just as the person you replied to said:

Lot of us grew up playing videogames with all of our free time. We are adults now. People in our age bracket who watch Twitch video game streams often probably do so to replace some of that time we wish we could be gaming.

I can't speak on younger generation's consumption of Twitch and Youtube but I imagine for them it's just as normal as watching TV, playing video games, watching videos on the internet (in the early days), or to liken it to something people my generation and older did: going outside and playing.
Considering they cleared $2.6 billion on last year's Prime Day, and membership is up YOY, I'd say this comment is 100% knee-jerk/over analysing. Stuff breaks, things go wrong, planning for the worst sometimes isn't enough.
Walmart was news last year. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/walmart-forces-tech-par...
Putin proposes joint cybersecurity group with the US
Doesn't it leave you shaky? I had similar results but the comedown and the tolerance were deal-breakers. I am completely absent minded but when I take those stimulants it allows me to focus which, I feel, finally puts me on a level playing field with everyone else. It sucks that the drugs have side-effects.
> are hard to get ahold of

I have a friend that is like this, he's very difficult to get a hold of through messaging/e-mail or text. When we're hanging out together, we have a great time (at least it seems like it from my point of view) but he rarely makes the effort to seek out things we could do together.

Is that an unhealthy relationship in the sense that I crave his attention/time more than he does mine? Are some people just more introverted and don't socialize as much?
That narrative doesn't quite align with the article stating that "for various reasons none of his friends were able to join the business." In retrospect all of Houston's friends made a huge mistake! Maybe Ferdowsi was tired of MIT and joined him on a lark? I am curious to hear the story from his perspective.
I gravitate toward people who like gallows humor: make fun of the organization and management. It's "positive" to us, we have a good 'ol time. Human nature is really F'd up in a Dilbert-esque way in the work world in such a way it begs to be lampooned. "Positive" is relative.
Yep, -o will have your work flow top to bottom, -O will have it flow left to right. I prefer the former because it gives me more horizontal space on each line.
Today, when a house in SFBA is $2 million and a comparable house in Arizona is $400k, yes. But if prices continue to diverge, then the math could change. What happens if trends continue and SFBA is $4 million and Arizona is $600k? The foregone return on "dead" home equity (once prices do hit a ceiling and appreciation slows) can rapidly outpace any differential in property taxes.

IIRC there's also some portability of proposition 13 tax basis within California, which would allow retirees to relocate intrastate, which would presumably create inflationary pressure in those secondary housing markets.
Unless you get fired and you can’t afford your mortgage.
This is in fact directly stated and addressed in the article:

>It’s certainly true that a marked accent can get in the way of making yourself understood. E.S.L. learners and others are well advised to work on their pronunciation. As a teacher, I do try to lead my students toward some version of that flawed ideal, the native accent. ... My point is not that we need to forget the aim of easily comprehensible communication — obviously, that remains the goal. But we do need to set aside the illusion that there is a single true and authentic way to speak.
You are very mistaken regarding

"In most cases Trump's style is very different from that of Obama, but the meat of the policy decisions is very much the same."

" Congress could easily undo this permission and make it harder for Trump to strike out at immigrants, but since both parties largely support the general policy, this won't happen"

This is wrong - only one party is in power in congress
Not to nitpick, but I thought there was a choice, in the sense that, if a citizen can't (or won't) find what they need on .gov.uk, they'll ring a government office or go in person, getting their question answered much more expensively.

It all comes down to the same thing, though, which is the importance of making the site useful.
You're wrong because "drones" of general utility are mostly a marketing meme.

Any 5th generation Western fighter is probably going to be an improvement over the F35, so there is a market gap to be filled.
IIRC I wanted to download a copy around 2007, but there was no way to do that unless you were already a licensee. I may not recall correctly, though.
I think it depends on what you mean by average US citizen, America is divided to the point of no return, there's angry mobs on both sides of the field.

There's so many problems, can't really pin point a few without opening bag of cats.

Personally, I feel fundamental problem lies with the media, fake or biased news are out of control, it's gotten to a point where I don't trust the media anymore. It sickens me to read exaggerated headlines designed to catch my attention.
What are you talking about? A share represents a literal 1/485320000 ownership stake in Amazon and the market price of a share is definitely not speculative as I can go out and easily purchase shares at a given price.

If Walmart or Alibaba or some other sufficiently large enough company wanted to buy Amazon, they absolutely could. And they'd probably pay a premium over Amazon's current market cap!
Sounds like he has some sort of social anxiety to be honest. You’ve basically just described me.
2 things:

1) www.fastbmk.com doesn't work

2) redirect http to https
i have a folder of plain text files that i use as my notes (my understanding is that vimwiki stores them the same way); i store them in a folder in my dropbox and use 1Writer as the iOS interface to them; it works very well!
Isn't the worst case 4% of global turnover? Shouldn't Instapaper's EU revenue be far above that?
Meta: Curious how a dup of this comment is downvoted into oblivion under a different account and this is at the top.
Who Is America? (2018) – First Look – Sacha Baron Cohen
- Disabled notifications.
- I take long walks, frequently.
- Cancel noising headphones
"blank" and "empty" are not the same thing in PHP. If you expect them to be, then you read the manual wrong. I generally include a set of common utilities where I define my own "isBlank()" function, which trims before comparing. There are different definitions of "blank" such that one size may not fit all. (Consider tabs and line-feed characters, for example.)
I was with you up until this:

> I've also come to realize that this may partially explain why conservatives I know have been reluctant to engage in political discussion in these times. They're being backed into having to defend fundamentally indefensible positions.

Maybe conservatives aren't getting into political discussions with you because you consider their positions indefensible. Have you ever considered that maybe conservatives are right about some things or do you monolithically support everything labeled 'liberal'?
After watching the popular opionion about Dropbox for most of its early years, that it was a product (or worse just a feature) and not a sustainable independent company/business, I'm always glad to see them continuing to grow and thrive. Hats off to Drew and the Dropbox team.
Some of the people who have contributed the most to making my life better have been the most frustrating people to be around or communicate with. I have an amazingly brilliant friend who is incredibly miserly and has a really harsh world view. He makes my life better because I am challenged by him and he won't let me comfortably stick to the beliefs I already have. If he thinks they are dumb, he'll tell me just that (usually in a pretty crabby way), and quite often he is right. He has been right and insightful enough that when he clashes with my point of view, that is solid evidence to me that I ought to re-think why I have the viewpoint that I have and perhaps update it.

I just think some people are surly, miserly, cheerless, grouches and that is just their way in life. If you respond by shutting them out because it's inconvenient for your short-term feelings, you might miss out on an amazing person who just happens to live life differently.

Once I started to see miserly behavior as "just another way of life" that some people like and some people don't, it really opened my eyes to many more people around me.

In this sense, I think it's very shallow to ask "do they make my life better" (which will almost surely be biased by whatever short term comforts or simple, manageable friendship you want) or "do they make me happy" (sometimes the best thing for us is something that shocks our system, upsets our worldview, challenges us in a non-trivial way, and we might have to endure receiving that in thorny, grumpy packaging).

Obviously there is a limit. With my friend, I know that grumpiness is his way of life. He doesn't mean gruff or callous things to be taken as insults, even though most shallow social interaction he has with people, especially if they don't know him, might come off that way. If I thought he sincerely was putting me down or insulting me purely for the sake of inflicting pain or something, then yeah, I would not want that in my life.

Overall I guess I am just saying I think it's much more complicated than the heuristic you describe. If I followed that heuristic, it would be a lot like indulging confirmation bias and surrounding myself only with people who reinforce the stuff I already think or do. I might miss out on great relationship where a healthy antagonism is a first-order component of the interaction, and it stretches my boundaries.
The best foods are fermented. :9
The internet was young then.

Most people didn't know about certain enclaves in the Bay Area that just won't/can't build more.

We didn't have foreigners buying up realestate with a wire transfer.

I think it's rediculious, but if I had the money; I would buy in Marin County, or northern San Francisco in a heart beat.

We are really experiencing what happens when a small percentage of the population can afford to buy any home.

I guarantee wealthy moguls are buying up realestate as I type, and renting it back to their employees.

I'm getting sick just thinking about it.

(A guy I knew died while being homeless. He was one of the Programmers of the original Word Star. I saw him go from good job, kinda Republican; to someone begging for money. Our last conversation, "I just don't want to die of pneumonia. And Bob's wife told me I couldn't sleep in the barn anymore. Bob couldn't even look at me? And no, I'm not angry, just suprised. I was so quiet, and did my chores.")
I have traveled with a nuclear soil density gauge a few times and was always told to keep it in the truck at night so as to minimize my exposure. That said the case was locked and the case was then locked by two independent locks to the truck. The gauge I was using used small cesium and americium sources.
Aristoi is my favorite of Walter Jon Williams's work. I reread it every few years, just like Diamond Age, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Fire Upon the Deep.
I would be interested to read more about what'll happen in the case of the next large quake. Since we're overdue a big one[1]. I recently had a friend big on a duplex in the Marina. I'm not sure if I would take a 20 - 30 yr real estate bet in a liquefaction zone.

1. http://theconversation.com/californias-other-drought-a-major...
I don't see how "they sold a lot a year ago" and "membership is up YOY" is meant to dispute the idea that engineering talent is leaving. I agree we don't have enough evidence to say for sure, but those figures don't seem relevant.
I could list a bunch of policies where Trump is continuing in the sprit of Obama and Bush, but I won't do that unless you really want me to.

With respect to one party being in control, my point is that if it is indeed Trump who is the one advocating abhorrent policies, then why would it come down to a few votes in congress?

If in fact it is a broadly GOP-supported policy change, then it's hard to argue it is being driven by Trump and is not something that supposedly more reasonable candidates like Jeb, McCain, or Romney would have also done.
Do you seriously believe reading something like HN is work for its viewers??
I wish to make it clear I am NOT defending goto's as an actual practice. I'm only saying that objective proof that they are "bad" is lacking. Goto's served as a test case of objective evidence of code design.

Do note that some actual coders have claimed that if you establish goto conventions within a shop, people handle them just fine.
Only if we're talking about gun ownership, which you did not do. You brought up the gun lobby. It's relevant because you equate gun owners only to the gun lobby.

There are many non-gun owners that are without a doubt for owning guns.
Like anything in life you either got lucky or didn't with Bay Area housing. It's a contentious subject and people who are new are paying a premium to "get in".
This goes much further than just jokes. It's better to never to say someone is an asshole. As if it's an immutable part of their character. It's almost always better to say someone is acting like an asshole. Or in more extreme cases someone often acts like an asshole.

This leaves room for improvement/reevaluation and it's actually far more accurate in almost all cases.
Oh wow, I remember that!

http://www.slackware.com/install/softwaresets.php
Pomodoro timer.

I work for 25 minutes at a time then take 5 minute breaks. This is more to help me start getting into flow. I know I don't do it right, but I'll start the pomodoro and that's my minimum. If I'm really into what I'm working on I'll see my time is up and commit to an additional work cycle or two.

It also helps me track what I'm working on and how long each task takes me. And gives me set breaks in which I get to write comments on HN, like this one :-)
I cannot comment either way on Animats' thoughts (because I do not have enough information to do any concrete analysis).

However, for what it is worth, Bloomberg's latest article on the trials and tribulations of Model 3 production (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-12/how-tesla...) indicates that "compared with Toyota...even with all the robots, Tesla spends more than three times that number of hours on each car".

Overall, I thought the Bloomberg article cited was pretty interesting/revealing and, crucially, it seemed pretty balanced.

Where I think that Tesla might have some issues is on Model 3 quality. The "burst periods" may be contributing negatively to that. But that remains an open question in terms of how it compares with competitors' first model year problems and industry standards overall (information that I do not have). There is some anecdotal evidence in the "Tesla forums" of strange quality issues. How representative that is, again, an open question in my view.
Active noise cancelling headphones. Monitors set up to block rest of the office including peripheral vision. Wall behind my back.

Slack notifications and all in browser notifications off.
A few things to keep in mind when looking at these stats:

- the turnover in bay area real estate is relatively low, I've seen 0.38% as the per year turnover rate (not sure how accurate)

- as such, prices get bid up really high with such low inventory

- real investment companies are driving a lot of this - it's an anecdote, but a house down the street in SF has been under construction for over 4 years; it's a completely redone duplex. You're either a multimillionaire who can float a 2nd mortgage for 4 years or you're a company with deep pockets who knows they can flip it for 200% of the purchase price when it's said and done.

- the same RE company that produced this report, also has a good article on bubbles - they are realistic about it[1]

It's not a normal market at all.

[1] https://www.paragon-re.com/trend/3-recessions-2-bubbles-and-...
Adderall works but I find Vyvanse to be less intrusive and allows for greater behavioral flexibility which is a must if youre doing any kind of teamwork

Its been around for a while but compared to dexmethylphenidate, or Adderall proper, it doesnt have as much of the euphoria that makes it difficult to objectively assess work output, what with the slower acting formulation (but this seems kind of a given, since its a prodrug after all), it doesnt completely change your personality and you can more effectively context switch

edit: i have a perscription, due to attention span of a drosophilia melanogaster
I'm thinking of all the people who did/will make that much or more with each large-scale exit. How many 3+ millionaires will the combined exits of Airbnb, Uber, and Pinterest create? (Any of which could be in the next few years.) Easily more than a thousand, I would guess.
>You could tolerate riding a wooden plank for 4Km

Im Canadian so in the winter my Pomeranian drags me to work.
I want the LEAF for the AC :)
Sure. YMMV, and I encourage everyone to find the system that works for them, but this is what I have settled on.

Every page has a number in the upper outside corner.

Every entry into the note book has a title + subject tag, date, and the initials of a list of people linked to that entry. For easy reading and scanning I put all of this on one line. The title and subject are dark lined (thick), followed by the date MM/DD/YY, and then the initials inside a ( ). Each piece of info is separated by a ";". All of the info listed is underlined.

under the intro line, I also break down actions, notes, calendar adds, etc with 3-4 different symbols. All I all this makes it clear and easy to scan quickly as you are looking for things.

Each month I have 4 or 5 pages devoted to organization.

I have a task list. Two bulleted columns. Old tasked are migrated over from the previous month. New tasks are added as soon as they are generated. Completed tasks get an X through the bullet. Migrated tasks get an >. Tasks that are linked to journal entries get a page number and a tag.

I have a calendar page. 1 column, all dates of the month listed . Meetings, important actions and events are are listed by day, or with arrows over multiple days. Linked by tag/page number if applicable.

I have a subject index. Major tags, reoccurring subjects, get a line or two. Page numbers with those subjects are added to the index.

I realize this sounds complicated, but it's not once you get into a routine. The biggest this is it's okay to make "mistakes", and to get used to not having a delete key. Change is part of the notebook. Think of it like a change log. It's also important to be able to see what you change. Since I work in pen, I just make a single line through things I want to change.

Note: when I finish or complete something on a task list or the calendar, I'll mark or change the symbol, I won't cross something out just because I'm done with it.

Finally, I have a bunch of multi color pens I use. They are all the same brand/model, but I tend to use a different color each day. That makes it obvious as you are scanning that you are on the next day. I don't use specific colors for anything in particular, too hard to keep track of.

Hope this helps.
My comment has nothing to do with Amazon's current financial success or growth. It's regarding their engineering team and their ability to recruit and retain top talent.

It is not a binary state of absolute destitute and top notch brilliance, it's a trend that can move one way or another and will show itself in more frequent outages, poorly rolled out products, lazy design and etc.

The plumping can keep on working for a few years even after it begins to erode. Historically there are many examples of this.
I mean, I see it fail from the fact that there aren't any deals I want. Maybe if their fire tablets ran full android, but there isn't really anything on sale.