skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guess the age of the author at the time of writing and then click [0]. If you're like me, you were pretty sure he was over 40, likely over 50. The reason why this is statistically likely is because cool died about 15 years ago and everyone under 35 knows it, but the article doesn't even mention it.

As the author says, cool started gaining popularity in the 30s, as mass broadcast media became dominant and service jobs made up over 50% of the US work force [1]. Almost all service jobs, to a greater degree than farm and manufacturing, require the participants to signal competence. The cool persona is Hollywood's and Madison Avenue's counter-signaling answer to this demand. Cool is on another plane from those other, gaudy service sector workers. Cool doesn't flaunt competence, but if you give cool a guitar, gun, motorcycle, or skateboard, flawless execution will ensue. Anyone can adopt the mannerisms of cool (to Madison Avenue's benefit [2]).

What replaced cool? Genuine enthusiasm. With the rise of the internet, social media, and Youtube, entertainers are no longer selected by service-economy executives. Now entertainers rise up through skill, passion, and endless hours of self-promotion. Now artists and athletes have access to their fans, and their fans see their dedication and associate it with status. To get a sense of this change, watch a few early 2000s Scarlett Johansson interviews, then watch a few current Jenifer Lawremce interviews. The new cool is engaged and open, a tightly-packaged version of the qualities of Youtube star or professional athlete.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Skinner_(journalist)

[1] https://www.minnpost.com/sites/default/files/images/articles...

[2] This chart https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professiona... from this 2018 study https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education/curriculum-tool...
From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are paywalls ok?

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

I tried a few of the common workaround, but they doesn't work. Do you know one? Also, the post doesn't show even a snippet of the article, so it's not possible to even have a minimal idea of the content.
The problem is the article has a misleading headline and the author/editor are playing the click bait game. I think this becomes obvious if the nuts and bolts of the claim in the headline are not in the stand first. This is why I tend to abandon reading and go to comments if I don't see the headline affirmed in the first couple of paragraphs.

It's not really about attention spans in my opinion, I simply don't have time to read all the hyperbole on the internet.
Doctors are credentialed professionals. As professionals, they get a legal barrier to entry protecting them from competition in exchange for maintaining professional standards, which include ethical standards and continuing education. This in turn enables them to charge huge fees.

A lawyer is not allowed to stop learning about new laws; he would eventually be disbarred. An architect is not allowed to construct buildings that would only have been up to code at the time she finished her degree. And doctors should likewise not ignore the state of the art in their field.
It’s not the same on the UX I’m missing. In the inbox app it’s a quick swipe to snooze. In Gmail it archives. :(
Do you know the meaning of the word "globally"? It seems like you don't. Globally means "the whole world". You take the countries of the whole world where the government provides "free education" (or more precisely - involuntary indoctrination), which is all of them. Count the countries where it's total shit, count the countries where it's "ok" and also count the countries where it's great. Then you'll see that 80-90% is shit and maybe 2-3 is great. My definition for great is to have obsoleted private schools. Yeah, that's probably Finland and maybe, just maybe Switzerland.

And yeah, you can still lay on your laurels of 5-10 European countries that actually do still provide "ok" education for free, but it's deteriorating so rapidly, that it'll be worse than what we had in Eastern Europe in the 80ies and 90ies in a few years.

Edit: And BTW, the same counts for the other pillars of "socialism" - healthcare, public transportation etc. Show me the countries where government services have obsoleted private healthcare, private cars etc. And no, don't show me countries where they have forbidden them (like Denmark basically forbids private cars) and you'll see that indeed, there is no place on Earth where socialism works.
Okay, but Bed Stuy, do or die.
Yeah- maybe using a nuclear version of this ("Rydberg nuclei?"). Thanks for the link!
I've got two "high street" bank accounts, and one with a fintech startup (starling). My starling bank account is app-only. My high street banks both (basically) require their mobile apps for login to their web portals.
Doctors have too much emotional power of patients. That's when it become very dangerous to get stuck into your own paradigm.
Yes. 3-month is a big period. Most employers wouldn’t want to wait that long in other countries.
Do Brain Scans of Comatose Patients Reveal a Conscious State? (2012)
Maybe be "opposing forces matched in equilibrium" is more accurate than harmonious.
And I don't agree with #8, because roles can always be abstracted into, for example, an isAdmin() and then none of the concerns apply.

But the article is a good approach to thinking about a multitude of issues. Even if we nitpick or disagree with specific points, the exercise of thinking through it all will certainly result in improved code.
I think he means that when you see a block of straight non nested code, you assume it can be yanked out or moved around without penalty. That is, the conditions and the actual code are not visibly connected and you have to trace the dots.
But when it's nested it's immediately more clear that the nested code depends upon some conditions.
Corporate health benefits in the US are a racket. They are not subject to tax, while personal private health insurance is taxed. So it's basically a huge corporate subsidy, while small companies and private individuals get shafted.

It's really weird. Here in the UK I'm distinctly right of centre, but in US terms I'm a proper leftie. I don't see it as socialism though, it's just pragmatism. Certain ways of doing things, like centralising and consolidating some service provision, just provably and demonstrably from considerable practical experience in many countries over a long period of time works better that way. For other things, most things actually, markets, capitalism and private enterprise work best.
I agree with you. There's nothing more dehumanizing than being insulted or discriminated against, because of the demographic group you belong to. I think we should all speak up against it when we see it happening.
Ask HN: Changing jobs as PM either gets fired or reassigned, what’s going wrong?
Two days I was told yet again the project I’m working on will be reassigned a different product manager (PM). After moving to a European country four years ago, that now makes four out of four positions I’ve held where the PM has been swapped out due to the project ‘not going to plan’. I started off working at startups but have since switched to freelancing and also to bigger clients, so it seems like this issue is prevalent in all sorts of companies.

I understand being a PM is an extremely difficult job, but why does it seem so hard to get a project running in the right direction? I’m usually in a team of highly skilled and capable people, but the same issues seem to pop up: misunderstanding requirements, unknown feature prioritisation, and timeline communication (the unrealistic deadline was inevitably missed). I often find myself under-utilised, not knowing what to build, or what the motive is.

Can anyone offer advice on how to improve or avoid this phenomenon? I’m starting to think the only solution is to work with smaller clients (virtually no management), or join the ranks of the big tech companies (Google, Amazon, …), where they at least seem to be doing something right.
why not a network of pressurized liquefied nuclear material similar to gas heat? distribute the steam turbine system such that each house uses only the radiation it needs
I have many times heard people say, for example at events for a ham radio club I belong to, that if you are a teacher then it is because you couldn't, or wouldn't, make it in "the real world."

Pointing out that teachers are highly-trained professionals who are often quite skilled, and who are an important part of what it takes to make a better future, in my experience just does not register very much.
Another James Mickens throwaway spotted. Ex ungue leonem.
TBH with the game library available and the fact that most Android TVs can run games and much better games and that Android TV allows you to use the phone as a controller this provides fairly little value.

This will not replace console gaming, this won't even a good alternative to the casual party games you can run on most smart TVs these days.

It's an interesting idea but the availability of established and better alternative on the market just won't allow it to establish itself.
> Salisbury is the LGBT capital of UK

Firstly, I think Brighton and Hove[0] would have something to say about that. Secondly, this is 2018, and it's quite alright to be gay these days!

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community_of_Brighton_and...
ActivityWatch – securely logs how you spend your time on your computer
Here's a useful study for autopilot

Group A - autopilot drives

Group B - participant drives

First few sessions, nothing happens. Then a dog, human, car... appears - situations that self-driven cars have been known to malfunction.

Aim of the study is to gauge reaction times between these two groups.

It will help us know what to do with bored - consequently distracted drivers caught in accidents.

We can have a realistic third group. An autopilot group whose initial sessions show the car successfully handling two or more near-misses.
Visualising the Scale of Storm Surge
Ah the ol' pyramid scheme and religious cult arguments.

Fair enough, now we actually have something to discuss. Do you consider the stock market and forex market also as pyramid schemes? If not, what's the difference?

The religious argument is kind of absurd though. I could dismiss every group or school of thought as being a bunch of crazy religious weirdos. Especially easy because in that case I don't have to provide any substantive arguments.
The Effect of Waking Up Early on Happiness Quantified
I am finding the same issue in many areas.

But I am asking myself if it is just lack of knowledge and knowhow or is it also lack of time, processes and tools for writing and maintaining requirements.

My observations are that along with not knowing how to gather and write requirements people at the project level also threat them as second hand objects for the success of project.

Eg: some people in agile talk about requirements being user stories with clarifications and decisions around them. Other people say that in agile requirements are conversation starters.

In a way these might be good points but also it creates the impression that we should not invest quality in requirements. As it will anyhow change.
> `3. Simplicity is king.`

Yes, this is true.

But for me, people get it the wrong all the time.

If you have an object which you have to check yeah don't check for everything you could ever imagine. Like I have seen code where the actual check was longer than the code after.

But if you are looping through a big array and I mean big not your little 1000 index array and you think any loop is good enough and suddenly you have a reactive system which was the simplest way to code but the thing is over reactive so your calling your function with a slow loop function all the time just because was simpler to read or to implement your just doing more harm with that rule than actual benefit.

This is also the reason why people use `.map()` in javascript to loop through stuff without ever knowing what map is actually for.
If you have a smart TV which runs android you can use your phone as a controller and just play one of the plethora of games available on Android.

https://support.google.com/androidtv/answer/6122465?hl=en-GB
Japan Ig Nobel winner shows simple way for self-colonoscopy
The article lost me in a sea of introductory fluff, and I never made it to the end.

As always, the best solution is good old fashioned discipline.

Get up at the exact same time every single damn day. No matter how late you stayed up. When you wake up, and it's 7am or whenever your alarm goes, get up. Don't close your eyes again.

The rest is about pretty good diet and reasonably regular exercise.

And no, you don't need to give up coffee. Have it as strong as you like.
AWS adds a year parameter to cron. You can specify the exact time.

Why use S3? S3 events aren’t guaranteed. SNS was specifically designed for this use case.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/S...
I'm never sure what the operator precedence is, to be safe I always write -(7:30)
Musk Announces His First Space Tourist
I think there is a limit on a number of scheduled events per account per region.

So when doing one-time events (by specifying a year) - the triggered lambda need to delete it.

Or have a hourly scheduled lambda to delete already fired one-time events.

Or maybe CloudWatch is so smart it can delete them by itself?
If I decided that low pay doesn't bother me, I definitely wouldn't complain. My choices are entirely in my hands. Additionally, I could (and I actually do, btw) teach privately for a much better pay, scrapping any reason to complain.
Cerebro 1.0!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebro
Yes, but that'd require a more complex process on the client.

At least you'd have to send an additional request, e.g. instead of just calling

https://someserviceprovider.com/serviceA

you'd first have to call

https://someserviceprovider.com/serviceA

which for example would return

{
"url": "https://someserviceprovider.com:8081",
"auth_token": "..."
}

and only then could you call the actual service under https://someserviceprovider.com:8081
Firstly, two of the Vancouver criteria are silly. The third doesnt make sense. Most gradute students in my experience do not have the authority to approve the published version. Does this mean grad students cant be paper authors? They're the ones doing most of the work. The fourth criterion is meaningless. Your name is on there that means you take responsibility. In any case if you're a reputed professor no one is questioning the paper.

Secondly, the four criteria are easy to meet for professors who shouldnt be authors. They "guide" the student which can be construed as playing a part in design, look over the manuscript, approve it, and take responsibility. But their contribution was probably of the order of a few percent of the total effort. If you have enough researchers under you, it's not super hard to meet those and be a hyperprolific publisher.
This is exactly what a product like Edpuzzle does for educational purposes.
https://edpuzzle.com/
Just a quick note to say I agree with this feedback. +1 etc. Nice product idea.
$59,000 is only a good salary in comparison to how terribly most jobs pay in America. Many junior devs fresh out of college make more than that, and I sure as heck would not trust my junior devs with the responsibility for my children.

I know a bunch of people will jump in here and lecture about supply and demand, but the fact is the American economy is weirdly bimodal where essential services (public education, bridge repair, public transit) are cut to the bone, while you pay an exorbitant fortune to people doing nonsense jobs targeting ads or moving numbers around in Excel.
A Deluded Banker’s Tale of Lehman’s Last Days
The worst is when that second comment isn't there and you're left wondering what's going on, which leads back to naming things well.

Compare:

findNeedles(haystack, needlesList)

[insert a few nested loops which are hard to follow unless you run the program to see what it does]

vs:

countWordsInString(str, wordsList)

[same code as above]
Is it possible for me to dynamically configure Traefik for non-Docker environments? I would like to run a Traefik instance which acts as a https-proxy for arbitrary domains,hosts and ports - without having to restart at all.
http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-seri...

Looks like 1 USB C and 4 USB A ports.
> You can only make so many things in a truck

It doesn't detract from your larger point, but just a note: food trucks are (at least in the places I've known) required to do most of their prep in a fixed location. It has to be an inspected and commercially licensed kitchen; generally there are shared places that several small-scale food vendors will lease space in.
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Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus
This is exactly like my experience. I've seen more than 10 doctors for my desperately aggressive insomnia. Neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists. Not only in US, even in some European country. They always acted like "yeah just perform sleep hygiene and you'll be gucci" "doctor, I do do that but I still can't sleep for days" "it's ok habits take time" Uhhh. To me it just seemes like being unable to sleep (at all) multiple days a week seems alarming enough medical issue that they'd try harder. One time I was prescribed Ambien. I used it for 3 days and it gave me some sort of psychotic episode, it was a terrifying experience I was locked in my own body. My doctors reactions was something like "do you even want to get better???" I hate insomnia.
I like that Buckley called his book about letters to the National Review "Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription" [1]

[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Cancel_Your_Own_Godda...
And when you work nights and the meter person who tracks what's parked where works days that's basically the same as not moving your vehicle.
Never mention that to an anthropologist, they hate that book because it’s largely incorrect.
The Wall Street Power Lunch Is Back, with Martinis and Impunity
Same on my 100 MHz Apricot. I like to think it helped. One thing that used to bug me is I wondered how much CPU time was being spent on rendering those graphs locally.
Because (1) sleep is very important for health (2) most doctors won't give a shit if you can't sleep (3) insomnia is a living hell.
Disagree on vacation. Just scan Stackoverflow jobs. Most places cap out at 4 weeks and that's after 10 years.

In a lot of the EU you start with 4/5 weeks rising to 6-8.

Also for some bizarre reason Canada has chosen to replicate America's awful vacation policies. Only difference is there is a min of 2 weeks. US has no min.
You will get paid more with the right paper in a lot of companies, for equal experience (and even 5+ years more in some cases). The degree is important, and in the right company a certificate can be too.
> Edit: But I don't believe this story is about National Grid.

That is correct - the company that owns the infrastructure where things went horribly wrong is Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, which is owned by NISource (NYSE:NI), which is based in Indiana.
Why Do People Stay When a Hurricane Comes?
> How do you think China's technology and education improved so drastically just a few decades after the cultural revolution?

Because the chinese leadership decided to make it a priority?

> It was the US giving its technology, military weaponry, college education, etc. to Chinese nationals.

Oh we did? Out of the kindess of our hearts? I thought we "gave" them technology, military weaponry, college education, etc in exchange for something? What was that? Oh yeah that's right, their gigantic cheap labor force. Using your logic, china gave us the tech industry and the modern world.

> Their entry into the World Bank was supposed to come with freer markets and other reforms.

You mean the WTO. Right? You clearly have no idea what you are talking about if you don't know the difference between WTO and World Bank.

> China doesn't respect our patents and conduct corporate espionage at the state level.

Oh dear. You mean china does what is in china's interests? Do you know who doesn't respect our patents and conducts espionage? Canada, Mexico and every ally of ours.

> Instead they run over peaceful protestors with tanks and seize all cameras from international reporters.

Wow? They have a version of kent state too? And seizing cameras from foreigners? Do they owe international reporters anything? Once again, you are pretending we own china. Like I said, their house, their rules.

> They don't allow our companies to compete fairly as theirs are propped up by the state.

Like everyone else? You do realize that we accuse the EU of unfairly proppping up Airbus right? And they accuse us of propping up Boeing? There are even accusations between us and canada over their subsidizing of bombardier.

> They can't have their cake and eat it too and I believe its time for Western powers to come down hard on China and its unfair market practices.

Who are you? You believe? Yes, "western powers" are going to listen to you. We are going to base our geopolitical decisions on someone who confuses the world bank with the WTO.

If we felt that china's trade practices were unfair, we could always not trade with them? But I wonder why so many companies and industries are desperate to do business with and in china? Perhaps their business practices aren't so unfair? I don't know.

Or maybe the CEOs of trillion dollar companies like apple aren't as smart as you.
Totally true, but it misses the point.

Doctors invest huge effort in keeping up with the state of the art in their field, the problem is that to be a competent doctor you also need considerable amount of intuition and heuristic.

New advances sometimes requires that you unlearn things and this i a completely different process; when you simply keep up with the state of the art you have a set of known facts and techniques and slowly you discover more and more of them. Unlearning things requires you to review entire branches of your knowledge tree to eradicate every trace of the now wrong fact
There is one alternative that can work with decent management - make a case to them that they value. The approach varies person to person. Some are refreshed by nonsense attitudes others find it abhorrent. While some places may find saying "the current dongle system is bullshit it costs us hundreds per product for something already freely crackable by a google search and a download just drop it or at very least roll our own easily crackable but only if you know enough programming solution" others may value frankness or realize implications and agree while others find admission of flaws abhorrent. If they think it is a good idea and you want it done there is no harm in your idea being stolen and getting them to start not being as cheap if they realize and take to heart that human labor is the expensive part not office supplies.

Like making a point with math for ram upgrades showing an estimate of salary costs discussing it alone vs just getting a new one. Or pointing out how say cost savings via getting rid of free drinks negate themselves with one additional turnover from interviewing time costs alone.