skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think that cannabis is a really bad thing. But the latest research showed awesome results. I should say, I know people who feel pain relief after smoking medical cannabis (https://www.zenabis.com/) . I don't know whether it is a good idea to legalize it everywhere, but having looked at Canada, I can't say that there is something bad with it.
HaemoDialysis is miserable. You feel shit ~5 days out of 7, it's exhausting and depressing and it never gets better. Transplant is infinitely preferable if it's an option.

CAPD is arguably less miserable as a dialysis option but the day to day lifestyle is not exactly ideal
"To start, he said, consider an internet service provider that doesn’t throttle."

Is this a joke? While reading an article about how every US cell provider throttles they recommend to choose an ISP that .... doesn't throttle?
If You See Disinformation Ahead of the Midterms, We Want to Hear from You
How can it be that private property - the bicycle/the scooter - occupies the public space?
How can it be that private property - my own body - occupies the public space?
I do hope they just put paper to silicon and implement the damn thing, even if they just distribute simple RaspberryPi type boards with a slow version on it.
Internalize the cost of parking, drop mandatory parking minimums and change zoning to allows for reasonable density. Wait a few decades and cities probably won't be as car centric as they are now.
Aave pocket – account innovation by the creators of ethlend
How We Defined Core Values for a Software House
I was part of a startup in the mid 2000s that wanted to make it easy to shop for homes using your mobile phone. We used j2me and actually got the app installed on a few phones. I wrote up a small white paper on j2me: http://www.mooreds.com/midp/midp.html

I believe the startup failed because it wasn't anyone's first priority. Every one of the four founders had a day job, even though we all had double digit ownership percentages. I don't recall if we even knew enough to have the stock vest.

So the tech folks worked on the product on weekends and I don't know how much the sales and marketing folks worked.

There were also issues with marketing, distribution and the fact the mobile ecosystem wasn't quite there which made the app painful to use, but I think it might have worked had we been all in (or even one of us had).

RIP homesonphones.com
SuperRare Crypto Art
> 25 minutes on foot? It's more of a village than a city.

you can walk from side to side of Paris in a tad more than one hour with a good rhythm, and two hours if you take it normally.
Free parking is not a human right.
Which did he choose in the end?
Research shows you should use the proper name: QoS

The name "Throttling" is an attempt to frame this pejoratively. All ISPs of every type engage in bandwidth shaping / QoS. Its the laws of nature that enforce this (demand always is greater than supply of every resource).
It says that verbal abuse cannot be a part of a deal.
lots of people do exactly that do. brand loyalty has some element of perception of difficulty in switching built in. you buy an iPhone coz you think finding all the apps you use will be too difficult. you buy a Toyota coz you think buying anything else would be a waste of money. you stick with a bank coz the thought of re-doing the documentation and talking to customer care is repulsive

companies spend a lot of time and money on enforcing that perception sometimes even acquiring other companies to do so.
Old.reddit.com

Bookmark the version of your favorite sub-reddits for mobile use.

Manually edit https:www.reddit.com/post to old.reddit.com/post

OR

Use a chrome or Firefox extension on PC to automatically redirect reddit URLs to old.reddit.com version.

Problem solved for now
To further that point, many open discussions of sensitive issues are not going to to be 'figured out' publicly, under a real name, where my family reads. Anonyminity is powerful for open discussions without taboo that will have repurcussions elsewhere. Facebook et al are possibly the worst forum for hard discussion.
Yes, but I'm thinking of a general purpose language like Go that would be used to implement normal things. R is specialized for data analysis.

Most "normal things" have designs that are deeply inefficient and compromised by bad under-powered data models.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep
It took major redevelopment for many US cities to become car-centric, so I am not seeing why we could not do another redevelopment to create pedestrian-friendly cities.
Pet peeve: it's "would have", not "would of".

A problem with opportunistic caching would be degraded user experience for the first user that sees some specific piece of content, since they'd have to wait (potentially for seconds) for their instance to fetch the content from the origin instance.
That was true long ago when he demo'd such a feature, but seems to have since disappeared from the language. Jon claims there's "something better" that replaces it, a mysterious yet-to-be-revealed feature.
What piques my interest is why on earth has Pontevedra a Citibank office
On top of other issues, most of Europe also enjoys a 4-season year - meaning that a bike or scooter is safely and comfortably usable around half of a year, definitely not more.
Its a really long story. I mean long. No the uncle didn't do all the work. Infact he contributed no money at all. There was a lot of legwork done by other family members hiring equipment to do prospecting, providing transport and wooing potential investors. You have bear in mind that half of the relatives were not educated. There was a lot of trust and good will because were "family". We are still are family.

On a side note, this made me realise why there is so much conflict in some mineral rich areas in Africa. Honestly if we weren't peaceful people there could have been serious conflict.
I am really confused about the lack of clocks in airports. Train stations usually have plenty, but airports usually close to none. Why?!
Legal translation in dubai
If Yahoo bought FB then FB would have been closed or in a mess by now
> Instead, my surgeon pioneered the idea of transplanting Hepatitis C infected livers into patients who needed transplant because of HepC-driven liver failure. His idea was that young people recently infected with HepC who die tragically are often in otherwise excellent health (HepC is a slowly progressing disease) and make good donors.

This idea saved my father's life. He wouldn't have normally qualified for a "perfect" liver, but was able to receive one that already had the same strain of Hep C, and if memory serves was also slightly fatty.
I cannot stress enough how true this is when talking about types of engineers.

However, both types are not mutually exclusive. There may exist some overlap between them, but of course, an engineer may feel more comfortable being one type more than the other.
Not improved SQL! Modern languages with native relational data models. Not a DSL inside a language but something native to the language and one with its normal syntax.

The ideas within SQL are powerful but the syntax would need a dust off and would need to be integrated into a modern language.
And let's not forget temperate climate, without snow/freezing cold or excessive heat.
Are you familiar with the saying "In Europe 100 miles is a long way, In the US 100 years is a long time"?
Prigogine, I meant
One of the culture shocks from Europe to US (California) was that there are places where you can't do shit without a car. Like, no place place to walk along the street to get from point A to B.
> It is filthy, garbage everywhere, chaos drivers, mafia infiltrating everything; Nothing really works as well as it should; absolute corruption at every level of society. Sure, Naples has a beautiful city center, and there are some impressive technical universities around.

Sounds a lot like San Francisco to me /s
It doesn't sound like she was working for your company, really.

Reminds me of kozmo.com at the end, when they started hiring "experienced" executives from traditional logistics companies.

Best way to take out a competitor is from within?
I just finished reading Irvin Yalom's "When Nietzsche wept", and though it probably didn't give a fair view of Nietzsche philosophy, it was great anyway :) Probably make it much nicer than it actually is.
Curious. Where are those massive bicycle and scooter dedicated roads and parking spaces that occupy our cities?
DEF CON 26 – Svea, Suggy, Till – Inside the Fake Science Factory
How to Unblock Reddit in Indonesia
When you mention technical books, do you have in mind books on programming languages/frameworks or more focused on general concepts/skills useful for the daily work?
That's very subjective, quite a lot of people do that year round in a lot of European cities. Certainly it's viable in southern Europe where it rarely snows.
Seconded, Ghent in belgium is also pretty cool car-wise. It has so-called pedestrian-centric planning. For example, the city centre may not be entered with a car, only by foot, bicycle or public transport. It's great.

I enjoyed Musk's Boring Company's presentation, where they talk about some problems with transportation today and present some solutions, with emphasis on transportation within city borders [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwX9G38vdCE
> Of course you cannot change the JDBC connector after it was compiled!

no, but you can add, dynamically at run time (such as from a user supplied file) a new implementation of the interface. And because as part of the JDBC interface, a connector is able to register itself too (via classloading magic).

JDBC is just an example of a common plugin architecture for extensible software. But perhaps one way to make this work with AOT is to bring along the AOT compiler, and AOT the connector jar when it is being loaded, and treat that binary same as any dynamically linked library!
If you're interested in "walking" around yourself, here's the streetview: https://goo.gl/maps/gxHkcvg4LWB2
The almost exact same could be said for Ruby and frankly, any other programming language which has stacktraces and a standard library.
It only occupies a small ephemeral spot in spacetime. Try lying in a single space for hours or days on end in a city and see how far your clever countering gets you. I'm sure there's many a vagrant who would rebut your thesis.
It's the old town area only, of a city of 80,000 people.
Paris is ~10km across. The metropole region around it is much larger.
Multi-Cloud isn't a trap any more than any other practice is a trap. Any practice is a trap if it takes away from your core mission too much or requires resources you don't have. I call such things "engineering bikeshedding" -- solving some other problem instead of your core problem.

I think doing multi-cloud for something "normal" and mundane is probably over-engineering. If you want to avoid vendor lock-in just avoid using the most proprietary features of your cloud vendor, or use them in ways that would not be terribly hard to port later (e.g. it's not hard to swap something else out for S3). Yes your DC or cloud provider will have issues every once in a while, but in the grand scheme of things it won't matter unless your service is one that demands damn near 100% uptime as a strict requirement.

Multi-cloud makes sense when you need near-100% reliability. There are few things where reliability requirements are this stringent. It can also make sense when you need a great deal of geographic diversity or portability.
Overhead power lines require maintenance too, and getting 100% coverage often involves disproportionate spend on short sections that are expensive to cover and maintain. Getting rid of masts on those sections - or even whole lines - could be a massive cost saving.

Additionally, Germany is a big train tech exporter, and there's lots of unelectrified route miles in Europe and the world, many of which would be totally uneconomical to electrify.
Ask HN: How to find a small business tax filer
For a pretty simple 1 man consultancy corp to get taxes filed. Current place does not give very much attention and I just want a little more care.

Any suggested places to look or recommendations?
I've seen this pop up multiple times on multiple websites, and each time I read it I can't help but think that this person has had bad experiences with UX professionals in the past.

>To stay relevant, UX practitioners will need to reframe their engagement to understand the business, talk with other departments and learn what the market wants and demands.

If you're a UX person, you should be doing this anyways. If you don't understand the business, how can you design for it? If you don't talk to other departments (especially sales), how will you gather feedback from internal stakeholders as well as external customers? As for market needs and demands, this can be as simple as skimming a trade magazine/website or talking to potential users of your product.
Sales Training Programs
Knowing a stack deep is rather difficult when one attempts to also learn and keep up-to-date with the newest technologies. Or were you referring more to system/protocol stacks instead of programming languages/frameworks?
> The cluster of sensors, bolted underneath a chassis like a skid plate, can scan 10 feet beneath the ground to reveal soil, water, roots, and rocks. Once WaveSense has scanned an entire roadway, it creates a map of the subsurface strata that can determine the location of a vehicle within a few centimeters.

nononono! Even assuming you can create sufficient map data as soon as there is any kind of roadworks - or even only the winter cracking the asphahlt - your data will be useless. They don't even need to change the layout of the road. I'll never understand companies that focus so much on maps as priamry source of data. Every day, massive - temporary (construction site) or permanent - changes are occurring to the road network. Also, the centimeter-precise location of the vehicle doesn't matter that much. The actual situation on the road matters much more: You may need to drive a meter more to the left because of a parked truck, a vehicle may obscure signs, a tree branch hangs down into the road, some car is parked too close to intersection, etc.
the main things, i think, necessary to make somewhere a great location for a startup are public infrastructure and talent, i dont know anything about naples, but i wonder first and foremost how good the local talent is, and second how well it can attract talent. is the airport accessible to direct flights to say sfo, etc. are there incentives to place datacenters, although not a hard requirement because of aws, gcp ovmh, but it helps, i imagine it’s a volcanic zone, so probably not. look at all the great startup cities in the world and you’ll find strong universities that have great talent, the univiersities help to lure the talent, the companies help to keep them.

obviously this has lots of ties with government where they could make things easier.

from the first picture, it looks like a great place to live on the mediterannean, but the crime and filth sounds bad.
So road trips are unaccounted for? Not a comforting idea that taking your car to another area will render it functionally unsafe on the (differently designed) roadways.
One thing I think this misses that is REALLY worth knowing as a new engineering manager: you might not want to be an engineering manager. People often view it as a seniority step or a power step or a salary step, but there are three things that go on- especially at large organisations:

1. You have no power. You really don't have the freedom to change salaries, you don't have final say on promotions, you often don't have final say on work commitments, often a lot of work needs to be done that simply isn't exciting. It's a killer to have a development plan for someone that's totally un-acheivable because that's simply not what your team does.

2. You are the shit shield for your team. Especially working in a remote site decisions will be made that totally screw your team and you're responsible to deal with that. Whether it be other teams breaking fundamental dependencies, or senior management forgetting why your team exists and deciding it can be cut, re-assigned, re-prioritized. Often being the person who gets the brunt of that is incredibly difficult to deal with.

3. Your job is now 100% political. Whether it's the expectations your team puts on you to deliver them pay rises at the end of the year, or your product manager putting expectations on you to deliver releases at certain times a lot of what you're doing is politics. Especially in large organisations there'll be projects that are going to fail, and learning how to protect your team from the fallout is essential. It's a shit part of the job but in large organisations it's essential.
>so I am not seeing why we could not do another redevelopment to create pedestrian-friendly cities.

We have 2 local cities that made themselves bike friendly. Property values are going up in that area.

However, the people living there were already 10%ers.

Its cool to see lots of bike lanes and walkers, but they also managed to price the people that cant afford cars out.
In at least one smaller city I lived in the US, there weren't even sidewalks. The town was built for cars only. Even in bigger cities like NY where there are bike lanes at least in some places, there is some level of looking down on cyclists from drivers and cab drivers. It is going to take a massive mindset change to reduce dependence on cars.
Don't you mean "it's amazing how many times I'd be better off wearing a watch/carry a cell phone"?
> maybe you could compile a list of problems and use anki to regularly train yourself?

That seems to favour rote learning instead of actually developing or keeping core competences.
Keeping Music in Our Schools – The Blogging Musician
This works if there are small tasks that you can take care of pretty easy to stay reasonably current.

There’s a line where as a manager you’ll either do your engineering or management roles a disservice or not. Think of a napoleonic era army — You need to understand whether you are the sergeant who keeps the troops marching and fighting, the junior officer who passes orders on and keeps bullshit away from the sergeant, or the staff officer who makes sure the food and bullets show up, etc.
Is it that much more dangerous than say LPG though?
The whole idea of a standard work week for salaried knowledge workers is stupid. Anybody who's worked a typical 9-5 office job knows that getting your work done faster doesn't give you permission to leave earlier, you're just rewarded with more work and maaybe a promotion with a slight pay bump 1-3 years down the line. There's no incentive to be as productive as possible because you're not adequately rewarded for it (eg. via more time off or increased compensation), and it raises manager expectations such that they now expect this higher output of work going forward even though it might not be sustainable over the long term without burnout.

So we enter this comfortable medium where we're productive enough to look busy until 5pm, even if we could've worked at 100% capacity and finished everything by 1pm.

Productivity and optimum working hours vary drastically across individuals - Some are most productive in the morning, others are night owls, others work best with a gym break in the middle of the day, others work best from home or coffee shops, others work faster/slower than others. Adults should be allowed to work in whatever manner is most effective for them, not babysat like grade school kids.

At the end of the day one should be paid by results. Time may equate to results in a factory or retail store, not in mentally intensive knowledge work.

But of course none of this will change because employers have all the leverage, and any sort of organized labor movement has been completely decimated. We're supposed to be happy with the status quo because our ancestors had it worse. Asking for the drastically increased productivity due to technological advancements to translate to increased freedom equates to "entitlement". It's archaic thinking and it needs to die.
Achilles is mortally wounded in Troy by an arrow through his heel.
Were you there on the Slashdot redesign?
It wouldn't do anything, because users don't check it. I used to be involved in phishing campaigns against internal employees at a fintech company. Despite these employees being highly technical people, I can't recall incorrect or missing extended validation certificates ever stopping them from submitting credentials.

As another commenter has said, I can't personally tell you the name of any specific website with an EV certificate. I don't know any friends or family who actually check for the presence of correct EV certificates. It's a cool idea and it's made CAs plenty of money, but it's just too subtle of a cue.

I think many people are resistant to the idea that extended validation certificates aren't effective for one or both of two reasons. First, they probably want to actually do something instead of being hopeless, so they consider doing something better than nothing even if it's not ideal. Second, they are reviewing the technical specification and finding it sound, but not grounding it in the reality of how users work.

Part of the argument against them is not just that they're ineffective, but also expensive. It's not unreasonable to simply call it snake oil. The visual cue would need to be significantly more prominent - up to par with the red versus green icons of HTTP and HTTPS, respectively - in order to have a real impact. Users would need to have better training and education to come to expect the extended validation instead of merely feeling more assurance when it's present. The system has insufficient penalty for sites which should have extended validation but only present domain validation, and browser-buyin to the concept is fading.
you can actually use a vpn, or add manually a reddit IP on your local host, or use opera browser
I wouldn't think of my body as private property. Leaving that aside, the answer to your question is that everybody has a body, so we're not talking about the same kind of privilege that car owners have. Nor do bodies occupy the same amount of space. Last but not least, they don't easily kill other people as they cross their way.
I, excuse the language, called my technique "a shit sandwich" for getting comfortable giving negative feedback. I'd establish with both the employee and myself a pattern of giving both negative and positive feedback at the same time, instead of only negative. I'd give something good, something bad, and then something good hence the sandwich. I've found that if you are all negative it's too easy to lose an employee and there motivation. By using the sandwich you so that you notice the good and the bad and that you are pulling for them to fix the bad.
I remember Path back in college. It was not that popular but its mobile app was beautiful, top-notch in terms of UI design and animations back then.

Sadly it did not take off, which on the other hand is comprehensible, having other options such as Facebook and Instagram where most of the friends and connections are.
When i lived in Uppsala, Sweden i biked all year around.
i would add to this, the culture must embrace entrepreneurialism, like tokyo is a great place in terms of infrastructure, but the society is more bent on having salarymen that have stable careers, so the startup scene is more stagnant than other places where the schools/talent arent as good and access to sfo, other places are great.
It can be found here: https://github.com/rcxdude/nobsrss
I think the 'Reduction to absurd' argument went a little too far in the article you link.

More practical solutions are like the (in)famous Internet Time by Swatch.

The day was divided by 1000 beats and it was the same all over the world.

Call me at @500 was a perfectly valid answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time