skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get the book, it's awesome:

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Art-Steam-Heating/dp/0996477241/...

I had oil fired steam heat (live around Boston). Back when heating oil hit $5 / gallon, I got rid of it. It was costing me $3800 / year, but the efficient gas furnace that replaced it costs $700 / year. I'm sure this will only last as long as the fracking boom, but it definitely already paid for the installation.

So now my most expensive utility is water ($1700 / year).
‘if you’re an early company employee, it’s not likely that the skills you have on day one are the skills needed as the company scales to the next level‘

This resonates with me
There's actually some precedent for this happening: AA flight 191, a DC-10 that crashed in 1979, wasn't equipped with two stick shakers (a stall warning device) - a paid option at the time.

The series of events that caused the accident are a long story, but power was knocked out to the pilot's controls (where the one stick shaker was installed), but not the copilot's controls (which didn't have a stick shaker due to the selected options). TBH, it's doubtful that the pilots could have recovered in that specific situation, but the chances of success dropped to basically zero when they didn't have a device capable of communicating what was happening to them in time.

Of course, this is obviously different than having no warning system for the type of failure whatsoever (as appears to be the case on the MAX), but it was still a little surprising for me.
I'm a terrible piano player, so I have no specific advice about that instrument. However, when I was learning how to play trumpet, having my Dad introduce me to his Miles Davis/Louis Armstrong records really helped. For me, it was helpful being able to listen to something before I tried to play it.
So you're saying either we can have a great resource, or we could destroy that resource entirely and let politicians get slightly less criticism ?

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/20/berkeley-may-...

This is a general problem with many public efforts. Reality is that the only way to make everyone equal is to make everyone equally miserable. And this is generally what we do.
Underargued claims, installment #1437, on “monopoly”
I could not disagree more with your second point.

Just because a group of misguided individuals support a specific idea, person, or ideology, doesn't mean that the thing they support should be judged based on the merits of those people. The things should be evaluated based on the individual merits of whatever it is.

Following your logic, I could easily say that Hitler was a vegetarian, so if you don't eat meat, you stand with Hitler.
As employee #1, presumably you had a say in choosing the tech stack - any particular reason why you chose F#?
I suppose that asking, "Who is the queen of Scotland?" is a bit like asking, "Who is the president of Texas?".
Do you know anyone important who spent 100% of their time programming? That rules out books, talks, blog posts, entrepreneurship, etc. That's your answer.
in my experience, myname.com domains I encounter in the wild are less likely to have the kind of low-quality/marketing content medium often has. And if one posts good content, I might actually recognize their domain again (and probably follow their feeds, if they have them), whereas in Medium they'll stay stuck in the association with Medium. And Medium took the option for custom domains away again, so no chance of fixing that while still using it.
Italian pronunciation for Milano is here: https://www.comesipronuncia.it/pronuncia/milano-10397 . That said, Italians generally mean the UK’s received pronunciation when studying and listening to English language, so heavy American accents are way too large and quite difficult to us.
Modern tech companies are halfway there: contract out low end support functions and high end specialty expertise, so that actual FTEs are paid substantially the same.
If you wanted to talk about core CS ideas, would you just ask anyone? If you knew you were making progress on an academic discourse, would you think to talk about your readings with just anyone?

As soon as you want to make deep progress on anything you need to talk with people who match you on preparation and energy. This is true even on HN and core CS topics.
Newly elected Democrats in the NY state legislature might block the NYC Amazon subsidies and put the funds into student debt relief instead: https://capitalandmain.com/will-new-york-fund-amazon-subsidi...
An introduction to Udev
Agreed. I have seen it multiple times that people didn't get promoted or transferred to a new interesting task because they were so good at what they did at the moment. Instead people that didn't perform well got promoted or to do the new thing.

One example: At my company the high performing experienced people are stuck with our legacy products so new things get either explored by interns or new people who don't know the company. I have pointed out several times how insane this is but everybody just shrugs.

I think the lesson is to not leave too much of a footprint so management has no qualms transferring you to a new task.
You’re supposed to soundly distance yourself from them in very unequivocally language and NOT TAKE THEIR MONEY. For my consistency, I dislike politicians of any sort that take corporate donor money. I dislike money being such an important factor in politics these days instead of oh.... how candidates actually vote. I can’t tell what a candidate actually believes when things came down to it versus what their constituents would do. I know that Joe Biden has said before that while he personally doesn’t believe in abortion he believes his constituents want the freedom / choice in their communities. This is tricky. It gets much more clear-cut for me when the only possible motivations are purely based around corporate interests (“jobs” are almost a code word for corporate interests, heck even the GOP pivoted to using “job creator” instead of using corporations around the Romney-Obama election period).
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Stylus (not Stylish) can make sites like this readable enough if you visit them often enough to be worth a couple minutes to fix them. Here's a tiny bit of CSS:

body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 1.45;
background-color: #ededed;
margin: auto;
padding: 0.5rem;
max-width: 80ch;
}

.pd {
padding-bottom: initial;
}

One point in favor of ultra-minimalism is that it's easier to add a few styles than to undo layer upon layer of Bootstrap. (Only undid one declaration here and that wasn't strictly necessary.)
Well, historically speaking and also likely true today, GitLab has made most of its customers by virtue of being the 'enterprise' solution. It existed before GitHub Enterprise, and was a good way to have Git hosting behind the firewall.

GitLab's hosted service, on the other hand, has traditionally been free and best-effort. That and they're moving hosting providers, which is definitely a non-trivial migration.

It's definitely fair to complain if you paid for the hosted version, but I think GitLab was plenty successful without monetizing GitLab.com.
That's completely independent from an increase in price though, isn't it?
IMO, there are three bases for dis/belief in a theory: 1) the supporting evidence is compelling, 2) the counter evidence is not, and 3) the alternative theories are not. The authors (seem to) mention only basis 1, but not 2 or 3. But it's the interplay among all three that must tip the scale if the thought process is truly scientific.

However I doubt any non-scientist could enumerate serious counter theories to the scientific status quo for evolution, GMOs, vaccines, or climate change -- other than citing probability and the burden of proof as insufficient for their adoption.

Personally I know little evidence that GMOs are toxic, so I side with non-toxic. Same for vaccines (now that Wakefield is wholly discredited). Same for counter-theories to evolution, though that's such a big topic, it'd be silly to endorse all or none of it, especially at the fringes. Evolution's chief strengths are its longevity and that there's no viable alternative theory for speciation. The existence of global warming AND man as its cause also suffers from a lack of viable alternative explanations. But is this scientific thinking, or just pragmatism? I disbelieve unless you can convince me otherwise. That's just common sense.

The OP doesn't seem to address "burden of proof" in judging scientific theories, except to combine the three bases under "justification". But I think the distinction between the three is essential, as is their visible presence, in a rational mind, since science-based belief must reflect the sum of thought that assesses evidence for, against, AND vs. alternative theories.

Ignoring any of these three puts one on the road to faith.
- men and women being physiological equivalent.

- women having equal innate interest in Stem

- no mental differences between races

- gay,bi,trans being entirely genetic

just off the top of my head. scratches the surface.

The last is particularly interesting because its the opposite viewpoint with regards to protected classes of people and genetic psychology.
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On one hand, many people at Google do take it seriously. On the other hand, there are the people making decisions.
As a New Yorker, I am super disappointed that they chose Long Island City. There were contenders where this stimulus could have been a paradigm shift. Instead, it's just a drop in the bucket for a city that is already growing recklessly.

My vote was for Newark, personally. Plenty of office space; access to NJIT, Rutgers, and Princeton; and good public transit that connects directly into NYC. Bezos and co. could have done some real good, but instead they will just be contributing to New York's biggest gripes (unsustainable subways, housing shortages, and an aggregation of labor into a few metropolitan areas).
Well the English word "Milan" is already mangled compared to the Italian "Milano" - taking the italian pronunciation for the English word would be ... odd. I'm pretty confident that in the anglosphere "Mee-lan" would be the minority pronunciation compared to "Mih-lan".
Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439924
Apple is a monopoly in the apps market, controlling 66% [1] of the $70B annually. It's practices are now going to be litigated at the supreme court level [2]

Apple's only defense, that it isn't a majority of the unit sales in Mobile phones, is a convenient strawman distracting from the fact that they ARE a majority in the app store market. Increasingly, people are finding such excuses misleading and outdated [3]

I hope Apple losses in the supreme court, as their app store process makes a mockery of an individual's ownership of the iPhone they paid for. Imagine if you bought a house, and the builder got to decide what furniture could and couldn't be put in it.

Additionally, it's time for the EU and FTC to regulate Apple and the like, on realistic definitions of monopoly and antitrust

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-n...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17479480/supreme-court-ap...

[3]: https://qz.com/work/1460402/google-facebook-and-amazon-benef...
Although it is more complex than say heroku, there are so many features, and eventually you may want them. Also the pricing is very competitive , if developer time is expensive.
Need to send emails, there's SES. Want to dynamically put up new test environments? Once you've got your setup right, you can have it modify route 53 dns records and connect it to a load balances and your EC2 instances... the list goes on forever.
Of course they would. They profit off conflict. In their current iteration, at least.
In defense of the software, Italian is quite difficult to pronounce. I wouldn't be too hard on it for now.

Disclaimers: I am Italian, and I used to work at AWS.
1) How do you explain the 12 Russian operatives from Mueller's indictment?
There are situations where being around family 24/7 is much better than working in an office.

I've been the following type of jobs
1). Office job in a distributed team where I got along well with the people who were in the same office. Worked from home 1 day/week.
2). Office job where there were team members who were a drain on my sanity
3). Crammed Open Office
4). Work from home, first with a corner in the dining nook with my desk hidden behind a small divider. Later with a dedicated room. Always with a sit/stand desk and a keyboard/mouse/monitor connected to a laptop.

I'd prefer 1 if I only had to go to work 2-3 days/week. I don't miss 2 or 3 at all and I'd much rather have my family interrupt me with something unrelated to work than colleagues who completely disrupt my work. Working from home can be lonely and sometimes demotivating, but it's a lot better than feeling completely drained from 2 or 3.
At some level, "smart" people may even have an easier time being wrong: one important facet is creativity. In other words, coming up with convincing justifications for one's incorrect stance, and digging in.
Thanks for the info.

I tested out Bitwarden after I posted this question yesterday. Regarding #6, that did bother me as well. I wanted to let you know there's a fix for that (at least in Chrome there is, I don't know about Safari).

Settings > Options > Enable Auto-fill On Page Load - that will automatically fill out the login forms like LastPass does by default. But I do wish they had the option to disable this on a per-secret password like LP does.

Also right clicking on the page will give you a Bitwarden context menu which provides an auto-fill option (Right Click > Bitwarden > Auto-fill > Pick the secret). This is actually more steps than clicking the extension button at the top (Click extension button > click secret), but at least you don't have to move all the way to the top of the page.

Again, this is in Chrome.
Listen to yourself: "We have to censor all possible communication methods and imprison people for words because jokes about Montenegrins being lazy are going to cause World War 3". "Calling a gun-crazy redneck a gun-crazy redneck is hate speech and subject to a fine of no greater than $5000 or no greater than 30 days in jail".
In reality there's a lot more in a product than just good and bad.

Especially with wine, where it is not actually so clear that a true quality ordering exists, all sorts of other effects are at play. For example, we know how the signaling value of price overrides some true quality variables.

In economics, its important to know these simple models and their outcomes, but it is equally important to know when other effects are at play, or when assumptions do not hold
Or the website could just set a width on the text column. Why are we pretending this website is some paragon of design? Simple is good but there are still basic readability standards that are important and can be achieved with one or two lines of css.
I have had amazing results using the Simply Music course teaching my two children starting at 3 and 6 years of age. They have introduced a new free online program:

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>Someone who just works really hard at the expense of their health sounds more like what I'd expect to see characterised as a schmuck than a hustler.

Well, if we're going with Yiddish slang, the term would be freier, meaning "sucker" (https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-word-of-the-day-freier-1.52...).
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How do people trust experts? That's a fundamental problem.

Additionally, there are non-scientific issues confused with "belief" in science. Does agreeing with the scientific consensus on GMOs entail a belief that corporations can be trusted to implement the science? That scientists, politicians and regulators haven't been bribed or coerced? That scientific and political systems in other countries can be judged by the scientific experts? Trusting in a practical use of GMOs is not the same as believing in the scientific consensus.

Another example:

> The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...
A side note to passing readers: thousands of times smaller in mass or volume means of course only tens of times smaller in diameter, which agrees with the pictures shown in the article and elsewhere.
Context: Not OP, but I've been remote for ~7 years, with varying different types of home working environments. My latest position offers me the ability to come into the office, and work from home, depending on what I'm wanting.

I've found working from home without a dedicated, private space to be more harmful than helpful. I've worked everywhere from couches to shared office desks. My wife and I used to have an office together, though we don't work together. At times she'd be browsing reddit, gaming, eating, whatever. I found that to be very distracting. People coming and going was an interruption.

With that said, we've recently moved and bought a house. Much larger than I wanted in the past, but it has two dedicated offices for us. I've found that to be massively beneficial. I now prefer working at home. I can close the door to isolate myself from distractions.

A small note to all this. I do play computer games on my off time, in my office. For some this can be a distraction, as this office space isn't strictly for working. For myself I've not found it to be a problem at all. I switch between my work machine and my gaming machine, so perhaps that's related - I don't have entertainment staring at me.

Coupled with my work location, is my work hours and how that affects my mindset. I can choose my hours with my employer, so I choose very very early. This means the first thing I do when I wake is grab coffee, and work. Clean, focused, not distracted. No entertainment before work. I've found that once I do something entertaining, it seems to pester at me. Productivity after entertainment seems more difficult for me, especially for mental tasks. Work seems less interesting, I wander more, etc.

Anyway, these are just some of my thoughts on the matter. Your milage may vary.
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I like your view, because sacking them doesn't waste their talent (usually), it wastes all the time and effort of recruiting them, filtering out others, and forming a well-functioning team.

This applies even in cases where someone isnt fired, but you've changed the job to something else. I'm leaving my current job right now because they dissolved our vertical product teams and formed horizontals that have no consistency of focus, codebase, or any larger input into product direction. I really work well with the people of the company, but after 6 months of feeling like IT support doing superficial changes in ever changing repos I'm done. (No offense to anyone that enjoys that style, but it I'd not for me and not how we worked for the 3 prior years).

So now I'm out. I think the new job may be even better, but it is a gamble and I wouldn't have even looked had they not changed the company on me and failed to respond to my concerns. I'm not indispensable nor irreplaceable, but in this market it is not easy to find someone, convince them, and build relationships and domain knowledge. My email to individual people I work with that should know I'm leaving went to over 50 people - rebuilding that's a cost that doesn't show up as a line item on the balance sheet.
>You say gentrification like its a pejorative term.

I mean, it kind of is. It not only refers to 'improvements' but also the displacement of anyone below the middle class as a result of those improvements.
I believe that was the implication of the comment you're replying to, whereas the grandparent talking about "Scientific method revolves around hypothesis and tests" ... seems to have a different understanding.
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Thank you for making these available and being so open.
I'd argue the current style of communication is effective (by design) but neither quick nor easy out of necessity.

Basically, aviation has a long history of increasing safety by taking tedious complicated tasks away from humans (e.g. dedicated navigators, radio operators, and engineers used to be a thing). This is just the next obvious thing to tackle.
I'd also argue pilot stress and task load is the biggest killer in the aviation industry and the single biggest root cause of every crash ever.

Also, I'd argue this is an extra tool. Of course talking to controllers and other pilots in the area should always be an option. Especially, at uncontrolled fields. Wouldn't it be nice if you can skip the formalities of telling over and over again who you are, where you are, etc. because the other side already knows this?
I've been playing the piano since I was 4. Learn from my mistake: don't "cheat" by skimping on scales and other technical skills! I know it's not as fun as playing actual music, but as with anything, there is no royal road to piano proficiency. Now that I'm at a more advanced level, I really regret that I didn't put better effort into my scales when I was younger.
I'd say "stinks" is a bit of an overstatement, unless you have a very sensitive nose.

I've only tried printing with ABS a couple of times, but to me it smells almost exactly like an old photocopier... kind of nostalgic.
They told him whoch changes they want him to make. He dances around it a lot with "surely I can't get consent from the whole Internet", but he did understand that they want him to use Safari.

I don't agree with Apple here, I think his app should be fine.

But that's what they said, and just because they did not pull the other apps yet (for all we know), doesn't mean he has a point asking about those.
> Also, what is "success"? Taking $350MM in investment and not showing profitability

As far as I can tell (from our investor data and what not) and without sharing anything sensitive/confidential, we (= GitLab) are doing just fine financially.
What is the limit for free reading? I've heard this a few times now from a few different sources, but I've never run into it myself.
New York's Excelsior program has pretty low bars for it's tax credits:

https://esd.ny.gov/excelsior-jobs-program#eligibility

https://esd.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Excelsior_Overview_20...
Hard to escape the conclusion that this whole thing was just a way to grab tax cuts for places where Amazon already has a presence.