skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clickbait "news" and "studies". So much of the media and "science" is useless people doing useless nonsense just to make money.

"Why you shouldn't work remotely". "Why you shouldn't drink coffee". "Why you should drink coffee". "Vaping is better than cigarettes". "Vaping worse than cigarettes".

It's a never ending assembly line of garbage because they need to push out garbage every day.

"Publish or perish" has ruined academia, much of science and the media.

Also, anything can be "overrated". It is a subjective term. The article doesn't tell us anything of any value. What did we learn? Someone thinks standing desks are overrated. Okay. Who cares? Is that worthy of an article in the nytimes?
>I somehow decided I needed to cheat to pass a certain exam because I was basically crap at memorizing stuff.

...

> but I rejected memorisation on principle
What seems gag-worthy to you? Too much work? It is definitely a big ask, but not outrageous imo.
Which is why you should purchase Extra Virgin Olive oil from Greece, directly from Greece. There is a greek food importer in almost every that has a few Greek restaurant owners where you could go and get the real stuff.

Also the irony here is that for the "premium" Italian olive oils, especially the extra virgin, most of the olives come from Greece.
My problem isn't ghosting. Correct me if I'm wrong, but ghosting means you start communications with the employer, but at some point they cease contact.

My problem is getting a positive response in the first place from any company I apply to directly. I apply online, wait anywhere from a few days to a few weeks+, and either get no response at all, or a generic "sorry, but no thanks" e-mail.

On the other hand, going through a recruiter, he/she has been able to sell me to the employer much more effectively. When I go through a recruiter, I'd say I've been able to at least get to a phone screen 90%+ of the time.

I reckon a large factor is that recruiters often have connections to hiring managers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/5c6p0t/spotify_exc...
That was incredibly hard to read - filled with grammatical errors and fake insight. If the intent of this post was to start an HN conversation about interview red flags, the submitter should have created an Ask HN. The linked page is likely going to torpedo any useful discussion in favor of comments like this.
JS is not loved. Is hated less :)

BTW, I insist that is a missed oportunity of clean JS even more (ala typescript, whit some of the wats removed).

I don't know a language in a better position of improve by a HUGE margin than JS.
Mostly Ruby web app workloads aren't CPU-bound. And when they are, you're using a language that is 100 to 1000 times slower than C.

That is, for a CPU-bound task, you might be able to replace your thousand node k8s cluster with one machine running code written in a faster language (before even getting into communication and load balancing and HA and all that crap.)
Exactly, remote from where? Working from home is a better term.
Not all heroes wear capes :)
I completely understand and agree with your frustration. The blame is not only the people who deride the value of trigger warnings, but also on the Left, which has this horrible tendency to take good ideas and apply them to every situation imaginable watering them down to the point of uselessness. I say this as someone very much on the Left. The evolution of trigger warnings into content warnings took them from a real way of protecting people into a self-parodying attempt at shielding people from topics they don't like.
Tires are one of the easiest things to fix and/or replace.

Lets not judge a company based on trivial issues.

EDIT: I changed my own tire with 0 experience ever.
How to efficiently manage your distributed web scraping projects
Thanks!

One way to minimize the risk is to quarantine the batches in stub nurseries, and to be as zealous as one can regarding the sanitary passports.

In the past, Alentejo had many orchards that, thanks to the State policy of the dictatorial regime, were drastically replaced by large fields for cereal production. This resulted in what is now known as the pseudo-steppe (of a particular ecological interest), which is recognized today as the traditional landscape of Alentejo.

Many regret the sudden change into olive production, but few know how things were different a century ago.
Man in the Middle – Modify Requests, Inject JavaScript and CSS into Pages
Here's a simple game - 2048 in your terminal :) : https://github.com/plibither8/2048.cpp
> You just walk to the airport and fly straight to London city!

It's about £650 for a one-way helicopter trip from the airport to a City based helipad. I do it every day... XD
1) Moon Buggy -- ASCII art version of moon-buggy game.[0]

2) SHPaint -- ANSI Art editor programmed in bash.[1,2]

[0] http://www.seehuhn.de/pages/moon-buggy.html

[1] http://bruxy.regnet.cz/web/linux/EN/ansi-art-sh-paint

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoAMxMukgPY
To diversify itself and NYC tech, Amazon should write a few checks
I'm not somebody who likes or needs phone calls. They disrupt any flow I've got and require time coordination. So I definitely don't appreciate it when a manager forces me into them when that is something that suits his personality and management philosophy.

Since I'm not forcing him to meet my emotional neediness, why should he force me?
Launching this web game tomorrow. Help with last tweaks. Too hard?
I'm not even in a T2 company and they offered us similar bennies. Not amazing stock options or anything, but solid healthcare and 401k.

"Small" business (200-500 bodies) out of the DC area.
I wish they would commission Newswipe again, was one of the best shows on BBC.
While it would work, it would be horrible marketing for EVs.
What is your point? You criticize the author for claiming there is no evidence that standing desks improve health, yet you provide absolutely no evidence to the contrary.
You're right if you only have one coin flip. But, this assumes a series of flips.

The way I understand the Kelly Criterion it is it's similar to a fancy Martingale. It's statistically inevitable that X number of coin flips will go against you. So, the smaller % of your capital at risk, the less your risk of ruin. And, if you have an edge in the coin flip, the more flips you get, the better you'll perform in the long run.

But, it's not that great of a proxy for real life as explained by other commenters in this thread.
Funky manages funks, which are just basically (exactly really) shell functions. What makes them cool is how easy they are to define and the way that Funky manages them.

One of it's key features is that it enables you to define shell functions that are local to a specific directory, but Funky also does a bit more behind the scenes to add some value. For example it also:

* Checks for aliases of the same name and disables them if any exist (this can cause annoying ZSH errors if you tried to define the function manually).

* Appends special bash paraemeters (e.g. "$@") when appropriate so funks act more like aliases without the drawbacks.

* Tries to predict how ZSH completion should be defined, running a `compdef` command if it succeeds. (It needs a little more work in this area I think.)

And I think there's definitely some potential for greater functionality going forward.
The "overrated" claim is that standing desks address the health concerns of sitting too much (a claim that I have heard many, many times). There is no evidence to support that claim. Your third paragraph accuses the author of cherry-picking the studies. Is there an example of a study you feel they should have included that supports your accusation?

The author is not claiming to be a subject matter expert. The fact that they are a pediatrician is irrelevant. Their argument is well sourced, and "even" a pediatrician is able to read and understand papers in adjacent medical fields.

Dr Carroll is also known for the Healthcare Triage YouTube channel, which has numerous video explainers on topics like how to critically evaluate the strength of studies, the dangers of cherry-picking data, etc.
I mentioned in a previous comment that I actually have an entire detailed write-up of the bug. If my work lets me release it, I wouldn't mind transferring it to a blog.
Why do you see it as terrifying? It's easier to fall on stairs than hurt yourself in a Paternoster.
If you can, try to ride one, it's an interesting excursion in efficiency that once was.
Honestly there is absolutely no need to splash out on expensive standing desks. I literally have two upturned plastic crates on my desk to support my monitor, and then two stacks of books to support my keyboard and also my mouse. Total cost about 5$. The important point is to make sure the height of the boxes or whatever you use is adjusted to eye level and roughly elbow level for the keyboard.

The only downside is if you want to switch between sitting and standing, but frankly it's easier to just use a laptop for sitting for a little while until you get used to standing for longer.
I've been using Ruby and Rails for about 12 years now and I see all the solutions people come up with as bandages over a wound. A normal Rails app starts off with Node and Redis installed. If like me you hop onto the Elixir world it becomes refreshing to see the language you are using do all the stuff multiple tools did and doing it faster.
I wonder if people get hassled to no end by planning boards about one-off dwellings, infrastructure, etc. It's wonderful to see this sort of thing still exists, and you can in fact have a home without working on dumb shit that doesn't matter (aka most jobs) for 5-10 years to pay for it.
This is a great article. Really, really cyberpunk - "he large Czech-Vietnamese community". "illegal tiger farms ... are also operating in the middle of the EU". "processed products such as tiger wine and broth".

William Gibson would be a good person to write this novel. Hollis Henry could once again be on the trail of something so mysterious, so avante guard, that we proles can't possible understand it.
I use https://crushentropy.com/ It's like markdown for planning the day, with easy revisions.
Working remotely does NOT mean working from home. I rent an office locally to resolve this issue (my company happens to pay for it), but the bottom line is, I don't like merging my personal life with my professional life so I avoid that.

The second issue is a personal one, and not exclusive to those that work remotely.
Working remotely for many years is the greatest perk for me, this is the only thing keeping me at this job... To booth, the team I am managing is across the country, so no point going to the office anyway - I only go few time a year to pickup my boss to go for lunch/informal chat...
Microsoft Azure is now certified to host sensitive health data in France
Ask HN: What are the implications of taking my current job abroad?
I've been thinking of packing up the whole family for the summer and working from somewhere else. It would be 100% vacation for them, and would be vacation for me after work hours and weekends.

What are some of the implications of doing this? Is it strictly legal? Is there anything specifically which needs to be reported? Time limits? Specific regions which are more open to it? Taxes, etc...

I'm in the US, but I'm sure others might be interested in the flip side.
I'm currently suffering a similar situation. My entire team are co-located and I work remotely. The timezone difference means there's no overlap unless I move my hours around. This leads to split shifts or longer working days. I also have to attend these meetings otherwise the lack of face-to-face means I lose out on a lot of updates.

Due to other aspects of my personal life I feel like my mind is completely spiralling into a black hole. Lack of seeing my team/manager day to day means they won't see this happening, and I also find it difficult to bring up due to limited contact time between my manager and I.

If anyone has any experience of suggestions, I couldn't be more open to them right now.
I WFH twice a week, the only drawback is I miss the hot blonde at the end of the corridor
I wouldn't worry too much much about sticking to the schedule. Just be sure you skip it for a good reason (e.g you realize you have run out of milk, so you postpone your haircut to go shopping).

Also, and all credit to this is to Jordan Peterson, make sure you schedule something you can actually _do_, e.g make sure to schedule no more than you are willing to do, and make sure there is space for fun things in the schedule.
They can't hire enough people so that the care isn't "diverted"? The same person that put up the forums is also doing some "important" work on the cars? Come on, now.

What boils down to a defense of "it's okay to be careless with X when you're doing more important work on Y" is on-its-face ridiculous to me, in three ways. One, the sentiment itself. Two, the implication that properly taking care of your IT/web stuff is less important and/or handled by people that usually do "more important things". Third, the idea that two important things cannot be done because one of them is more important... since when are proper IT/web security AND producing a good product mutually exclusive?

It sounds more and more these days like "innovation" is just becoming an excuse to do other things improperly. Innovation is great, just not something to be worshiped at the expense of all else
The healthcare part is correct - you'll get that regardless of your working situation. But university is not free in the UK.

Also, if you go for long periods of not paying any "national insurance" (similar to social security) you can actually not receive the govenment pension on retirement.

Still, having the major stress removed of worrying about healthcare is reason enough to enjoy living in the UK over the US.
The idea reminds me very much of the original Wicker Man, but I'm sure there's no cult on this island!
I understand the argument that starting a new company by pivoting with cash in the bank and a team that is already built is attractive and giving those back and starting over from scratch is harder. But the harder path is often the best path. And the easy path is often the harder one.
Assuming your monthly expenses are ~$20 (server costs + miscellanae), you’re telling me you have two paying customers at $10/month, and you sank $85k into this??!

Cut your losses, friend, and don’t invest any more money into it until you hit at LEAST 10k monthly recurring revenue.

I would sell it if you can get anything over $1000.

If you don’t want to sell the app, start cold calling again and get wayyyy more customers. Target companies with the same need as your current paying customers, hop on LinkedIn, and start dialing/emailing.

If my initial cost assumptions are way off, please say so! Because if instead your customers are paying $X,000 a month that changes things.
It's spanish olive oil (and is the BEST olive oil)
Not a great example. They just pay low period. Their target is 50th percentile. That's hardly going to result in a big paycheck relative to most SF startups, let alone the big companies.
If this is true, Dan needs to shut up, get a lawyer, and read up on the CFAA.
Why you're having trouble hiring
I see it uses some framework Cube.js to run calculations and retrieve data, how can I change how MRR or other metrics are calculated?
This is something that's very easy to check in a web browser with DOM - Suppose you have this HTML:

<p>hello</p><img src=#>

If you try to access the `.alt` property of the <p> tag you get `undefined`, and if you try to access the `.alt` property of the <img> tag it returns the empty string in this case because the property exists on that tag, but hasn't been set to anything.
I ended up taking over a Vue 1.x codebase and tried to update it to vue2. We used single file components and it was a nightmare trying to upgrade. I spent a good two weeks trying to upgrade and eventually just stopped because it was just taking too long. There were a lot of breaking changes from 2.0 to 1.0, especially with the way events were handled. Now, I will admit that the person who wrote the vue 1.x version did not write idiomatic vue and that caused some problems in updating. A lot of the components we used were also not updated to vue 2.0 and, of course, they were using deprecated features. That meant I had to search for something similar to replicate the existing functionality.
> I would like to know how this guy is going to get stranded less often in a Tesla.

Being stranded was a result of the car having a non-working fuel gauge. The $19k fix was buying a Nissan Altima, not the Model 3. I have no idea why TFA opted to open with this, but the quote and the corresponding introductory paragraph really have no relation to Tesla or the model 3 or the rest of the post.
Who doesn't? Me, for a start.

I've honestly never understood the standing desk thing. I mean if it alleviates back pain or just makes you happy, sure. Why not?

It's not a given that everyone suffers back or neck pain from sitting though.
Distributed Jobs
I left my wife and my two kids of 6 and 8, because I couldn't adjust to my role as a father. A few months later I realized this was the biggest mistake of my life, but my wife wouldn't allow me to return - can't blame her.

For a few years I was eaten by feelings of guilt, and the only thing that kept me alive was my two sons. Today, I still get guilt attacks, but I somehow managed to move on. I have a good relationship with my soon-to-be ex wife (she's the best person I ever met), and I'm seeing my sons as often as possible.

So this basically isn't a "problem" per se, but it's the hardest thing I ever had to overcome.
Huh, I had no idea there was a 'Matterhorn peak' in California. I'd only heard of 'the Matterhorn' in the Alps.
Perhaps. But then, it appears at least some of these people work (Luthier, sea taxi operator, etc.) and saying you _have_ to work your life away in drudgery because someone else decided those things were obligatory is a shame too.
It is possible but takes the right team. Lots of people are perfect for it. It really depends on the lifestyle you live. If you are running it you have to replace people pretty quick if it doesn't work out and you'll probably end up with a pretty good team. When I was young I started out contracting remotely from home. That blows if you don't have some reasonable guarantee of steady hours. It can get hard to enjoy free time when your home is your office and you are hungry for work. If I was ever going to go back to hit or miss income I'd only do fixed price projects with nailed down scopes.
As somebody who is currently working remotely, I think this is a decent take. A distributed culture can definitely get better results than a remote one. But there's something in the section on collaboration I want to take issue with:

> Product Management is mostly about consistent execution of plans, not painting high-level visions.

It's a common view that software developers are an output device, like a printer. You tell them what to build by sending them very detailed instructions. They follow the instructions to the letter, and their work is judged by compliance. Perfection is perfectly conforming to some one else's plan.

I think this is bunk. It might have made a little sense when releases were every 18 months to 3 years. But in an age where companies are releasing dozens of times per day [1], it's foolish. Perfectly following a plan means you believe nobody will learn anything during the time it takes to follow the plan. But if you are releasing early and often, you can learn a ton from users. You can be much more innovative and much more effective than competition.

That only happens, though, if you treat team members not as rote plan-followers but as creative professionals who are deep collaborators. Where vision isn't something a few HiPPOs hammer out in exclusive twice-annual sessions, but where everyone constantly participates and refines it. If a company's process has already shut down collaboration, then of course the difficulties of remote collaboration aren't a problem. The challenge -- still unsolved, I think -- is how to maintain both a high level of collaboration and fast iteration without having to have everyone together.

[1] E.g., https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/03/etsy-deploy-50-times-a-da...
> Doesn't matter what you call it, eventually you'll find yourself being left out of some decision making if you're remote.

the only companies where everyone is involved in every decision they want to be involved in are <3 people.
The American Dream Is Alive in China
BTW, a easy explanation in how implement this for a language?

I asked in https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/9xsya... and get a nice answer but is also of the style "just read this code and get it".
I dunno--most of what I end up doing has state, if not context. Not super Haskell-ish.
Reading this I'm intrigued if only because it's a place a kid could play in the street, or equivalent, and not get killed by a driver. We have too few refuges from cars.
>There’s probably been hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who had free time since Leonardo.

But did they have wealthy benefactors underwriting their life?

Aristotle thought for a living. He almost certainly never had to worry about money, ever.

Leonardo had to churn out works of art occasionally to keep money coming in. In the case of Leonardo he could pursue an odd project and in some cases get someone wealthy to finance it and as a student of art he studied human form, studied the mechanical nature of living creatures. He naturally applied that artist's eye to form and function to doodling inventions, some of which he made and some of which stayed on paper. I wouldn't be surprised if there have been hundreds of thousands of people that have doodled such machines and contraptions and simply not had the wealthiest family in the world to pay them to make some of them as novelties for court.

Franklin learned about printing, ran away, hustled and started his own printing operation becoming quite a name in the printing industry then used that success to throw money at many other industries. When he died his estate was worth tens of millions of inflation-adjusted dollars. It's a hell of a lot easier to be successful at a myriad of things when you actually have the funds to tinker.

Look at Silicon Valley, you see founders with multiple successful exits. It's a lot easier to get funding after you've already had a success, it's a lot easier to get press after you've already had success, it's a lot easier to get customers and attract good talent when you've already had success.
Procurement and compliance costs
There is no "bigotry" there... It is an objective fact that (especially in the US) lower socioeconomic status is higher correlated with worse health outcomes. The author is pointing out one of the possible methodological flaws in studies evaluating the health impact of standing while working (i.e. by selecting for folks who stand at work, they are _also_ selecting for people of lower socioeconomic status, and it's likely the socioeconomic factors outweigh the sitting/standing distinction in terms of health).
Yeah, you're completely right. Even though I've found it really useful myself, I've had a hard time explaining exactly why its useful. I plan on adding a better description section soon as well as a blog post with more extensive examples.
That’s the plan with Guilds: http://www.atdot.net/~ko1/activities/2018_rubyconf2018.pdf

These are the slides for Koichi Sasada’s RubyConf 2018 (last week) talk updating the community on his progress in the design and implementation of Guilds.

Surprising that the author isn’t aware of this planned CRuby feature announced in 2016. I wrote about it then: https://olivierlacan.com/posts/concurrency-in-ruby-3-with-gu...

Take this with a grain of salt of course because the design has clearly changed since then and I need to upgrade my post or do a follow-up.