skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that this is a false opposition thing: they're all good, and you should have all of them.

Command-line parameters, especially single character ones, are a quick and easy way to request ad hoc changes of program behavior. They're also common across many utilities, so you can expect that -d to display debugging output, and -h to be a hostname, -p to be a port number, -n to do a dry-run, etc.

Configuration files are good for persistent, per-program settings. If you always want altered behavior, a configuration file is easier than constantly adding command-line options. Note that this implies that command-line options should override configuration file options, and that a --no-foo variant can be useful.

Environment variables are good for long-term, multi-program configurations: EDITOR, DISPLAY, LANG, PAGER, TERM, etc. It can be good to have these available as command-line options (eg. -display, for Xt-based apps), but generally it's ok to override them with env FOO=bar program. Also of note: container orchestration systems are generally able to set environment variables, but might not be able to create (and later remove) a configuration file.

So ... it's often not the case that every program option should have all three means of control, but most programs should use all three mechanisms, depending on what type of optional behavior is being controlled.
I can't even trust that the company will be around in 5 or 10 years. Or that they won't come back with some BS why they won't honor the warranty, and how it's my fault the bulb is bad. Long warranties are basically worthless anymore.
Same. I once set up a google group to forward mail to the others. Limited usefulness.

World-class was the lady who sent me pics of herself in lingerie. Not too revealing and I deleted them immediately and replied to warn her. She nearly died of embarrassment.

I'm pretty sure there are spam lists who sign me up to products, probably for some kind of referral. I join all sorts of junk.

Compounded by Google making "first.last@" = "firstlast@"

Next Gmail account is going to be a guid.
Most stocks hold by Americans are owned by the top 10%. Unfortunately this libertarian trickle down fantasy of trickle down economics is not correct.
two usage cases, one obvious to me but one wasn't.

the first being, areas with vibration meaning near doors and garage door openers. great locations to eat LED bulbs. this might be related to your heat sink adhesive issue.

the second is the upside down tulip light fixtures common in bathrooms, apparently they cook quite well unless ventilated at the top.
I have spoke up in similar situations several times at a number of companies. Not once was what I said a revelation or surprise. The business people knew already what the possible results would be. They had assessed it and decided to move on regardless. Clearly the potential results were worth the risk in their assessment.

I have learned that my code of ethics are just not the same as a number of business persons'. This may explain, in part, why I have two failed businesses.
The Big Bang was also the beginning of the end but saying that doesn't really accomplish much
If you want to do a real deep dive into the architectural differences of graph databases, the book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann is a great resource. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...
As of today, blockchain doesn't deserve much trust. Agreed. But it's the early days of blockchain and the experimenting, particularly with certain applications such as crypto currencies, will continue for a few years or even decades. However, if Blockchain projects try hard not to make the same mistakes as today’s broken digital platforms, we might be able to trust in a trustless world... here is my post from yesterday on the topic: https://www.ankerventures.com/blog/trustless-new-world
So common it's rather endearing when authors bother to point it out. E.g. in the Afterword (though probably better as a preface) to Greg Egan's Dichronauts, he says in a note on the translation: "If you could listen to the speech sounds used by the characters in this novel, not only would you hear no words in your own native language, you would not hear any of the proper names employed in the story ... Words such as "smile," "laugh," "groan," and so on are used to indicate the nature of the emotions that elicit these acts, rather than any anatomical or phonetic similarities to human utterances and gestures. ..."
This article makes very little sense. It disparages "networking", and then goes on to give all of these examples of successful networking. Successful networking isn't about trying to get everyones details, or trying to pump your brand at every opportunity possible - rather it's about working out where you can add value to others.

Silicon Valley is built on networking - the referral paths that lead to talent, capital, opportunities - it's all invite only. That's by design.

Platforms won't solve this. I'm in recruiting, where we're supposedly always about to be disrupted. But the platforms don't solve the two big recruitment problems - 1: you don't need more candidates, you just need a few very good ones and 2: people who have good opportunities don't broadly see the value in setting themselves up on platforms to "just look". But a lot of unqualified tyre kickers do.
Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete a Mistake (2013)
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I think if you could separate out your income into business and personal expenses then I think you have a case for that kind of tax policy since you would be 'investing in yourself' but the current tax system covers a lot of that with deductions.
I'm a consultant, too, but I'm new to it and for the past several years relied on luck and recruiters/LinkedIn. Can I ask what types of events? Meetups and tech events? Is that possible as a DevOps engineer, which is very much easy to find via recruiters anyway?
> First of all, VAT is collected by the vendor

VAT is collected by the government. Just because VAT appears as a line item on a bill, doesn't mean the vendor gets to book that as revenues.

> Second, almost all customers of Google Ads are businesses, with the resultant right get refunds for any VAT paid.

You mean, the business itself might charge a VAT from it's customer, and deduct the VAT it pays to vendors as "cost" during taxation. There are NO REFUNDS of VAT from the government!!

> if you add your VAT registration number to your account, Google does not even charge VAT.

Doesn't mean the transaction has 0% VAT fee, the EU/government GETS it's VAT on valid transactions, one way or another. If you somehow avoid VAT reaching the government, you're violating the law! AND, Google is NOT the beneficiary of VAT, regulation typically requires a seller to charge VAT and pass it on to the government.

Let's talk VAT numbers the EU gets from Google (as both a seller, buyer), and income taxes paid by GOOG employees before demonizing them
EOS
WAX
TRON
Lisk
Cardano
Bitshares
Steemit
ARK
Tezos
Oxycoin
DASH
NEO
etc..
Xkcd: how to: absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems
I get your point. However, is a client who tries to play down the value you create for them really the right client? If what I can contribute has so little value to the client why would they need my services in the first place?

As for vastly different execution on the client's part: Yes, that's why it's a value projection and not a revenue or profit share model.
> We should romanticize neither the past nor the present, nor the future for that matter.

I disagree. Seeing the world strictly through a lens of cold eyed rationalism is demotivating. Awe is a perfectly practical use of the senses. I watched Neil and Buzz bound around on the moon. That's a romantic past that was once my romantic present. There's no particular benefit in discounting those feelings.

Here's some cold eyed rational scientific work demonstrating the massive collapse of poverty in our time:

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods

If we can't romanticize this present day accomplishment then what the heck is romanticism for? We're participating in a culture that is reducing extreme human suffering at an unprecedented pace. A rationalist would miss the full picture if he couldn't feel the heroic nature of that.
My life took me from Wisconsin to South Carolina to Texas to San Francisco, as well as abroad, so I've seen the gamut.

Government in places like Wisconsin, SC, rural Texas are so comically incompetent it's no wonder there's so much anti-government or libertarian sentiment out there. When you have to dig your own well because the muni can't sort getting clean water piped to you, you may not realize that that's precisely what taxes are supposed to be paying for. When you have to homeschool your kids cause the local schools aren't even good enough to be classified as day care, you may wonder what the purpose of the Department of Education is.

God damn am I glad I got the fuck out of those places. I wish I could be more patriotic but as an ex rural-american, I confidently say rural America is fucked and hopeless. Feel free to argue otherwise because I'd love to be able to cling to hope again.
Thirty years of audio coding and counting
Would you say this is primarily a resource problem? A culture problem with the 7th Fleet? A culture problem in the USN overall?
I'm sorry you wasted your time, but I don't think HN is the proper place for this particular statement.
He provides "supply-chain security systems" as another example.
The like button may have kicked the journey off, but in my opinion the point of no return for a social network turning bad is when they start treating "like" as "maybe share" (which all the big ones have eventually done).
The market, obviously. If they invest in shit startups, then eventually they will lose all of their money.

Now the problem is, what if people still use something and give their money to even if that service/company is unethical?

Is it unethical to make very bad employment deals with people who have no better opportunities on the job market?

Well, now that's where again people come in. Some people say, no, because if they don't like the job, they can start their own company (ehm, ehm, maybe that's why we are here, too many people trying to start stupid companies built on almost stealing from each other). Some people say, fuck no, that's just a race to the bottom Somalia.

Some people pitch NIT (negative income tax, a form of universal basic income). Some full blown direct action style socialism/anarchism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lol yes there is. If investment income is taxed at 50% (top federal bracket + top state income tax rate) then who in their right mind is going to risk their capital? lol, I know I absolutely wouldn't.
> Fines exist to dissuade illegal behavior

This is just your preferred interpretation. Fines also exist to reduce or disincentivize unwanted behavior.
I think the "mistakes" were the things that required the frequent use of ctrl-alt-delete...
Recommended. By google, who just played loosely with the email-spec.

How rich.
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I switched from Instacart to Goodeggs in large part because they say they pay their employees a fair wage and there is no option to tip.
You Don’t Know How Big a Billion Is
I have heard a similar term : "Don't be a chronological bigot." Essentially assuming that folks in the past, even in the ancient past, were less intelligent or less enlightened. I am mesmerized how Bronze Age folks figured out how to form an alloy out of copper and tin ... I am not sure how many folks could reproduce this from first principles and the knowledge base they had to work with.
> is it justified or lawful to make it a crime for you to do so?

Certainly not. My point above yours although you were not replying to it is asking a question I'd like to also ask you. We clearly have a very clear definition on what intent is and how that is the resounding factor considered in such a case. However, do we simply do nothing because it's the nature of the project itself to be distributed and immutable history through time. We clearly cannot change the overwhelming applications that technology has so my guess is the only way this is dealt with is a few easy low-hanging fruit items can be done to safeguard against it and if anyone is caught operating outside of that with the sole intent of some illegal activity then we deal with it like we would any other case of illegal materials being found in someone's possession. The nice thing here is that everything is traceable given enough time and calculating power and that this person can theoretically be caught, even if at one point they were to have paid cash for coins with someone off the street. Good old detective work can kick in from there.

I guess I am more curious if these instances can be used to shoehorn law enforcement or the federal agencies into areas that hinder the full capability of the various blockchain applications. I remember back to the San Bernardino shooters cell phone needing to be unlocked and how nail-biting it was that Apple might give away that they had a secret backdoor they were willing to give out to all of our horror. Likewise I hope this doesn't go that same route, and it seems really unlikely, that something such as this would slow the progress of these technologies - not building a backdoor but slowly down transactions to check for illegal content essentially.
In the audio clip he says it was photo tagging that started the decline followed by the like button
Eugene Thacker's 'In the Dust of This Planet', 'Starry Speculative Corpse', and 'Tentacles Longer Than Night' could probably also fit into this category.
It is really contreversial to have a defensive tone when it comes to corporate taxes. Tell me a year you made money and paid 0 taxes. Or anyone? Why cant we have a sceptical approach when the topic in question is large corps?
You know what’s cooler than having millions of Instagram followers? Not needing to have millions of Instagram followers. That’s why I always thought that the celebrities that aren’t on Instagram at all actually seem more self assured, appealing, and, believe it or not, cool.
Chiming in as a seattelite having spent significant time in Baltimore, Philly, and Colorado:

We do some things rather well (Transparency, not entirely atrophied ability to enact infrastructure progress, reasonable decent levels of participation without rampant nimbyism, govt. not entirely compromised by special interest groups/corruption)

and some things much less well. (Transit/road funding, communication with our constituencies (Although this could just be my own experiences), growth planning, Marijuana legalization, cryptocurrency policy)

I don't think you should sell short the people who would complain about their govts, "there are worse elsewhere" always struck me as vacuous as the "Starving children in africa" argument; the fact that places like Flint exist doesn't make me happier at seeing building firms lobby for reduced contributions to e.g. sewage costs. In politics I've found there's usually something worth complaining about, and it's our impetus as citizens to be attentive and stay on top of it :)

(I optimistically hope we complain because we, or at least I, am never going to think "well I can't improve it more." If we complained and never did anything about it, _THEN_ I think we'd deserve the jab)
Regardless of whether you feel something when you slaughter animals, you are aware that animals feel pain and suffer, no?

The post was talking about the current mass-production system of meat prpduction, with slaughterhouses and terrible conditions for the animals. It's easy to forget that when you see the final product.
I interpreted that not as "disabled people don't pay surge pricing" but instead as "disabled people pay the same rate as nondisabled people, even when demand is high."
I like to remind people that Hanlons razor is a logical fallacy, and really shouldn't be used nearly as much as it is, especially the way it is (in an isolated context)
We've certainly been asked about amber LEDs for coastal environment projects, so I think there is some demand. Amber LED performance, on the other hand, is a different story.

The lumens out of a legacy high pressure sodium lamp are very high. It is still an engineering challenge to get comparable lumens out of LEDs at price point the market will bear.
I typically use a rando address @mailsac.com but then I have to take the 3 steps to visit, enable links, click links. With this tool, I'm saved those 3 steps. Keep in mind, this is strictly for throw-away accounts that require registration
Perhaps the problem is that the watermark itself does not function as a link? If the platform wanted to, it could treat any "registered" watermark as a link to the original poster on that same platform. This wouldn't help when the watermark gets cropped or scrambled, but that's more work... maybe there is room in the jpeg file for an "invisible" canonical link to be encoded? If not then future image formats should totally do this.
How do you arbitrarily opt out of mandatory arbitration clauses?
you forgot one thing:
Pay a tiny fraction of what others are paying for real-estate Check

Take the savings and invest in retirement portfolio and retire early Check
+1. How much of the angst on HN on the tech discriminates on age (which I fully agree with) is partly because people have locked themselves in a cubicle for ten years?
Which provider is this? Why do you still use them if they do something like that?
Robert Caro. The Power Broker.
Yeah, the first. But... you're taking this way too seriously. This isn't even reddit. These are examples that can illuminate for non-Chinese speaking people how tones in words can make a difference to meaning.
In my opinion this is an awful solution.

You want a urine-diverter with separate containers. Storing and handling feces is infinitely easier and more pleasant when covered and dry. Separated urine is similarly advantageous; you can store it in a lightweight bottle w/cap and tidily pour out its contents at the appropriate time and place if free of solids.

It exits your body separated, you're not doing yourself any favors mixing it all back together again.

See my reply to the parent for details.
And those delivery drivers are paid a wage, unlike the $0.80 per hour w/o tips from instacart.
XKCD has a comic about that experience: https://www.xkcd.com/1279
Speaking as another southerner, I can't agree more. Looking at how Seattle is doing it vs how it works down here made me jealous.

The place I live is under intense investigation for its confidential informant practices that are leading to people being framed and convicted for crimes they didn't commit. The use of surveillance here is something we should be worried about as it could and probably is being used in this process.

That said, I have had family in multiple southern states who were law enforcement officers for generations and I can say that transparency will come here last due to an ingrained culture within many law enforcement agencies here. Sadly, we probably need it more than anywhere.
Seems like javascript is destined to be here for the long haul despite the presence of typescript. In fact static type proponents have been predicting the death of dynamic type languages since this gulf became apparent. Thus far reports of one camps deaths have been greatly exaggerated by the other.
No, but the union could ask their members to lobby on behalf of themselves toward a common goal. As long as that lobbying isn't a requirement for membership or influence in the org, I see no problem with that.
> but around 20 I'm going to be suspicious.

There's a multiple-endpoints effect here. If there are 2^20 participants all doing that, one of them is going to flip 20 heads in a row. You only notice the one who did after the fact. Some participant has to be the most outlying result and that's the only one you notice.

(Not that that's necessarily the case for Buffett, but that's a general fallacy to be aware of.)
>You do not need to trust them, because you can verify their correctness yourself.

I certainly cannot verify their correctness myself, and I'm a professional programmer! I don't touch cryptography with a thirteen-and-a-half foot pole. Most people wouldn't even know where to start. Only a tiny minority has the skills to singlehandedly verify the economic theory, cryptography, and implementation of a cryptocurrency.

Pretty much all the time, you're trusting other people to have caught bugs and malicious code for you. Many independent reviewers are far more trustworthy than a normal company (which is why I avoid proprietary software), but that doesn't mean you aren't taking someone else's word that the software works as advertised.
This will never happen.

I went to a private high school in Westchester with a $20k/year tuition. My high school was significantly better than most. But it was still "only" good, not extraordinary.

The schools Gates and Zuckerberg attended have tuitions of $35k and $50k, respectively. They also have endowments larger than those of most universities, at $130 million and $1.2 billion respectively.

There simply isn't enough money to fulfill your proposal. Educational achievement is strongly positively correlated with wealth. Wealth attracts itself; it centralizes and consolidates around more wealth.

There are different things you could do to make most public high schools approximately as good as most private high schools. Stuyvesant is an exceptional public school in NYC; better than my own private high school, in my opinion. With significant, nontrivial socioeconomic reforms you could probably make most public high schools in NYC as good as Stuyvesant. Even achieving this would require vast amounts of money, probably more than you could convince politicians to tax.

But you'll never get every single public school in the country to empower its students with the resources available to schools like Lakeside and Philips Exeter. It's infeasible. They may as well be research universities.
Correct, it’s only the piece of paper and the teaching staff who read the books to you that cost $50k+.
I think what he's getting at is that Facebook's path became clear as soon as:

1. the reciprocity effect started (photo-tagging) and then;

2. social validation started (the like button)
Book of Mormon is incredible, isn't it? The most inspired book ever.
That's not enterprise 'power' - that's leverage. The landlord could have told them to go kick rocks and your boss would have had to come up with a new offer or would have been scrambling to find a new office that optimized for your needs. This suggests that the market for office space in your city favors renters. Just wait and see what happens to your 'contract' when the market shifts!
what kind of MBA brain washing are managers receiving that make them think most people wouldn't prefer working from home, if given the chance?
Long form discussion is fairly orthogonal to "upvote" based social media in my appraisal. The simple fact that you choose to post your response here instead of one of the 'chan' style boards signals that you're really not looking for spaces where "everyone is equals under the admin".
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That is a true statement.
By JSONschema do you mean [this standard](https://json-schema.org/)? I don't know of a tool that does that yet, the JSON Schema is general enough with allOf/anyOf that it should express schema.org schema as well.

Depends on the purpose here. With this, my goal was to speed up the Write-Update-Debug development loop. Depends on the use case, simply using Google's Structured Data Testing Tool [1] might be a better way to verify schema than JSON-schema?

[1]: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool
As is often the case, Firefox's Reader View fixes the problem.
Still works.

I made a +suffix account so I'm not buying stuff on amazon with my AWS account.
best $50 I ever spent