skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree to the advantages / disadvantages in general, but I think a lot of people push back because it does not jive with personal experience. In my case, my parents grew up poor with blue collar immigrant parents, but became successful and (in my fathers case) eventually wealthy. Conversely, growing up I knew _many_ people who grew up with much more financial and family stability than I had, who just threw it all away. Not a few -- a lot. In college, I became friends and acquaintances with a lot of dirt poor people from Mexican immigrant family's, and I saw a great number of them succeed (from e.g. migrant working parents to law or medical degrees, PhD's, etc). I'd never argue that being rich does not come with substantial advantages that hold in general, but I've just met too many people who threw them away or succeeded despite poverty to buy into an argument that generalizes into absolutes.
But they would have evolved with that inner monologue. It's not like it would be this strange thing to them.

I was born with the inner monologue. I wasn't told by others what it was, I figured it out for myself.

It's me. I'm not my body, I am the voice inside my head, looking out through the eyes of a body that is nothing but a vessel for a genetic code.
For a more recent example, see nail parlors in the US. They were started by officers from the Vietnamese army who had come as refugees to the country.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32544343
Why is it stupid to say Israel is guilty of human rights abuses?
Jeff mills spinning tomorrow at E1 in London. Need to go after reading this interview
Because 20 people can and do fit into the same space that a single SUV occupied by one person takes up trawling for a fare through Midtown, yet 70+ percent of the streetscape is allocated to accommodate that SUV.

Also keep in mind pedestrians have to share space with sidewalk planters, outdoor seating, trash bags, and many times, cars parked partially on the sidewalk, making the usable walking space less than 10% of the size of the total street space, yet still allowing exponentially more people to move faster than the cars the street was designed for.
It's an amazing paper but their interpretation of the results that "it's all social connections" is completely unsupported by their evidence and more consistent with standard human-capital / genetic inheritance.
Seattle rents growing at among slowest rates in country during record apt boom
Walking is the most efficient mode of transportation, with regards to space used. The problem of crowded sidewalks is relieved by expanding the sidewalks at the cost of space for cars.
I post something like this every time the congestion pricing subject comes up. We have congestion pricing in Minneapolis / St Paul and it just works. If I'm in a hurry, I have the option to choose to use the priced lane. We're rolling it out to all of the major highways (it's on 3 of them so far). I wish we had it on more lanes on all highways already, because what is the point of having a 60mph road if most of the time you are barely going 20mph, or trip lengths are otherwise completely unpredictable? It's also particularly important to people who might have to travel to multiple jobs, or people with children in school/day care, when consistency in travel time is extremely valuable to them.

There is a concept in economics called spontaneous order. Once the cost of congestion becomes apparent through the price mechanism, then society can reconfigure itself to adapt to it. You just have to have the price mechanism in place to signal it. People will figure it out and adapt once you have implemented congestion pricing. Practically every medium size or larger city in America has terrible traffic congestion problems.

Importantly, you have to resist the temptation to set a price ceiling (like Houston did at $8), as it will not work effectively because it will not allow the price mechanism to work and will cause a shortage of road capacity and you end up with no material change and basically a bad tax. (E.g., the true cost of congestion spurs demand for apartments and transit options near the city center, which in turn reduces traffic congestion.) Also important that it is purely congestion pricing and not resulting in crony government. Changes in laws and zoning and public transit will occur subsequently.

I am excited for NYC to pilot this and hope it becomes a success for that city.
Thx. This seems to be part of a playlist of 2019 lectures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rXD5-xhemo&list=PLoROMvodv4...
Please note that these are musings about possible language extensions that would let us express monads; this is not even at the stage of a proposal yet, and we haven’t all agreed that enabling this kind of code is actually useful.
wait, adv is gone? it’s always been a bit weird but it was thriving the last time i looked in on it.
Ask HN: Package dependencies in node.js ecosystem
"npm install gatsby" on a fresh install gives me 969 new packages in ~/node_modules (visualized here: https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/gatsby)

Is this reasonable and long term viable? Many seem to contain only one or a couple of functions. How come there isn't a culture of bundling functionality in larger libraries?
Approval Voting is the best balance between fairness and simplicity.

I switched from IRV (RCV) to Approval Voting once I better understood the challenges of election administration.

That said, FPTP is just about the worst. For election administration, it's the most brittle, where the margin of error too often exceeds the margin for winning. So I'd happily support IRV, RCV, score voting, approval voting as a replacement.
So restaurants, bars, and taverns didn't exist until after the automobile was invented. Got it!
Is that not technically untrue as this is already priced, with options being very expensive due to high implied volatility now?
Who would the "rightful owner" of @apple be? Maybe the one who registered it in the first place?

Or does that old instinct of defering to power make you want to give in to the presumptuous request of a large entity?
> most people on HN are the actual population that is buying teslas

You overestimate how many people here are willing to shell out those amounts of money for vehicle, and how practical it actually is. Yes, it is a future and whatnot and a lot of cool tech.

But for say 20k euro I can have 5 year old BMW 3-er wagon. Yes, not new car, but I get 95% of the car for 1/3-1/4 of the cost. Much better fun to drive (I care much more about handling/cornering than 0-60 numbers), much more practical. I can travel 1500km in a single push with 5-10 minute breaks just to refill/stretch - done it quite a few times, not the main use by any means, but car unable to do this reasonably is at the end useless to me.

I might be outlier, but even in uber-rich place like Switzerland, Tesla is a rare sight. They are much common where government aggressively subsidizes specifically this type of vehicle.
That's exactly what the plan looks like at http://www.carfree.com
The point of standups is to help teams to learn to communicate and to steer the team to a habit of working on the most important things. Once that's a behavior, standups can be less frequent or dropped all together. This is especially useful for new teams or when the team changes.
Do you think I'm reading too much into the word then?

If some one told me about a small independent record store, or small independent coffee shop, I would have certain expectations.

Platform independent seems reasonable given the context though.
> Days like that tend to elevate my resting heart rate for up to a week afterwords.

Sounds like overtraining. If you overtrain, you are not exercising optimally and stop developing. You must increase the training volume gradually and take days off if the signs of overstraining appear.

Increasing training often requires increased rest. You can't keep busy as usual and train hard. Pro-athletes sit and rest on a couch a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtraining#Signs_and_symptom...

>Elevated resting heart rate, a persistently high heart rate after adequate rest such as in the morning after sleep, can be an indicator of overtraining
i don't understand your snark. do you honestly think python, as a programming language, is superior to something like racket or f#? these languages are newer than python of course, but the point is that they are representative of what we could be using.
HTTP/2 in Payara 5
The latter is exactly what the US is doing, fucking off from PRC goods.
Eclipse MicroProfile 2.2 Continues Alignment with Java EE 8
“You honor, the mortage owner still has a house, just in a different district.”, said bank representative.
:) You're welcome but I should really be thanking you for documenting and sharing this process. Sometimes founders can be protective of the strategies that have brought them success, so it's always super valuable to be able to share and learn from case studies like this. Really awesome.
there is a good book on the topic: The Haywire Heart by Dr. John Mandrola, Lennard Zinn, Chris Case
5G and the Future of Cybersecurity
Reddit admins shut down communities without warning due to their own political whims, have edited the content of a users post with no indication of doing so, and, as said already, inject ads. Reddit's model is paternalistic at best.
> Taxis, Ubers, trucks and cars owned by people who opt to pay hundreds of dollars a month in parking are who will be taxed. Given the unusability of our streets, this seems closer to an economic reckoning than a political money grab.

Taxis and Ubers are forms of public transportation, and likely reduce the overall number of cars on the road. Simultaneously, they reduce the incidences of drunk driving, providing positive externalities.

Taxing trucks, used for transporting groceries, goods, and packages to the city, will increase the cost of each of these goods. The increase in grocery prices serves as a regressive tax on all people living within the congestion pricing zone.

The failings of the subway and train infrastructure are due to mismanagement on the part of the MTA and untenable, collectively bargained contracts. At the same time that driving within the city will become more expensive, these forms of transport have been reducing service within the city and to the surrounding regions while simultaneously increasing fares.

[0] https://medium.com/@johnnyknocke/the-mta-loses-six-billion-d...

[1] https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Cuts-to-Metro...

[2] https://jalopnik.com/new-york-wont-shut-down-a-major-subway-...

[3] https://trid.trb.org/view/384171
Interesting tweet shows lots of Tesla's sitting in inventory after being rejected by customers or other problems.

https://twitter.com/Latrilife/status/1113799586567426049
Its never the wrong socialism.
Maybe actual agile as imagined is incompatible with captialsim and human nature?
It's not management's job to understand details of the code (and it's probably a problem if they do). And it's not their problem to understand the business perfectly (and it's probably a problem if they do). It's their job to facilitate getting work done. That means helping their developers work as effectively as possible. And in most cases, that means keeping customers from end-running around whatever work management process is in place. If you're doing agile, the manager's job is to protect the iteration, and shield the developers from politics and pressure so they can work well.

I often use a bread-baking analogy here. Making software is like baking bread. This iteration, we get some flour, water, yeast, and salt, mix them together, knead, rise, and bake. And if someone comes in five minutes before baking is done and says "Can't you just add some raisins now? It's just a handful of raisins, it's not much work". No. It means starting over.
Many projects have often predictable periods of intense testing and bugfixing without new feature development.

On the other hand, distinguishing between "the product doesn't do X properly" and "the product doesn't do X yet" isn't necessarily important or meaningful.
I don't know... I just know. Is it that hard? I'm always pushing to remote and triggering CI and I rarely break the build.
Fantastic feature aside, does anyone love the design and functionality of Resident Advisor? The only review sites that feels like an institute in it's genre nowadays, while all the other review platforms have sold their soul. They have an excellent artist and event database too. Fingers crossed it will never change.
Don't confuse the name "exceptions" with the English definition. They are just a mechanism for returning values, usually signifying errors (but not always: see Python StopIteration), without using a standard 'return'.

So no, nobody is considering a network failure an exceptional case.
How long have we had SD Cards for them to still be unreliable like this? This is unacceptable.
I'm not so sure about that. You may think Elon Musk is a genius or mega charismatic guy.

I see a lot of value on what Musk is trying to achieve, but I think he would have way more credibility if he just stopped overpromising and under delivering.

I'm starting to believe people post more and more about Tesla because of that.
An Invocation for Beginnings
> I use to think of networking as “going to events and handing out my business card”,

Even this works a bit too well, to be honest.
Your first job on a code base with any real complexity is going to be tough. It just takes time, but after a while, it will start to make more sense and you will get more comfortable with it. Hang in there. the experience you'll get by seeing this through will be invaluable to you. maybe it is a problem with your job and the project, but it's sounds more like it's just feeling like you're in over your head. as a junior back end dev, you are in over your head, that's how it goes. so long as your team understands this and is patient with you, it's a good situation for you in terms of your own career development.
Many points to dispute here.

> America is where most of the innovation, cultural, and political power is.

American innovation has largely been a byproduct (European refugees, cold war spending, deregulation) and not a deliberate result of the rational egoism which you venerate. Where America has been successful is in the marketing of innovations, which has created a perception of America as being particularly innovative when in fact global innovation rankings consistently place countries like Norway, the UK and others ahead of America.

The claim that America is where most of the cultural power lies is even less substantiated by facts. Taking in to account population sizes and language barriers you will find that the relative cultural influence of many European nations exceeds that of America despite their 'collectivism'. That is unless you consider culture to be the commoditisation of everything and anything.

You are correct when it comes to political power - American political hegemony has been a great tool for enforcing a liberal world order. This however goes against your overarching point - the opposite of a collectivist mindset would be something along the lines of the John Quincy Adams maxim “we do not go in search of monsters to slay”. America simply could not 'justify' its military presence in far flung regions of the world without appealing to collectivist moral principles.

> I personally have lower taxes, high quality healthcare, and live in an awesome location, and I got all of that through an education and training. That is available to almost every American if they just put in the work.

You must live in a bubble (physical and delusional) if you fail to see the trade-off involved with having government spending/GDP on par with many European countries yet operating a low tax regime with little social safety nets.

Yours is the only developed nation which regularly shuts down it's government and doesn't pay its workers.
Unlike in most other western democracies, your veterans face disproportionately high suicide rates due to the comparatively poor levels of social assistance.
Your homicide rates and levels of incarceration are among the highest in the developed world.
You are guaranteed almost no holiday entitlement and are are one of few countries in the world that does not require employers to offer paid parental leave to new parents.
Your vast levels of inequality (individual, regional, etc.) are contributing factors to phenomena like the opioid crisis, leading to whole generations of individuals whose opportunity is never realised simply due to the accident of their birth.

You have every right to support this system of governance and I don't dispute that it has benefited you and your family. Choosing to extol its virtues and claim that it is the 'morally right thing' without even an attempt to recognise the trade-offs involved is disingenuous to yourself and everyone else however.
If your RHR is elevated at high camp that's to be expected as that's part of the physiological response to reduced partial pressure of oxygen.

If your RHR is still elevated after your return to sea level...huh.

I live at 6800 feet now but like you used to live at low elevation. I'd come out, hike up Pikes Peak (6700 feet start, 14100 foot finish) and then come back down to sleep at 6000ish feet. RHR would be up maybe 10-15BPM until I went home to sea level, then it went back down to normal literally on the drive home.

So the response you're seeing, I mean what do I know I'm not a researcher, doctor or expert but I will say that seems odd.

Check out this 40 minute podcast on altitude physiology. Super dense with really actionable information on the body's responses:
https://www.scienceofultra.com/podcasts/29
If you ever order something online or get food delivery or take a taxi or uber you do use the roads, and the number of people who do those things somewhat regularly is a lot closer to 100%. But you might still be using the roads a lot less than someone who drives to and from work every day. So some combination of tax money and tolls/congestion pricing seems to make the most sense from this usage based angle.
On the other hand, drivers pay ~$.45 a gallon in gas tax, and at least 30% of that goes to the MTA.
> forcing paranoid error levels and converting all errors to exceptions is the only safe way to develop

Oh, absolutely. That's how I do it too. Unfortunately, warnings and notices are still a thing in PHP 7. So the best practice is to just install an error handler that turns these into exceptions. They they are either handled by code, or by a catch-all handler.

This is in fact what I've implemented SlashTrace to do by default: https://github.com/slashtrace/slashtrace/blob/master/src/Err...
TB of my knowledge the border between Turkey, and Greece still has uncleared landmine fields, and Serbian-Croatian border has uncleared spots too, in spite of the treaty. For clarification, I'm not telling they appeared there because of migrants. No, but my point is one can't pretend EU don't want to build border walls because EU is all migrant-loving place. EU's land border with unstable regions is very short (a patch in Bulgaria, a patch in Greece, Spanish Ceuta & Melilla), and already well-fortified. That's why there's no duscussion.
Well, it feels weird to defend Instagram, but here we go. The important lines from the article are these ones:

> Instagram confirmed to Newsbeat that Kevin's handle had been changed in line with its policy.

> It allows it to make changes to an account if it's been inactive for a certain amount of time.

I tried going to the guy's new Instagram [1], but couldn't see any posts there at all. I visited his Twitter [2] instead, and except for a few posts he made from the exciting run in the last 24 hours, he hadn't tweeted since 2013.

I don't think they did a bad thing here — it's their platform, and they have some incentive to encourage a more lively and current community. Although it seems minor, one facet of this might be to help big users reclaim better names from the huge pool of defunct ones out there, especially given that Instagram has gotten so big that finding anything that's not a conflict is difficult.

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/_sussexroyal_/

[2] https://twitter.com/Sussexroyal/
This is good advice, but I'm already doing something along these lines and my point is that this is not covered by the OP at all. My question was not intended as asking for advice for my personal situation - it was a criticism of published document.
> Now how is that any different from raising an exception? (Other than the extra 'if error: return error, result' lines you need.)

I think exceptions can be used well in some contexts but I will completely concede the point that they're super complicated.

"How is that any different?" Well -- we unwound the stack automagically and that's not trivial. Every intervening piece of code should know that a call they make could transitively make lots of interesting calls and they might cause this function we're writing to exit early.
Meanwhile, I've been emailing Instagram yearly for many years now trying to gain control of an account that has had 1 post and 15 followers for YEARS now, that is squatting on an account name that is the same name as a registered LTD that I actually own and use. Crickets.
Static site generator that pulls data from Airtable
No matter what you do, or what process you implement, if the organization does not _respect_ engineers, your life will categorically suck.

As others have noted, the amount of process involved with "Agile" these days is not in the spirit of the original Agile Manifesto. Additionally, how is it that _some_ organizations do it well, vs. others that make life hell?

This fundamentally comes down to how much the organization values and trusts its engineers. You only implement process if you cannot trust a person or group of people to do something on their own. You only track and measure performance by metrics if you do not trust them to work hard. This is easy to verify - how often is senior management beholden to process & measurement? Usually, the only "process" they need to go through is related to laws and regulations, which - again - is fundamentally based on how must we trust one another.
>Or just put in a number in a single column boxes like in Australia or Ireland.

What do you do when some moron voter can't count and reuses the same number, or skips a number? This kind of voting scheme seems like it would much too complicated and confusing to the average American voter.
It's also copiously documented and extremely well-understood. There will always be bugs in software but you can usually fix problems quickly, there's few surprises or gotchas. I trust it.
That was a very good list of things that would typically come up in a healthy retrospective. But, yes, there has to be psychological safety first.
I think long-form pieces like this are interesting, but I would hardly say it'd be "difficult to cut anything out". There is a ton of fluff here. I certainly don't have time to read the whole thing.
It’s well established that Uber and lyft INCREASE the amount of cars on the road (and thus congestion) because they incentivize non-car-owners to take car trips they wouldn’t normally take. Uber and Lyft lead to a net INCREASE in cars on the road, not a decrease.
Holy crap. This very much matches my experiences. I'm not military, but I used to shoot air rifles competitively in high school. I was definitely overexposed to lead. I remember my fingers would literally be coated in lead, and I don't remember even once hearing that we should wash our hands after shooting.

My experience with trying to get a medical professional to actually give a shit about the matter is exceptionally frustrating. Every doctor that I've ever spoken to have all come just short of laughing in my face when I try to self diagnose myself, and without exception, try to send me to get blood tests - which give no indication of lead poisoning except in recent exposure. I really just want some closure on this, since I know there's not much I can do treatment wise. Getting a doctor to take it seriously is an uphill battle...