skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like others have said, you may be surprised! Normally commented out code is at least highlighted differently in more editors. However, it is not unusual for people to complain to me that "if (blah)" is unreadable and must be formatted "if(blah)" (which honestly blows my mind -- you'd think it would be the other way around, if anything!)

One of the biggest thing that catches me out with commented out code is wondering why it is commented out. Is it desirable, but not working for some reason? Is it undesirable, but not deleted for some reason? Is the new code an experiment? Is the old code an experiment? If it's an experiment, am I sure the previous person reinstated the correct code?

Even if you say it can be reinstated in a hurry, why would it need to be? When I'm reading the code, that's one of the questions I'll be thinking about. If I see commented out code, I'll start walking back in history and seeing why the code was replaced. Then I'll be wondering if there is some work flow that perhaps we need to retain for some reason.

All of this takes time. If you really want the code to be gone, it's better for me if you remove it. Then I don't have to wonder why it is there.
That's what happens when you choose not to have a stable API for drivers. Maybe Linux developers should reconsider that ;-)
This is true, but at best it's irrelevant to the point being discussed. And at worst it's the sort of victim-blaming that is used to undermine every time discrimination comes up.
You joke, but looks like:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-18076

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-36896
The article doesn't say anything about the truck being in front of the Tesla's path for 10 seconds:

> The crash in west Delray Beach happened four months ago when a tractor-trailer pulled out in front of a bright red Tesla Model 3 driven by 50-year-old Jeremy Banner.
Ah I think you might be right! But to be totally honest, I really don't care for PWAs either.. Maybe I am just too old fashioned but I don't care for my web apps having offline functionality.

That being said, I am not familiar with the technology so this is very much an uninformed opinion!
The thinking is also that the gauntlet is just plain wrong, so that would go away as well once their cartel (AMA) loses its power.
All excellent points and questions. I'll consider appropriate answers and restatements and respond soon. I'm rarely satisfied with my ability to communicate ideas like these. I really must express this conjecture formally - in the language of mathematics - so that it may be unambiguously communicated in the appropriate contexts.
Thanks for your comment. Typically for HN it has inspired a lot of doctor bashing. The person reading Dr forums to find the ‘truth’ is particularly laughable, like making generalisations about young men from reading 4chan.

There are countries where healthcare is free, and doctors get paid well (eg Australia, Canada), and student debt is dramatically less. So you have the wrong idea why you paid so much, the real reason being that American Healthcare is a complex system in catastrophic failure mode.

I’ll give you a perfect example - at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Scientific Meeting this year, the biggest and most important oncology meeting in the world where original research is presented, one of the plenary abstracts was a study showing that Medicaid expansion reduced racial disparities in oncology care. To someone in a single payer system this is blindingly obvious (if you have insurance you get better care), but in the US this counts for groundbreaking research. That is how backward US healthcare is, sadly. From the outside looking in, it is obvious that this is the case.
* Introduction to Java Programming and Data Structures
* Head First Java
* Think Java
* Clean Code
* Pragmatic Programmer
* Effective Java
* Refactoring
* Java Concurrency in Practice
* Test Driven
* Head First Design Patterns
* Release It!
* Kotlin in Action
* Spring in Action
* Spring Boot in Action
* Cloud Native Java
* Spring Microservices in Action
* Learning Spring Boot 2.0

Feel free to add more suggestions for the list. Also make sure to share your experience with the ones already on the list.
Regressions should be expected, because the unpatched code would have less checks to ensure correct operation.
The site guidelines and moderation policies are intended to steer the comments towards as prissy, non-critical, de-politicized conversations as possible. Anger is a perfectly reasonable part of political discourse, and political discourse and thought is an important part of being a person in the world w/ agency. I think most would agree that there's a "beating a dead horse" point in comment sections, but the amount of preemptive moderation of anything mildly heated about politics is goofy, and not actually conducive to the goal of making a place for conversation that's "intellectually curious" or whatever. There is no topic that can be discussed in a political vacuum, and there's no conversation that's politically honest if there's not a little bit of struggle, but the mods on this site treat that like its a 5-alarm emergency.
It depends entirely on how much autonomy and motivation you have. I have to do all of that for my own modest product, but it's only viable because I have complete autonomy to decide what the most efficient approach would be... and I enjoy it.

This isn't typically how it plays out when you start a new job for someone else. Which means they won't reap the rewards of your experience until enough trust has been built to give you the autonomy to make it happen (this may never happen). So it takes time, and not everyone wants to take that time or can see the benefit, and arguably in the startup space there may not be enough runway for it either.
> Having an explicit character to denote the end of a statement is much more valuable than people pretend.

No, I'm not talking about automatic semicolon insertion. I'm talking about _ not having semicolons at all _.

Many languages are like that – in fact, almost all languages which are not descendants of the C branch.
Some of the new technologies were intentionally limited to not upset MAD, such as MIRV technology that would allow a trivial amount of silos to hold enough nukes for an effective counter-force first strike. Keeping limited nuclear armament technology is fine as long as all the world actors are honest about it
To those that are profound, the US has mass surveillance since the first satellite with camera was in orbit
The company store for tenants. Dystopic.
Seriously. The constitution must stay general. We can’t let them narrow down our rights.
They've been touting performance increases for a while now

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-...
Is Great Information Good Enough- Evidence from Physicians as Patients
You only complain when you notice something? Satilite with cameras has been around forever
You're ok with Facebook owning Whatsapp, but not with the branding change?
It’s a broad side of the trailer which is a challenge. Tesla will stop for the rear-end of a trailer, but may disregard the broad side of a trailer stretching across the highway because it looks too much like an overpass.

Definitely corner cases like the broad side of a tractor trailer stretched across the highway will prevent FSD from being remotely possible in 2020. Complex traffic light arrangements in multi-lane intersections, unprotected left turns, even driving over a lane marker to avoid a fixed obstacle are still TBD features in the AutoPilot code base.

Those are the features they will be adding in 2019/2020 to get what Musk is calling “feature complete” but regardless of what he has claimed, from personal experience, I do not see how the cars could operate without any human driver in 2020 except under highly constrained conditions like “in parking lot not to exceed 3mph” and even that I think will expose corner cases with cars getting stuck and needing driver assistance.

What I do think we will see in 2020 is a respectable percentage of trips being completed start-to-finish with AutoPilot engaged the entire time.

However, then and now, the driver absolutely, positively, must always be looking out the window when operating AutoPilot.
You can trip a breaker without the ground wire being involved. The ground wire does help with one failure case, but that's not the only way that your circuit breakers/fuses protect you.
Not a real quote from Socrates: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
Why dont Google, Microsoft or Apple start operating more like Amazon? these companies have so much cash that thet could literally start 100s of startups within with small teams just like Amazon is doing.
Nothing is wrong with a penny, really the problem has been inflation. Like about a hundred years ago a penny had the same value as quarter today. Given a enough time with constant inflation a dollar itself will be about like a penny today. Although, I’ll probably be dead before then assuming no sudden changes.

The dollar could be rebased in that time period to make the units still make sense. Like 100 “old dollars” equals one “new dollar”. Like we are talking 200-300 years from now to where a dollar that furture year is about the same value of a penny today. Again assuming no sudden inflation rate changes.
There is a running-gag in the gay community "a guy with an unwashed ass" which is used for straight guys.

Also, many women told me that they were in love with guys with bad hygiene, some of them never washing between their cheeks because "nothing goes between my ass cheeks, that's gay shit!"

Some women even going so far as saying "if sexuality was a choice, why in their right mind would anyone choose (unwashed) men?!"

So maybe this isn't that big of a problem in terms of sex and intimacy as you and I would think?
This!!1
I've noticed that most dev work is "full-stack developer". This usually means that you'll be bouncing between back-end (python, rails, node, go, w/e), front-end (react, css), and possible devops.

I'm not sure how satisfying this is. You probably don't get much chance to dig deep and solve tough problems, or craft as you would in a hardware-oriented job.

I've never worked in hardware though, so I'm quite possibly complete wrong about their day-in-the-life. Just rampant speculation.
Better than unchanged, even. Sure, some lost and were scooped up, but by and large the financial sector is even stronger than before with all of the consolidation that's happened.
Jeasus - please do this.
What do you mean by "can be done"? Copying the message to 2 destinations is always possible. Doing this in the client makes it not break the e2e from user's point of view. I don't think this required any research.
Yes correct
> Complex systems become more complex over time and resist becoming simpler.

Deserves repeating.

At my job, it's repeatedly discussed as a feature to be an engineer who removes the most code. Most engineers are net positive, the few are break even... but the true greats are the ones who're able to go negative.

Pink diffs are the best diffs.
Telix but not Telemate? ISTR the scripting language for Telemate was really nice and I definitely built something pretty sophisticated for x25 NUA scanning.

Payphone hacking was not much of a thing in Brazil but I spent days on Bluebeep on international R2 connections. It is amazing to think how hard you had to work to be able to call abroad. The scarcity in everything made for a lot of fun.

Toneloc was also something I recall from the era that was outstanding. It is a pity I never printed out the full exchange scans I had, as they were beautiful.
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I mean, it's GNU M4. It's at the core of GNU's build system. It's GNU developers depending on glibc internals. I'd be with you if it was just some random project, but it's pretty bad of an update to glibc to break the GNU toolchain.
How long has it been broken like this? By my count, at least 346 years, reckoning from the premiere of The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.

The opening scene features the protagonist iterating over a series of rationalizations for reducing his medical bills to 1/3 of the list price.
That this scene was expected to be received by an audience which could relate to the necessity of performing these sorts of arithmetic gymnastics (though perhaps exaggerated for comedic effect) suggests that this was already a well-established norm in 1673:

SCENE I.--ARGAN (_sitting at a table, adding up his apothecary's bill with counters_).

ARG. Three and two make five, and five make ten, and ten make twenty.

"Item, on the 24th, a small, insinuative clyster, preparative and gentle, to soften, moisten, and refresh the bowels of Mr. Argan."

What I like about Mr. Fleurant, my apothecary, is that his bills are always civil. "The bowels of Mr. Argan." All the same, Mr. Fleurant, it is not enough to be civil, you must also be reasonable, and not plunder sick people. Thirty sous for a clyster! I have already told you, with all due respect to you, that elsewhere you have only charged me twenty sous; and twenty sous, in the language of apothecaries, means only ten sous. Here they are, these ten sous.

"Item, on the said day, a good detergent clyster, compounded of double catholicon rhubarb, honey of roses, and other ingredients, according to the prescription, to scour, work, and clear out the bowels of Mr. Argan, thirty sons." With your leave, ten sous.

"Item, on the said day, in the evening, a julep, hepatic, soporiferous, and somniferous, intended to promote the sleep of Mr. Argan, thirty-five sous." I do not complain of that, for it made me sleep very well. Ten, fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen sous six deniers. "Item, on the 25th, a good purgative and corroborative
mixture, composed of fresh cassia with Levantine senna and other ingredients, according to the prescription of Mr. Purgon, to expel Mr. Argan's bile, four francs." You are joking, Mr. Fleurant; you must learn to be reasonable with patients; Mr. Purgon never ordered you to put four francs. Tut! put three francs, if you please. Twenty; thirty sous. [Footnote: As usual, Argan only counts half; even after he has reduced the charge.]

"Item, on the said day, a dose, anodyne and astringent, to make Mr. Argan sleep, thirty sous." Ten sous, Mr. Fleurant.

(the above is just the first half of Argan's recitations - they go on for another paragraph or two!)
This issue was originally published back in 2016.

https://medium.flatstack.com/misconfig-in-jira-for-accessing...
Your main point that "Wealth is far different from income." is very true, but I am not sure why you are doubling down on over-stating the results of the Trinity study.

>...4% is just fine as a rule of thumb, or for the purposes of this post.

Let's see.

Your claim was that "If a person has $1M wealth, it's $40K interest in his pocket forever, assuming he invests wisely and follows the 4% drawdown rule."

Going to your suggested website and entering the numbers for 30 years gives a 5% change of bring broke by the end:

>...For our purposes, failure means the portfolio was depleted before the end of the 30 years. FIRECalc found that 6 cycles failed, for a success rate of 95.0%.

That's not what most people think of when they hear they will be able to spend 4% forever.

Using a larger number just increases the failure rate. Someone retiring early and trying to last 50 years gives an estimated failure rate of almost 22%:

>...For our purposes, failure means the portfolio was depleted before the end of the 50 years. FIRECalc found that 21 cycles failed, for a success rate of 78.8%.

Nothing in the Trinity study indicated that its "in his pocket forever" - just that historically, withdrawal rates of 4% were able to last 30 years before the assets were totally depleted
If you don’t know what to use. Use Javascript
So because some things are optional, everything has to be optional. Too bad that’s just not how it works. If you don’t want Apple to process the data you send to Siri your option is to turn off the service.

Here’s a little ‘secret’, you can’t use the location service either without Apple processing you data for analysis. If you don’t want that, your option is to turn off location services.
Another telltale sign that the dark ages weren't actually that dark.

The dark ages still brought us:

Windmills

Prostheses

Plow

Just to name a few.
I admit I have mostly avoided using it, so a question:

> Jira is a disaster of UX.

Jira is trying to be all things to all people. It seems to me to be based on a sort of shared illusion, namely that when people talk about work getting done they are talking about the same thing, when in fact they're often talking about wildly different processes, different philosophies. I think that sort of illusion guarantees a UX mess, because it's trying to cover up/accommodate too many different things. Is Jira a UX disaster because of just that? Or is it bad on top of that?

And I worry that makes no sense, so by analogy let's imagine that somebody sold a "transport solution". This sounds great, because transportation is a universal need. But in reality transport solutions include shoes, scooters, bikes, motorcycles, cars, buses, trains, and airplanes. So this "transport solution" comes with a great mess of wheels, gears, shafts, etc, etc, plus reams of Ikea-style instructions for putting pieces together. It's universal, but also guaranteed to be a pain in the ass for any actual specific use.
Plan A was to get good at programming. Plan B was to get even better.
Amazon still has >$40B in cash. Sure Google has 3x that, but it's still within spitting distance.
Where many rich people compete with many other rich people to live, evidenced by higher than average home prices and higher than average increases in home prices. In the redfin link, the difference between national median sale price and cities such as SF/NYC/LA/BOS/DEN/etc is huge, and growing!

There is clearly a migration of money and human resources from many areas into fewer regions of the nation. Cities like Indianpolis/Minneapolis/Nashville/etc are also growing, but I bet the areas around them are not, because people are migrating to the urban areas.
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Is there any way to browse by genre and year published?
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Nice visualizations on the homepage! Cool that one is interactive, but some hijack the scroll event and the right-click menu.

Also the super light contrast on the de-emphasized text makes a lot of the content hard to read.
「もうヤダこんなバカの相手したくない」ピーチピチ（佳子）が強姦殺人魔、明仁、文仁、徳仁、悠仁にウンザリしているという思念です（祈）†
I beleive the traditional solution is to turn them into furniture. Or houses! Building with farmed wood is very eco friendly since it produces a negative amount of CO2.
Oh I love to eat too but it always makes me feel like trash.
Setup a network of putted plants around your living room, setup a mini water reservoir and connect it daisy chained to all the plants with a pump and drip system, hookup a few optimally tuned LED lights spread above, hook the lights and pump up to a time to run when you're sleeping.
And I also just verified by checking myself against some known Jira dashboards and searching for some of the search queries he provided... I'm not sure what there isn't to trust when he tells you exactly how to verify the information.
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some responses treat as serious, others consider clickbait

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20592774
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20582004
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565024
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20561136
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20554229
An Ed.D. is not an advanced degree. It is an abomination. You cannot cheapen an Ed.D. or an M.Ed. by cheating to get it because no one with any familiarity with them respects them. Degrees in education have no effect on teaching effectiveness, they’re among the clearest possible examples of pure credentialism and gatekeeping.
In the movie, he was signaling "kill me"
It may be possible to extract electricity directly from damp air
I mean, at the alphabet scale, they have pretty wild stuff like waymo, loon, verily, calico, wing, etc. Even at Google, there's pretty cool tech too like stadia, soli, duplex, and so on.
Who Did the Maya Sacrifice?
So Tesla's autopilot has no history or world model?

If you approach a truck from the rear, you have a rear aspect on it before having a side aspect on it.

If you have overtaken by a truck, you have a front aspect on it before having a side aspect on it.
You would definitely pass a resume screen at my (large-ish) company. We don't screen people out for lacking specific experience in our tech stack. Don't get me wrong, we like experience in our tech stack, but with 30 years of C, we wouldn't care what else is on your resume.
We're building a new tool which makes it really easy to build backends, and MVPs are particularly easy. We literally built someone's product with them during a one hour onboarding earlier. https://darklang.com (or email me: paul@darklang.com)
Giving diagnostic tests like that would lead to a lot of false-positives.

With any diagnostic test you need to understand what it tests for, how it tests for it, and when it gives false-positives and negatives.

It's just not possible to understand what's going on without a lot of training and education.
Exoplanets: Astronomers are probing faraway planets with greater sophistication
Worse is that these are cached by Google so any admin seeking to clean up this mess sure has their work cut out for them.
Absolutely. I've been using Kindles for a decade and have never bought any ebooks from Amazon.

The only functionality issue I run in to is that as far as I can tell, Amazon has a feature where if you buy the book from them then they keep your progress synced between your kindle and their phone apps. Can't use that with books from other sources.
It's hacker news.

How about hacking them?
I probably should have phrased that better. My point was that the top quartile has a disproportionately large amount of the debt.
Disclosure: I work for AWS and provided some opinions and non-prescriptive advice to the team behind PartiQL about Open Source.

The same question was raised on Twitter, and I put my thoughts there: https://twitter.com/_msw_/status/1157405984823758848

TL;DR, my advice is that successful open source projects and open specifications usually have diverse communities. You will have a hard time attracting people to your community of they do not share goals with the rest of the community. We should have some bounding boxes around how the spec evolves through clear tenets. Otherwise welcome diverse opinions, experience, and problems to solve collaboratively.
I was looking for that too. There's a bit more information in the Wikipedia entry on the transmissible cancer of Tasmanian Devils, which shares some characteristics with the canine disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
What about Oculus?
Very nice. Dealing with FDA is very painful.
Probably on some cdrw. A tape even.