skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm stunned that you think people in this thread are promoting needless antibiotic use or "endorsing chronic lyme's existence." Please - do link the paper disproving the existence of chronic Lyme.

Say you were diagnosed (via ELISA or Western blot) a few months/years ago with Lyme borreliosis. You take antibiotics for the recommended course, and your health has returned, but your tests are still quite positive. Your doctor(s) recommend continuing the antibiotic therapy.

Would you rather that they terminate treatment despite (a) blood tests turning up positive and (b) symptoms continuing? Are doctors no longer permitted the last word in treating their own patients?
Everything has an impact.

The ultimate act of conservation is suicide. Few are that committed. We are all hypocrites.
One design quirk of the Euro is that there is no sovereign to go with it.
> 2/3rds of job adverts I see seem these days to be for 'full stack' developers. That's the definition of generalist-seeking IMO.

Yes, but once you start reading the requirements in the body of the ad, it becomes clear that the "full stack developer" needs to be highly specialized in one particular frontend framework and highly specialized in one particular backend language.

Then a generalist applies for the position and says, "I've worked with a bunch of frontend frameworks, but not this one, and a bunch of programming languages, and while I'm proficient in this one I'm hardly among the elite. But I can recognize bad patterns across languages and have a good track record of identifying the right tool for the job." And unfortunately, a lot of companies just say, "Meh, we need someone who's really good at Angular and Rails."
When I was using Linux full time I used todotxt. It worked nicely with Vim on my workstation and native mobile apps on the phone. Since I switched to Macbook with iphones I’m satisfied with the native Reminder and Notes apps from Apple that are automatically synced across my devices.
So creepy.
The article specifically calls out Comcast's own advertisements as lies. Why would Comcast pay for that?
Why do people keep using facebook? I don't want to see this shit anymore.
A face to face meeting is no silver bullet either. I've been to many meeting where someone with a strong opinion and with the manager's blessing takes over the conversation/agenda.

What I like about an email is that it allows you time to digest the information and then respond to someone.
And to the person you're replying to's point, where the walking/stairs/etc. involved in city life might serve keep that expenditure constant for someone who's otherwise sedentary, that's not the case for someone driving everywhere and topping out at 1000 steps a day.

Research shown that those expenditure doesn't matter. Your body adjusts. Nevertheless, we should create an environment that encourages everyday physical activity.
Coming soon to a whiteboard near you!
>People should not need to diet. They should spend enough calories to burn off excess food.

It's unlikely a 30m run and a 30m walk is going to burn off their excess calories.
Some alternatives: devtodo[1], taskwarrior[2], and org-mode[3].

[1] - http://swapoff.org/DevTodo

[2] - https://taskwarrior.org/

[3] - https://www.orgmode.org/
Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate
The average developer cannot pick up an entirely new language in a few days. Maybe I'm incompetent, but it takes me a few months before I start to feel comfortable with a new language and its ecosystem, and a year or two before I feel like I really understand the nuances and know just where to look when something goes wrong.

I can easily find someone with 5+ years of full time Java development (or JS, Python, and Ruby), and that means they're going to come fully equipped to dive into a problem, using familiar patterns and libraries. I don't want to hire people to make them learn Scala as quickly as possible and hope that they're able to figure it out very quickly.

> the average one chooses a major language and framework and hacks things together with stack overflow

Call me average, but I spend most of the day googling and reading results on SO. I think most developers do the same. Even if I already know how to do something, I usually google it to see if there's a better way to write it. If you're working with Scala (or some other less popular language), you're going to have less results doing these things, because less people are going to have hit your special problem. There is no amount of amazing language features that make this trade-off worth it.

And it's not just true for languages, it's true for frameworks too. Using common stuff (language choice, framework choice, library choice, compiler choice, etc) makes it so much easier to solve the problems you'll inevitably run into.
Because government finance is not the same as personal finance. Debt craze gripped the US in the early 2010s shortly after the lows of the great recession, defecit spending would've boosted the economy and allowed the US economy to recover quicker, instead we have a 10 year recovery that only recently started to provide gains for the most marginalized workers. Also, climate change is a existential risk, I'd rather finance solutions with defecit spending now than finance a war over water in the future.
Regarding Lumineye, there is a market for elderly people at home, which are already monitored by bracelets or some other devices they are suppose to wear, that they usually forget, to detect fall, or other adverse events.

No one want to have a camera installed at home to be monitored 24/24. However, something that could check your pulse or maybe if you have moved in the last 30 minutes remotely would be much more acceptable.

It is probably a much bigger market than law enforcement.

In more institutional places, it could probably be used in hospital, nursing home, psychic wards or prisons.
The format of a command is `git <action> <options>`, and the <action> is completely baffling to the RCS/CVS/SVN habits I've built up for the decades.

For the little while that I sometimes used Hg I found it much easier to get my head around.

It's mostly a lack of practice/use.
Very much Julia oriented. Nice that Julia is catching up with other. This one however is missing comparison with R tools. I guess R would also be quite green on the "Quick Summary Table".
On payment.

Assuming cell network stays up, it is just another redundancy element, have a mobile network backup to landline network.
It should be noted that asking "How are you?" while not expecting an actual answer is largely limited to English speaking countries. Someone from outside the Anglosphere would see this ritual as being ridiculous, which to be fair, it is.
Google's software mistreats or harms the user
This is a long discussion, but the gist of it is that you cannot compare an economy with a household. An economy that does not issue debt (mostly to itself!) can't invest and grow and build productive assets (and then pay the debt back (mostly to itself) later).
The "clear alternative" that they offer is unusable for the masses, arcane even for the tech-literate, and almost completely unresourced for improvement, with no viable plan to make it so.

I love FSF's products, contribute to them frequently, and use them every day for my job. But it is laughable to even dream that the alternative they present would be better for the average user, for almost any definition of "better" other than the most restricted FSF definition regarding no-compromise of any sort of "better freedom".

Would I love it if there were more free, "better" alternatives to Apple, Microsoft and Google? You betcha. But there isn't one, and there is no viable path to one, and hasn't been since Stallman first rode out of the desert.
There’s a bunch of FB employees in the comments here, so I guess they will answer soon.

EDIT: Any moment now, I suppose it might take a while to type up a thorough, elucidating answer.
What am I a Vegas odds maker?

Again I can't prove a elite field of men in the races she won, because I don't know you definition. Only you know your definition of elite ultra runners, so why don't you look at the fields instead of having me guess?

I can tell you plenty of the runners are ranked in the top 10% for their group (age/sex) overall, but something tells me that being a top 10% ultra runner in your group doesn't qualify one as Elite under your definition.
Editorial title much? "Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware" is the actual (click-bait BS) title. Very similar to the other BS GNU article: "Google's Software is Malware" [0]. Interesting OP only submitted the Apple one with a different title...

[0] https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html
doh! Thank you!
So why not print all the money everyone needs? I'd start off with a couple of million EURs. Oh, you also want a couple of million? No problem. Oops, hyper inflation and we're back at the start.

Seriously, this doesn't work.
I was thinking of updates before even getting to the third paragraph of your comment - to that question I would answer a definite 'yes'. I think slow Internet poses a massive security risk in this regard. It isn't even about users choosing to run or not to run updates - my parents had such slow Internet at one stage that a large Windows or OSX update would never get a chance to download before the next lot of updates arrived. They'd be several updates behind through no choice of their own.

Incidentally I think Windows Updates are getting better in regard to disruptiveness. What I wish they would do though is implement some kind of "reboot as many times as you need to apply the update and then just power down once it's done". I will hit 'Update and shutdown', then turn on my PC the next day and have to wait for the second stage of the update to run. Though again, it seems vastly improved as of late - that second stage takes very little time at all.
Ugh, this just reads so slimy. Like, "Occasionally, businesses share that data with Facebook." or "We sometimes receive information from businesses that use third-party data..." Like it just happens to occur. 'Yep, It's just a natural process, buddy, like the sun rising. It just happens. But we're here to help you deal with this mysterious problem, because we're the good guys!' There's so much grossness to opt out of in the modern world. Thank god for GDPR and CCPA.
Yeah, I was under this impression as well.

I was wondering if something like this existed the other day, and I was excited to see this / share it, but I didn't want to put people under the false impression that I'd written this library.
Right. And even if they conceded that they were on the moon, they'd argue that the 1969 landing was still fake, with props brought to the moon way later.
Wow, there are a ton of assumptions in this argument, and you seem to be projecting a lot of your personal beliefs and feeling as well. I don't have children, but my girlfriend and pets have never bothered me or been a distraction nearly to the extent of distractions that occur in an office. I definitely don't have a big house and lots of money to build an "operations center." I have a little room that I use as my office, homelab, and to home a few other hobbies. I would absolutely hate working in a co-working space, and my productivity would certainly go down. Of your examples of "lost communication," none of those are things I feel I would be missing out on and I've never had issues communicating with my coworkers remotely.
If it's something that needs to be done, ask if I would do it, don't ask if I would like to do it.
That's why it's not called clear history anymore...
It may not be worth it for consumers, but for ISPs it's an excellent form of market segmentation.
Our structure is low-level employees, like me -> squad lead -> tribe lead -> VP -> SVP -> CTO. VP and above have offices. SVP was the one who cancelled WFH. The open plan office thing predates the SVP and CTO, who are the main part of the new "leadership" that came in over the last year.
This is a philosphy generally known as neurodivergence, from my understanding.
Most government agencies price lives around $10 million.[1][2] An ancient Slate Star Codex post does a good job explaining the reasoning (https://web.archive.org/web/20180408043513/https://squid314....):

> Contrary to popular belief, you can put a dollar value on human life. That dollar value is $5.8 million. Denying this leads to terrible consequences. Let me explain.

1. https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/mortality-risk-v...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#United_States
If you read the article linked in the comments, it looks like this works by creating a special tracking ID for each user that can be disconnected from the real UID, if the user chooses to.

So if you don't have FB, presumably you already don't have UID, so you're on equal footing with Facebook users that use this future. They are tracked, but tracking data is not connected to their UIDs.
At our company (I'm a cofounder), we encourage remote. Some people need f2f once in a while so there is a co-working space we have for that. I split my time 50-50 at office and home. Saved 1.5 hours a day in commute compared to my previous job. It is hard to scale well, unless we built a strong culture of communication and spell out a few things.
If you can print money to discharge your debt than the debt itself isn't bad, it's just another tool in the monetary policy toolbox. Of course the Germans have a particular aversion to printing money.
Re: the "Dark patterns" part - I think Apple has actually managed finding settings quite well with the search bar in settings. It's almost always my go-to way to get to a specific setting rather than trying to remember which branches of which tree to get to it. Just start typing and see the settings that match it. Tap it and you're there. Done.
Does everyone on the spectrum act in the same way?
[Ron Burgundy "I don't believe you" GIF]
Which is to say -- to your credit -- you'd do more to gauge the meaning of the reply and clarify your request than the manager in the story did!
There's a middle ground I like, which is office rooms that have 2 - 4 people.

I've worked in private offices, home office, open floor plans and small shared rooms. The worst are large open floor plans. My favorite have been offices with rooms for 2 - 4 people. That's the sweet spot, I think.

My favorite of all is mixing that with WFH. e.g., Office M/W/F and WFH Tues/Thurs.
The desert certainly doesn't stop the suckers, speaking as a New Mexico resident. Ticks abound, Lyme equally so.
Keep in touch with family and friends. In my country (hungary) most people use Messenger to communicate. It'd take too much time and hassle to introduce new apps and platforms to my friends to keep in touch with them.
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This was part of the 2003 North East Blackout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003

>The blackout's primary cause was a software bug in the alarm system at the control room of FirstEnergy, an Akron, Ohio–based company, which rendered operators unaware of the need to redistribute load after overloaded transmission lines drooped into foliage. What should have been a manageable local blackout cascaded into collapse of the entire Northeast region.
> The question "How are you?" is a specific type of social interaction where there is an expected answer and that isn't to actually explain how you are.

Then why ask it??? To fake empathy, perhaps? If a person doesn't want to hear my answer to a question, I suggest they just don't ask the question. Saves everyone a lot of time, and avoids plenty of confusion.

Otherwise I'm just going to continue answering questions in a logical, honest and forthcoming manner, perhaps appearing (to some) as lacking "functioning social skills".
The other thing driving SMS 2FA is that this is a clean way for the site/org to get their hands on a real phone number for you with no extra effort.

SMS 2FA has been repeatedly proven to be trivial to break with a simple phone call to a mobile provider, since there so far is no downside at all that I am aware of to the providers. If someone jacks your SMS and drains your bank account, at least in the US your mobile provider just goes "oops". Until there is some penalty for them allowing your number to be ported without your consent, SMS is essentially useless for real 2FA security. Even if the account security was foolproof, though, it still is vulnerable to SS7 routing attacks.
In economics there are four parts that can go into debt: the state, the citizens, the industry or the foreign countries.

If the state does not go into debt and the industry doesn't do it then there are only a) the other countries or b) your own citizens.

Just ask yourself - who lends a country money?

So it is considered good for a country to go into debt if it uses the money for infrastructure. With this money people and companies get paid and thus produce GDP. With this GDP growth the debt can be paid.

But this would be in a perfect world.
This is pedantic, even for HN! Who said anything about being "initially" faster? To win a race, you need to maintain the fastest average speed out of all competitors, plain and simple.
I don't feel like streaming quality is the biggest issue. Spotify's highest quality rate (for paid users) is pretty good, but the audio compression for streaming to a bluetooth device kills the quality. I've stuck with wired headphones because the quality is so much better than bluetooth.
Why didn't the first male (i.e. second person to finish) get it then ? (if it was a male trophy).

I don't think it was a male trophy per se, just the organizers expected a male to win.
I created Bitcoin City with fake news
The bull case is that it has the potential to become as valuable as Marriott which is about $43 Billion in market cap.

Marriott for the most part has transitioned mostly to an all digital company over the past two decades. The Marriott of today is primarily about hotel operations (i.e. branding, bookings/pricing/revpar/SEO, front desk, housekeeping, wifi, remodeling) and its loyalty rewards program and mobile phone app (BonVoy).

Much of its assets have been moved to a standalone REIT that trades under a different ticker. In a way similar to WeWork, Marriott effectively leases hotels from the REIT.

So in that sense, if WeWork can be considered analogous to Marriott, then in a hand wavy way the $47 Billion market cap valuation could somewhat make sense.

The bear case is that its not a well implemented corporate structure full of accounting traps and is actually a fraction of Marriott's valuation...
If I remember correctly, it was a debt crisis that caused this. You basically allowed people who couldn't pay to "own" houses that were so beyond their means that (combined with a couple of financial derivatives) it collapsed the economy.

Now the solution is clearly more debt?
As a sysadmin, how do you version your infrastructure code (things like puppet or terraform)? If another VCS, cool. If not at all, try git for it!
Except methane is the cause and intentionally so as it will dissapate in less than a decade but make it appear as if the world is warming more quickly than estimated.

It's a trick and people eat this shit up hook line and ignorant sinker.
Texas Towns Hit with Ransomware Attack in 'New Front' of Cyberassault
Gigabit isn’t that special these days, normal consumer gear gets you close enough.

Trust me, once you get a faster connection you definitely won’t want to go back to 100.

It’s kind of like high DPI displays.
While people do have to indeed eat. They don’t have to eat fast food. Which is proven to increase risks of many types of cancer and disease just like smoking.

https://www.eatthis.com/bad-diet-smoking-study/
Since the whole world economy developed around a monetary system based on debt. It's good not be too deep in debt, but if nobody was borrowing money, the economy would grind to a halt. There is such a thing as a good middle ground when it comes to debt.
This is a poor understanding of "comprehensive documentation."

You should absolutely be keeping documentation. However, you should not require hundreds of pages of specs and design documents before a single line of code is written.

Instead, documentation should be written at the same time as the code, and should follow what is actually needed for and by developers and the organization rather than being subject to a "gate".

It's about writing the right documentation. Some of that documentation is harder to write: For example, writing a specification that can literally run against the software, like in behavior driven development. (This is one of many potential tools. It may not be applicable for you.) It may look like a wiki. It may look like a set of UML diagrams and a formal spec. It depends on the team and the domain of the problem.

The problem that the manifesto was talking about was one of documentation as a deliverable that was not properly updated and only written to pass a requirement of the process.
China’s Soft-Power Fail: Condemning Hong Kong’s Protests
I'm sure something like this already exists, I just haven't put too much effort into researching if a solution exists yet. If so I'm all for suggestions!

Intro - General Contracting company with 25-40 projects running at any given time across the continental United states. Each project has 1 On-Site superintendent. Each project has an assigned Project Manager who typically oversees 3-5 projects at a time. Many subcontractors are also re-used on various projects once you find one that does good work.

Problem - When a project comes to an end, or a 2 week delay hits a particular job, the On-Site superintendents get shuffled around from site to site. This can be said for subcontractors as well. Communication is key when trying to get all moving parts into place, and if a new project starts knowing what team members you have available vs what members are being used would be valuable to receive at a glance.

Idea/Solution - Have a simple map, with the ability to 'pin' a particular person/subcontractor or group to the map. Have the ability to add job #, contract # or other notes to the Pin. Have start/end dates be added to the pins. Have this be available company wide as read-only for those who need it simply to know who is where in case the main coordinator is busy. Have it be editable by select people within the company or even have one admin account if having an entire AD setup with permissions would be difficult.

Would prefer to be self-hosted, however have no problems using it online if it had proper security measures.
>Conference calls, slack and email are no substitute for the face-to-face conversations that can resolve blocking issues in a few seconds versus a few hours.

I haven't found this to be the case
It’s almost like both approaches have their pros, cons, and appropriate times when they should be used.

I like a combined arms approach. Start an email thread and if there is no timely reply, or consensus is getting hard to reach, walk over to the other person’s desk for a chat or call a meeting.
The article claims that German/European inflation is too low, they should be printing more money (or an equivalent, like borrowing)
The point is that the original text was such an over-the-top and just plain logically off-base rant so as to not be worth reading past a line or two.

So whether it's about software coming from GNU or FSF (or something endorsed by Google) doesn't really matter, in this context.
The book series Dies The Fire also gives the topic an excellent treatment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_the_Fire
As much as people not on the spectrum act in the same way