skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm affected to a lesser degree by SAD just noticing the changes but not really affected for another month or so.

Related to the fasting/microbiome advice is active oral hygiene. My main problem with SAD is lack of motivation/energy to care to do anything which can happen in any month but is especially bad during the winter. For non-SAD reasons I've taken my personal war on plaque seriously, brushing three or more times a day with an super-soft brush (Colgate SlimSoft 2-packs on sale) to save gums, mouthwash, etc. What I've found is that I sleep better and it's 5x (subjectively) easier to wake up at the set time and have energy/motivation to start my day. Since this behaviour is new this year I have yet to see how it does through the winter.
More like you've died slightly.
There's a huge appeal to what happens in those places where the Earth is underpopulated. Wilderness, strangeness, beauty, all those things. A fully populated Earth is one enormous suburb dotted with cities, there will be no breaks, no getting away. A planetary claustrophobia, no thanks.
“You're creating a slippery slide transfer straight into socialism”

This seems to beg the question: "Would Amazon be less successful if it paid a living wage to those who labor in its warehouses and those who work to manufacture the products it sells?"
The only way slack's valuation makes sense to me is that it could be used as a covert business-intelligence tool. I tend to think of github the same way.
Caffeine dependence is real, but withdrawal symptoms are usually mild. I’m having some right now. :) But 6-8 cups per day sounds crazy to me. Aside from just crazy jitters and anxiety, I’d guess there are counter-acting health risks not discussed here when drinking that much coffee. It’s advised not to exceed 400mg caffeine, and it’d be easy to accidentally drink more than twice that much with 8 cups of strong coffee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Taiwan#/media/...

vs.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_populatio...

The reddest areas on the California map would be orange on the Taiwan map.

A San Jose to Bakersfield route (comparable in length to the Taiwan route) has a huge low-population density area around the middle, so basically there's no prospect of using the rail for shorter trips. And the number of daily trips between San Jose and Bakersfield is likely to be limited.
What's the best way to learn how to use a software?
There are online courses to learn about almost every subject, is there somewhere that aggregates resources on how to master software? I'm thinking about software like Excel and Premiere Pro.
If they had to instrument the cube internally, that makes the result much less interesting. And if it's only succeeding 20% of the time, that's not good either.

Robot manipulation is hard. There are lots of systems that work some of the time. Few work well enough in an uncontrolled environment to be useful. Amazon is still looking for a robot picking system, and nothing works well enough yet.
I felt that the communication in PR was not clear. Even about this, the cube was heavily instrumented.
> Have you noticed how Apple ships most of their big bang projects at WWDC, a date they commit to far ahead?

Is this why so many Apple products have been increasingly low-quality? Instead of committing to quality, they commit to arbitrary dates because some bean counter decides quarterly profits needed to be higher.

I don’t disagree that we should estimate, but I think we should be realistic about just how difficult estimating software projects is, especially now that we’re “agile”, which really means “there aren’t any explicit requirements but there are requirements, we just don’t know what they are and also they change every sprint so good luck”.

If we want to estimate software, we need to have more predictability. I can estimate that it takes three days to fix a bug, but what happens when I pull those covers back and see an unholy Eldritch abomination? I could redo my estimate, but what if I run into an arbitrary quarterly profit-driven date? “Well, just get it done.” Then we nail some more legs to the dog and the cycle continues.
Has StackOverflow Become an Antipattern?
Exactly what I thought when I read this paragraph. But still some CTOs are willing to let the team take time to learn a new stack and that in the end helps the organization (was part of one).
Roads were built in the ancient Rome mainly for troops, horses, and chariots to travel with ease for battles and defense. Similar story.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_production
> USA is good because they tend to go to central cities

This is great if your only metric to measure is "could I possibly get there in a car."

This is terrible for pretty much every other factor, including

- neighborhood desirability: highways are terrible neighbors to live next to due to all the air pollution, noise pollution, visual impacts, and traffic impacts

- transport capacity: roads become congested far faster than other modes of transportation. Another issue is that pre-automobile neighborhoods are generally designed to distribute traffic across a grid, not concentrate it at highway exits and offramps.

- public health: the prioritization of the highway has caused a lot of asthma in high-density, low-income areas. The absolute primacy of the car and the creation of car-centric environments have also decimated active modes like walking and biking, or walking to transit, and this is probably a big factor in why Americans are less healthy than other developed countries' citizens.

- equity: highways today mostly run through low land value areas, because they were the cheapest to build and the citizens living there generally had the least political power. This was also intentional; many cities had the policy where bulldozing and splitting existing poor or minority neighborhoods to build highways was an "improvement" to remove "urban blight". As such, the impacts of highways in the US tend to fall disproportionately on the poor and minorities.
It’s really unfortunate to see someone take stock of how the world has changed around us, how it’s no longer possible to get a good job out of high school or buy a house with any kind of reasonable income, and decide that the way the workers have adapted to the situation is to become short-sighted fools.
What about all the other states? I don't live in California. Companies can and do script different behaviors depending on which state you live in.

And that doesn't stop them from using dark patterns or cancellation fees.
Another poster mentioned that is was because I used a female example in a relationship, instead of a gender-neutral example.

There are very vocal people who have very strong opinions that all hypothetical relationships much be gender-neutral, to them it is horrible to "assume" that if one partner is male then the other is female.
My guess is that they're referring to the open letter from people working on many GNU projects calling for Stallman to resign.
I would encourage you to consider the overhead of multiple private insurance companies handling healthcare in a similar light.
Note that this is the same URL that the one that was originally posted. :-/

Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303283
Ask HN: Reject by Stripe Match?
Hi,

I'm trying to setup Stripe. This is my first business but I got rejected because:

> a previous business you were associated with, is listed on MATCH or another terminated merchant file operated by the card networks.

This is my first time business and I didn't have any previous processor so I kind of don't know what to unblock it. Because without Stripe, which provider can I used to accept payment online. I'm trying to build a SaaS.

Anyone got reject like that and how do you fix it?

Thank so much.
I would say just the opposite. When it comes to the entire “web developer” tech stack, sure I can put together a website good enough for internal use, but I’m not very good at the front end.

I consider myself to be very good at C#, okay at backend JS development and passable at Python.

I have enough experience from doing a lot of ETL in a previous life to know how to automize queries and schemas for speed and to not lock up a database.

I’ve set up CI/CD solutions from scratch with what is now called “Azure Devops”, AWS’s CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/CodePipeline, OctopusDeploy and Jenkins

I could just as easily and competitively apply for jobs as an “AWS Architect” who knows most of the popular AWS offerings for developers, Devops, netops, and system administrators and I have experience with them.

But in many of those areas - especially on the front end and with the netops, system administration stuff, at any scale. It wouldn’t make any sense to hire someone who “kind of” knows what they are doing over hiring a specialist.

If I need something now I’m not going to want to wait for you to get up to speed in year.

Do you really think you’re as good at any of those areas as a specialist? AWS alone announces dozens of new things every month on their podcast.
It’a amazing how much more freedom of choice you get if you limit your spending to necessities. You can choose only jobs that you enjoy, work part time, take sabbaticals, save money/retire early... I honestly think reducing your standard of living can be one of the best ways to improve your quality of life.
I do not see any drunken frat boy language. I see an analogy. An analogy that makes sense to me.
Microsoft didn't donate "huge money" to Github, they bought the company outright...and that has nothing at all to do with Java despite the ill fitting observation that Github is "a DVCS tool that hosts a variety of Apache and other open source Java projects".

Also that's not what the article is about, it's about Microsoft increasing its investment in the Java Enterprise space, whilst their old "enemy" seem to be less interested.

And finally, Slashdot from 1998 called and asked for its "M$" back ;)
Or the signal indicates most visitors are a result of an accidental link click.
100+ teams for Skype on xbox?
If housing is an asset and its amount is constrained, then its value goes up. If I'm wealthy, I can use the leverage I have on existing properties to buy more properties, to earn a multiplier on whatever the market does. Have 10x properties? You get 10x the returns when the market rises. (And 10x the leverage to buy more property.) Not to mention you can charge more rent.

Once you reach a certain point, it might not be in your best interest for the housing supply to increase, as your existing investments won't be as valuable.

> The only alternative that doesn't have strictly worse incentives are if the government builds and assigns all housing.

It doesn't have to be all or nothing -- we can change the incentives in various ways. For example, tax on land value not property value. (Encouraging housing to be built rather than parking lots). Allow tenants the right of first offer on property they are renting, so an apartment complex can become a coop rather than owned by a private entity. Increase taxes on non-owner occupied properties, to encourage folks not to just buy and hold vacant property. Improve protections for tenants -- increase penalties for landlords who do not maintain their properties. There's probably a lot more ways we could incentivize increasing the number of people housed rather than maximizing the revenue for the landlord.

Build distributed public housing, in smaller, more manageable buildings. Don't require that public housing revenue covers all maintenance for the property -- if we agree that we should build some, why would we let it fall into disrepair? We should adequately fund its care.

In addition to tenant coops, support cohousing.
Like many things in life, applying to jobs is a numbers game. You don't know what the other side is doing/thinking. You don't know how much there is out there (answer: a lot). To negotiate well you need multiple offers and practice negotiation. If you are nervous about the application / interview process at all you gotta do it more.
> It just makes sense to me that the economy is stimulated by demand instead of supply.

Maybe my experience is atypical, but I've seen, over and over, hiring driven by either 1) we have more demand than we expected, or 2) we have good reason to expect more demand and should hire now to support that.

I've never seen "we have money, but no extra demand and no reason to expect any, so we better hire". "We got a tax cut but have nothing for extra workers to do—better hire anyway" said no business owner ever.

Which is to say I have no friggin' idea what supply-side is going on about. Yeah there's probably some hypothetical situation in which growth can be supply-constrained, but in the presence of demand that problem will fix itself pretty quickly, guaranteed. The opposite clearly isn't true at all.
I hate deadlines simply because organizations I have worked in tend to assign them indiscriminately without any reference to reality. Upper management wants to set a deadline for a big project? Then they need to be prepared to commit and compromise. While developers continuously deliver, product owners and stakeholders need to continuously review, reevaluate, and adapt.

In Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman offers my favorite object lesson on the topic:

http://txti.es/kahneman-outside-view

He sums up:

This embarrassing episode remains one of the most instructive experiences of my professional life. I eventually learned three lessons from it. The first was immediately apparent: I had stumbled onto a distinction between two profoundly different approaches to forecasting, which Amos and I later labeled the inside view and the outside view. The second lesson was that our initial forecasts of about two years for the completion of the project exhibited a planning fallacy. Our estimates were closer to a best-case scenario than to a realistic assessment. I was slower to accept the third lesson, which I call irrational perseverance: the folly we displayed that day in failing to abandon the project. Facing a choice, we gave up rationality rather than give up the enterprise.

The suggestion that the enterprise should have been abandoned all together can be misinterpreted as fatalistic, even nihilistic. I take it to mean that you've got to do your research (the outside view), rigorously define your MVP, and then work from there. If your deadline is fixed, be ready to scale back.

His distinction between the inside and outside view is the key. For a project to have any hope of realistic timelines, it needs to be understood and the outside view needs to be applied.
There’s a link on this page under the title of the article via the word Web that does that for you.
The problem with super determinism isn't contradiction it's the absurdity of the conclusions.

Every action, every thought, every motion of the atom is completely predetermined. Okay, fine, but then my deliberation on what to do next is also predetermined. But here I am recognizing that it is, so couldn't I just neglect the computation I do in my head if I really believed my next actions were predetermined?

This isn't hypothetical, I'm here, speaking to you, right now, about how if I believed in super determinism I don't need to deliberate on any future actions. You might say: Well you're going to anyway if it's determined and not if it's not determined. And so we are in an absurdity. My deliberation about my own determination is already determined and regardless of if it's determined that I stop deliberating or determined that I continue deliberating.

This just doesn't jive with observational experience. Not say that determinism isn't still sensible, but super determinism is not sensible, in my opinion, it would seem to me that the future is not fully predetermined, but that doesn't say anything about me being able to choose possible futures, just that my brain, as a computational mechanism, has to consider the possible futures because they are, you know, possible!
A conversation about abortion with my Uber driver
I would recommend the author to try NixOS instead. It is not like that you wouldn't have issues however mostly things works (never had the kind of issue the author reported in this post, for example).

I think the difference between NixOS and Guix, excluding the language of choice of course, is that NixOS has the community to make it work. For example, I had a issue last night that I opened a issue in GitHub, and in a few hours the maintainer of the problematic package answered me and the problem was fixed.
> You can subscribe to one service, binge all you want, change to another, and so on.

That is such a headache. Are you calling this a feature?

What about those with ADHD that struggle to pay bills on time and never cancel gym memberships? How's that going to work out for them?
The perfect strategy is called "being the house"
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I thought I would hate this article, having years of delivering software with and without estimates, and preferring the latter. But it makes a compelling case!
Right on. I think some newer devs come out of school not actually knowing how to implement their own, from-scratch application using vanilla JS or jQuery, so this stuff seems frightening to them; others are obsessed with the (possibly true) idea that the thing they build with React will be more extensible in the future, while discounting the poor fit in the present.

Something tells me that you could probably serve a page with almost no JS on it and accomplish the same thing Imgur does, including the comments and monetization stuff, with "server side rendering", which is what we used to just call "CGI serving HTML" until that wasn't trendy enough.
> Rail systematizes discrimination

Railways are fixed route. People who rely on rail can only go where the rail goes & have limited freedom to access other destinations. The people who pay for rail (via taxes) are often not the people who use it (since people with extra money tend to purchase cars). Wealthy people tend to not want heavy rail in their back yard, so lobby to have it other places. That means wealthy places lack rail access.

Edit: For example this case in Seattle asking if building light rail above ground discriminates against poor communities when rail is built below ground in richer communities. They dropped the suit because they couldn’t afford to keep fighting.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=200...

Caveat, I did my primary research for a single grad school course in 2006, so new data may be available.
The pure-math focus is what made it a slog for me to get through, though I'm clearly not the intended audience. I was 20+ years out of college when I first read it and it had been over a decade since the last time I'd had any reason to think at all about many of the areas of math it takes as a given that the reader knows like the back of their hand. To be fair, I would have been more comfortable with the examples if I'd read the book in my first year of college, with high-school calculus still fresh in my mind. But as it was, I spent way more time reading Wikipedia pages about the math concepts in the examples than I spent thinking about the concepts the book was trying to use those examples to illuminate.

It was worth the read. I just think with a wider variety of examples, I could have gotten the exact same benefit with far less extraneous effort.
Yeah, that's basically the same as what I'm saying -- housing shouldn't be a commodity that we speculate on financially. The incentive shouldn't be about how much money it can extract, but rather how many people it can comfortably house.
That link from 2009 is about Nvidiagate, but I think previous poster was referring to the infamous GPU problems of the 2011 MBP (which I personally suffered).
Sadly, Dina is only available as a Windows FON file format, which I can't use or host in a web app.
The point is it wasn't ad hoc object manipulation + cube solving, the hand had its hand held regarding which macro-action it was supposed to take next.

The PR I've seen about it doesn't make this clear and is happy to leave the ambiguity because it means more publicity, rather than demonstrating a better understanding of editorial ethics.
Novel meta-stable plutonium solid on pathway from Pu(VI) to PuO2 nanoparticles
I learned both Ruby and RoR simultaneously on the job and somehow managed to avoid the pitfall of confusing the two. Maybe it's my interest in languages that makes me look at the note on the doc page that indicates it part of ActiveSomethingOrOther vs Ruby since version x.

I don't know if it will matter for you, but I've found it useful to know what it is that I know. If this seems like you then pay attention to those notes whenever you see them mentioned. I don't specifically look for it but if mentioned on a doc page or StackOverflow comment will pick up on it.
Autonomous vehicles won't solve the congestion problem and would likely make it worse. The fundamental attraction of autonomous vehicles is to externalize the cost of congestion. It's like cars in general, great it's just you. Not great if it's everyone else too.
Well - I did say it's a fantasy.

That said, re: Oceans -- I find it hard to believe that "pioneers" could build islands or sub-oceanic cities (Gungan-style), without a nation-state declaring their sovereignty over it. Maybe a floating flotilla of ships, like in Snow Crash? But, still, generally I think that nation-states have us just where they want us.
> They're not rare

Depends on how you define rare. Exceedingly uncommon at the very least. stares at a pile of 150 resumes Ruby is a language languishing from being embedded in a few niches, having poor performance, and otherwise being unremarkable, imo. Ruby was made with the idea that picking it up would be easy (which it is), leading to less incentive to learn it.

Putting Ruby in the job description gives you applicants with Ruby experience, which is why the blog post was (and is) impractical. Signaling works.
I just want to point out you guys are talking about 2016 Google, not 2020, 2024, etc.
Buying developers via github seemed focused toward JS. I went to [0] to prove it but turns out Java is the second most popular language on GitHub projects

[0] https://octoverse.github.com/projects