skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Short term reward seems to overrule long term planning and goals if the outside pressure is not there and we have a choice.

I think the emphasis is wrong here. Short term rewards overrule long term planning when there isn't room for long term planning. In modern society, it's not that long-term planning isn't emphasized enough, nor that internal will towards it isn't strong enough. To the contrary, we're bombarded with messages encouraging instant gratification. You'll notice that many long-term initiatives are bolstered by offloading either the physical effort or the cognitive load onto others: construction and farming are highly-mechanized and specialized jobs; retirement planning is done by experts, as is healthcare; education is a matter of enrolling in a program that figures out timing and curriculum for you.

Of course, this paradigm favors individuals who have wealth.

The idea of community is neither a panacea nor a platitude; it's a structural schema for offloading personal effort onto people who are concerned but dispassionate, routing around both issues of money and of direct biological impetus, thereby reducing the individual and collective load. Any workable solution to a systemic problem such as this is going to include other people, so we need to stop looking at it as a per-person engineering problem.
I also hated the games played at the large corporations I worked for. Another thing that really bugged me is the lack of control. If they make a decision somewhere above you, the only thing left for you is to jump.
The Swindon Magic Roundabout is a frequent topic on HN:

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915586

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652868

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15211579
They create the environment that encourages and allows those actions though. If you encourage a rapid growth at all costs mindset, you can't be surprised when outright fraud results.

And if the VCs that funded Theranos had done actual due diligence instead of getting so caught up in FOMO, the whole thing could have never happened.
I wonder how often system implementation delays are caused by excessive government contract litigation? How much does it cost taxpayers because Amazon or Oracle are litigious?
As a mobile developer I think this is a REALLY bad idea because of the security implications surrounding it.
What if Microsoft were to assume and any all risk from a possible judgment not in their favor?
I was an IT admin for a company of 100 people. If you mess with employee's browsers or browser layouts or search functionality, you are going to get a LOT of angry users. Furthermore, Microsoft is forcing companies who do not want this functionality to take evasive action to prevent this from happening. It's not the fact that this functionality is useful or the fact that this functionality isn't evil thats making people angry. Its the fact that they are forcing changes on people that people may not want or need. That is user hostile behavior.
I don't have a thing to say re: "big" vs "small" organizations using the ORG domain. Nor does the RFC say anything about it. (Perhaps someone else in the discussion was talking about organization size, but it wasn't me...)

re: public perception vs. definition - I'm not "pretending" anything. The RFC doesn't call out that ORG is for not-for-profits, or for organizations related to any particular "ethos" or philosophy. People can think what they want about it, and organizations can try to use the public perception of ORG to influence public perception of their organization however they want. That doesn't change what the RFC says, which was my only point. The RFC doesn't specify who it is for, beyond "Organizations". This notion that ORG was "reserved" for not-for-profits seems to be completely lacking in evidence.
1. Is your new service still based on Yodlee backend? Everyone else who provides any consolidation service seems to. I am not saying they are bad, but it is better to be clear upfront.

2. Are their any features for Pro consumers who are not looking for budgeting or retirement planning? I don’t mind paying $100 a year for a good service. I would rather not have it free.

3. I am ready to switch banks or even brokerage firms if they provide a saner integration with your service
I lived in Swindon for 2 years and while drivers can find different things challenging, I would venture to say that it's a lot more straightforward when you're on it than you might imagine. It separates traffic effectively at peak times according to which roads they enter/leave, and as many have mentioned it slows cars down so you aren't pressured to make snap decisions either if you aren't sure. If all else fails, you can follow the car in front of you and if you picked the correct lane at first entry the chances are you will be led to the correct exit point.

Pedestrians don't really feature from a safety perspective because there are light-controlled crossings all the way around the fringe. The problems I saw were when arrogant/impatient people (as opposed to first-timers) saw a gap that was intentionally left because of the way traffic flows from one roundabout to the next, and would speed past two or three cars then push in. But those people cause problems everywhere.
I get that but, how much money do angel investors have? How long before the 95% failure rate drains their capital?

You'd need at least 20 investments to even think about maybe beating that 95% failure rate, that seems like a very high number of investments for one person to find, evaluate, fund and wait before the 95% catches up to you.
It's almost a textbook case of institutional failure -- multiple interlocking institutions took a remediable mistake (the first arrest) and doubled-down on it. Almost as if the failures are an emergent property of the institutional architecture.

(This being HN, we see this sort of thing discussed wrt. failing startups or larger corporations, but seldom so brutally and clearly with governments -- although the moderators' policy on political discussions is necessary if only to prevent HN turning into a permanent floating firestorm of flame wars.)
It's like this guy has been inside my head. Sometimes I feel exactly he same way, do the same things (well, not Twitter), with the same thoughts and results. There have been times when I refresh HN and say "you're not even enjoying this, why do you keep looking?"
I'm not sure how such a 'device' could be anything other than political. There's not a mathematical formula, based on science, driving the setting of the clock. It's set at the whim of its caretakers according to their perceptions of the risks in the world.
This guy knows real estate.

It isn't an efficient market. Efficient markets have very little to no alpha. Real estate has been my best side job ever. Currently looking at a 40% annualized returns since 2015. All thanks to the same principals used to invest in public fixed income and equities.
I have a 5€ note I found blowing in the wind while running at an abandoned construction site. I asked everybody in the vicinity if they dropped it, but I still feel awful about picking it up, because I didn’t and don’t feel I can do justice by dropping it. It’s made me realize I may have moral failures from earlier in my life that I never bothered to commit to memory because I wouldn’t have thought of them that way. A child would have felt glee, and I don’t know when that should have or did change in me.
this kind of stuff is such an american way of doing things.

- bid for contracts that enables government to make some real progress

- lose

- sue because you lost, claim winner can’t start until
your suit is over

- introduce 1-2 year delay of waiting while your complaint is processed

and people wonder why china gets things done in a quarter of the time
> I guess the argument is that advertising would be OK, if it didn't track your every movement and share that information with thousands of scummy companies. Is that even possible now? Would advertisers pay if they didn't get that information?

They would, if they had no choice. Thay have to be forced, both technically and legally, to advertise without using that kind of fidelity. Simple as that.
There is always an alternative: no purchase at all.
Sure. I wrote a Chrome extension that finds recipes on websites you visit and clones them into a big modal at the top of the page so you don't have to hunt them down (they're often buried on long, rambling blog posts). It operates by looking for some divs that common WP plugins and other off-the-shelf recipe site templates use but it has been surprisingly common for me to find itemtype set to "https://schema.org/Recipe" or similar, which makes the process incredibly straightforward.

If more sites adopted the schema properly, it would also be a breeze to convert units on ingredients, extract images and instructions for recipes, and so on. Right now it's on maybe 1/3 of recipe sites I investigate. Ironically, the bigger the company behind the recipe, the less likely they are to use the standard schema.

Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc...
And then crawlers completely mess up your data. And it’s another thing to maintain and process.
NextDNS's anycast network seems to be built on top of M247 and Vultr. I wonder if it is stable enough.
There is no dishonesty there. Merely acting inconsistent to one's advice. It's not a serious deficiency.

BTW, in a number of countries a large percentage of doctors smoke. It's a cultural thing: They pick up the habit during the stress of medical school. Would you suggest that a large percentage of doctors in those countries not inform patients that smoking is bad for them?

As a politician recently complained about: Purity tests are usually a bad idea.

It's fair to criticize. It's silly to reject their word/work because of it.
Now imagine when "a police officer was stationed at each mini roundabout"!
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Yes, the post-childhood life expectancy in Victorian England was 73. For all the money spent on medicine and public health we've barely moved it.
Wouldn't surprise me. I heard the person who wrote the legislation left when they were completed and took a job with AWS.
America takes all the credit for the fall of the Iron Curtain but Poland played a crucial part and this is often forgotten or ignored.
I hadn't heard of that side of the argument. According to
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/05/oracle-argues-jedi-defense-c..., Oracle had complained about this before, then kinda dropped it, then revived it one week after Amazon launched their new complaint.
This is standard procedure in these kind of contract fights. I get so sick and tired of government IT contract squabbles. They drag on for years, little usually changes, and, in the meantime the work doesn't get done.
Haha. I experienced The Chaos, but it seems to last only until they are three or so. Now I have time for boredom again.
Upvote this man
Yeah, they get things done because they're a totalitarian, completely opaque regime. I'll take western governments with all their faults and inneficiencies, thank you.
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> a typical situation which makes roundabouts dangerous is when you're driving in the inside lane and you want to take the second exit

If you want to take the second exit, you should be in the outside lane to start with. In the UK, for a standard two-lane roundabout, unless indicated otherwise by road markings and/or signs the outside lane is for taking the first or second exit, and the inside lane is for taking the third and subsequent exits. You move from inside to outside as you pass the second exit.

There are also rules for indicating correctly that help smooth the traffic flow, but unfortunately many drivers seem oblivious to (or just ignore) them. Also, on smaller two-lane roundabouts more than a few drivers will cut across the inside lane (taking the shortest path) with no consideration for vehicles beside them.
The post linked within this post was really illuminating for me: https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html

The section on why notecards and todo lists have never worked for him (and for me) was particularly salient:

"The problem with "systems" is that they are authorities. They have to be. If you decide "I'll prioritize things with a stack of notecards" then you are telling yourself the following:

"The notecards replace my own brain. Everything that I do must be on a notecard. If it isn't on a notecard, it can't be done. If I want it done, it has to be on a notecard."

The problem is that when you have a crisis (a day full of emergencies) that forces you to break from this system you will lose all respect for its authority. Your brain will learn that it doesn't have to respect the notecards, that they aren't in charge, and this sense of freedom is addictive and will persist. Most ADHD sufferers have left a trail of systems - notecards, whiteboards, lists, post-its, apps, alarms - that worked great for [a month, a week, three days] but are now dead to them, scorched earth we can't return to."
> acquire enough cash to simply buy outright

I did that a long time ago (not in the US) and owned the place until a few years ago, when I radically misjudged the market and ended up selling it at the bottom. Oops.

Now I own a nicer and much more valuable place, with a mortgage; I may be able to keep it and pay it off, or I may have to sell if I ever want to move.

For me personally, the lesson was that I want to own outright, or if I can't do that then rent, and I think I can do that for the rest of my life subject to some obvious limitations.

Mostly because of the mobility trap presented by a mortgage.
I think all the developers out there who are actually doing work aren't here to upvote other topics.
anyone have a non paywall link?
I'm not sure how standard procedure it is for the President to intervene in a down-the-chain contract decision though.
Ironic, because normally Oracle are the ones doing this
Remember, idle hands are the devil’s playground.
Again, reading bytecode is not hard. Even reading decompiled binaries isn't very hard. If WhatsApp was leaking keys on the side it wouldn't be too difficult to find, especially given how incredibly high profile it is as a target.

Open source vs closed source is not meaningful here.
I found it in an old browser bookmarks list:
"Codecks is a project management tool inspired by collectible card games. [...] Well designed collectible card games provide a great sense of the current state of your game. Let's apply those design cues to project managent."[1]

This is a project written for the Game Design industry based on shortcomings in existing software and that aims at just the right amount of complexity and is able to excite creative visual thinkers and productivity fans alike.

I hope this link helps future searchers! I did see that Codecks was mentioned on hn previously with zero comments.

[1] https://www.codecks.io/features/vs-jira
"Finney must have never had to sign on a phone screen with a finger while driving before."

Why the "while driving" bit? Your argument was solid until you added these 2 words. Now you're saying "If it doesn't work while I'm busy operating a motor vehicle, I'm against it!"
Eh there are still R&D heavy startups being funded but most of the "growth" in VC has been in less capital-intensive startups.

And this might be a good thing. Lots of the modern VCs, some even by their own admission, don't have the acumen necessary to fund a Genentech or Intel.

So while I'm not happy with the current situation, I don't see the point of scolding VCs for NOT doing things they're not qualified to do.
Betelgeuse continues to dim, diminishes to 1.506 magnitude
Sure, but in this case, the choice of Azure over AWS was due to government corruption, rather than actual technical diligence.
Ah the memories....

I cut my teeth on a TRS-80 Model 1 with 4K of RAM. I was like 13 or so and got one in the late 70s. I learned BASIC on it, but quickly ran out of CPU and memory with the interpreted BASIC and switched to Z-80 assembler. I didn't have an assembler however, so would write out all of the Z-80 instructions by hand on paper, then, when I thought I had debugged it enough on paper, I would convert it to the hex OpCodes. At that point I would either use a small BASIC program to POKE the hex into memory and run it, or after I got a hex editor, I would use that to type in the hex values. Of course, all of this was saved to cassette tapes! If there was a bug I would go back to the paper and figure out where I went wrong. I still remember some Z-80 OpCodes to this day from the countless hours of converting assembler to hex.

One really cool way I would use to debug programs, or at least know if they were running, was to keep an AM radio next to the computer. The TRS-80/Z-80 would give off enough RF so you could "hear" the program running on the radio. In fact, you could devise loops and delays in your assembler such that you could "play" music on the radio. :-)
This is one of my favourite communities on the Internet. Lots of thoughtful, stimulating conversations. Thanks so much Marie for building and managing Women Make.
Shibboleth doesn’t parse here.
I get bored when I have too much to do, and none of it seems fun. Procrastination boredom if you want. My solution is to do anything small on my to list just to get started. Hardes thing for me was noticing this.
A Brave New Word.
> luxury cars with Chinese license plates

People import luxury cars from China and are able to drive them with Chinese plates in Washington State?

This I would not have guessed!
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Plenty of western governments get lots done efficiently. Parent comment was about US practices.
I get it through work, I like WSJ so it's nice not having to bypass paywalls to read it.
Sharing a 10 year journey here that involved both CBT and ACT. This may be oversimplifying it but I see various philosophies in order of how low they strike at the root. Obviously the implicit advice I'm giving is to go as low to the root (bottom of the list) as resonates with you:

* CBT: challenge negative ways of thinking

* ACT: be aware of thinking (don't overthink thinking), and commit to a direction.

* Mainstream Zen: very similar to ACT without the purpose/commitment component. After all, what's the purpose of purpose?

* Vipassana: super involved with awareness of present starting with a breathe practice. (Mindfulness bootcamp if you can't seem to inquire.)

* Morita Therapy: same as ACT but with a step toward questioning the thinker

* Advaita Vedanta (or I've heard Dzogchen Zen): challenge the thinker/contemplator/meditator. "Who am I?" root out the original thought of a separate self. Recommended: Ramana Maharshi, Papaji, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Mooji (or Cloud of Unknowing if your Christian).
Windows and the Chrome/Edge search-hijacking trick
Wholeheartedly disagree-- if casting a ballot was as easy as sending a text instead of receiving and then mailing a letter or going to a polling location, I would predict much higher participation. People don't see it worth their time because a single vote really isn't worth anyone's time. Votes only matter as groups!

So obviously you have to make it as braindead simple to vote as we have made everything else. What I do not see the purpose in, is complaining about or nay-saying these attempts. You're never going to convince someone that one vote is worth more than it is, which is what people really mean when they talk about 'engagement', because your vote on its own really just doesn't matter much and people intuitively get that.

Reducing the cost of voting to match the actual value of a single vote is the best move we have IMO.
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There's quite a few problems in traditional A/B testing. See here for example: https://volument.com/learn/problems-in-traditional-ab-testin...
The constant stream of breaking changes in Python - that is, in the "standard library" which may as well be part of the language - is the most frustrating thing about Python. There are perfectly good projects that can no longer be run without major work, just because they were left unmaintained for a few years. This is a silly state of affairs, and depressingly common when the fix is really simple: version declarations. Feel free to move fast and break things, but always provide the old behaviour if the user puts a "version=3.2" flag in their code. There's no reason this mechanism couldn't have extended to every change in Python since its release.

If POV-Ray can do it, Python could have done it.
Will AR Transform 'User-Generated Content?'
>> Finney says election officials in Washington are adept at signature verification because the state votes entirely by mail. ...

> Finney must have never had to sign on a phone screen with a finger while driving before.

How is "while driving" relevant? I think that even the most ardent proponent of reducing barriers to voting would find it acceptable to make it hard for people to vote while driving.
Trump wanted to nuke a hurricane.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-if-nuke-nuked-hurricane...

Trump has asked in the past why we have nuclear weapons if we don't use them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-n...

Trump, during a visit to the war memorial in Hawaii - had no idea what Pearl Harbor was about, at least according to one book:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pearl-harbor-memorial-...

You don't believe a man this ignorant about such things, who is "commander in chief" and "carries the nuclear football" - ie, he is in command of our entire nuclear arsenal (let that sink in for a second) - you don't believe that the clock moving on a tweet of his nearly taking us to war (or anything of that nature) isn't a reason for it to move?
I doubt it's a US prerogative, this happened regularly in my home town in Italy, with the extra fun of really slow justice.

E.g. it took a whole administration (~5 years) to get through with a door-to-door recycling system because of lawsuits and appeals.
> The treatment is so toxic (potentially deadly) that we want to make sure that our diagnosis is as close to 100% as possible.

I think you're ignoring how obscure some symptoms of cancer are, though. My cousin went back and forth with the doctor about a recurring cough, for 3 or 4 years. It turned out to be bowel cancer, and while they did treat it, it was too late by the time anyone in the medical system thought of that. The only indication that would point them towards bowel cancer, was the medical history of her family, her grandmother had it too. She was rather young as well, late 20s/early 30s, so they just didn't consider it.
Statistically, you are less likely to die compared to driving in Canada. UK roads may be confusing, but they are significantly safer than Canadian roads, as measured by fatalities per billion km driven.

(And Canada is already among the safest non-European countries, with significantly fewer fatalities compared to the USA)
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ASML Q4: NXE:3400C Machines Ramp; Strong Growth Due to EUV in 2020
is there any evidence backing this?
Were people in the old times happy and satisfied, because I would argue it is in human nature to never be satisfied because it makes us evolve. We can only counter this by hacking us chemically.
That's not substantiated. There are a lot of reasons that Azure could have won this project, highlighted by the fact that they have decades long relationships in terms of executing on government contracts.
Politics is theatre, I don’t think anything ever gets done. It just gives people a forum to complain and they can feel like they’re making a difference.

Although this appears to be something local so there’s a chance it’s not entirely useless.
But isn't a "con" better classified as a deception? I don't think the marriages with big age disparities (and possibly power exchanges going on) were necessarily based on deception
Procrastination articles start to appear on HN as we get close to end of January. There is a lesson in there somewhere.