skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to make a criticism without accusing 40-80 million people of "LARPing".
Thanks for the reply! This is super helpful :) The defmacro article was a great read, definitely some great points in there.

We're starting to realize how important having a good filter is -- a ton of people have opinions on what we're building, and we have to figure out how to distill/filter that feedback effectively (because a lot of it likely falls into the "distraction" bucket haha).

re: analytics, that's also something we're trying to figure out how to do well -- like you said, it's tricky if folks can just rip out that code if they want to, but we're hoping that we can set up analytics tools that are beneficial to both us (for product insights) and our customers (e.g. to make sure everything is working well for them, alerting them to updates, etc)

Thanks again for your thoughts!
Does this have any advantage over git trim?

That's worked really well for me

https://github.com/foriequal0/git-trim
Yes! We should replace DRY (don't repeat yourself) with AHA (avoid hasty abstractions), as the dominant rule of thumb.
I'm happy to continue this conversation over email, but there is no value in us having the conversation here due to how charged the subject is.
Another interesting point of comparison is that data limits on a VPS like DigitalOcean are $5/month/terabyte, and this includes all other aspects of renting the VPS as well. There are also MVNOs that cost less than $15/month with 1GB data caps. So keeping high bandwidth traffic to a VPS with a low bandwidth cell connection like a terminal emulator could potentially allow someone to access large amounts of data much more efficiently.
I'm sorry, but you think you can buy electricity from anywhere in the world? in any american city, you have one choice where to buy it from. 3 companies can put up their antennas on a tower. 3 companies cannot dig trenches through chicago to every house to run wires.

there are some small exceptions where it was traded on the power grid with deregulation. it caused the enron scandal. do you remember enron?

the issue is we have limited frequencies to use for cell phones. any time you have another player, you are wasting that bandwidth by splitting it up more. we should have 1 cell phone provider for each area of the country, and it should be regulated like a utility. that is what will make cost lower, not more competition. there are things that are physically limited, so running it capitalist style is not appropriate because of high barrier to entry. capitalism only works well with low startup costs.

i like how most of europe has internet for dirt cheap. it's public land, it's public cables. all an isp does is lease cables and provide service with their equipment connected.
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If it can be made right, then yea but if not, then it's probably better to imagine you weren't wronged.

I have a personal experience with this. I suffered an injury that caused a permanent disability, but because I was also knocked out, I don't know what caused it. Maybe I was assaulted or maybe I had an accident. Should I feel wronged just in case it turns out to be an assault? No! I'm kind of lucky not knowing whether to blame someone else or myself! Maybe if I knew, that emotion of being wronged would motivate me to fight for justice and the perpetrator could get convicted but I'm comfortable assuming it was an accident. That's a lot better than fighting and losing.
Wow, I guess it surprises me that it seems as if the government isn't paying anything to the USPS, even backstopping it when it has losses.

If that's true and it's not costing the federal government any money, I'm struggling more to see the reason to privatize.

PS...thank you for finding that link!
Sanitization. Your dishwasher spreads dirt and bacteria around and tries to remove as much as possible with a clean water rinse. Bacteria get into every micro-pore and nano-sized crack, where detergent is unlikely to penetrate effectively. Heat doesn't discriminate (unless we're talking prions, but I digress) and will kill everything that remains.
> https://www.asml.com/en

interesting, i wanted to invest in some chip companies and this gives some good startin gpoints to investigate
I meant that in the former, but even in terms of the latter, I personally feel that humanity's progress also made life less boring for individuals than it was before. But I may be biased by how much I enjoy exploring all kinds of complexity and artificial systems.
You actually think you're going to get sick if you don't run the dishwasher multiple times a day? How do people become this detached from reality?

I grew up in a family of seven and we didn't even have a dishwasher. Believe it or not, we're all still alive.
Sometimes you see "dishwasher soap" or "dishwasher detergent" for the stuff you put in the machine, as opposed to "dish soap" which is used in the sink.
I just think they are not correlated. Both require you to put effort into being good at it. They also require you to have a firm grasp of the source material.
Why would they become Taiwan's enemies? Because the US says so? And getting second identity issued by China in order to make life easier does no eliminate the old one. Maybe some inconvenience but if the money is right ...
_so don't enter a store_
That full page ad was advertising the Mozilla made Facebook container. Based on absence of Mozilla made Google container, I think that ad was paid by Google.
Let's say the USD/gold devaluation was the cause of everything. What would be the mechanism to cause stagnation of real wages while real GDP keeps climbing steadily?
Ask HN: Is Heroku's web app down for two days now?
I can't get to my dashboard, it's been two days now. Is it for everyone or just some accounts?

Do any of Heroku engineers here want to comment?
Are you arguing that there should be no such thing as a part-time employee? Either work 40 hours per week with full benefits or stay home? That seems... weird.
I think Intercom and their relentlessly amazing Content Marketing is responsible for the whole "live chat" nonsense. Imagine I walk into a store just to browse. Do I want someone interrupting me and asking me if they can help me with something? Not really -- good retail employees do this only when a customer actively looks like they could use help. Do I want a humanoid robot asking me if I need help, then when I ask for help, saying "sorry I'm just a robot and don't know anything, please come back tomorrow and an employee will help you?" Hell fucking no. Do I want an employee waiting out of the way to help me, who will come to me as soon as I say "excuse me" and answer all the questions that I have? Of course I do.
> Bad programmers worry about the code

And yet, I see a whole swath of the industry hyper-focused on various linters/styling/rules.
Woah there, that's a lot of generalizations. Do you really think that either 1.) All people making these comparisons have Macbooks and drink lattes (whatever that means), or 2.) that all people who have Macbooks and drink lattes rail against capitalism? And if they did, I have to wonder, why does that matter? Does that actually make their argument any less true?

The truth is, right now it seems like the United States government is not making decisions on the way the world is, but rather on the way the president wants it to be. This is bad governance. This is the type of bad governance that directly led to the fall of the Soviet Union. That's what the article is talking about. If you don't like that, attack that portion of the article, instead of the imaginary people who are making this argument.
Or Uber doesn't tell you the whole story of what you're actually going to make after gas, maintenance, repairs and insurance.

There is a reason that 60% of their drivers leave after 6 months.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/uber-statistics/

More likely people don't find out the true costs of being an Uber driver until they wear out their cars, and have to start paying for repairs and maintenance. When your car is in the shop for 3 days, you can't make any money, so you're getting a double hit.

If Uber was so great, people would be sticking around.
i couldn't agree more.

" I spent most of my professional life writing about: the Soviet Union and also the Russian state that was born after its collapse but which couldn’t shake many of its traits."

I'd challenge the author to meet and get to know someone who has spent most of their professional life living in the Soviet Union and the Russian state that was born after.
Is there any chance Nintendo could look rather disapprovingly upon the use of the Japanese name for the Toad characters, Kinopio?
> Let's say it returns a value of 8192 instead, setting errno to EINTR.

errno is meaningful only after the function failed. Short write doesn't count as failure.
Exactly and it goes beyond victimhood as well. You'll have a group of people go through the same negative experience (e.g. almost dying from a natural disaster, being held as a POW and tortured) and what's interesting is you'll see a huge variation of the impact of those events.

Some people will come out of it relatively unscathed, while others will be haunted by it for the rest of their lives.

No doubt their past experiences shaped their mindset and how they made sense of the negative experience.
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I followed a lot of Freelancer hype and some of the over-promise/under-delivery I experienced of Freelancer was exactly why I didn't put early money into Star Citizen.

Though my rule of thumb for Kickstarter projects is "get my money's worth from the entertainment value of development updates" and by those heuristics Star Citizen seems a great value for the money, and quite successful.
Have you considered non-profit or social entrepreneurship? Although you may not plan to start a business, having the same mentality could help you figure how to obtain the resources you need to bring your dream to life.
Yes they can indeed: https://blogs.systweak.com/someone-has-built-a-gigantic-1000...
Another environmentally friendly hack you can do is to use pine oil soap for machine washing clothes. Naturally you may not want to run this on your finest shirts and pants. But for other old clothes that you do not care that much about it is just fine. If you do this try it with very little soap first so it does not cause to much bubbling in the machine. Also check if your water is hard or soft, if its soft its more likely to work well. Hard water can cause too much bubbles with pine based soap.

You can use pine oil soap for lots of other cleaning tasks, cleaning the oven put a drop out on stuck dirt, heat oven up to 80-100C, wipe off. You can also use green soap for washing the toilet and sink.

For washing the coffee maker use vinegar mixed with water,
run it a short wile so waster circlulates through the pump, stop. Wait for 30 minutes.

For dirt stuck on stove, use vinegar let it stay for a while wipe off.

Good natural cleaning items:
Baking soda, Vinegar and Pine oil Soap.
You guessed it right. No, it is not my first language that's why maybe I am more inclined to use paid tools like Grammarly. Although, my coworkers/employees are native speakers they make more spelling mistakes than non-native speakers (maybe confidence?). I force them to use grammarly and almost every email there is 5-10 corrections. If you didn't try yet, just download and scan some of your old emails. I bet you will find minimum of 5 mistakes. Better safe than sorry.
I wanted a large house because I don’t enjoy outside activities. It’s especially come in handy post COVID. I have one bedroom that I converted into an office, another that is a gym with cardio equipment and my wife converted our (unused) formal dining room into an exercise studio where she both teaches and takes online fitness classes.

We live in a relatively low cost of living suburbs of a major metropolitan city - $2200 month mortgage for a 3000 square foot home.

After we got married, I moved from my house that was about the same size in a good neighborhood but horrible school system and moved to an apartment for my (step)children. Between rent going up constantly (went from $1200 to $1700 in 4 years, it’s now $2100 4 years after we moved), noisy neighbors, horrible WiFi and being forced to pay for Comcast, I would never want to live in any type of shared housing.
Or an opportunity for a new ride-share company that doesn't claim their employees are contractors.
If workers controlled the workplace, this is precisely what would happen. It's only because the people doing the work don't control the work that this seems fanciful.
Just sending you an email.
Thank You MDN
Man, I’d really love to see Matrix to become a standard. I’d love to use it as a major goto chat/communication tool but i get frustrated with UX. Pls pls, don’t screw it.
Hahaha. Yeah, but probably an order of magnitude less power consumption though.
Yes, number of aphids goes up, number of butterflies goes down. Conclusion: no net change.

The study has been criticised by German scientists for this reason. With rather drastic words, e.g. "I don't understand how a paper with such obvious weaknesses can pass through the peer reviewing process" and "This paper is not a good example for scientific best practices".
Articles like this leave a bad taste in my mouth. They venerate the subject and participants involved and leave out the vast amount of detrimental effects they cause.

Whales, other marine mammals, and other wildlife are affected by these systems, and they are never considered. The Navy is currently still trying to increase its weapons testing off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, bringing further harm to the already decimated and declining southern resident orcas.

We have absolutely got to start understanding how our technology affects the world and making changes.
I hope you realize how that looks from anyone else's point of view. So many people lie because they think they personally are the exception, or are extremely mistaken about basic facts, that I don't blame any guard that disbelieves your claims about your mask being really modded to not have a vent. I hope most guards would question something like that.
> If they aren't interested in operating legally, then pivot or disband the company.

Doesn't Uber still work elsewhere?

By my calculations, the world is 57,510,000 sq miles of land, california is 163,696 sq miles, and that leaves 57,346,304 (99.715%) of the world available to uber.
That's only true if certain conditions are met.

The person might not be able to figure it out on their own. That doesn't mean they're dumb; they just missed a particular intuitive leap that was easier for you.

The person might dive into it and learn it incorrectly. They might find something on the internet that seems to make sense, but isn't a good way of doing it. Then you have to clean up the mess their imperfect understanding caused, plus help them unlearn the wrong thing.

I think the best bit is somewhere in between. When learning something new, everyone should do some of their own research and self-teaching. But having someone knowledgeable to also teach can be essential, and if someone like that is available, I think it's wise for a self-learner to at least check their understanding with that person, early on.
Or they believe they are more enganged.
requires a python installation which brings a lot of stuff and new vulnerabilities... instead, see the other post about contributing straight to the git project
I can confirm it's not enforced, as it is difficult to track. I imagine that the worst that would happen is you are just asked to move, particularly if you have a giant camper or are making quite a bit of impact on the land you are occupying.
Ask HN: What are improvements that can be made on Paired Programming?
With the new current state of work being more distributed and remote, I find myself on more than a few long paired programming sessions that feel like a time sink and/or chore. I was wondering anything that I can introduce to make it better? Does anyone have experience pair programming online a lot?
Don't work for Apple/MSFT/Google, but have knowledge of usage data for various smart-phone OS's: you'd be surprised at how _calling_ has become a minor use case across the board when it comes to smart phones.

It's now a "feature" that primarily caters to power users: if you use calling, you use it a lot - otherwise the user tends to use messaging / texting / other medium (like FaceTime.)

Therefore my design guess is that Microsoft is aiming for the video call / bluetooth headset, and will take the hit in terms of awkwardness for holding up to your ear for some calls.
> It occurs to me that another solution is to keep the work force, but double the work

I think one other solution is to keep the work force, but double the output. I think this also happened (in addition to the other two that you identified). The overall productivity and output of society has massively increased.
Well, in the US, electric and telephone have more rights and regulations, compared to cable television.

So, as a telecom, it is better to go in under the guise of a CATV company and use a franchise agreement, then as a phone company that also offers TV, and internet.

Also, if the poles are already there (usually phone or power), the new entrant is able to lease a portion of the pole to string infrastructure.

Sometimes the municipality owns the power company.

Cellular providers lease tower space from private companies that negotiate the tower placement with private land owners.
Thanks for chiming in and passing our feedback along--much appreciated.

In addition Messenger I'd also add Mobile Carousels. A pure JS Expo SDK is needed to support these. I think you'd be surprised how many apps are mobile only these days and would love to use Intercom, but are turning to other options like this instead.
Seconding this for anyone reading!
Also, China gets things done incredibly quickly when state motivation aligns with technology. See: three gorges dam, national fiber optic network, mobile coverage, HK-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, 100% contactless mobile payment and instant messaging penetration, high speed trains, electric vehicles, etc. All of these examples are from the last 20 years.
Keep in mind that marketing departments will pick and choose statistics that make their product look attractive. Dishwashers use more power and the water savings only apply if people don't rinse the dishes first, which many do.
What kind of large goods can you not get delivered in the US? Every store selling sofas or mattresses delivers, in my experience. TVs? Microwaves? Garden chairs? Maybe not everyone delivers but you can certainly buy those online.
$50k~$60k USD is relatively high compare to local living expensives, and average wages. By US standard, or rather Silicon Valley standard, most jobs in most places have extremely low wages. That's not how it works. The currency conversion only works when you go purchase imported goods or export stuff. Use it to compare living standard is only useful when both countries relied heavily on imported goods for essential need, which is not true.
Each animal can be said to posses a survival strategy; ours resides not in talons, or rapid flight, or keen perception, or camouflage, but in cooperation. Even the hierarchical structure of our social organization aids in this.

It is a humble observation, even if it was difficult for me to appreciate for such a long time.
If you're in a niche area you could try selling ads directly to relevant companies, preferably with a geographical connection
> The number of people who I've talked to who legitimately don't know what to do without work during the pandemic is staggering.

The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work; if they had more leisure, they would again enjoy pleasures in which they took an active part.

-- Bertrand Russell http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
>>stricter oversight on how their personal data would be used.

Beyond that, how many would have opted for "don't collect let alone use anything about me". I have never met anyone who actually wants their physical movement to be tracked by advertisers, not for infinite starbucks discounts. Most hesitate at the idea of employers or even family members tracking them 24/7.
> A Republican congress forced an insane burden for the USPS to pre-fund 75 years worth of pension obligations: there are future postal workers who have not been born yet that the post office must plan pensions for. No other government entity has such an obligation - this is the only reason the USPS is in a financial problem and it is a manufactured crisis.

This is the same obligation that private company pensions need to adhere to, because that is the responsible thing to do, with the difference being that the post office has to also fund retirement medical plans since, unlike a private company, those are mandated by congress and can only be changed with congressional approval.

I don't understand why this keeping getting called out, like it is an unusual burden to be responsible. In my humble opinion I think that all government pensions should be funded, because it is not fair for us to artificially lower costs now and expect everyone's children and grandchildren in the future to somehow pay for this generation's unfunded promises.
Amazing that you're downvoted. Are HN posters really so sheltered that they don't know that this is a reality in many major American cities? I'm sure it's in areas they never visit, for totally unspecified reasons, but it's real. There are areas (e.g. in Camden NJ) where the police will tell you to not stop your car for any reason, just get through and get out.

Pretending this isn't a reality or that it doesn't have an impact on someone driving for a living is pretty asinine.
You might have missed the "technical" qualifier.

Twitter isn't an especially hard problem either.
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It was tried in the 70s in Chile [1], but it wasn't anything the odd CIA-backed military coup couldn't put a stop to.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
> Every person was a kid, and raising kids is by far more comfortable in single family homes.

It is complicated, because distance to school, childcare and to work makes massive difference in child raising too. The distance to friends makes difference between "parent needs to drive the kid for each playdate" vs "the kid walks to play with the friend".

This all may mean that kids in flat are easier practically while kids in single family home mean the parent spends all the time driving them around.
Appropriate compensation is important, sure, but it’s impossible to stop talent sniping like this. There’s a fundamental asymmetry.

You are TSMC and have 50k employees, of which say 5,000 are experienced engineers, the top 10%. A competitor wants to hire away 100 of them and offers them an enhanced salary. They only need to offer that to 100 people, but to stop them getting any of those 5000 employees you have to offer a competitive package to all of them. Any you don’t offer it to are vulnerable to getting hired away. So for every $1m they are willing to spend on enhanced packages, you need to spend $50m in enhanced salaries to block them. If they decide to cut it down to hiring away only 50 engineers, now for every $1m they spend you need to spend $100m.

As head of resourcing at TSMC, at what point do you stop the defensive salary inflation? Bear in mind your not competing with the financial resources of just another chip company, you’re competing with the financial resources of the Chinese state.