skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much do I think people need?

I think all people deserve a place to call home; food; water; electricity; education; healthcare; a reliable means of transportation; a guaranteed retirement plan or pension.

Even with an above-minimum-wage job, or even two, this is no longer feasible for so many citizens of the US: you either end up compromising or forgoing some options entirely. I don't believe having access to these things should be a standard to aspire to that many struggle to achieve -- rather, this should be the bare minimum that, were you to lose your job tomorrow and have almost no savings (as is the situation for so many people in the US), you would have no fear of losing.

But if you want to attach a number to it (which I think is the wrong way to put it into terms, as money focuses the conversation on short term cost, when really it's a long term investment), let's start at $5000/mo. $60,000 per year, annualized, all the time, in perpetuity. Per adult. Afraid someone who is otherwise able to work is abusing the system? Start up a large national public works program: I think we can all agree there's SO much to rebuild, fix, and improve in the US and in our communities.

FDR envisioned something close to this when he signed minimum wage into law:

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By ‘business’ I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of decent living"
How do you know it was low vitamin D causing your symptoms?
Because they want to reduce them more.
Linux lovers are dreaming when they say Windows will lose desktop war
Can you detail the technology stack a little more? Like how you are using webrtc and webtorrent?
Brain trauma is scary stuff. Back when it happened to me (the year 2000) the doctors weren’t at all concerned with the concussion. I broke my arm pretty severely and my back also hurt, and that’s all they cared about.

I’m guessing that’d be different now, though I don’t know what extra care they could give. At the very least I think my parents would have thought to tie my sudden energy and worse grades to what happened.
Bringing gizmos to life immediately disqualifies all fundamental theoretical research. And the humanities.
Google is stuck between a rock and hard place here. Either enforce the 30% policy and get pushed out of India, or selectively choose to ignore and get accused of favouritism by developers in the US. I feel like they're taking the coward's way out; they should've looked into reducing the cut globally to a point where nobody would object.
Frankly I read about all this years ago so I'd have to spend a lot of time looking all this up and that's unlikely at the moment.

I may very well have some details wrong.

Re: parallel construction reference here though clearly this is more recent:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/28/hemisphere-phone-records/

At the bottom of this article it references the NSA and Snowden but says no explicit links was proven.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
> This article triggers my Scrum™️ PTSD. The Way of DevOps? Am I going to have to fight off DevOps™️ certified consultants for the next five years now?

I feel you. Agile / DevOps certified consultants are an oxymoron. Outside of evangelization and some advice, they have no clue of the project and as such are just outsourced bosses. The core concepts are not that hard to grasp: teams are responsible to deliver value in small batches to the client so they can get quick feedback from the client. Having to employ them should be seen as a failure and as a symptom of a dysfunctional organization where the teams are not trusted by the higher ranks to have a say in how they organize themselves and thus they hire expansive people who gave them a sale pitch that corresponds initial vision. tl;dr: agile comes from within, people telling you how to work are just other way to say "boss".

> By the way, I would recommend not trying to make your systems clever and “learn”, as the Third Way™️ suggests. Keep them dumb and understandable. The last thing a critical service needs is mysterious, unpredictable, unexplainable behavior. This point alone is a huge red flag for me, brace yourselves for five years of over-engineering as people blindly latch on to advice like this.

If that happens the problem is not the people who try to develop improvements, it's the system that is not resilient to changes. These "mysterious, unpredictable, unexplainable" behaviors rarely manifest themselves all at once just by magic. They are usually caused by a comorbidity of problems that has accumulated due to a lack of will to fix them promptly or the lack of tools to catch and identify them early.

Blaming your developers because they attempted to improve the system is just downright counterproductive and demoralizing because you will end up with a Tech Lead™️ playing police because they think they must protect the System like the Secret Services must protect VIPs from threats that could come up in all directions.

Instead ask yourself those questions: How many times have you heard "we don't have time to fix this"? How many sheets of paper would you use to explain the multitasking architecture of your system? Can you test your system on a single thread so you can make sure your sequential logic is sound? How much time does it take to run all the tests? How much does your development environment differs from production? Can you easily toggle a feature to test it?

The problem is not the "3rd way". There is a reason why they have numbered it from 1 to 3, it's because you can't achieve the third without the second and the first before that. In other words you can't learn acrobatics without learning how to walk first.

> I suppose this is the next round of silver bullets after “microservices”.

Fads are universally bad yes, but as with most prejudices they always have a kernel of truth.
Murder. Lol.
I use a reflex hammer for reflexes, especially in kids. You definitely can use your hands too but it takes more skill and practice that I don't have.
The Fuhrer analogy is a typical stretching of reality and truth to suit your argument. Master / slave in computer science has deep roots. Parallel ATA, master clock, databases, distributed systems. There have been multiple african american technologist who have come out saying it's not offensive, I am willing to bet the people that are pushing for the change are in fact not african american but white. Thus virtue signaling, without actually taking the group who is affected into account and polling their opinions.
And that's a risk that founders need to take into account -- that by diluting their early engineers' equity, they're risking losing those engineers.
I agree about the elderly, not about the bans. It's their decision, let them enjoy it. The market could change anyway, especially after the health crisis. Cruise ships scrapped? Good riddance.

It's quite hard to tax them. They sail under Panama flags in international waters and are registered in some country most people haven't heard of. They can only be taxed while at anchor in a port under some jurisdiction. They'll happily refuel in Jamaica, Cuba or Haiti if fuel is taxed in the US. We've seen that in Europe with truckers and fuel taxes in some jurisdictions.
> The birds in question were actually Tarsier Ravens, but the term murder of Crows was most appropriate, and understood completely by the person I was talking with.

So you used a completely "wrong" collective noun (a group of ravens is supposedly a "parliament") and were understood just as well as if you'd used the "correct" one? Sounds like you've proven the article's point.
> it puts the onus on the company to adequately reward their employees with equity so that they want this company to be successful, not the possible other company

I'm happy with invalid not competes, but equity? How does that protect startup X against poaching from an already very successful company like Apple? They can offer (example) a real million now against the promise of millions in 2025. Or real millions against promised millions.

And even for real money vs real money they can outbid the startup easily.
It was still quite watchable in the '90s, but at some point overtaking got really difficult, and then it got a bit boring.

Its still a great way to spend a couple of hours on a lazy Saturday afternoon though. In the UK at least, TV coverage of F1 benefitted from having possibly the best theme tune (the outro from The Chain by Fleetwood Mac), and one of the all-time greatest commentators (Murray Walker). Paired with the colour, travel, celebrity and danger of the sport, it made a really compelling TV package.
Oh wow, changing the angle of the front wheels. It’s gripping innovation like that which really catches the imagination and speaks to the disruptive innovation at play here. Perhaps next year we’ll see a slightly lighter shade of black in the paint if they go really wild.
But then Mercedes cheated THIS year and nothing happened. Ferrari simply lost the politics game.
I didn't read The Goal but one of the key point of the Phoenix Project is that the same principles that make a factory efficient (or inefficient) are exactly the same for software and IT.
I thought Android relied on kernel features not yet upstreamed. Is that obsolete info, or are there workarounds in Anbox, or what?
Or maybe they just get an android then and are out of the ecosystem
nginx on gentoo has a relatively straightforward path to using fastcgi (fcgiwrap). I'm "oldschool" in that i don't really care about what fancy functionality i gain with some new tech (like nodejs) when all i want to do is speak to a very specific API endpoint, or handle a specific API call from some server like rocket.chat or mattermost.

I contemplated using nodejs or something else, but the ability to bang out a script that answers on a URL on nginx is so much easier, python or otherwise.
I agree but I'd add that cheap digital shooting brought the cost down from film-tier to video-tier for takes and shoots. That, CGI, and its handmaiden, green screening, have all contributed to a film making culture that knows that reshoots, retakes, and taking 300 takes of every scene is basically how things can be done. And if something's gone wrong you can fix it in post. The ultimate effect is a haunting, soulless empty feeling, like a movie is a pantomime of what could have been even at the best.
Did you, um, read the link? It basically shows that this isn't the text or intent of the law.
Brexit.

It's not just an amicable separation of bureaucracies.

If you're in the UK (as I am), the kinds of headlines coming up regularly make it really clear the UK government is trying to not be part of Europe in all sorts of bizarre ways.

For example the most recent big deal was the UK has formally decided to break international law by reneging on the UK-EU withdrawal treaty it signed up to less than a year ago.

That's a very unusual thing for the UK to do, and it has people up in arms because it means the UK will now not be taken as seriously when it makes future international commitments (including trade deals), and when it is finger-pointing to other nation-states breaking their international commitments in future.

It's keener than ever to trash human rights and civil rights enshrined into EU law and show that it wants to take them away from people in the UK, which is a curious turnaround because at one time the UK was a leading champion, drafting the legislation and putting them into place.

It is all very tribal and symbolic, and doesn't appear to be rooted in any kind of advantages for the UK or people and businesses within the UK. Costs to businesses are going up (new tariffs on import and export). Trade deals are defaulting to worse terms (there's no good trade deal with the EU). Cooperation on major scientific projects is breaking down. Financial institutions are starting to move headquarters out of London. UK citizens living abroad are losing rights (a UK passport is much less useful than it used to be), and the cost of travel for UK citzens is going up (need more visas, need to pay for medical treatment, can't retire in the EU any more, if you already did you may have to move back and be poor).

What it does appear to be rooted in is the UK Brexit leaders being able to see "we did it, as you can see we are visibly not part of Europe any more".
> First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action" MLK

Ultimately the people that don't care enough about a specific reform are the reason it isn't happening in the first place. I'm not trying to advocate for tribalism and polarization or promote a "mindset". I'm just stating a truth.
Must be a leftist, they all like centralized authority that will surely know what's best for individual people.

In reality, the best chooser for an individual is him/her/self owing to their unique perspective. Not going on vacation may well indeed be suffering.
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Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)
That may be the case, but it’s pretty amazing that the author found a way to write hundreds of words complaining about the very concept of collective nouns without ever labeling them as such, isn’t it?
What's the rationale for not hardcoding Google DNS into Chrome the way Firefox has done with Cloudflare for DoH?
Wow. What are the outlays of other sports teams for a season? NFL, in what, mostly player salaries?
For something literly like FastCGI in Java land, there is AJP , if you are front loading Tomcat/Jetty/JBoss w/ Httpd/IIS/etc.

https://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ajp/ajpv13a.html
https://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/faq.h...
That’s not true.
It's definitely creepy. What's weird is that you can repair minor blemishes in Photoshop and it's incredibly hard to tell, but these filters do so much more processing than using the healing brush on 2% of a face.
Italy is a really interesting case for me as the birthplace of the renaissance. What happened there? And when? For an interesting deep dive into the role of Government in innovation there is a report from Price-Waterhouse Cooper[1] that I found interesting if a bit jargon laden :-). But it definitely calls out for a public/private partnership to be successful.

I think governmental and banking stability has hurt Italy in this regard but I am certainly not an expert.

[1] https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/technology/pdf/how-governments-fos...
Assuming you genuinely made a sincere effort and could not come up with plausible reasons for the resistance, I'll mention a couple that immediately came to my mind:

- Breaking existing conventions

- Using "being offended" as a way to control someone else's language
I don't know, I stopped watching it when Barrichello and Schumacher deliberately swapped places on the penultimate lap of a race. It was always clear there were team orders but that incident was so egregious that I just stopped watching. Also it was getting a bit soporific.
Don’t know which state or country you are in, but here’s a good example where more construction definitely halted the rise of rents: http://www.ladowntownnews.com/development/much-ado-about-dow...

That’s a 2017 article. Now the fall is much greater because of COVID market shifts, but the rents really did slow or drop before in Downtown Los Angeles.

Real estate in California’s two large metro areas (SF Bay and Greater LA) is a mess, largely thanks to regulation and NIMBYism. That’s not a normal market. Add to it Prop 13 that prevents property tax adjusting tax base to market value of housing, even for corporations and rentals, and you have the recipe for really constraint supply. As the result, prices remain high.

Putting the burden on landlords will cause small-time landlords to exit and be either replaced by large corps that can afford the insurance-equivalent or the rentals will be sold to owner users and the people who have to rent will have even less supply to go around.
It's an upgrade you earn in a later level.
FWIW We buy raw non-pasteurized, non-homogenized cow milk from the neighboring farm (the cows are grass fed). We go there once a week with our bottles, get 5-7 liters worth (costs only 1€/l, cheaper than in the grocery store). It keeps without problem for up to 8-9 days. You do need a good fridge though.

I could go on and on about the qualities of raw milk, the richness of flavor, the high percentage of cream (~6.5% in the case of our milk), beneficial bacteria and mineral content, but the point is that it keeps well enough for us to be able to buy it once a week.
Contracts and agreements aside, isn’t the reuse of devices actually less polluting than recycling itself?

I know this is not the point, but still.
You think a flying car is bland? Or a nanny who flies on an umbrella and who takes her charges to cartoon races?

Look again, and compare them to a Summer release rom-com.
Those technologies have deep roots? Deeper roots than American chattel slavery?

I won't be replying again, as it's hard to believe you're communicating in good faith.
Can't cite the passage or book but it's in Decline And Fall.
Prokaryotes depend on the existence of complex structures (the world outside) to replicate themselves. Yours is not a good example.

That aside, people have argued that the viral particle is like a gamete, which is also an incomplete stage of life unable to replicate itself. It would be like calling a sperm a human and saying humans are therefore parasitic and not living. A virus's primary life stage is lived within the environment of the cell which it commandeers, and from where it sends its progeny. The whole commandeered cell is the viral organism, and very much living.
Moving from Amazon S3 to Netlify
All the good engineers are working in Switzerland because of the money and the close proximity to home.
What's WSLG?
I too was just stating the truth.
also "getting the sniffles" is trivializing the dangers of Covid-19 somewhat....
> In the US you can pivot your startup if something isn't working, roll off 20% of your staff and you don't have to talk to a govt tribunal or go through appeals.

You can do this in the UK too, without a tribunal or appeals.

What you've described is covered by "redundancy", and it's completely fine legally to make people redundant, in large numbers or small numbers.
It’s a German tax law issue. It’s legal to do but not advantageous to the employee, because they don’t allow things like 83(b) elections. Not sure how Airbnb made it manageable in your case, but incorporating elsewhere doesn’t fix the issue.
Gitlab and thousands of other project use Vue, it's probably more common in enterprise than React because it's progressive enhancement abilities.
Hi Austin, thanks for the feedback, I’ve been thinking about this article a bit since I wrote it and wondering if I “pitched” it right.

The advice isn’t aiming to be righteous but rather pragmatic - you sometimes have to learn something because other people will use it or for a job interview question.

React’s state management with hooks and passing handlers via props can go a long way though!
I think it's a great story, and provides a lot of points to think about. I only question the way you think of the physician's role. I think arrogance is not exactly what's going on here.

Confusion, dizziness, lightheadedness are tremendously vague symptoms, and the workup for dizziness alone is extensive.

Put yourself in the doctor's shoes. Here is an article from the American Academy of Family Physicians on how to work-up a patient who presents with dizziness.

https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0201/p154.html

It's not that simple, and there are lots, and lots of things that could be going on. How do you know for sure that your symptoms were caused by Vitamin D? I don't see any evidence that confusion, dizziness, lightheadedness are common presenting symptoms of vitamin D deficiency at all. According to the Cleveland Clinic, those aren't presenting symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency. Therefore, an AI wouldn't be any more likely to catch it than a real person.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/15050-vitamin...

There's nothing in your comment that makes me think your symptoms weren't caused by Carbon Monoxide poisoning from running a heater in your less-than-sunny place of residence. Or maybe it's eye-strain from sitting inside staring at a computer too long. Or neck issues from sitting at a computer for too long. Or maybe you really were dehydrated, and for some reason you drink more fluids in your home country. Maybe you're smoking too much weed. Or maybe you're depressed by being away from home. Or maybe you were doing a lot of cocaine and didn't mention it. Maybe you had a stroke. Or you have early-onset dementia, or sleep apnea, or a psychological problem, or an aneurysm, or any one of a million things.

Medicine is hard. There are a lot of variables. The human body and its environment isn't a perfectly-reducible system you can step-through in an IDE. The only point I'm trying to make is that doctors are trying to figure out exactly what is going on inside of an incredibly complex system that is heavily influenced by the external environment, and they can't always conjure up a precise answer immediately.
The trick for small companies is to have a few good patents and leverage the profit/revenue imbalance with BigCo.

When BigCo comes calling with their stack of patents demanding a license or profit share, you break out your few key patents and demand one back from them. BigCo has a lot more to lose compared to SmallCo.

SmallCo has little or no profit and little revenue so BigCo gets no money from them for patent infringement. BigCo has a bunch of money. If SmallCo has good patents BigCo will go away or make SmallCo a deal to avoid millions of dollars in damages or license fees BigCo would owe SmallCo for infringement.

IP litigators will take such cases on contingency.

If you don't have good IP you are a commodity.
The Netherlands in nothing like this, fyi. France is not Europe. It's a flavour of Europe.
If it really was great weather, great colleagues, weak nocompetes why has Australia not managed to create the same culture. AFAIK nocompetes are pretty much unenforceable in Australia, they have better weather than california and lots of people like to live there, so what is missing? Honest question.
My guess is that any exec who could authorize a lower global rate would never do that. It's a decision that makes their product's revenue drop in the short run, and it makes them look weak compared to Apple.
Because Moderna covid-19 is a new type mRNS vaccine. God knows what harm can it do to people's DNA.
Google delays in-app commission payment in India to March 2022
It probably plays out like that, but I'm sure someone initially just saw it as a way to drum up magazine sales.

A less publicized example of this is what's done in music production. Most people aren't singers, so it's not as obvious, but the perfection you hear in any track produced in the last 20 years sets pretty unrealistic ideals for even a trained voice.

Unlike the magazine example, there isn't a compelling ulterior motive. They just wanted to sell more CDs.
Where does this idea that in Europe somehow all villages are connected with railways comes from? Europe depends on roads as much as the USA.