skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I migrated to Bombay during the monsoon in 1999 and landed in a really-cheap fishing village/colony on the eastern side of Santacruz. I doubted if I had arrived at the wrong Bombay -- where is the Bombay that I expected. Later that day, I felt happy when I saw the ocean for the first time and spent my whole evening at Juhu Beach.

The next day, I spent the day-long along Marine Drive, Chowpatty, Gateway of India, and I saw these buildings mentioned in the articles. Now, they do look -- "Bombay." That was when I knew I had indeed landed in Bombay. In those days, Bombay was there, and that's it. Beyond Bandra (after Juhu, etc.), the flats were matchboxes with little-to-no windows, and no balconies at all -- packed as much as possible in the smallest available spaces.
Within a range, you get to interpret the actions of others. It's like one of those optical illusions where you can see a rabbit or a duck, but not both at the same time. One of those illusions will anger you and sap your strength. The other will connect you with another human being on some level, however superficial, which is wired to make you feel happy and fulfilled. Neither is the full vision of truth. But you are free to choose the lens through which you view the world.
> That or they use something but clearly don't understand the thing they are using.

You know, I feel like this has bled into backend development too. And it's not entirely the fault of engineers... or so I like to think, to excuse myself :P

What worries me a lot is that I find myself being one of those people, not being able to fully help my situation.

It's just... too much. It seems like every few months a new thing pops up and everyone suddenly wants to adopt it. And even if you try and resist it because it's not necessary, someone from above (e.g. CTO) will decide that the whole org has to adopt that and now you're screwed.

In a typical backend application you have to deal with:

- Application framework

- Testing framework

- Logging framework

- Metrics framework

- Tracing

- Visualization tool(s) for the three things above

- CI

Which is already quite a bit, but obviously manageable and you could get pretty knowledgeable on all of that if they stay static.

But hey, now your org has to expose every service on gRPC. Ok, one more thing to tack onto your app...

Now everyone has to expose GraphQL endpoints too!

Oh and next month we're migrating to a new metrics solution. Because. Great, let's throw away all the knowledge built on the old one and scramble to migrate to the new things we don't have time to learn fully.

Alright, now let's start writing new services in this new language.

And now everyone has to throw events on this new message bus thing that some team over there built using Kafka!

Finally, let's move everything off of AWS managed services and onto Kubernetes! Yay!

All of that can easily happen within the span of 2-3 years. And in the meantime you have to deal with on-call rotations, customer issues, implementing new features... and if you're a senior dev you're also busy mentoring folks, going to meetings with other teams, etc etc.

You know what I'm talking about, right? Over time, I feel like it's becoming impossible to achieve mastery of anything. There are way too many things to learn to be able to make sense of the whole, and no time to do deep dives on all of them. And then there's all the new stuff that keeps being adopted.

And then things blow up and they're freaking mysterious and when you finally find out what it was, you realize you'd only have been able to catch that problem beforehand if you'd read the freaking source code for some library you adopted.

It's madness. It's pure hell.

Boy I miss working on low level code.

End rant.
dchuk asks >"How the hell do we actually/pragmatically solve this thing? <

By prescribing zinc plus low dose hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin EARLY in serious cases:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24930365

Article Date: 26 October 2020

Article title: "COVID-19 outpatients – early risk-stratified treatment with zinc plus low dose hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: a retrospective case series study"

FTFA:

>"As of June 2020, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 have been almost exclusively studied from an inpatient perspective, including intensive care with mechanical ventilation. Only one study has described characteristics and key health outcomes of COVID-19 diagnosed patients in an outpatient setting [3]. This is surprising as primary care physicians often see COVID-19 patients first. They could play a critical role in early diagnosis, treatment, and management of disease progression and virus spread. This assumption is supported by the established principle in medicine that speed of eradication is linked to the outcome of life-threatening infections [4].

The early clinical phase of COVID-19 has not been the focus of much research so far, even though timing of antiviral treatment seems to be critical [5]. The optimal window for therapeutic intervention would seem to be before the infection spreads from upper to lower respiratory tract and before severe inflammatory reaction ensues [6]. Therefore, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 outpatients as early as possible, even based on clinical diagnosis only, may have been an underestimated first step to slow down or even stop the pandemic more effectively. Based on clinical application principles of antiviral therapies, as demonstrated in the case of influenza A [7], antiviral treatments should be used early in the course of infection."<

We're not as helpless as you believe.

Also see

"States Bow to Pressure to Reverse Course on HCQ" (Sep. 9 2020) at

https://yated.com/states-bow-to-pressure-to-reverse-course-o...

and

"Is HCQ banned in your state? (probably not)"(Aug 18 2020) at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3875427/posts
It's that "keep pulling it tighter and tighter" that I'm wondering about. What if there's a separate force, or an aspect of gravity itself, which prevents a certain amount of gravitational density?
If the government regulates everything about the company why is it not at least partly responsible?
Can you explain a bit further please?
Secret third option: spun out of the Business School!
How is it that you know that for a fact?

Edit: Please don't downvote a clear question. The truth is, you can't know another's intentions in most cases. It's very possible parent does know them in these cases for other circumstantial reasons. In which case I'd ask, how do you know that extrapolated to everyone else who asks those same questions?
Lamport is a giant and one of the greatest living computing scientists. He's also getting more and more Dijkstra-like. I say that with full admiration.
It's been something I've been wanting do but it keeps getting pushed back. Our App needs a major update first I think and then support for QB would be next.
This field is tricky. We used to run an algorithmic trading platform (https://KloudTrader.com/narwhal) but pivoted to building productivity SaaS because the revenue numbers from these sort of fintech is quite bad if you do not have scale. It is a very niche market.
Lot of other states have laws that either cap or defer property taxes for retired people. Not much reason California couldn't do the same.
CALPERS isn't CA, pretty simple.
You're telling the truth to the wrong crowd and for that you shall be downvoted. A collapse in oil demand is a non-event as long as "green" subsidies keep growing.

In situations where this destroys jobs and industries, we have central banks and governments make up for that by spending money we don't have.
I claim to own Iceland.
Because exclusive use of a physical item is a fact of nature whereas exclusive use of an idea is a social construct that relies on a coercive social apparatus. The property rights we use for physical items are a social construct that is grounded in reality, whereas intellectual property is a social construct that is derived from a particular value-laden perspective.
Great read, thanks do much for the link! It's really refreshing to see the actual math. Main takeaway: nuclear can be cheap if financed properly, but incredibly expensive otherwise. Also, nuclear plants eventually become highly valuable cash cows, once the huge initial investment is recouped.
Yes, but they are worse than me at giving advice.
> Just so you know, you're effectively complaining that people care about you too much

I'm sure someone cares, but the majority of such folks? Nope.

I was once watching a crappy move, but it had one gem in it. The protagonist had lost the use of his leg in the Civil war, and he sought compensation for it, and received a lot easier than expected. Throughout the movie, he keeps wondering why it was so easy to get the money - he expected a fight. Towards the end, the revelation hit. They didn't pay him because they cared about him. They did it because they wanted to feel better about themselves. They did it so that they could walk away feeling tall.

And so it is with most advice: They do it because it makes them feel like they've done a good deed, and who knows - someone may even benefit from it? If they didn't, then no harm done.

That last sentence is quite wrong, though.

After hearing this, I got fairly good at figuring out who is trying to help vs who is trying to walk away tall. A little extra engagement with the person can usually reveal this.

I've learned from enough experience - both in giving and in receiving advice - that when you try to help someone, you should take on the burden on yourself. It becomes your responsibility to understand the pain points of the other person, know what he's tried, etc. This is exactly what random advice typically isn't. It's well known that saying "I had a similar problem" and talking about it is not empathizing[1]

One of the worst jobs I had involved a very knowledgeable person who would try to give advice whenever I was stuck. His advice often didn't work because he didn't understand the problem well, and made assumptions, etc. Every time he tried to help it was a huge time sink - to the point that I would mention my problems only when he wasn't around. Not exactly analogous to this situation, except to point out that this person never really understood the burden of helping someone. When you help someone, work with the person till the problem is resolved (or till you can't help). He failed as a teammate because of this.

(For those who recognize the movie - yes, I am taking liberties).

[1] Seriously - this is standard advice you'll find everywhere: When someone tells you their problems, do not respond with how similar your problems were - took me years to understand why.
It's the "American Dream". They need to reiterate again and again how every dishwasher can become something if they just work hard enough lol. It's these things that make me pity Americans, but other stuff offsets it as well, so there we go.

Almost anyone who wasn't born into money did some menial task around high school or college. I worked at UPS as package sorter, now I earn 40 times as much at FAANG.

But that had nothing to do with me working at UPS. I worked there because I liked the extra money on top of what my parents gave me and to me it was like getting paid for gym :D.
> Given that all of China's potential enemies have detailed satellite maps of the region and aren't in the slightest bit inconvenienced in their targeting accuracy because of GCJ-02, that's obviously false.

What makes the situation even funnier is that Google-Earth-style satellite images were (and still are?) not regulated as maps, and they're free to be published with unobstructed WGS-84 coordinates. Only the maps are regulated to use GCJ-02. If you use a standard GPS receiver, your location will be perfectly normal in satellite view, until you switch the display to map view. Claiming it can protect "national security" is just fooling oneself.
To be fair, I did play basketball and ping pong with a few of them before I left. It felt like I was politely entertaining someone who was depressed and needed a friend.
Or screengrabs that could be conjured up from thin air and you’d never know.
> And why is anyone driving through a freaking city in the first place?

Because I can, and there is literally nothing you can do about it. Heck, sometimes I just get in my car and drive for no reason at all, just because I have the freedom to do so.
As if the superiors punched out and went home and told the engineers to keep going and fix more bugs.

Software estimates are hard and superiors don't magically have more insight into when the game will actually be finished. It's all a gamble and sometimes you have to postpone the release or ship a buggy product.
That was a beautifully vivid description. Thank you
Exactly. Rocks containing less than 0.004% water by weight aren’t ice or water or accessible water.
Pretty much must be, because the city is spending the money on something. If the city isn't using the money on something essential, they could reduce taxes.

Might be a struggle to get tax reductions past the voting public. But I think a bit of political elbow grease could get it done.
Lot of government services have a large labor component. The cost of labor is very strongly influenced by cost of rent. Rents increase along with property prices.
The ironic thing is that the original complainant is making this exact same point about those who give this advice. Typically they're not trying to connect - they're trying to fulfill their own needs without understanding the other's needs.
This, just because you're the one rear-ended doesn't mean you bear no fault, although you have some presumptions in your favor. Indeed, the quotation itself plainly argues for front-vehicle "antagonistic motive" in the one case disfavoring Waymo.
Ask HN: How do you call a Git blog?
I started to download some private thoughts and notes in a public bare GitHub repo.

I find it a good storage medium for some of my notes, bookmarks, lists.
And has benefits such as being able to simply link to my thoughts rather than composing the n-th email about the same subject.

Over time I also want to throw in code i have laying around, host my CV and maybe make it my homepage.

Is this a thing people do? Does this thing have a name?

GHB would be the natural acronym and that would be a terrible idea.

P.S. Thank you HN for being a place where I can ask this question and knowing people get it. I appreciate the feeling of community.
P.P.S. If you're reading this and thinking: PURDAH. Call me
By kicking NIMBYism in the balls, mostly.

Homelessness is either a housing shortage problem or a mental health problem. The former is fixed by increasing the supply of housing – that is the only real solution. The latter is fixed by providing better mental healthcare.

Neither is fixed by sticking people in existing housing.
I’m not responding to you because I think you’re harming me; I’m responding to you because I have been in a similar position to you and I feel empathetic towards you. My advice, from that standpoint, is that any diet that allows beer is probably way too lenient to do anything useful. I can make this judgement with high confidence without knowing the specifics of your condition.

If you’re of European descent, I would concretely advise you to try eating only ruminant meat and water for 4 weeks. This is an extremely high power to weight diagnostic strategy.
Based on other comments, I was under the impression that some people wanted zero unsolicited feedback. This instead sounds like you don't want people to keep offering suggestions after you tell them to stop. The former would make for a really cold society. The latter is completely understandable. I would tell the repeat offenders to fuck right off.
Yet coal power plants pump radioactive, climate changing, material into the air we breathe by the chimney full, and gas vehicles do it by the cylinder full at the rate of ~1 litre/second outside homes and schools, and nobody gives a shit about "disposing of that safely in the medium or long term".

You can dispose of nuclear waste "safely" by having a (single) Chernobyl style meltdown, continent-wide fallout, and long-term deadzone and still come out ahead of all the coal power plants.
Thats a long time to live with sickness if you can’t afford the drug because the law is written so that there is an exclusive right over who can manufacture it.
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The US isn't the largest CO2 emitter, though it used to be.

China's emissions are approximately double the US's and growing.
What exactly is the end goal of this? Every human will need to carry around a charged (or HAL-capable) phone to be able to identify themselves? What happens if you lose your phone, it runs out of battery, you have to lend it to someone else, it crashes, etc.? And if you have to turn on your phone, now you have to enter its decryption password in front of the very person (quite possibly a police officer?) who's waiting for you to approve their request?

And how in the world is law enforcement on board with this? Will police officers be amused if they have to wait around for you to reboot your phone or something?
How would the consumer ever get to "vote" tho?

There never was a year where Apple released a mediocre repairable phone and a slicker unrepairable phone, so the vote has never happened.
Fox News sends digital documents on a flash drive via UPS
Snowpack vs. Webpack
Kubernetes binaries are meant to be statically linked. I can understand the licensing concern, but if each of those libraries was packaged separately the experience of using Kubernetes on Debian would be markedly worse.
Yes, I do. That video is widely disputed by ecologists and you haven’t read my link.
As an immigrant myself, my first assumption had been that the oil industry had lobbied for it, since it's a perfect recipe for frequent, often unnecessary stops and fuel consumption.
Never attribute to anti-communism that which can be more easily explained by crony capitalism.
Want the rest of the US to be such a piece of shit like california? Vote Biden. Otherwise grow some balls and vote Trump.
That's actually fairly good, assuming you will actually try to help if the person asks for something specific. Since many people really can't help, you could also say:

"Damn that sounds awful. I hope you'll find a way to get better."
Yes this seems confusing to me as well. AZs are usually used for reliability. I'm looking at their new topology and wondering why AZs were used at all?

Maybe if one AZ fails only 1/3 of the producer, topics and consumers fail. Seems like a lot of overhead for a relatively minor advantage.
Apple's official issue description:

> Crackling or static sounds that increase in loud environments, with exercise or while talking on the phone.

> Active Noise Cancellation not working as expected, such as a loss of bass sound, or an increase in background sounds, such as street or airplane noise.

In my experience and most posts I've read about it, the issue is tied to any head or airpod movement (perhaps that is what they are hinting at with exercise and talking). Interesting, I previously thought it was a solely microphone issue as it appeared equally and exclusively in ANC and Transparency mode. But lately, I have noticed a much less obnoxious rattle in Off mode with loud bass. So I wonder if there is something physically in there rattling, that is being amplified but not completely created by the mic.

Also interesting that this is released exactly 1 year after launch, which is the day the first warranties expire. However, the description seems to hint at an actual manufacturing change this month, so it may be coincidental. Would be curious to see what was actually fixed.
Yes, South Korea has this braindead law prohibiting "export" of map data - so in order to have a map service the map data server must be physically located inside Korea.
What’s wrong with using shortcuts like “incompetent”? It’s not generally a good use of time to enumerate all the specific ways in which most professionals are incompetent, especially if you aren’t familiar with the field.
Whether something can be considered a "basic right" is independent of who is doing the manufacturing and distribution.

Food is a basic right. We have food stamps to cover those who can't afford food. But that doesn't mean we need a nationalized canned soup manufacturer. Or to nationalize Wonder Bread.

With proper money allocation and regulation, there's no reason that "basic rights" can't be provided for by a competitive albeit monitored market.
One of the things that was a revelation to me about sleep apnea… it's not CAUSED by your weight. Here, I'd been carrying that around for years, and feeling like a failure.

I brought it up to my sleep doctor. I said I thought I had it because of my weight, he laughed at it. He said, "If you are overweight, that can exacerbate apnea, but IT ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT CAUSE IT. That's absurd."

My sleep doctor is suuuuper fit, and very lean. An avid runner. He said that he has a VERY bad case of sleep apnea. I was floored!

He said you either have it or you don't.
Looks like it’s called Frequently bought together now.

Also possible that you were flagged into an A/B test or other UI experiment.

From stories I’ve heard, Amazon is not an org that makes capricious decisions; they’d only deprecate something like that if the data demonstrated a superior alternative.
Milking sheep while keeping an eye out 24/7 for wolves. Got it. Seems like it’s not a viable way to live in the West. But that’s exactly what you want, isn’t it. You hate farmers and everything that’s detrimental to their business is a plus in your book.
Just to clarify, I didn't say that. I'm saying that they learn which professions do well, and it's often not engineers, so they see opportunities for themselves elsewhere. Guys brag about this stuff and tell dates how they became successful. Lots of BS too. I'm always surprised by the things I learn through people that date a lot.
This is the exact stupid response I mentioned earlier: “be glad you’re not disabled!” How about you get a real argument instead of just shaming people?
My point is that JSON is being supported. So the "dismissal of facts" isn't as thoughtful as it was made to seem.
Charles H. Turner, pioneer in animal cognition
America and the UK haven't done well at deferring to actual trained experts with COVID-19 tactics. I have no idea what you might say the public's broad-strokes and goals for COVID19 were.

It seems quite reasonable to say that if "the public" want unclean, unsafe, high-carbon energy sources and deny that climate change is a problem, they should be unable to have any input in the same way that someone who wants a tall building that is unsafe can't have one, and someone who wants a car on the road without passing any safety tests can't have one, and someone who wants to provide unsafe medical treatments is not allowed to.
That’s the first line of the article :)
hmmm right
Ideas are a dime a dozen.

Of that enormous set of potential is a much smaller set that satisfies the criteria:

- Is small enough to be done in spare time by a single developer
- Is not so complex it can be automated to run mostly by itself
- Is a service someone is willing to pay for
- Has real customers

^ those filter criteria make the set of “profitable side projects” much smaller than the set of “dime a dozen” ideas

Profitable side projects have a low barrier to entry and are much more easily exploitable / copyable, hence my reluctance to share and probably many others reluctance to share