skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has to be some taste for the irony in quoting Keynes about Bitcoin, so here it is:

"In the long run we are all dead."

What may happen may happen but it would sure be nice if we didn't spend a half century just paying the costs and suffering generations of War on Drugs-style authoritarianism before we actually get around to having the benefits.
I got something that will blow that out of the water. H2O3!
It doesn't. The selling point is that it strengthens teeth but there really isn't strong evidence for that.

An analysis done by Harvard found it to lower IQs in children:

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10579664/3491930...

The data is from China but the levels at which effects were found can be found in some regions of the US.

Water fluoridation started because it was a cheap and easy way to get rid of industrial chemicals:

https://origins.osu.edu/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-tr...
After a lifetime of drinking Los Angeles tap water I purchased a RO system, this was 13 years ago when my wife was pregnant with the first child. It has been one of the best things I have ever purchased. Just the taste improvement alone makes it worth it.
I first tried it at a friends house who used it for a aquarium and skipped the di stage for drinking water.
I bought mine from air,water,ice. These aquarium guys do not mess around, the units are much better than what you find in Home Depot and the refills are reasonably priced. Most units come with a ‘turbo’ pump so you are not wasting water as pressure in the storage tank increases.
but most probably are not, so it would have been a useful piece of information
> That comment doesn't enumerate or even alludes to any tangible benefits of crypto currencies.

Either:

1. You didn't actually read the comment.

2. You have no idea what ZeroNet or Blockstream are.

It is no crime to be ignorant of the topic, but it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on it while remaining in this state of ignorance.

In its discussion of physical and financial censorship (note the 2nd sentence), the comment also did (and I have to wonder how you "missed" this) refer to one of the best real-world illustrations of the value of cryptocurrencies: circumventing Venezuela's tyrannical regime and its destructive fiscal and monetary policies. That's my home country, and those are real lives. I'd love to hear you lecture me about how those people don't exist.

> and the supposed resiliency

Why "supposed"?

> I'm pretty sure GP has heard of those.

"Heard of"? Maybe. Understand? Clearly not.

> Whether HFT provides any benefit in terms of liquidity and smaller spreads is by no means clear.

It is. Bid-ask spreads are down to about 3 basis points from about 90 basis points 2 decades ago. Curbing HFT in the past—surprise, surprise—increased the spread. See also [0].

> HFT is certainly neither necessary nor even contributing to price discovery.

Well, you are certainly wrong [1], despite prefacing your false claim with "certainly". What does that tell us? Why are you prefacing false claims with "certainly"?

> I submit that the economy would work just fine with a price auction every minute (maybe with stochastic cut-off) for, say, 3 hours a day

Indeed the economy would "work just fine" with horse-drawn carriages and pigeon post. I commend you for your brilliant proposal. I recommend we implement this novel idea as soon as possible and see how it goes.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/04/01/hft-real...

[1] https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/cfa-digest/2015/04/...
I think using typed languages can still be good even if alone assuming you are experienced enough with it, you are more likely to write everything correctly on the first try, but some other things like writing good commit messages and things like that I never do. I have never made use of git history to debug some personal project of mine.
I think another commenter said something poignant around this as well; it’s great too if you are working to a spec. For exploration it might be a cumbersome approach to go all in with.
Although quite different, this made me think of how COBOL is largely in maintenance at many places, but pays premium rates for developers.
Lmao school is definitely not for learning. School is daycare, basically.
my scales say i'm in the healthy rang for BMI, but unhealthy for fat and too much muscle mass...

i can tell you i have a desk job and do NOT have too much muscle :-P
Single-codebase compatibility means that the same code can run under both Python 2 and Python 3.

The initial expectation was that translation tools would solve this problem, but it didn’t really work out that way. Adding language features and library shims to make it possible to write pidgin Python that would run under either version meant that you could migrate libraries and parts of large codebases one at a time until the whole thing ran under Python 3.
I have friends outside of work. I’m just saying work is also a great way to make friends for certain types of people.

Not everyone lives near the office. That’s the point I’m making. I chose to live near the office (some of my coworkers chose to live further away - it is a choice, they all can afford living near the office like I have). If we start going down remote, my coworkers will move away to other states because the cost of living in the Bay Area is too high for them. Also, many of them prefer to be near old families or friends. So, their likelihood of staying near work is relatively low.

Even during covid, about half the company has moved away from the bay. Many going back to another country or moving to another coast, etc. They’ll only come back if they absolutely have to.
I wouldn't say I was exactly _surprised_ by this dynamic in hackerspaces, but perhaps I was caught off-guard by how strong it is. The tools and projects really are secondary in a space that has a strong and welcoming community.

This next bit is extrapolation on my part, but I suspect the hackerspace demographic has particularly minimal church attendance, and that may contribute to our appreciation of "third place" dynamics elsewhere.
Aha! Opposite in that direction; I misread. (I'm also an engineer pushing back on managers who want microservices.)
What I hate is that I can't understand anything when I try to understand existing code with all the abstractions going on and having to jump through 100s of files with so much boilerplate and clutter, trying to understand how the logic binds together. And then just interfaces everywhere, I can't even jump with an IDE, I have to find where this interface magically gets injected first to find the actual logic.

Also I guess I don't like massive slow IDEs and slow compilation times. I just feel so slow when working with Java as well my mind gets distracted and frustrated. Maybe it is my personality flaw to not have that type of patience.
This is why I lean towards serverless monoliths these days. It works great.
I live near a closed naval airbase that used to spray tons of firefighting foam containing PFAS (the bad stuff) before they realized it was hazardous. Since we get our water from a well, I had a system installed with 2 large carbon tanks (~4 feet tall each), a UV light filter (more-so for non-PFAS bacteria concerns), and a sediment filter. Then to catch anything that might slip past, I have a reverse osmosis tank filter linked up under the kitchen sink (for drinking water).

It costs about $1200 a year to have the tanks swapped out, but don't have a monthly water bill since it's a well. Public water companies claim to do the same type of filtering, but who knows what they're actually doing. It's a good feeling knowing for sure my water is clean.
I think it's more about making mountains out of molehills and ignoring the context and substance of TFA.
Our standups (for a team of four) are about 15 minutes. Then we just leave the zoom on and co-work together out loud for an hour or two. It's pretty priceless the stuff that comes up during that time.
That font on your article looks awful on my phone
“Pidgin Python” is such an apt term, why am I only seeing it when it is no longer relevant!
At my current company we’re in an awkward situation with python 2.7.1 and 2.7.5, I’ve found that a easy solution to circular dependencies caused by the new resolver is installing pip==20.2.4 and an older setuptools (I don’t have this version memorized) before doing anything.
To be fair, it's a helluva lot more work to reverse engineer the server implementation from the client than it is to build a client for an open source server.f
Does socialization really matter to management and the business profits at large though?
The other specific thing about mortgages and other debt is that banks are a source of new money when they create loans. Banks do not even have to have a fractional reserve on hand any more, and have far more flexibility to create money as long as they can survive the stress tests. Which means that banks are far more in charge of the money supply than most acknowledge.

Which can cause a huge amount of inflation in housing, if there's not enough of it to go around for extended periods of time.
There is a way to look at the slacking part more simply, I think - if you have an employee that you sincerely have no way to tell if they are producing anything or not, and neither can anyone else at your company, then why do you have them? What was the job description meant to have been when you hired them and how did you end up here?

A solution for this could be managing to outcomes, and setting more clear expectations around their role.
In Oregon at least yes. https://www.cannedoregon.com/

Pretty sure that isn't the only brand I have seen.
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos

I'm less concerned about which coding style, but it is important that everyone (mostly) follows the same coding style.

Not all coding style rules are minutia. I've worked on code bases which have a mix of hard and soft tabs, with tabs sometimes mixed in the middle of the line, not just at the start of line, and where different authors use tabstop=2 or 3 or 4 or 8, all in the same file. And comment lines that are more than 400 characters wide.
It’s all printed money. Taxes are paid in USD. USD comes from... the government creating it from nothing.

Tax revenue is old printed money. Bonds are future printed money. All government revenue is money they created.
Most likely, some will rename the command and some will not, causing more pain for everyone :(
Good heavens! What are 500 design people doing at Uber? Is this a case of managerial empire-building? I was at a small company of a comparable size to yours where the product was a mobile app (Apple and Android). It had fewer than ten (roughly 6) designers. This app was reasonably complicated (but, reading an account of Uber's struggles with controlling the size of it's app, nowhere close to Uber's apps' complexity) and was very important in the general scheme of things.
Software was supposed to make people's lives easier, no to be a form of torture!
Stocks, no. But houses are generally considered essential. Or at least I home they will be. With the way that my community has accepted mass homelessness without any concern fir allowing new housing to be built, I fear that we may regress from the 20th century position of housing being a human right.
do they call the training process University?
This is completely and trivially solvable via a checkin filter that refuses tabs (or expands them to a given number of spaces). Why fuss about it?
Simply not true, especially if wealth grows and people hold onto money as savings.

The money supply needs to increase to account for how people are using it. When there's not enough money, it's far far worse than inflation.
> Nearly no aircraft have a 50 year lifespan.

Individual fighters don’t, but widely adopted designs from the 70’s and after stuck around. The F-16 family is currently expected to be in service for 75 years though it’s only reached 42 years at this point. F-15’s have done 45 years at this point and “We intend to maintain the F-15C fleet through the 2020s.” Suggesting 55+ with a fair amount of uncertainty. F-14 was introduced in 1974 and ironically enough is still in use by Iran. Hell the F-4 entered service in 1961, and is still used by Japan.

As to what you said, nearly certainly killed or captured isn’t it’s better than even chance. You can quibble about meaningless numbers chosen to convey meaning not specifics, but as your making a different statement clearly you agree a small percentage of total elections are expected to result in capture. Death and serious injury is a much greater risk, but again overall risks for the lifespan of the design is what’s important, the US military will sacrifice far more lives than the a most few hundred F-35 pilots we are talking about. As demonstrated by the decision to double down on manned aircraft in the first place rather than try and make a air to air combat capable drone.
There's no evidence you can provide to someone like this. You show them some statements from the incoming SEC chairman and you'll be met with either "well here probably owns crypto" or "what he's saying isn't true".
Unfinished wine bottle? Just stick it in the freezer until you need it.
What I mean is that they don’t need to necessarily print more money, or at least print 100% of the debt.
Hey, I'm working on an app meant to help with this (well, it won't fix the instincts of bad managers, but it does provide an "at your convenience" place for topics that might have otherwise been a meeting or a shoulder tap. I'd be curious what you think about it. If you're up to share your thoughts there's a link and my email in my profile.
I like the custom response header on https://www.whitehouse.gov/ —

x-build-back-better: https://usds.gov/
> An analysis done by Harvard found it to lower IQs in children:

Looking at that statistic, the levels of the high group are generally ranging from 2-4 mg/L. The target level of water fluoridation is usually about 0.7-1 mg/L, which is about the level of the reference groups in that statistic.

As the saying goes, the dose makes the poison, and this is already extremely well-known for fluorine, and accounted for in the water treatment process and regulations.
Where are you even going to take your video calls from? Everywhere I've worked constantly runs out of conference rooms. Are you going to take your video calls from your desk, and disrupt the work of 30 people around you every time you have a meeting?
MIT president and faculty members defend professor arrested for China ties
After taking money for the Media Lab from the Saudi Crown Prince, who allegedly ordered the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to a recent CIA report, and from accused sex-trafficker and convicted child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, it looks like MIT president Rafael Reif is now providing reputation laundering for the Chinese Communist Party, which is operating concentration camps to extract forced labor out of Uighars:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch...

Can only wonder if the fact that the Uighars are muslims (and not jews, gypsies, or homosexuals this time around) is playing a role here.
> Where I work there's lately been so much additional process, planning, keeping stakeholders and dependencies up to date, etc.

This is why I like the way the linked article put it: you can lose most PMs without sacrificing efficiency. I would imagine a great deal of this stuff isn't actually important and only hampers the team's velocity. A PM will make it their job to make sure it gets done, if there is no PM the unimportant stuff will fall by the wayside.
Gitlab is probably the biggest example of an all remote company.
Aren't around half of the exit nodes run by the NSA? If that's the case then tor wouldn't help much.
You probably weren’t getting the flu even once every few years - common colds are pretty miserable on their own. Many people have never actually had influenza. It is really, really terrible and will make many people essentially non functional for a week or more, with high fever, crippling body aches, etc.

Sinus congestion and feeling out of it for a week is not the flu.
Why you’re more creative in coffee shops
Especially true when the services are all stateless. If there isn’t a conway-esque or scaling advantage to decoupling the deployment... don’t.

I had a fevered dream the other night where it turned out that the bulk of AWS’s electricity consumption was just marshaling and unmarshalling JSON, for no benefit.
The bank of Japan literally to hold half of that.

It's just printing cash with extra steps.
Structured programming saved us from “spaghetti code” but Java culture introduced “spaghetti class hierarchy” and practitioners seem to practice it quite religiously.
I used to really like MeteorJS, but I don't follow it much these days. Feels like it's been a really long time since v1 (looked it up, v1 was 2014... so 7 years.)
When you own the money printing press like the US does, you don't have to get other people to loan you money.

It's a quirk that we use "debt" in the form of T-bills instead of printing more dollars. The t-bills get used and exchanged like money anyway. They do let the US have some control over the interest rates used in the rest of the economy, so it's not a useless quirk, but it's important to understand that US debt is nothing at all like personal debt, and it's probably defective to use the same word.
Is there any concern about contaminants in non-food grade argon?
"Their major risk factor for getting this sick was obesity.”
Are you referring to code folding? Stuff like that helps but it's still not as good as Lombok just generating the getters and setters for you. I'm not sure if IntelliJ can filter out some of the other stuff Lombok can generate (builders, value objects, constructors, etc.)
Are you sure it's so widely used? I've personally never enabled any kind of sync feature in a browser. I save my links elsewhere when I want to.
Yeah, it’s probably just me. I did not have friends at school. I really did just go there to learn things.
Are you being sarcastic or does this actually work?
I think this paper, and survey, in general, appears to be ignoring one very important set of people: job hoppers and new entrants to the job market (to be fair, I did not read thru the entire paper, just looked over interesting sections). These two categories of people will almost certainly not prefer working from home: for job hoppers, it is difficult or in some cases, impossible to on-board; for new entrants, they can't become effective without close supervision initially.

Imagine the average intern being able to put out good quality work with minimal supervision. I feel these two things require that companies or teams will have to reorganise in some fundamental way to account for these two classes of people joining them.
Same, and I have quite a few people on my team who can't wait to get back. A few days a week working form home, fine, but I'm certain most companies will come back to the office for this reason.
Don’t forget “program manager” too
Seemingly a former FB employee, among other things: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmackfb
Don't come to Canada if you're looking for cheap booze.
I think the idea that businesses are buying your time (particularly in a salary context) and hoping they see results by maximizing your hours sitting in your chair is changing, and that's where the disagreement is coming from. It's not so much that they are in denial of reality but that the view of employees as time thieves or that there is just no way to understand if salaried employees produce results is already becoming a bit old fashioned.
What do you mean by "so cold google exploits?"

If it's a typo for "so called", I'd still love some info on what google exploits are.
These are simply excuses to support the wasteful pre-pandemic status quo.

The fact of the matter is that the tech is now fully in place to support remote work, and the pandemic has been both an infrastructure and procedure stress test, as well as a turning point for businesses.

Remote work isn’t going away.
Anecdotal but in my area (NJ) we're notified numerous times a year not to drink the water. The kicker is that many times we recieve the mail after the time where we supposedly shouldn't be drinking it. Also messed up that we're still charged for that water, but that's another topic.
Are there video lectures for this?
I've heard this argument a lot, but some of the worst codebases I've ever worked with have been heavily test-driven code. The need to have a failing test for every line of code combined with a tunnel-vision devotion to YAGNI and working in small pieced ended up creating these elaborate layers of functions that did no useful work except glue test cases together. Straighforward refactoring that might have taken an hour or two ended up taking days because every few keystrokes had to be validated by intermediate tests that would be invalidated by the next incremental phase of the refactor.

Granted that particular team was an extremely low-skill team in general, and I've used TDD now and again successfully when it fit my needs, but that experience was a pretty strong counter-example to the strong claims made by TDD proponents about how it improves the quality of code.
>But this tradeoff in the favour of user experience had made it easy for millions of people to set up their own website

Indeed. And so many commentators here on HN (myself included) bemoan FAANG centralization and wish for decentralization and federation and the like... well, this tradeoff is relevant in that matter.
> The world can afford to let Venezuela fail, but if the USA fails, the whole world goes down with it

Hypothetically if the riots at the Capitol had gotten really bad and America fell even close to Civil War a couple of weeks ago, I'm quite certain the rest of the Developed World would have quickly switched to using the Euro or the Yen or the Yuan or some combination of those and more.

I seriously doubt it would take more than a few days before the rest of the world moved on without the US.
It's ok to make friends at the office. I have a lot of great friends from my last company and from my current one and I did pick a city. I've gone to their weddings, traveled together, and have developed friendships that have lasted for almost 10 years so far for some of them. You tend to have a lot in common with other tech folks and you don't have to deal with the anti-tech discussions as much that seems to happen so much nowadays.
A simple flask request JSON data validator in Python
A close friend of mine has a coworker who calls them whenever they are not in meetings (shows up as online in whatever chat thingy their organization uses.) and wastes at least two hours of their time everyday.

Are there strategies that fully remote companies take to limit that type of time wasting?
The problem you point to is the ORM, not the DBMS. And if you think “of course, but how can you OOP properly without objects? (And thus ORM if you use an RDBMS)” — you might join some of us in the conclusion that OOP is way overrated.

Don’t get me wrong, it is exceptionally useful when it’s a natural fit, like in GUI systems and some aspects of game programming.

But in many places, it is completely unfitting, and complicated things (similarly for FP, BTW)
> Why won’t new deployments break?

Because the bundled pip with Python 2 is py2 compatible, and upgrading it from pyPI will get the last version that supports py2.

If you are using distro packages, no distro that packages py2 is going to package anything but a py2-compatible pip tied to it.

All this means is that there will be no new versions of pip for py2.
Given the order of the words you said, writing tests comes before writing code, as I said.