skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 46. I've never owned a backup generator. Even here with rolling outages, I'm not sure I will every buy one. I don't think I am crazy.
Sell before the bubble pops.
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As an owner of the Jacquard Commuter jacket, here is what I can say from some personal, expensive experience:

Many comments here are correct. You're touching your wrist or sleeve to activate an assigned ding on your smartphone; some flashes a color when something happens; perhaps a voice tells you the time because you don't want to look at your watch [be it an analogue watch, that fancy proto-nokia digital watch in 1995, a Smart watch for your favourite walled garden, or the Dick Tracy watch I've wanted for decades]; and so forth.

The most I've ever washed this jacket is walking through the rain -- I wear almost daily, in northern California, and the electronics still work after several years. [I have good clothing hygiene, I swear].

On the other hand [ha ha], I'm still trying to use the electronics part in a significant fashion [ho ho] but I'm recently making an effort for some post-wallet giggles.

I have received some version of "cool jacket dude" a number of times though, which is nice.

I'll continue to see how the denim, electronics, pockets, &c hold up with continued almost-daily use. At least for my own sake.
haha yes, didn't see that coming.
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I have mainly used Namecheap and NewEgg, not AT&T. Many of these companies may not process Bitcoin transactions themselves, but instead rely on a third party like Coinbase/Bitpay who handle the BTC-to-fiat conversion, so in that case the companies would not themselves host a wallet. My "directly" I mean that you don't need to convert your BTC to fiat to pay for these services. I suspect that most of the companies would stop accepting Bitcoin if it couldn't be converted to dollars, but that's not what I was replying to; I specifically said that "prices are pegged to fiat".
I had this test done. Your partner needs antigen shots they really help, ask their allergist for this therapy.
I think I'd rather have a comment "this site might be helpful" on the page than not. It doesn't take long to classify a link as either potentially helpful or useless, and I'm usually finding the SO page through a google search anyway. That may indicate I don't know the right query or jargon for what I want. In any case, I'd rather that SO err on the side of redundancy.
>I don't understand the kneejerk oversensitivity to it among people who ostensibly are able to read these types of articles critically and dispassionately.

Because I expect reporting on scientific reports and journal articles to be critical and dispassionate. I expect it to report the methods, results and discussion from the original paper and summarize it in a succinct easy to understand way, not inject political statements referencing the nonsense rantings of idiots on the internet that have no business being in a report about a discovery in which the authors themselves completely refrain from referencing any such thing.

There's plenty of ways they could have brought those 'theories' into the discussion, had they chosen, without ridiculous emotionally driven, inflammatory language.

For the same reason why posting

'$Topic is just white supremacy'

Is not an acceptable HN comment. It adds literally nothing to the discussion and incites emotionally driven thinking.
I like the idea. But it will take someone who isn’t Google to make it work. This is right in Apple’s wheelhouse, though Amazon or a start-up could also pull it off.
Researching and answering questions is a good way to learn a topic - exercises.

I've also been driven away, but there seem pockets of goodness, e.g. bash people are super insightful and helpful. Perhaps a kind of society of affliction.

I can see why, prima facie, linking your own site looks like spam. Seems there could be a way to facilitate this (e.g. authorise/whitelist legit sites; or even host them on SO), but probably out of scope - like "closed as "interesting".

And links lose eyeballs, undermining SO's business model... hmmm... revenue-distortion sunk expertsexchange... perhaps soon time for another change?
I’ve used “call-in, talk radio” when referring to CH - tune into an AM channel during your morning commute, and see if there’s any parallel, ha!
I wonder if something more like a wiki format would be better long term. Say you take a question like "How to loop through a list of key,value pairs in JavaScript. Through the last 10 years, this has changed a lot through vanilla to libraries like jquery to new iterations like ES5/6. What I would love to see is just a page with this question asked, maintained over time with an emphasis on when the previous solution was relevant, and highlighting the most recent, preferred options for solving the problem.

So, rather than a score based social network style system, turn the questions into living, and evolving documents. Also, sometimes a person gets stuck having to work on code that's a decade old, so it would be nice to have a history as well, and not just the most recent solution that may not work in their environment.
If someone who uses git wants a git-fast-export file, I can provide that. Unfortunately, they will have to ask me for it, because the possibility to do this remotely is not available at this time.
They would have been able to detect a stroke or a heart attack. I've had a few incidents like this, where I've passed out, at various times in different states of health. Once at Walmart after a convention, once in the morning after throwing up some blood, and this time. I've had a lot of health work since then but have yet to find an explanation for these episodes.
10% faster for the low low price of $10,000.
willing or not, they had AMI sold to them in some cases for a 25% increase. This 20% for a winterized solution is a no brainer
> As long as no one dies it will all be fine.

the latest is 10 deaths in the Houston area from some combination of the storm, the cold, and the loss of electricity
Interesting that pg never really had a corporate job. Once you get into a big organisation, the risk adjusted ROI of focusing on your career within the corporation (or industry) just seems hard to beat. I suppose if your skills are marketable enough you don’t need to worry, but for others the switching cost seems prohibitive.
>Are you willing to provide a more sophisticated explanation for USD demand? The biggest thing missing from my explanation is demand as an investment, or foreign demand to hedge risk. Which right now isn't huge, given interest rates are at 0.

Not who you're replying to, but I don't think you can have a reasonably complete explanation of USD demand without mentioning the petrodollar system/international dollar trade settlement. And how a number of countries are looking at ways to break out of that. Also, foreign dollar-denominated debt and debt service.
Growth, Not Equality
This is pretty much par for the course at many (most?) fora; SO is just a particularly successful (and therefore also toxic) example. See also Wikipedia for large scale shenanigans of this sort.

I long ago stopped investing significant time and emotional energy contributing to knowledge resources for similar reasons, though it should be remembered that there definitely are positives to contributors beyond the altruistic (I never improved as much in my technical skills as when sweating under the public spotlight after foolishly committing to answer a "simple" question that turned into significant unpaid work).

It's internet culture (and tribal and other social gatherings before that), not StackOverflow particularly; the toxicity and crappy behaviour have been with the net since the get-go and will continue as long as the socially undeveloped see an opportunity to display their "power" or suck the energy out of those more publicly-spirited.
Yep antigen shots worked for my grass pollen allergy
I don't have anything to add to the discussion, I just want to thank greggman for going out of his way to help me understand a simple webgl issue a few years ago.
lemming group think? do you have this concept of all crypto proponents as stupid lemmings all following each other not capable of independent, rational thought?

i call a bunch of people serving 1% of the population without question lemmings. to try and falsely frame a legitimate worldwide, grassroots counterculture movement as just a bunch of stupid lemmings betrays your prejudice and makes it hardly surprising that you don't see any value in the space.

i can't believe a bunch of "hackers" shit on the open source, decentralized internet of money. it's a currency created by real hackers for the internet. it is the first of an entirely new asset class that allows any person to be their own bank and has a hard cap on supply. Yes it's slow, but it's also extremely secure and resistant to change.

>it’s often regulated such that it needs to be fully declared (removing the whole anti-gov part)... so fraud becomes harder to tackle

which one is it? cash is the king of fraud and illegal activities anyway: fungible, anonymous, hard to trace. a public immutable database ought to make fraud much easier to weed out in the long run...

>no underlying true value proposition

it has outperformed every other asset in the world over the last decade, maybe you need to look a little closer to understand the value proposition. just because a bunch of bigots decide it has no value proposition doesn't make it true and obviously the market strongly disagrees with this sentiment.

>It also pushes only towards deflation

you mean poor people can have their money appreciate over time instead of having their meager savings robbed by an unseen, man-made market force? you mean people won't be so eager to waste their money on crap that causes pollution and ends up as landfill? i've never really understood the deflation argument, it's a textbook slippery slope.

> removes an important tool that governments have to handle the economy

if the government were truly democratic and benevolent this would be the case. unfortunately we live under a bunch of warmongering kleptocrats who need to be kept in check.

more like an important tool to bail out themselves and their cronies after they fuck up the economy so badly with their corrupt, short-sighted practices.

the people who seem to screech the loudest against cryptos seem to have a massive vested interest in maintaining the status quo. you really can't get how the economy might actually function better for most people if it wasn't serving as a welfare state for the elite?

meanwhile the btc supercomputer keeps producing blocks, just like it has since day one.
> Any sufficiently complicated static blog generator contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of make.

> -- Someone who has made a static blog generator

That seems to be true. I think I am gonna try that myself.
Exactly. I'm surprised the article is so poor to not explain this.It's slightly more complicated in that there is a dispute about what money was owed when.
Is It Possible to Avoid Yield Farms That Use Leverage?
Are there any Yield Farms (YFs) that do not use leverage or is leverage worked into virtually every YF strategy?

I'm concerned with the use of borrowing behind the scenes of Yield Farms (YFs) in order to achieve astronomical gains, known as leverage. Although, this may work well as a short-term investment, in the long-term, if the prices decline for a sustained period of time there seems to be a high risk of liquidation of the principal comprising the collateral for the YF.
ha! I remember seeing you around the building. To be fair I really enjoyed the subject, it's just art is soulful in a way that other subject can never be for me. I imagine it's the same for music for a lot of people. I still code now and would never do art as a job.
> There are plenty of other stores of trust. You could buy index funds or government bonds or any number of other things, and the price will be less volatile than Bitcoin to boot

The point is Bitcoin created a store of trust sans institutions, one which is capable of being transacted across the internet without trusted third parties.
Imagine using Žižek to argue for Bitcoin.
I've often thought over the years that there was something to slashdot's moderation by randomly selected accounts, as it prevents a few power users from dominating.

Slashdot comments are pretty garbage these days though so maybe not.
I agree with all of that, but the worst part to me(which I guess relates to your point about the accepted answers) is that there's no path to deprecating old answer and old questions.

I've been lambasted here in the past for saying this, but I'll say it again now and see if I get a different response; it's no longer helpful to search for "javascript" related questions and get mostly answers for jQuery. These days I'm able to solve a lot of problems just reading MDN, but sometimes I click on a Stack Overflow article and it turns out to be 12 answers that are all jQuery-specific even when the question itself doesn't call for it. jQuery isn't bad, but the world has changed around it and we can't keep pretending like everyone is using it for the same reasons we did back in 2011.

This not only does new developers a general disservice, but it can do a disservice to projects that have less-than-average momentum. For instance, I use Ember JS every day, and it's a framework that has really changed a lot since its inception, but you'd never know it if you looked up questions for it on Stack Overflow. The Ember questions on there are so woefully outdated that I believe it gives potential new users the complete wrong impression of it. There are outdated React questions on there as well, but at least there's enough inertia behind React that new activity helps overcome this to a degree. On the other hand, people almost certainly have given up on Ember because none of the Stack Overflow answers work at all. Sure, we could all submit updated answers, but they'll be below the fold and they will never be reselected as the accepted answer. There are other reasons why Ember has been in decline, but I do blame the mechanics of SO as a big detractor.

Preventing duplicate questions is fine, the overzealousness not withstanding, but if there's no mechanism to correct existing information as time goes on in a meaningful way, the only result can be rot.
Wikipedia is bad for the web? Their whole policy is not to editorialize, and instead to provide direct citations to their sources. I often find interesting technical articles by looking at Wikipedia citations.

> People will find your information using search engines.

This is becoming really difficult, due to blog spam and SEO. I have so much trouble finding good info that I often end my searches with "site:reddit.com". I hoard RSS feeds collected from sites like HN and Reddit because I know if I lose them I'll never be able to find them again.
I stopped because... and I wrote it down...

"This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion"

I think there should be a place for this kind of stuff, some place hackers can do these "prohibited" sorts of things...
> Several people claimed comments have absolutely zero value. Therefore their deletion is irrelevant.

Seems like cooperative editing platforms always attract the "moderator" personalities, who will learn and internalize all rules and guidelines, especially those that contradict each other or reality (as the one quoted above), and use them as weapons in their semantic games.

See also: Wikipedia.
You could have said the same thing in December 2017 before it tanked and was lower for 3 years...with no one knowing if it would ever go back up.

And give us one historic example of it being a good time to buy when the recent price chart looks like an exponential growth curve.
Is the culture at fb really toxic like that? Like surely they can't possibly claim 'we take feedback seriously! :D' and then ignore the hoardes of screaming masses who are being held hostage by a monopoly where the platform pretty much literally owns their social graph
50$ sounds fair. (I'll) Shake your hand for it.
This sort of thing struck me reading gulag archipelago. The courts used the class struggle dialectic to make any enemies of Lenin or Stalin criminals, regardless of what they'd actually done. I see this sort of thing all throughout our culture, not just Qanon.
Yas, there are heat pump systems designed to work at fairly low temps. Those aren't the ones they install in TX, where its just a cheap reversing valve on a stock R410 system. AFAIK they don't even necessarily have aux heat (my mother's in FL didn't) and even if they do, after a decade or two it might not even work and no one would know.
My personal philosophy is that all questions should follow a very specific format:

1. I am attempting to solve problem X

2. I took steps A, B, C

3. I expected result Y

4. I instead encountered result Z

I'm not familiar enough with Stack Overflow to know whether this is already a feature, but I'd love to see an enforced question format like the above, or something in the ballpark. Like a multi-input form that doesn't allow you to submit unless you fill in each field.
> [0] One could [...] climate change [...]

As far as I can tell weather like this happens once in a while even without climate change, something like once in ~25 years or so (just guessing the number).

Given the serve effects it can have infrastructure should always be build to still be operational.

But if you are a company and there are no regulations you might be very tempted to ignore something which normally happens "just" around 4 times in hundred years. (Again guessed values could be a bit more or a bit less, with climate change likely more then just a bit more in the future).
>The post is about SO, the top comment is complaining that the moderation is too strict and draconian, and the second comment is this one complaining that the moderation isn't enough.

They're both right. SO is moderating on the wrong things.
You're conflating life as hosts and parasites. Most parasites require co-evolution with hosts. In the case of pandemic viruses, none existing anywhere else in the universe have the slightest chance of infecting us because there is absolutely nothing evolved exactly like us anywhere else.
I don’t view it as faith at all. I view Tesla as a software and technology company that incidentally makes cars. At least, this perspective can start to explain their valuation and the hype. I think Tesla is doing things no else is (was) doing and they have a massive first mover advantage and mind share. The other manufacturers are struggling to keep up, despite the persistent quality issues with Tesla. Tesla is giving people a product they want as early as possible. It comes with some warts, but Tesla figured out early on what people will accept and what people won’t in terms of quality.
It's likely that the transmission lines are less of a bottle neck than the frequency conversion. Power lines are pretty darned efficient, and given the cold weather, theyd be more efficient than usual too
This is great advice. The absolute best SEO tip of all time is this: remember what you searched for on Google and couldn’t find a decent answer or link in the first few pages? Now you write that answer or link on your website.
I think it's mostly a problem of not having sub-subreddits.

Any reasonable forum with - checks simracing - 168k members would have a dozen subforums for different reasons soas not to drown out the general forum. One might even be "post your rig" or "newbie questions".
“your sites URL (and others) are getting search-n-replace null-routed”

What does this mean?
Running a JVM application in a container is not all that different to running a Go application in a container. But the design of the JVM runtime and its tooling is vastly different than Go. The JVM is more complex but it can do more things. Go is simpler and can get you to a working product quicker.

If someone asks me to build something and they tell me it will run in docker/kubernetes, have the standard containerized CI pipelines, and communicate with other services over some standard protocol like HTTP; doing it on the JVM is doable and probably easier than ever but I would just think about all the cool JVM features I wouldn't get to use (hot code deploy, runtime modularity tools, all the neat bytecode hacks, even spring which everyone but me seems to hate).

If I don't get to use those features then I would rather grab a language like Go, since it doesn't front load so many runtime complexities. (and if this was 10-15 years ago maybe I'd say "Go doesn't front load so many complexities AND performance penalties")
This doesn't sound bad on the surface, but my worry would be that we would wind up with Wiki-style moderation instead of SO style moderation. i.e. 'guarded articles', edit wars and power-mods overriding outside consensus.
But you got cheap taxes
Yeah, the whole article seems centered around "I don't do hourly billing" and all of the reasons (to me) actually read like reasons to do hourly billing.

Why do you do half-days instead of hours?
Far as I can tell you’ve expressed a view I’ve held through my career: those of us working for income are working class, right alongside all the other people working for income with us. We’re all entitled to the fruits of our labor. We’re all more aligned with the janitors and office assistants than with the executives. And we should organize as such.

We won’t get a bigger share of the value we produce by treating our white collars differently. We’ll get it by recognizing we’re workers (high paid often overworked) and find commonality with our peers, not our bosses.
Tinker with that by force of mining power and you will destabilize the currency. Maybe they want that, but it would probably end the currency if it was done by force.
Can you explain this further? It sounds an awful lot like you're dismissing my viewpoint without really putting an effort in to argue your side, which would be rude. While that may be the case, I'm going to overlook it.

The argument isn't directly that knowledge requires free will, but rather that you can't, as a mere product of some chain of events, be a reliable source. This isn't an argument against determinism so much as it is against naturalism.

I would also argue against determinism in some respects, but my thoughts about events being predetermined are a bit more complex. I would say that just because something is pre-known doesn't require it to be pre-determined. To say such a belief requires magic is a little flippant, I think.

Our universe and everything in it exist as they are in a moment of time. Our attempts at reasoning about the universe have given us some degree of accuracy in describing it. But the fact remains that whatever ideas and supporting science we come up with are just that, ideas and science. Reality trumps it all. So--while you can _say_ things in whatever tone you like and alienate or belittle folks who don't believe the same things you do--I would say that how we as humans show love for each other is much more helpful, and that it's okay to admit we don't know nearly as much about the world as we think we do.