skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be great if we could get to substantive debate instead of thought-terminating cliches like 'who gets to decide'. A moment's thought will suggest a range of possible answers, and one can then advocate for one's favorite. It's unhelpful to stymie discussion of real phenomena by throwing up one's hands in performative horror.

None of these institutions can be trusted, therefore the idea of "controlling misinformation" itself is anathema to a free society.

I think the institutionalization of lying is anathema to a free society, because honest people waste valuable time debunking liars, and it's faster to spread lies that truth.

How about you offer some positive suggestions for engaging with that issue instead of negating others' attempts to discuss it?
I think the takeaway is that we ended up with two charging standards so instead of one complementing the other, they compete. It should have been standardized, like in Europe.
Then write your code as if someone's going to throw production away - which generally means writing documentation (design docs, good commit messages, comments on the tricky parts of the code, API contracts between components, etc.), so that if someone thinks they want to to reimplement production, that decision can stand on its own merits.

All of the worst production systems I've worked with are systems where people are running code from many many years ago because they don't know what it does and are scared to touch it.

Write one to throw away, even - perhaps especially - if it goes into production. Write production to throw away.
>Can there ever be a non-work related conversation between employees that is not a "societal and political discussion"?

I think there are two questions. How much work time is taken up by non-work related conversation, and how much does an employee's non-work related political advocacy disrupt their work and the work of other employees? The unfortunate truth is that many (especially younger people) believe it is not only their right, but their duty, to agitate for the political and social change they believe in, at all times, and, in many fields, this mentality isn't compatible with a functional (much less efficient) work environment.
> Django Girls is an international non-profit organization started to inspire women from all backgrounds to get interested in technology and to become programmers, offering a safe and friendly environment.

It's something that most tech companies would be willing to sponsor, not political at all.
CMake variables are also dynamically scoped, just in case things weren't crazy enough!
It's for reasons like this that I'm always sad and dismayed the Chevy Volt wasn't more popular. Yes, all electric is the future, but right now, and for about the past 5-6 years, the Volt is/was the perfect car for a lot of people:

1. For me, my commute is about 12 miles one way, so my Volt has enough electric capacity for my commute plus 1 errand on a single charge. 95% of my days are 100% electric.

2. I never have "range anxiety" - if I do go slightly over my limit the gas engine kicks in. I use a tank of gas about every 4-6 months.

3. Since my car's electric range is only ~38 miles, I can fully charge in about 8-9 hours overnight on a plain 110v outlet - no custom installation required for a home charger.

I bought a low-mileage used Volt - it was a great deal and the best car I've ever owned.
Gardening: So are you a climate change wacko or a doomsday prepper wacko?
Clothing: Do you know where I can get my leather chaps repaired?
Home Renovation: I need to get a permit and inspection for my rec room renovation. They want confirmation that the beam can hold 400lbs in the sex-swing.

Any topic can be political if you are enough of a jerk.
That's partly the reason why the term "best practice" has become a bit controversial in some communities --- it's seen as mindless dogmatic cargo-culting. I've heard the saying "best practices are best not practiced" from the opposition.

There is nothing more frustrating than working on a codebase that puts 12 lines of code in each file and then spreads that code into 1,000 files.

In other words, "Enterprise" code, which is in my experience usually designed more to hit all the "best practices", and often according to the opinion of some idiotic tool (as in computer program, although sometimes a person too...), than do anything sanely.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. I never stated that the right to keep and bear arms (or any right) is inherently given by the Constitution since that would be false. The Constitution does _protect_ and specifically enumerate some inherent human rights.
How the space race changed Soviet art
This trendy thing called “progress”, freaking bandwagon mentality for _centuries_.
But Lambda already forgoes loan repayment if the student doesn't get a job making at least $50k. So why would they go about trying to collect loans from people declaring bankruptcy when they already give up on loans in other circumstances where they would be much easier to pursue?

It seems like Lambda was just genuinely confused about what the regulations were regarding their loans and whether they could be discharged in bankruptcy. The regulator clarified that they could, and they updated their agreement to reflect that.
The late Ken Perkins of Australia had a collection of 80,000 records when he past away in 2018:

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-18/australias-largest-re...

Though this article from 2016 indicates one Zero Freitas has six million "in a 25,000-square-foot former candle factory in São Paulo":

* https://www.reedyoung.com/vinyl/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Freitas

A 2013 article about John Tefteller, "who has stockpiled over 75,000 blues and rock & roll 78s":

* https://www.factmag.com/2013/10/01/tommy-johnson-blues-becom...

See also this 2009 documentary about Paul Mawhinney, who had three million items, and which was sold to Freitas:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXayHbUQ2o

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record-Rama
I really don't get all the hate towards php, I'm about to put my old blog online and it's written in php. It's a cool language.
How are you defining "conservative"?
Although C++ is statically typed, all of the article's arguments in favor of static typing equally apply against C++.

Also, the way you phrased your comment is needlessly rude, to the point I almost didn't bother replying. If you actually want to learn why people have the opinions they do, you should consider being more polite.
>I cannot relate to people who make prototypes to throw away, I've never done it, and I don't know why I'd do it.

I did it a lot through university. If you have no experience tackling a certain type of problem, your perception of it tends to change significantly as you build the solution and become familiar with the problem space. It makes sense to throw away what you've written, because most of it was based on assumptions that were wrong.
> No pricing yet, so this is still a demo.

If you’re referring to the Waymo rides in Chandler/Phoenix, they do charge. JJRicks (a YouTuber with no affiliation to Waymo AFAIK) has a spreadsheet of the rides he’s taken.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OiYGH4Vmdo_4HYMC9YVA...
Typically you can either give everyone the same percent or say you set aside 10% of your profit and divvy it up proportional to people's salaries
" by providing a place for users to optionally access context and authoritative speech when they want it. This means that such functionality could even be required by law, just as nutrition facts are for foods. It might be required for all messaging and social media apps over a certain size, built into operating systems, or mandated through Apple App and Google Play stores."

"Oi do you have a loicense for that decontextualized piece of information?"
You don't have to replace the entire road system. A hybrid model can also exist. Complicated city streets can be "smart", while self driving tech can be good enough to traverse long stretches of highways (which it can basically already do).
very true, i know a system written in django 1.x

and the site makes billions a year. the code? complete utter crap.

Written by a person that read a book on how to write a website.

It still makes billion a year.
This is a false equivalency. Pieter does not run a hypergrowth startup. His businesses are completely different to AirBnB and Stripe.

He does this because he's the only person who works on the codebase and because it generates a lot of attention due to how polarizing this choice is.

I'd also argue that messy code is the product of hypergrowth, rather than messy code being required for hypergrowth. Purposefully writing shit code because you're "moving fast and breaking things" seems like a dumb idea.
Provide (and get verified) bank statements and tax returns that prove your financial history, and then call some old landlords/lenders. Why would it be more complicated than that?
Not every office is full of robots. People chitchat during meetings.
it's more like asking "if I press ctrl+L in google.com/maps, should it focus the browser's search or the app's search" - in which applications currently can override ctrl+L to focus their own search bar.
It's not like the same didn't happen 'over here'. Canada for me specifically but even though we didn't lock down as hard as you guys did, the same thing happened with regards to other health procedures. People not going for cancer screenings. Not dentist visits etc.

In fact, there was one particular story on the news that I remember the most about a woman who couldn't get her appointments for an eye treatment due to the lock down and it progressed from curable to incurable.

She's blind now.
Monopoly is literally the antithesis of what makes board games fun. I vaguely recall a hilarious and accurate essay on this topic, comparing Monopoly to Settlers of Catan and highlighting the degree to which they are nearly
perfect polar opposites.
Yes that increases air quality but it would not add oxygen back into the air in place of CO2.
Consider the war on drugs- not just a complete failure, but actively harmful, especially to minority communities, while rich white users continue about their business largely unmolested. You can get anything you want your first time in a visit to any American city inside of an hour. Just stop by a restaurant kitchen. Banning firearms would be about as successful. So the argument is, why criminalize a huge number of people who aren't criminals just because some criminals and mentally ill people use guns? It would lead to another drug war situation.
Giving up the fight yields the better outcome only when the other party doesn’t come over
and eat you or kill you no?

It isn’t about dominance over all - it’s about survival and the complex intertwining of all the various strategies (good, bad, failing) being tried simultaneously with the hope that theirs wins. Sometimes it’s domination. Sometimes it’s teamwork. Sometimes it’s passivity.

As any individual player, you have to pick one - and sometimes it wins, sometimes it loses. Most strategies exist not because they are always ideal, but because having the selection is essential and necessary to long term survival in a fundamentally unpredictable environment. A species that only does one strategy at once is going to go extinct when the environment changes suddenly.

I’m definitely not equating all actions as equal, or saying everything has equal cost. I’m noting that nothing, including no action, has no cost, and that assuming a player in the game (you or someone else) will definitely lose or definitely win for a given survival criteria has a very low degree of predictive accuracy in the real world.
But your teammate and the future self will
Human drivers still do meaningfully cost money to employ, and they do annoying things like needing to sleep or take rest room breaks. Autonomous trucking would completely revolutionize the industry.
Hey thanks for your advice. My problem is that I do not collect any data but users still doubt that their data is not safe
> But to others, "politics at work" means "are we paying women and men the same for doing the same job?" and "are our recruiting practices leading to a non-diverse workforce and missing out on great people who should work here?" and "what problems does our company sole, and for whom?". These are really important questions. Why wouldn't you want to bring them up at work?

I don't understand why would any company want employees to openly discuss "are we paying women and men the same for doing the same job?" This is a terrible question for any specific company to answer. Calculate the average wage of male and female employees? Very likely it won't be equal. And run regression to control different variables (experiences, skills)? If this is not inviting unnecessary internal fight, I can't think of anything else. Not any sane person would want to do this its own company.

"are our recruiting practices leading to a non-diverse workforce and missing out on great people who should work here?" Same spirit, if you don't believe it, nobody can prove it.

"what problems does our company sole, and for whom?" not sure what's the point here.
I agree with all of the above. What I'll add is that I stopped using the "at-coneervatives" talking points exclusively and started including the "wing" of liberalism that engages in similar behavior. The problem is that it's not really a wing anymore, it's pop-culture and mainstream, or at least at the beginning stages of it. If you only address conservatives, you're doing those people a favor too.
> If you suppose that paying for credit monitoring will cause them to catch mistakes somehow, you'd need to show that.

Is that not the value proposition of credit monitoring?
> since the battery charges slower as it approaches full charge

This is for safety and the health of the battery. It is not widely advertised and many people don't know that the fastest levels of charging (tesla supercharge and similar) actually damage the battery a very slight amount, and will reduce overall battery life span, cycle depth ability and health if used very often. It's healthier for your battery to charge at a medium speed overnight.
“ No more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account. “

They banned it in all channels, and told their employees to chat on Signal:

“ People can take the conversations with willing co-workers to Signal, Whatsapp, or even a personal Basecamp account, but it can't happen where the work happens anymore.”

So - it’s not like what you asserted, at all. What you asserted is somewhat reasonable (even if I would want to nitpick at the edge cases) ... but they’re not saying anything close to what you’re saying.
You’ve got it exactly backwards. Committees take away autonomy by introducing external influence. Politics by definition is guiding policy, not acting with purpose within the confines of policy.
Your use of the term “sanity” is loaded. It is a complex political topic for a reason. Government should be afraid of its people. Think of the “children” ;)
Nobody cares about your excuses for writing godawful code either. Call it a draw.
for pay, i don't think so?
Treatment of student loans in bankruptcy not limited to government loans.

The clause makes Lambda appear less attractive so not clear why it would be included.

Would be nice to hear Lambda’s side.
Based on the short time period that mRNA is active, couldn't they propose treatments where you need to be injected with more of it every month?

They'd gain a benefit over pills in that a nurse is required to inject the patient
Aren't most superchargers (at least until relatively recently) actually between cities, not in them? The idea being that superchargers are primarily meant for road trips, so if you're going from city A to city B the assumption is you can charge at your origin and destination, so superchargers are spaced so you have enough juice to get there.
Money is a resource too, but rock stars tend to turn it into a vice.
My principles are not worth actively sacrificing my security.
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
If learning a couple of basic tools like an ORM and JS build tools is too much of a barrier, you probably shouldn’t be let anywhere near a database with real users data in it.

PHP is too easy to get started with and let’s you do some truely horrific things trivially.
There was this awesome Indian podcast (Intersection) which moved to Audible and now even the producers are waiting for the contract to be over. They have given up.
Similarly, the word "barbarian" comes from the ancient Greeks describing the people who lived around them as sounding like they were saying "bar bar bar".
I've noticed that the people who disagree with me are much better at clicking the downvote button than they are at clicking reply and explaining why they disagree.
this website is garbage, these mods keep flagging and now I can't even post a comment.
If I had to guess a whole lot more randomly chosen American houses have electrical clothes dryers than welders.
GQL isn't really much like a graphdb (e.g. SPARQL).

The goal of GQL is to gather a useful subset of your microservice data into a single tree for your frontend to render. In a facebook context, a typical query is "give me all the info i need to be able to show my home feed".

The goal of graph dbs is to allow arbitrary, complexm, often cyclic and aggregating queries to be run against a data source expressed as a graph. A typical query is something like "how many of my friend-of-friends like basketball, displayed by location."
If you stick to ElectrifyAmerica (not like the author), you’ll have a much nicer experience. They’re really the only 150/350kw decently priced network, all the competition is mostly slow 44/58kw chargers.

They still have a bit of software ironing to do though, still feels like a beta sometimes, I’ve had to move from stall to stall 3-4 times out of 40 charges.

Also, yes, obviously, if you’re in Manhattan, you’ll find less chargers. But why are you using a car there?
This is Musk's exact defense - he very cleverly says nothing concretely positive about anything, and very specifically puts it in a public forum with Twitter.

It's quite brilliant, although maddening to folks with less of a stomach... which is why he's in the position he's in - he makes those grey-area decisions.

Where all of them add up in the future, only time will tell - but for now, results are squarely in his favor.
I recently negotiated two service contracts, one for a company that helps administer employment verification (e.g., if an employee applies for a loan), and another with a company that handles COBRA documentation post-termination. Both of these require the service providers hold some confidential information concerning our employees. Both contracts explicitly provided (i) they will not indemnify me for state/federal penalties if they fail to do their job, and (ii) the only remedies they would provide following their data breach is one year of credit monitoring. I told them that was crazy, and if there's a breach they need to indemnify me for all losses and liability, full stop. Both companies refused so I had our broker approach different companies. Those companies proposed contracts with the same terms and also refused to change them. As the employer here merely contracting with service providers, I can't even find contractors who will take this liability on. I would 100% support legislation that would impose on these bastards penalties for the losses associated with their data breaches or failure to provide the services they say they are going to provide. I am also comfortable with the fact that may cost more, but at least then the costs will be internalized by the proper actor. And those who can efficiently provide secure services to me will get my business.
> FBI found to search NSA database that was not supposed to be allowed for searching without warrants, says FISA court.

So it shouldn't be a surprise that if there is query-able surveillance some police force will use it, even if they are legally disallowed to. Why isn't it the case that the FBI just can't every query these NSA databases in any way, they have no access? The US is never going to give up on spying on the whole world, and I can't believe congress will ever care enough to even try to stop it. It would take even more major abuses than the last 10 years have given us.
n=1, I’ve DC fast charged my Model S 100D a lot at Superchargers over roughly 40k miles of travel cross country, and I’ve only lost 14 miles of range since purchase.

It’s true that, at least with the S and X, excessive Supercharging will cause the battery to throttle peak charge currents for the remainder of the battery’s life, the Model 3 and Y chemistry doesn’t seem to exhibit the same throttling.
We had transparency in domains names in the 90s and 2000s and it was terrible. Far too many scam calls, letters and emails came in to the registered addresses.

Frankly I would support not including physical postal addressses and phone numbers, and only including email addresses on domain registrations.

If you want accurate WHOIS for domains and phones you need to outline a way to prevent abuse because nobody wants to go back to the way it was before. Heck I’m being harassed right now by someone who wants to buy my domain and I’m super glad all they have is my Cloudflare obscured email. (Can I say how much I love Cloudflare Registrar? Not affiliated but a very happy customer)
Even better yet the issue could be avoided if the school did not make up and therefore have to enforce bad rules in the first place. When the people disregard bureaucratic rules, more often than not it is the rules themselves that are the problem.
Given the drift of the article, as signalled by its title, I think this precis of 'clean code' was being presented sardonically - particularly that last point. As you point out, you can nominally follow all these rules and still not squeak.
You really should have led with this argument because "companies shouldn't give employees gym memberships because fat people might not use them" is an awful argument but "companies shouldn't give employees gym memberships because some employees might be physically unable to go to a gym" is pretty reasonable if the alternative is just giving them money instead.
doesn't seem very normal, or at least I've never seen it anywhere either. Not to mention that pretty much anyone can bullshit on that metric
It's not a shame at all. Lockdowns have a price. Besides the economic price, I care mostly about the well being of people price. I live in Massachusetts in an area where most people follow the guidelines about social distancing and masks. We had zero full lockdowns but we did have a stay at home advisory when it all started. During that time only essential businesses were open but people were free to go outside. Also, pretty much everyone besides essential workers moved to WFH and still are. Some schools had hybrid options and some were fully remote. This month almost all schools went back to fully in person after the governor of the state forced them to.

Overall I feel we managed the pandemic fine so far without lockdowns. Sure, people died and I'm sure in much larger numbers than Australia. But if we ever need to experience something like this again, I would still prefer this over strict lockdowns after a few new cases like in AU. I'm not against strict lockdowns, there might be times when they are a good solution, but nothing longer than a couple of weeks.
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Some of us believe the government should do less- in general. Terrible things happen. I would strongly prefer the government be limited to the absolute minimum activity.
another factor will be whether you've set it to allow the car to often charge itself to 100% state of charge, or you commonly limit it to 80 or 85%. The length of time that a li ion battery is held at >90% state of charge voltage also has an impact on its life.
In the medium to even sometimes short term, clean code IS what allows you to ship features to users quickly and efficiently.