skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Difficult to believe? That not everyone has a massive, bottomless pit for a stomach? I don’t know why that’s extremely difficult to believe since everyone is different and I’m hardly unique.

But you’re certainly not the first. I’ve had plenty of waiters who are convinced I hated my perfectly delicious meal simply because the serving size is way too big for me. I’ve had colleagues make “jokes” about my “girlish figure” when I fail to clear my plate at a business lunch. And someone on the internet even called me “a weenie” while telling me that people come in all shapes! (I mean, honestly?)

For some reason people seem to have a hard time comprehending that everyone isn’t exactly like them. It is what it is. But what it’s not is my problem.
True, true. Maybe the chewing tobacco is meant to be a proxy for smoking earlier in life.
I've worked places with diversity and inclusion programs that I think are ridiculous. And I've heard of programs far worse. I smile and say nothing because it's not worth my job. I think there's a lot of people out there like that.
The fatal flaw of this article is assuming that having a single PHP file implies ugly code, or at least uglier than the average codebase.

I would, in fact, guess that its code is much cleaner than the average Fullstack Javascript app.

If you're capable of writing a full, functional website in one PHP file, you know what every line of code does, you have only what you need and the ways to factor your code become more obvious.

Using the "modern" Javascript stack usually means that you had to spend months or years trying to learn this mishmash of Javascript libraries (React, react-redux, Express, an auth library, an ORM, etc.) and you don't know what most of those things do under the hood.

The lesson I take away is: Simple (PHP + Jquery) can be better than complex (React, Redux, Express, Passport, etc).
Life After Shaming Public
if you want to know, how to do it ask. i'm tired. you have all the world need, why u used me. Use bill gates, einstein. used me! hellow!
u have family, wife, husband, bf, gf, grandparents, i'm not. can u stop!

If u dead your parents will crying over you. i'm not. nobody!
can u not give me a little humanity... i guess that record on human rights from UN
Start learning a new programming language / framework.

Dart. Elixir. Go.
True but Apple's current business model doesn't rely on advertising, unlike Facebook and Google.
That's the rub, isn't it? Your definition of AI is basically "things we can't do by computer yet", which will always be unobtainable, by definition.

Meanwhile, you've got marketers that are also trying to use that definition, in order to sell you on some software solution, despite it being oxymoronic.

Two better definitions of AI that I'm a fan of are "Algorithms that model intelligence" (where "intelligence" is the ability to use knowedge in inference), or the broader definition of "Second-order algorithms" or algorithms that, rather than encoding a process that finds a solution, encode a process for finding a process that presents a solution.
At a technical level, I think smart roads are more straightforward. However, I think a purely technical analysis ignores why self driving cars have been so popular.

The cost of replacing the entire US road system with "smart" roads would doubtless be astronomical - as well as increase the maintenance and infrastructural requirements. We've probably had the technical capabilities to create self-driving-capable roads for years, but the costs are probably too high for people to take it seriously "at scale."

Machines that do things "as well" as humans in similar roles have been a science fiction staple for over a century. That machines do focused tasks much, much better than humans haven't stopped people from searching for "drop in" replacements for tasks that currently use a human. Suddenly, the scale is on the level of a single vehicle - very manageable if it works. That's why people were so willing to spend billions of dollars to avoid spending trillions on all that road replacement - because they wanted the worlds they saw in science fiction.
Chicago is pretty LGBTQ friendly. It's culturally more midwestern than say, NYC, but it's not like we're talking about St. Louis here.
tl;dr Here's a web site that made a lot of money despite being a single file of code that we presume is ugly. From this we conclude that one must choose between writing clean code and focusing on what the user wants.

(In case it isn't obvious, I disagree. Maintainable code lets you adapt to an evolving understanding of what the user wants.)
Most of the times I've gotten the credit bureau-style security questions (for example, trying to get my credit reports, or trying to open a bank account),

- Every single one is answerable by reference to my Facebook page and a few old area phonebooks [remember when most people used to list their name, phone number, and home address for the world to see? ah yes. good times.]

- And they usually tell me I'm wrong, which would make me suspicious that I was a victim of identity theft, except that the answers I give usually match the data in the report I eventually receive.
> Nature is much too efficient to spend that much energy on something that it ends up not using.

And yet nature somehow finds it acceptable to grow a nerve all the way from a giraffe's head down its neck, loop around its heart and then go all the way back up through its neck until reaching the head. [0]

[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laryngeal_nerve
...and they might be right.

It doesn't seem impossible for there to be a long tail of driving (in)ability: most people drive pretty well, with a small fraction that are distractible or reckless enough to account for most accidents.
The same pangs endured when we went from horses to gas powered cars. Gas stations and their network expanded over decades. The only thing that can push this faster is the public sector. Regulatory mandates and incentives. The classic carrot and stick approach.
The use of the word "necessary" implies that anything less is insufficient.
As a resident of California can I invoke the CCPA and get my information deleted from Experian et al?
>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?

These are questions for people at work whose job description involves hiring, payroll, and the corporate charter. These aren't collective questions to be debated and answered by employees whose jobs are completely unrelated. If, for example, you are hired to be a programmer, then your job is to program - that's all. Its not up to you to decide what the company's mission should be, or, "whose problems we are trying to solve". While a programmer is debating these philosophical and political questions with other programmers, they aren't doing the job they were hired to do - program. Certainly if the ownership of a company decides that they want to hire people to not only program, but also opine on their political and moral beliefs, that is their right. But is also their right to decide they don't want to pay people they hire to opine and debate during work hours on issues that have no direct relevance to the job they were hired to do. Just as it is your right to refuse to accept a job at a company that hires you to exclusively do a job without bringing your political baggage into the workplace.
Behind-the-Scenes with American Demothballing Jets from Pandemic Storage
Yes, I read the article - via Safari on my 11” iPad Pro.

Things that work:
- Typing Effect (@keyframes)
- Drop Shadow
- "center" (flexbox)
- Truncate Text (uses line-camp)
- Modals (uses :target)
- calc
- Style Empty (:empty)
- Position Sticky
- Scroll Snap
- Dynamic Tooltips (when using touchpad)
- Fancy Text

Things that don’t work:
- Smooth Scrolling
- Resize
- Cursors (even when using the touchpad cursor)
- ::selection (even using Safari in “Desktop mode”)
- Custom Scrollbars

I could test due to not having a live example:
- Caret color
It sure is. But “being reduced to a label” is one of the outcomes of such policies, and it’s exactly what I worry about when they’re enacted (because that’s how it used to work).

I’m not the one making it an identity politics / label issue; I’m saying “these policies are cover for mean people to reduce me to just a label and then weaponize that against me.”
I didn’t estimate that.
I don't know anything about lambda school outside the HN threads but it seems like you're in every lambda school thread going back 'n forth with allen. kinda funny honestly.

makes your arguments seem a little less credible since you clearly have a bone to pick but like I said, I don't know anything about lambda school. maybe you're justified, idk.
> You tell me I can't run those on my Roku, well fuck you and your service.

The thing is that Google shouldn't be forced to make their apps for the 30 different streaming box app stores if they don't want to. If there's no money to be made and they inherently lose money by tasking a team to keep the Roku app (or LG app or Samsung app, etc) up-to-date then they shouldn't have to.

The Google Cast protocol is actually pretty open in this regard - the apps are just a combination of html, js, websocket, and a protobuf server with no need to publish anything - all the TV makers would have to do is embed Chrome (they would also have to use a not-e-waste chip to do so, though, as supporting 4k hardware vp9 and drm is intense and expensive). There also really isn't an app store that needs moderation or business deals to happen for your casting to work - the only registration is really so Google has a paper trail of accountability in order to prevent malware and perform some API calls (https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/registration).
I can only chuckle at the raw math, as if that’s the valuable datapoint. It seems impossible until it’s done.

It took decades for America to ruin the idea of unions, they’re not coming back overnight.
This is where your lack of knowledge in economics and trade really shows.

If the US dollar ends up hyperinflating, assets like gold, bitcoin, stocks, housing, etc. become very, very expensive. They become expensive because everyone seeks to escape USD into safety of assets that are inflation resistant.

So you have it backwards: people will give EVERYTHING of value to get those assets, because those are the only things they want to be paid in. They are the only things capable of storing value.

Its funny you think nobody will want to trade for "stupid worthless ones and zeroes", because today they trade for "stupid worthless paper with President's faces printed on them", and before that, they traded for "stupid worthless shiny yellow rocks".
This was my approach until it failed. The people in a position to decide were so preoccupied by (understandable) emergent secondary effect issues that communicating the underlying issue was basically a waste of time.

The only way I could get to solving the problem was by drawing a line in the sand and refusing to work on symptoms anymore. And the only reason that was effective was because my team was so understaffed that my refusal effectively brought all feature work to a halt.

Even then, “solve the problem” buy in was shaky and constantly dismissed/side-stepped. It took a full end to end proof of concept exploit against a production system, being incredibly careful not to actually cause harm, to get support from the top (which I conjured in less than an hour and regret holding those cards as long as I did, but I was seriously worried about how I could demonstrate the vulnerability without exploiting it harmfully).
> conservative politics in the UD make some people’s entire existence political, full stop

Funny, as a conservative minority in a straight white liberal company, my entire existence isn’t just political, it’s apparently a moral imperative that I be reminded on a daily basis that people like myself not only shouldn’t have a voice, we shouldn’t be allowed to exist in society at all. Full stop.

It’s made quite clear that my only means of survival are to keep my mouth shut and present myself as entirely apolitical.

Perhaps I’m wrong, but experience tells me you’re perfectly happy if my existence is kept silenced for the greater good of allowing your political side to thrive and speak freely, but you’re not ok with both sides being silenced, or at least “toned down”, for the sake of promoting fairness, inclusion, and productivity.
What's important here is that I'm using diagrams mostly in high level, explanatory documents.

For example, the decision nodes will be somewhat vague, e.g., "Does event have good location data?" The details of that question are actually very complex, covering multiple fields from different data sources. But the gist is very much "if we don't know it, we're going to then hit this location subsystem". This is in a processing chain that's pretty complex, so, it's just kind of a basic guide.

Most of the consumers of these docs are often engineering managers who want a picture of the system, but aren't performing real engineering analysis.

I don't use them for detailed technical analysis. Usually, that just involves code.

I find dataflow diagrams can be useful, but even those can be overwhelming, depending upon the audience.

Ultimately, I don't think you can just talk about diagramming without the context in which you're using the diagrams. I rarely use diagrams with technical reference documentation these days. I use them with high level explanations or tutorials.
Under capitalism, the conditions and means of how products are produced are made irrelevant. Sad.
This is peak HN, calling 30% annual growth on a $750 billion company flat
Financing has existed as a concept _far far far_ longer than "credit bureaus" have existed as a concept.

Financing can absolutely exist without a centralized credit rating system / data privacy nightmare.
This is an intended part of the design of security questions. They function like passwords, but they are not conceived of as being passwords.

If the bank wasn't able to view the answers in plain text, the security questions would not be able to serve their intended purpose.
> guys with skinny jeans who watch the world cup

That description makes me think of Carnik Con, which is what I imagine if gun loving hipsters made a comedy show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwI9_Q07zxk
I do what I think is best for myself. You do what you think is best. Obviously won't employ author though.
In case you want to read it:

The open letter:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8KejpUVLxmqp026JY7x5GzHU2YJL...

The response:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YIV+pLR0nt94q0xQ@kroah.com/
I did some digging (not the parent poster) - here seems to be a decently thorough meta analysis of IFR and CFR from the swine flu outbreak. It appears to be clearly and dramatically less lethal to all age ranges than COVID [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809029/#!po=0....], with the highest risk group (>64 yrs old), having a roughly 1% chance of death per symptomatic case, and children (lowest risk) roughly three orders of magnitude less risk (1 per 100,000 symptomatic cases vs 1 in 100 for elderly).

Here is a more direct link to the graph [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809029/figure/...].

Covid is too new, and we’re too unclear on how widely it is spread to have solid CFR or IFR data at this point. NYC did a decent study post outbreak early last year however using antibody tests that is probably not complete junk. You can read one of the many studies here [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...]. The pertinent quote is probably - “ City. Our estimated infection-fatality risk for the two oldest age groups (65–74 and ≥75 years) was much higher than the younger age groups, with a cumulative estimated infection-fatality risk of 0·116% (0·0729–0·148) for those aged 25–44 years and 0·939% (0·729–1·19) for those aged 45–64 years versus 4·87% (3·37–6·89) for those aged 65–74 years and 14·2% (10·2–18·1) for those aged 75 years and older. In particular, weekly infection-fatality risk was estimated to be as high as 6·72% (5·52–8·01) for those aged 65–74 years and 19·1% (14·7–21·9) for those aged 75 years and older.”
This article seems to focus on clean code not having a significant effect on the software in production for the experience of the end user.

One example where I have experienced the benefits of a clean codebase is when onboarding new developers. It takes a few days of handholding but once they've started working with the code there's very little room for gotcha situations where they get stuck or inadvertently introduce bugs due to being misdirected by the code that was already there.
Unsolicited meta-meta-comment:

>I can't even say it. I'm not Australian.

It's not just Aussies that say the word cunt a lot.
It's relatively common in most of the major English speaking nations: England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand just off the top of my head. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Scots say that word more than we do (measured in microcunts-uttered-per-second, normalised on a per-capita basis).

We do seem to have the most variants of the term (tough cunt, hard cunt, dumbcunt, shitcunt, gaycunt etc.), but that could just be my bias as I'm less familiar with slang from other countries.

The US and Canada really are the exceptions to the rule in this regard, ascribing disproportionate levels of offensiveness to the word compared with anywhere else on Earth.
If we had such a technique we wouldn't need somebody else to tell us. By all means, let's find such a holy grail, but let's not call "the authoritative source said so" said grail and act like we've solved anything.
Heh, I guess. It seemed inferior hence the knock off bit.
Start with https://wiki.c2.com/?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeature...
Java 11 now has a built-in mechanism to run a single file Java program: https://medium.com/se-notes-by-alexey-novakov/shell-script-i...
I rarely prototype but the scenarios where I do are in the game engine context where I’m trying to hack together a real time graphics algorithm, meshing algorithm, etc. The difference between a one second and 15 second iteration time is meaningful.
"I love my family!"
"That's good...hold up are you conservative?"
"Yes"
"Stop pushing your politics on us!"

This mindset is demonizing and insidious, full stop. It's simply unacceptable in a civil society
We already have a solution for the issues you described, HR.

Defiling work communication channels with political opinions only serves to distract, deride, and divide.
You and I don't know the same people. I use a credit card for everything and pay it off at the end of the month. I know nobody who uses a debit card like that unless their credit cards are maxed out.
Good on you (genuinely) but you do recognize that there are plenty of people who would be much more sympathetic to the complainer, right?
How exactly would a gender pronoun help you understand?
We had taken the discounts into account (we had qualified for them). The $0 egress was not a thing when we did our analysis. And we were moving 10's of PB/month. BW costs were running into sizable fractions of millions of dollars per month.
My point is that I don't think it's effective to respond to every "slippery slope" by not letting people anywhere near the slope and holding them back from talking about things they care about because they touch the slope. But rather to pick your point on each slope, which gives your people more opportunity to be open and,if it involves company policy etc, for you to get feedback - although the final decision about what the company does of course still rests with you. And if a topic just doesn't work, ban that.

Re the specific example: I'm not from the US, so a fundamental right to guns (or even just much in the way of gun culture) is culturally "weird" here. I didn't intend to suggest that this would be weird/off-limits to all companies everywhere. Which is kind of the point again: find what works for the topic for your people.
I live in a city that’s within the top 150 by population, we have one Tesla supercharger. It’s at a nearly dead mall, only food there is a cafeteria style restaurant that isn’t great and no theater or anything. That mall borders a somewhat sketchy part of town. That’s my experience knowing EV charging unfortunately.

Also the lack of charging means I could not drive an EV to visit family members, only destination charging available at hotels where I wouldn’t be staying.

Obviously the supercharging network is constantly growing and it’s all still new, but in my neck of the woods its still pretty tough to have.
I mean we’re really getting lost in the weeds here, I think. Like it’s not just about LGBT issues, it’s just an easy, personally relevant example for me to use.

To your point though: Chicago is decent, but arguably less so than SF.
I only knew it from Hungarian, which I guess is a slavic enough language to compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9meth:

In Hungarian, német means "German" (the word has Slavic origin, literally meaning "he does not speak", since German is not a Slavic language)
That does not match my experience at all, even before coming here. Credit cards, as far as I could see, are actually credit cards most of the time, and I have been explicitly told that I should start "building credit" by paying as much with a "real" credit card as possible.

"Credit card bills" also seem to be a regular part of everyday conversation here, in sitcoms, on Twitter...
Much of NYC is SO dense that it seems absurd that anyone, even police, should be able to fire a gun there. It's almost impossible to do safely in any context.

I understand that people feel compelled to protect constitutional rights, but it often seems to defy some situational realities of the modern world? Are we really expected to forever carry this rule from a time when there were fewer people in the entire country than a single borough in a modern city?
Mumbai literally has bumper to bumper traffic, I think any self driving car's sensors would just go crazy and give up.
Huh? How many millions have been immunized so far with it?
> The fact that they converged on a practical trade-off

Is it even desirable to mass produce at one specific point in the tradeoff curve? Wouldn't society, or at least engineers, appreciate being able to choose where in the curve you land?
> if you pay for “credit monitoring” they will catch those mistakes.

If you suppose that paying for credit monitoring will cause them to catch mistakes somehow, you'd need to show that.

If your assumption is that the CRAs don't care about mistakes unless you're paying them you need to think again, the value the CRAs had before any of this existed was that they could give a lender valuable intelligence about whether you might pay them. Lenders pay them for that, if the intelligence is often bogus the lender is wasting their money.
My reading of it is that their contract claimed student debt with the school could not be discharged with bankruptcy similar to federal student loans. This is not true, and it's doubtful that the people writing the contract didn't know that it wasn't true. If they were being intentionally deceitful, which I believe is the claim here, it would be to prevent loss of loan-repayment in the case that a student finds the debt to be too burdensome and wishes to instead file for bankruptcy. Why else would they include it in the contract if it weren't to their benefit to discourage the student from discharging their debt? All that's left is to prove the intent to decieve.
Security questions are typically stored with a reversible encryption so they can be used by CS agents.

Security questions are not a password.