skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should avoid real world analogies. That's how we got into the culture of throwing people in jail for reporting a security bug (why were you snooping around on my property!) and stuff like "you wouldn't download a car".

The specific problem with the murder analogy is that governments have effective ways to reduce local crime. You can't do anything similar for stuff happening on the internet. Criminals come from all over the world.

Even if you can get every government to agree, not all of them have the resource to implement any effective form of deterrence. It also seems like the solution will be way worse than the problem. You either firewall yourself off from the world (what china does) or add so much spying that you can always catch the "bad guys". I can't think of any other solution. If we want a free internet, we just have to accept some are going to abuse their freedom to do bad things and deal with it.
IT's still chunky but it's cute.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/marty-makary/92434
I've seen several sites that don't have permanent password at all. You just tell them your email/phone no, and they send you the temporary password, which expires after the short time. Looks a bit unusual, but the security is not much different from any site that has password recovery by email/SMS - if somebody gets control over your email, you're toast, otherwise you're ok. I wonder why more sites don't do this...
Sure, there are some that seem roughly tautological (like "Popularity" and "Extraversion") but who cares – there's a bunch here that's interesting.

For example, that conscientiousness (aka diligence/organization) correlates more positively than extraversion with Job Income but less positively with Life Satisfaction and negatively with Popularity.

Agreeableness having a light negative correlation with Income and Intelligence is also thought-provoking and not at all tautological.
The way the medical profession treats sleep, in a field where mistakes cost lives, has always seemed absolutely batshit crazy.

There's, I suppose, a weird societal level "getting your money's worth" from their compensation - since their actual hourly rate would plummet on the basis of working 30 hour shifts non-stop and the like.

Not to mention that the institution as a whole has enormous difficulty actually properly handing off care between different providers, yet we would only see benefits from being effective at doing so - not to mention minimizing the impact of bad doctors.
Maybe the underlying Nobel prize worthy research is are the two activities isomorphic or namely are the two processes indistinguishable?
Yeah, obviously not scalable, but cool for a risk-averse T-Mobile wireless customer who wants a guaranteed 4% on $3K.

It is funny though that they give the example that at $5,000 saved your effective APY is around 2.79%. I mean, the bottom line is that as soon as you get above $3K, any additional savings drops to a lowly 1%, which doesn't keep pace with inflation (i.e. you're losing money). But they're presenting it like 2.79% is some kind of average that matters, thus implying it's a good idea to keep pouring money in.

The reality is that the offer is not an average, but two discrete terms of 4% and 1%. And, on the latter, you're trading whatever other returns you could've made elsewhere for that miserly 1%. Much better to put it elsewhere, even for those who bite on the initial $3K for 4%.
Word wrap and proportional fonts are your friend.

Contrary to what many developers believe, coding in a proportional font can be quite practical and enjoyable. And it fits a lot more horizontal text on the screen for the same visual font size.

There are some exceptions, of course, such as code dealing with bit patterns or matrices where you want things to align vertically.

But for most of the code most of us read and write, that isn't an issue. As a specific example, Python code formatted with Black is equally readable in a monospaced or proportional font.

And then when a line is too long - whatever font you use - word wrap fixes it. Even if word wrapping looks a little sloppy sometimes, it sure beats having to scroll horizontally.
It depends on how you measure renewables. Lets say solar, is the measurement made during the day? Because for most of the clock, they added zero solar. Or wind? Was it measured when the wind was blowing, or not?

The lost nuclear was 24/7.
Can't recommend her enough as well (Currently reading the last book of the third trilogy).

I didn't enjoy the first book too much, less epic scope than I was expecting and I don't like child protagonists very much.

But the writing was excellent and after a year hiatus and a streak of questionably written books (Malazan was one of them...), I picked her up again. Halfway through the second book I realized I was cheering to Kettricken charge to aid Fitz and I was hooked.

Since then each book has been better than the one before.
You really don’t need to understand category theory to understand Haskell, or even recursion for simple examples. Recursion is frequently used to implement control structures that are either built-in or missing in imperative languages; users of these control structures don’t need to understand how they work.

Which is simpler:

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) array[i]++;

or

map (+ 1) list

Admittedly, most modern languages have something like foreach, but one of Haskell’s major advantages is that foreach can be implemented as a library function.
> You could also consider a case where they send in a new contestant every time the Random Monty Hall picks a car

In the actual show, do you believe they are sending in a new contestant every time Monty hall picks are car?

Do you think that is what is happening in the actual game show?
It’s just the opposite. The essential goods needed for survival: shelter is becoming more and more Scarce. 34% of millennials can’t even afford their own shelter anymore and are forced to live with parents. Those who can live by themselves are paying over 40% of their income on shelter. There’s been a pretty dramatic drop in living standards here in the US over the last several decades

The fact that we can now afford ever more borderline useless apps, clothes and electronic gadgets doesn’t help much
> There is some confused language being used here. If you're saying the marginal productivity of the 81st hour worked in a week is 0, then that is almost certainly wrong.

No, I am correct here, and there is no "confused language" in my writing. This has been studied by prominent economists at Stanford University, which is ironically one of the worst Universities in the US for encouraging "working nonstop".

Once you work over 55 hours per week, your productivity at that point effectively becomes zero [1]. You effectively cannot accomplish anything more, productively, as a human, past 55 hours of work per week.

I suggest that you become more aware of human limitations, along with becoming more aware of human behavior, especially human tribalistic behaviors. Then you would not fall for these kinds of falsehoods. It would help you play "the game" more successfully, which you seem to take interest in.

[1] The Productivity of Working Hours (Stanford University study by economist John Pencavel): http://ftp.iza.org/dp8129.pdf
I wish we had better finance education in school. Not job seeking and career guidance but more around saving and investing. Running a business and being financially free. Today there is so much fakery out there. On the topic of cashflow consider the cost of capital and discount future cashflow to be on the safe side. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. Wise words.
I hereby declare..
> Imagine if a shell or total decided to convert part of their fuel station franchise to EV Charger networks?

There's no need to imagine it. That's what Shell, Total, and BP are doing. And, unlike Tesla, any EV can use their chargers. Some reading:

- https://www.electrive.com/2021/02/12/shell-to-install-half-a...

- https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/technology-news/shell-tar...

- https://www.electrive.com/2021/04/12/shell-reveals-charging-...

- https://www.electrive.com/2021/05/03/charge4europe-and-total...

- https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/03/20210331-bp.html

- https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/latest-fleet-news/electric-...

- https://freewiretech.com/bp-pulse-and-freewire-sign-exclusiv...

- https://freewiretech.com/news/freewire-deploys-next-generati...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaSRn6hYOwc

> Your frustration is probably because the only company that gets it is tesla.

No. You're caught up in the marketing and the mythology. You've lost sight of the practical realities.
Well, if what you ask is a tautology the answer is almost obvious. Almost.
Mostly unsurprising, given that flowering plants is one of the major divisions of plants, and conifers are most definitely trees and are not flowering. And palm trees are nothing like either flowering trees nor conifers.

To me "tree" simply has to do with being big and tall. Just like the term "whale" excludes porpoises and dolphins, purely based on size, with toothed whales and baleen whales being the actual biological subdivisions of cetacean. (and of course with the oddity that dolphins and porpoises are not whales per se, but they are members of toothed whales i.e. odontocetes)
WaPo is similar audience and not nearly as bad. Foreign news organizations are probably better though.
I presume you are in the USA.
I watch and marvel at how the USA has such expensive health care and yet apparently has poorer outcomes than other G10 nations, in aggregate. The NHS in my home country is undergoing privatisation of the more lucrative or self-contained components. But it seems important for other countries to watch and learn from this example because free market economics are so often heralded as a solution to inefficiency, cartels, and high prices. Why healthcare is not as amenable to the benefits of capitalism is no doubt complex, but if I may speculate, I'd suggest that choice is not really a good thing in healthcare. All we want is good care, and we want it quickly and conveniently. Choice is only needed if we are getting poor care. Furthermore, the infrastructure (buildings, equipment, supply chains, specialists) are sufficiently costly that often the market cannot entertain multiple variations. In other words, we can't always have many equally equipped hospitals competing to do the same things.
thanks I've always thought it's "disorder"
I often rejoice when a wealth discussion makes its way on to HN. Discussions are usually broad, exciting- and I find that a massive pool of intelligent engineers have some great input on topics like investing/asset management etc.

This has changed here. It is a reaction-bait article that arrives at no actual conclusion except for "You are in a better position to be wealthy if you are wealthy", and all the comments here are aware of it.

I want more of these discussions. But not like this. I expect higher quality, even from a "Learn business 101" blog.
What do you mean by "moral code"? Is it something like "thou shalt not kill" or "do unto others as they would do unto you"? More generally, is it some rules of behaviour to which a human submits to obey? If so, is a person's moral code something they choose to enrol in, or is it something given from above e.g. by a god, without choice of an individual, in your understanding?

I am trying to understand what you are saying in your last para:

> When humans break our exceptions, we judge them, since we know humans can and often are better than that. When animals break our exceptions, if ever, we are surprised, as this is rare and unnatural.

What do you mean by "unnatural"? Can you give examples for

(a) humans

(b) poodles

(c) jackals
They directly linked to the definition, which is not written like a personal reflection.
I'm not sure the outcomes are equally probable.

Boats and cars depreciate in value pretty hard, so those are most likely sunk costs. Now mark has a cool boat and car, but that doesn't guarantee you a social network, much less a social network of professionals.

A doctor wanting to start a practice in the slip over would be quite a stroke of luck. An even bigger stroke that he would be any good, and yet even bigger stroke that he would want to start his practice with some random dude on a boat. All that for a shot at putting in the hard work so you can maybe have a successful practice.

In your scenario, it seems likely that Mark is actually pretty charming, and that's what would lead another boat doctor to want to start a practice with Mark. If so, then Mark probably doesn't need the boat or car to charm a peer from his existing network. Which would almost certainly be better ROI.

Additionally, even if everything went wrong for Sam, as you describe, he would have learned a ton for future cash flowing assets, and can probably sell them for what he purchased them for, possibly more if he improved the numbers. Between the knowledge, and the intermittent cash, Sam almost certainly has a much better ROI.

I would like to point out though, that I don't fully agree with the goal of the article. Sam seems like he is going to wake up one day and wonder where his life went. Doesn't sound like he is making any great new memories. Mark, on the other hand, probably won't be retiring in the Hamptons, but he will probably look back on his life and have made some awesome memories.
US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
Sam purchases the beach house using debt.
Another game written in Forth, on the Atari 800, is Worms? by Electronic Arts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms%3F

Recent interview where the author, David Maynard, discusses writing Worms? in Forth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdIn4ndkcAU
Usually there's some correlation here
PowerShell is great. Just objectively better than Bash for scripting.

I think the lack of adoption in the Linux world is a mix of:

* Cultural (i.e. it's Microsoft)
* Not included out of the box
* Existing tools being 'good enough'
Not necessarily. Bump allocations are extremely cheap, and collections can be batched to avoid interruption and performance impact.
Just bought the book! https://share.getcloudapp.com/Jru4YK1o

Starting to read it.

> I don’t really use Twitter, but I’ll put it on my list to reach out in a couple weeks and see if any of this was helpful. I’ll make sure to mention this thread.

Please do! Can I get your contact in any way? Would really hate to let this connection slip

Everything you've advised made sense, though I've got more questions (and curiosity/hunger for knowledge). Despite your precautions that it may not apply to me, some parts do apply really hard.

Especially the bit with "For one, being no BS means you may be neglecting good opportunities to get exposure and business because it feels fake." — this problem has been at the top of my list for the last year, and only now I've started to crack at it, as I started building an audience on Twitter ( went from 190 → almost 1,000 followers in a month).

That said, I'd love to avoid some mistakes and gain some insight from somebody like you who puts it this way

I don't want to push too hard the video call bit for like right now, but at least keep the door open for a moment in the future
It’s not a valid feature request when the colors are already all configurable, so anyone can change them to be however they like. The green being a little yellower than this person preferred is not a problem worthy of bothering the people who wrote the software. Non-issues like this sap the will to live of people building cool things for free on their own time.

Edit: personally I don’t have the time to go digging through old repo issues of a project I don’t even work on for the sake of arguing about one entitled user. I do maintain several projects, and I definitely feel that these kind of aggressive non-issues are the worst.
Ask HN: Picking fresh technologies for a slightly complacent programmer?
I have 8 years of professional experience, and for the last three I've been doing Python exclusively for backend development. Distributed systems mostly, very little interactive stuff, mature product, large company, complex features taking multiple months to implement, working solely using an internal framework... Before that I was working in DevOps and Java/Scala projects in similar domains, but on smaller projects.

At first I got really bored with Python and our stack, but now I realized I became complacent. I like my job because it's challenging, and I like the things I do (not to mention it pays really well), but I want to hack things together again on my spare time which give me a shorter reward loop, and eventually touch on some DevOps on the long run. I'm not completely stuck, don't get me wrong, I read blogs, follow conferences etc. and have a few modest ideas for side projects, but I would like advice on something the cool kids are using, in similar areas I'm in. What would the fine people at HN suggest, Java with the latest Spring stack and/or Akka? Elixir? Go?
This strategy works great if asset prices go up, and you're not overleveraged. Not so much if asset prices stay flat. And terrible if asset prices go down.
I def found myres Briggs to be helpful, for your exact reasons. I know it gets a lot of hate here in HN, but as someone who was introduced to it in my first job right out of school, It made me more self aware of how I naturally process information and get energized, and how that can differ from others, and that bit of knowledge has absolutely helped me at times in my career. To me it was never sold as a “this is the only mold you fit in and it will define your role”, it was more to understand ways one might naturally process information, vs. ways one might need to actively work to process information differently.
> a friend of mine insists that I always use classes and inheritance, and that functional style / composition is bad

If that is really what your friend is saying, I would not listen to him. The world (including the world of programming) is bigger than "always use / do X".
From the second sentence of the article

>Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services, but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services
Since when can Average Joe not afford a house? That's a combination of pop myth and extrapolating isolated local phenomenon to the national housing & income context.

The home ownership rate in the US is currently on par with where it was in 1995-1996, higher than it was throughout nearly all of the 1980s, and higher than it was throughout all of the 1950s, 1960s and almost all of the 1970s.

If you chop off the particularly artificial five to six years of the housing bubble, the US is presently only about 1 to 1.5 points off from all-time highs on home ownership.

Now, having pointed this fact out, the obvious next response is to claim that today's home ownership is somehow a lesser form. Houses are quite larger today than they were in the 1950s-1970s however, and superior in most every possible way. And home owners have been building equity pretty consistently since the great recession, with US household balance sheets in good condition overall, including with debt service costs at historically low levels (which includes mortgage payments).

Realistically the primary people suffering versus the past re home ownership, are in select few locations like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle and similar.
> We can call that a management failure, but that’s not the point.

Yeah that's actually exactly my point.

> And this is a ground reality in at least two of the companies whose products you most likely use every day.

Yeah, those companies suck organizationally.
The unfortunate truth is that the things you can't control that effect your lifespan far outnumber and swamp the things you can. I hope as a technological civilization we can eventually change that but it's not going to be done by eating better or not staying up working late.
But if there's no belief to it, then why do it? If you stopped doing it, would you feel things were a little off, would other people? Would you sense your year might get worse, and if it did, kick yourself for missing Sankt Hans? Maybe not. Maybe it's just all tradition, no belief. But I think there's belief there, that although not fashionable these days to admit (not least because burning witches has gone out of style), operates as a motivation compelling people to do the same "meaningless" traditions year after year. They're not meaningless because people believe them, on some level.

But maybe Sankt Hans is an exception. But other things, like 7-9-13 why do that? It's not tradition. If you travel, you'll still catch yourself saying it, maybe under your breath if in another culture. But you'll feel weird if you don't do it. You'll feel you bring yourself some bad luck. Even if a person doesn't "believe" that it could be the case, on another level they do believe that, because they'll feel weird if they don't do it. It's a belief that it will affect things. It's not easy to admit in this context, I'm not asking you to "admit" it, I'm just saying it's part of who we are. We believe these things.

Have a happy (and safe!) Sankt Hans this year! :P ;) xx
Well said! Cloaking a messy human interaction in the guise of math and logic is an effective way to communicate with engineers. Never thought of it that way.
May I ask what’s wrong with vanilla PHP?
The problem is not that the share of things like college, housing, and healthcare is high. It's that they have risen much faster than inflation and much faster than median income over the past 40 years. Notice the white space in the chart below "median male income" in 1985 is all gone by the time you get to the right hand side of the chart.
Do you intend for the site to be mobile friendly? Couldn't see hardly anything except a menu and there's a little "agree" button that makes me think that the cookie notification is getting hidden by the menu
Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of mys.

The project I'm working on is called py2many

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27032399
> My version absolutely works,

Consider:

void other_thread(struct large* l) {
struct large new_l = { ... };
*l = new_l;
}
void do_other_thing() {
struct large l = { ... };
thread_t t = start_thread(other_thread,&l);
foo1(l);
wait_for_thread(t);
}

Not only can `foo1` never avoid making a copy (because it can't assume it's unknown caller is not this perverse), it can't even make a copy safely unless its caller allocates a new `struct large` for it to copy from. (And the caller does not, in general, know that `start_thread` (or `process_thingy_maybe_concurrently^W^W`) starts a thread with the aliased `&l`, so it would have to make such copies on any substantially escaping alias just to be sure, at which point you're back to the original proposal.)

The pass-by-non-mutatably-aliased-reference ABI seems terrible IMO, but it at least allows the callee to decide whether to copy using only information that's actually present in the callee.
Hmmm yes I do see your point.

Would it perhaps help to look backwards through a pair of binoculars while eating, so as to give the impression that the dish and its fishy contents are still small, thus maintaining the "giant" illusion?

This could be further aided by using a somewhat oversized plate.

Or perhaps use some particularly small eggs? (I think you'd be looking for some "Pullet eggs" in this case)
The rich buy stuff after they become rich. Most entrepreneurs that make it live almost like a college student barely able to afford anything; they are hoping to trade current spending for future spending. And I'm talking about restauranteurs, shopkeepers, carpenters, not only tech entrepreneurs who've been detached from the norm in recent years due to the influx of easy fed money.

Most entrepreneurs are the last ones to get paid.