skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, I do not know if this metric is quite 'complete'. Because, I am very sure, wrapping concepts in mind is more difficult than understanding the code.

I am not saying the code cannot be made better or more clear. But, it also depends on who you are writing to. Somebody who is not familiar with certain style of programming cannot easily read the code of certain level of complexity.

When I was hacking away my first big program, I could not write functions. Or find reading functions easy. The whole thing was a big wall of glorified assembly sewn together by labels. I am not sure why I was like that then, but I found concepts 'functions' and recursion or any other conceptual stuff really hard. My code was, in its own twisted way, 'most simple' and utterly unreadable.

I find the same sort of difficulties while reading some FP snippets. I confess it was a very short affair, but I had some difficulty reading it and even when I understood, I could not just write or think code in the same style.

There are ways to make your code better, your intentions clear but 'can be understood by a first year CS freshman' is bit abstract criterion.

It is kind of like, vocabulary and prose. You can make your prose clear. But, people have to work on the vocabulary on their own.

> The best code is no code at all.

This is completely agreeable.

Edit : Changed some poor word choices. Added an analogy.
Thoughts on aeropress vs espresso machine quality?
The downvotes are probably from talking about downvotes, as per site rules?
http://archive.is/Sp6tZ
I still don't get Walmart. So much fiscal might, so much capability to expand into full, well thought out, competitive online experience, yet they're barely competitive.

It's almost like the Walmart family thinks this online thing is a fad, and growth/sales spiraling downward will turn around any day now, just you wait and see!

I don't get it.
Programming Challenge: Build your own Redis
Yup, my track record with them is excellent, also.

I have received one wrong item (refunded, told to keep) and one item I didn't order. The only hassle I've ever had was a damaged item they were trying to talk me into accepting a discount rather than returning (a very heavy item, I'm sure shipping was an issue.)

There very definitely is an issue with counterfeits and their comingled inventory system needs to be nuked from orbit. I have once seen a product where it was pretty apparent *every* offering was garbage or counterfeit. I even reported one of the counterfeits to Amazon as the image revealed it was one of the garbage things, not the name brand it purported to be.
Yeah I really like that style too. Sometimes we hike to a nice spot and just stay there a couple of days. I'll pack differently for that. It's so much fun with little kids that don't have as much range. You could still baton through wood with the k bar but there are better options.
I bought a Sceptre based on a HN discussion a few months ago. Happy with it so far. It's just a regular TV.
Amazon is definitely the dominant online retailer, but there's serious competition from Walmart, some competition from ebay, offline competition, and niche competition. It's not even close to Google search market share.
They didn't switch completely, but started using "Delivery Provider" as baseload bearer and use Japan Post/Yamato when makes sense.
The Stanford law-as-code project used "codex", so I think it's good.
You could argue that it's good for the customer, in that the customer won't see offers that are less convenient than what is available elsewhere. In practice sellers will just update prices on the other markets.
Black mothers of police shooting victims accuse BLM of profiting from loved ones
Problem with folding knives for camping is they get gunk in them.

Ka-bars are kind of a meme. They are made fairly cheaply. You won’t find knife enthusiasts (eg USN) recommending ka-bars.
I've seen that happen to an excellent domain expert at a company during radical downsizing. Though TBF, that round saw fat, muscle, sinew, and bone cut.

To say nothing of a lot of brain.
> The average consumer wants this stuff. It sells. They want pizzaz over functionality and durability.

What is functionality though? What is pizzaz? When are they the same and when are they different?

E.g. the famous Emeco 1006 chair, which won a contract to supply the US Navy by being thrown out a window and not breaking. It became a design classic, and now sells for $600 each. It gained a kind of following, which is in part based on this history. But is that durability especially functional for your home or restaurant environment which isn't on a warship? Do you think you're going to use your chair as a hammer some days? Or is fetishizing something used by the military and extreme durability its own form of pizzaz?

https://www.dwr.com/kitchen-dining-chairs-benches/1006-navy-...
https://www.emeco.net/variants/emeco-1006-navy-chair-brushed...
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/77-steps/
Are the landing/blog using static generation so you can just do a next export?
> retail stores don’t have the selection or availability that Amazon does

Largely the same situation in Germany, except stores in the US are much more likely to be open past 18:00.
drake meme about free shipping
> Sometimes fixing the problem will require special access to Production which you don't have

If it's unfixable, that's when you quit
Absolutely. I do those, as well. Here's a rather more intense example: https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...

I'm actually in the middle of using Postman to generate a more "modern" inline docset for a new engineer that is coming into a project that uses that server.

But I also like to keep docs to a bare minimum, as they become what I term "concrete galoshes": https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/concrete-galoshes/

We need to be very careful, as the docs can prevent agility, in a big way.

I find that if I can keep the docs pinned to the code, itself, as much as possible, it helps to keep some flexibility.
I would do "full-stack" over a decade ago, when there was less of the notion of "front-end engineer" (which still sound a bit ridiculous to me) - the front-end was mostly HTML and CSS. It was a good experience, to go from requirements gathering to the database schema and back to presentation - it helped me see the whole picture.
+1 for Fearless Salary Negotiation. I read it when interviewing 3 years ago and used a variation of one of the email scripts to negotiate a ~25% increase from first offer.

Also, I don't personally recommend talking about salary expectations until after you have an offer in hand. Focus on the value you're bringing to the table and your fit for the position, and let the company make the first move in terms of putting a number out there.

Also, never, ever answer the "what are your salary expectations?" question from recruiters. You're automatically limiting yourself.
Just think how much more opportunity that gives you -- instead of living in the shadow of a hundred prior generations, you can form the foundation on which future generations will be built.
Amazon doesn't charge your card until it's about to ship your order. Thus an order with an invalid card will go through but won't ship.
I would say it’s possible but at least in this case very unlikely.

It’s not the first time this has happened but definitely the most extreme case where I’d been alone for an extended time (during Covid) and the ad was pretty much immediately after vacuuming.

Of course no proof but like the saying if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck etc
You're kinda proving the point here. If it weren't for Amazon's behavior, you could have gotten a better/cheaper service. But you can't, as the prices are raised across the board. And the true cost is hidden from you.
Can't back up with data other than with random howto articles, but you just don't return items in Japan without a "valid" cause like product defects.
She's the IT expert of the house. I don't tell her what to install, or how to manage our network. If anything, I should put a pihole on my wishlist -- but even that wouldn't solve the problem that all of our metadata is correlated, and nothing blocks first-party tracking
I can see the point though: it's hard to do history about oral traditions, doubly so for oral traditions where most of the people in the tradition have been displaced or killed.

Also, politicians tend to see history as a sort of 'national identity' education, and I don't think the dominant political trends in Australia are ready to face this part of the Australian national story, which is cowardly, but it's a very common form of cowardice.
>the rich expect price of goods and services from poorer countries to be lower than in their own country

So the poor expect what? Can you tell me what you think a poor person from West Virginia expects the cost of goods and services in Mexico to be?
... nobody says "pwned" anymore, it's back to being hacker slang
On a mass spectrometer I recently replaced an old-fashioned triode gauge tube and these are the same size glass as the 9-pin miniature radio tubes of the 1950's.

The base looks like an audio 12AX7 and fits the same size socket, the metal pins are supposed to be Kovar coming through the glass.

But this electron tube is not sealed at the top, it is wide open with a Kovar metal precision adapter ring fused to the glass instead, and a Viton o-ring is used to lock it into the vacuum measurement port.

As a vacuum tube, it "simply" behaves differently depending on residual trace gases present. It is connected to a circuit optimized to give calibrated vacuum readings.

No doubt I could connect it to an audio circuit instead, and get some excellent output. It's a well-made tube, only a single triode though.
It seems to like you are refactoring an existing application, I'm personally in the middle of something similar but rather than doing it solo, I'm trying to engage other Dev's, grab their interests by demoing the new architecture and see if I can get a few more hands on this work.

I'm doing all of this extra work because I think the best way to create value for a company is to make it easy for other/new developers to jump in to the project and contribute something of value quickly.
My refactoring would have failed completely if other Dev's are not able to contribute the new code
Nothing stops walmart to enter the market and cut the price off 25% to 35%.

And the buyers will move towards it.
Beyond Average (2015)
Yeah, me too. I imagine it's a process that is difficult to scale without error.

I like buying Amazon Warehouse deals when the item makes sense to me. With larger items I think their quality control is higher, and the saving tend be bigger. The box may arrive super beat-up, but item is just fine.

My motivation is probably less about overall savings, but more about me feeling like I'm doing Amazon a favor. Weird, isn't it? I'm conditioned.

As a tangent: I've also purchased used that ended up being a return of a similar looking, but much less expensive item. So I just re-return it. In this case I assume it was fraud on the original return. With my patterns I doubt Amazon thinks -I- returned them the wrong item. Without customer context their job figuring stuff like that out would be much more difficult.
No Apple Watch. Phone was just sitting in the room charging. Finished vacuuming and bam - Dyson Vacuum Ad
I remember reading several years ago about a major independent bookstore that got one of those high quality POD systems, and also installed computers for customers to use to go on Amazon to search for books and to read reviews.

The customer could find the book they wanted on Amazon, purchase it for the same price or less via the bookstore's POD service, go have a snack and drink at the bookstore's cafe, and their book would be ready when they are done with that.

The bookstore essentially turned Amazon into a free book research services for the bookstore's customers.
Agree with the sibling comment, but a starting point is also just to write docs for your future self, which is usually going to be type 3 or 4. Most of us who have been programming for a few years have had the experience of being mystified by something we ourselves wrote in the past, so it eventually becomes fairly straightforward to predict what kinds of things future-me will need a hand in piecing back together.

And it turns out those kinds of docs are pretty useful to my colleagues in piecing it together also.
Like how the US Federal government makes it illegal for medical providers to charge anyone less than they charge Medicare?

MFN is going to be a thing whether I want it to be or not.
Perhaps in the short term.

But the capitalist notion of buyer/seller/market, with government as referee, gets wobbly when a seller buys the market.

It's almost as though Amazon behaves with impunity toward the market, having already purchased the referee.
No, you can't extrapolate time dimensions like you can extrapolate spatial dimensions. This smells like "Imagining the 10th Dimension," which is hilariously bad if you haven't seen it.
"talks with an experienced US sales executive"

Before you discuss partnerships with anyone, how much do you really know about this person ? What makes him an experienced US Sales executive ? Do they actually have a track record ? Has he sold anything similar before in similar domain ? Does he have any contacts who could be prospects already ? I would first worry about all of this and make sure you are not talking to someone who is just talking big or thinks he can sell the product.

If you want to sell in the US, setup your own subsidiary in the US and at best, make him a Director there without majority ownership AND pay him handsomely for deals won. Forget 51%. I wouldn't even give him 5% without track record and history. You can work out an equity deal with vesting with a 1 year cliff. Talk to a lawyer if you are serious.
>Everyone will be perfectly professional until someone falls in love

Isn’t this the case with everything? I.e., if “everything is fine until it isn’t” it’s not really saying much of anything except he doesn’t think he can create a culture of professionalism within his lab. Does this “welp, we can’t do anything about our base desires” extend outside romantic relations? Would it be acceptable to claim “well, physical altercations are just going to happen because you know people will get mad at each other from time to time”?

I’m not hiding behind professionalism, I’m saying it’s reasonable to acknowledge those base desires while also expecting a higher standard of behavior.
Amazon’s scale makes it unlikely that we will ever see a true competitor in this space and that sucks. Imagine how quickly the site would iterate on both quality of listings and overall UI/UX with a decent competitor. Or am I mistaken and there’s one or two other everything-stores out there that has an international presence? (Amazon.de for folks in Germany for example).
Should've put it into a branch and added an one-line comment to that effect to the master.
Some fraction of searches are things you do over and over again and finding specific strategies that bypass the search engine are helpful:

(1) Some programming languages such as Python and Java have good manuals. Learn to look up answers in the manual instead of looking them up on Google which puts you at the mercy of Stackoverflow and the other spammers.

(2) The least used feature of web browsers is the history -- you see people crashing their computers and driving themselves to distraction with 50 tabs open because they don't know or don't believe they can look things up in their history... (Don't manage tabs -- close tabs!) If you avoid spam sites, your history is a clean good place to search.

(3) In certain domains there are good search engines. arxiv.org is a good place to search computer science, physics and math literature. Pubmed is a good place to look up answers on medicine and biology.
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Ive def noticed Amazon becoming more and more of rip off. I cant even find things for less than $10 anymore. There are numerous items I’ve looked into buying from them, but it’s priced at $12 on Amazon, where i could walk into a target or Wally World and get it for $5...

I haven’t found any sites where I can get cheaper small items anymore. I’m up for suggestions for other online retailers.
Maybe I’m missing something, but looking at the examples in the README, I’m not sure what value this is providing over the boto3 DynamoDB client. Why would I want to use this library over the SDK client?
>...I know you need to pay me less than the value I create... How much value do you expect I can bring to the company?

I would never use this sort of phrasing, that sound really painful. Have you ever actually used that in a negotiation?

Rather I'd highlight my experience in achieving results at reduced cost, identifying efficiencies, and developing new sources of revenue to highlight my own ability to bring extra value. You're the one asking for more, so you need to justify it.
I see this all the time. Friend of mine bought a $200 Milwaukee drill to put up a couple picture frames.
I cancelled my prime last year mainly bc their "Guaranteed Free 2 Day Shipping" actually meant "2-6 Day Shipping with a Guaranteed Apology Email if Late". Not to mention their prices not being better than many other places online.
Based on correlations of interests this should be the best place to ask..
Yeah, this was a front line person who told me this while doing the initial administrative processing. I'm glad the risk of forgeries is not so great (as this person made it seem) as to prevent common legitimate replacements.
100% unless you have another offer or otherwise don't need the job, don't counter.

Don't let perfect become the enemy of good.
I see you are getting downvoted, but you're not wrong. It appears those studies do not differentiate between vegans and vegetarians so you have a point.
Reminds me of assassination markets, until I saw that the current owner gets a third of the cash up front, thats pretty different.
Pretend the initial comment didn't say LAMP but just said "web app". That's clearly not useless, right? You can tell from context that it must be software, but "web app" is an obvious improvement from there.

You could argue that "LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) application" instead of "web app" adds nothing more than "web app", and I won't fight you on that.

But surely it's still at least as good as "web app"!

Also "that vague description" was referring to "cage with an engine and wheels". It's crazy to say that's a useless description, when the starting point is "anything in the world".
Connect your media pc to it and fully control your tv software.
You post a lot of right-wing nonsense and conspiracy theories. (That have nothing to do with tech)

Go back to breitbart and QAnon, please.
> "special" part of Berlin

A few years ago this could have described half of Mitte tbh
Unfortunately this style can be a hard sell for the people you live with. Some people don't want their home to look like a restaurant / workshop / office / warehouse / etc.
> Huh, no I can't.

The point is, any human can be a romantic partner to any other. Therefore, his argument should be that no pair of humans should work together ever for risk of romantic entanglements.

Except it doesn't work that way, because we're all really used to the idea that in the workplace, you treat your colleagues as colleagues, not as fantasy-future-partners.

This isn't PC. It's just basic common sense, that he's lost his grip on, because he sees women first as romantic partners or sex objects or whatever, and second as scientists.
The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet: Philip K. Dick (1975)
I’m talking about the U.K. and while there is certainly the option of binge drinking culture, it was definitely not required. But my time in university was full of events where alcohol was served and I don’t know how such things would work for someone who mightn’t be allowed in due to that—if you’re 18 you can turn up and refuse the drinks and no one will care much, but if you’re 17 you maybe can’t turn up, even if you would refuse drinks.
Seriously. Fuck pandas. And fuck dark for encouraging it.
I purchased a 30-in steel barrel fan from home Depot 3 years ago and I maintain it is the best fan I've ever owned
I don't really understand what stops Tesla from putting 1 tiny dealership right next to the factory. Or even just a phone and a mailbox.
So then the brokers are the serial killers like with life insurance agents, because the surviving spouse always gets convicted!

actually, because they always get convicted I don't have any proof that the brokers are serial killers

I just dont have any faith in how district attorneys and prosecutors work anymore
Problem with the spec is often that the military "needs a car". But the specification process forces them to design all the parameters, and they end up with a very rigorous spec for "Toyota Camry, no A/C, coyote brown, steel wheels" which adds up to 800 pages and a product that even Toyota can't produce for less than $250k/unit. Meanwhile, by the time they've written the spec, the CyberTruck has been designed, marketed, produced, and iterated, and exceeds the spec in every meaningful dimension. The military has required an entirely US-based supply chain that will sustain their vehicle for the next 30 years, but accepts that it's entirely reasonable, in that circumstance, that each washer (Type 304 stainless, O.D. +/- 0.00001 inch) is $47.82/unit.
One of my buddies is a construction guy. He just buys consumer grade with warranty and has two sets of everything. He says pro is too expensive given how often they still break and get stolen on the job site.
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I don't know why you're getting downvoted, this is my experience as well. It's to the point where if it doesn't ship from Amazon, I don't buy it.

The last thing I accidentally bought from a non-Amazon shipper arrived in a semi-destroyed box, inside a too-small bubble-wrap envelope, apparently shipped from someone's condominium (I guess they bought in bulk and repackaged?)
>That seems like legitimately monopolistic behavior

It seems monopsonistic to me, I believe it should be illegal but not sure it actually is?
Can you not use the button on your steering wheel in that scenario?
I purchased a 30-in steel barrel fan from home Depot 3 years ago and I maintain it is the best fan I've ever owned. I put it in a different part of my house entirely pointing out a window and I open a window in my bedroom and it sucks that air right in.

It's not even That loud though
> It seems to like you are refactoring an existing application, I'm personally in the middle of something similar but rather than doing it solo, I'm trying to engage other Dev's, grab their interests by demoing the new architecture and see if I can get a few more hands on this work.

The problem is they literally can't afford it. They looked at "near shoring" companies but they were too expensive. They said we got a quote for developers from another country who will do this work for $20/hour.

I explained that this has the potential of ruining a green-field project that absolutely needs to be architected and coded properly from the ground-up.

If we go that route the best I can do is enforce code standards and handle every pull-request.
Being the best coder doesn’t make customers want your product. So at a certain point, I got over coding. I am now more interested in business and product managements.