skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To each their own, but to me this ceremony provides zero value. Waiters take the order and may comment on the weather, it's not like we're developing a deep friendship here.

The "tradition" is to sit, wait for a waiter to appear. Ask for purpose (lunch? big meal? just a drink?). Then you wait again for the correct menu to appear. Then you get asked for a drink. And wait for the drink. And then comes the longer wait where the waiter tries to detect when you are ready to order, if they see it at all.

Combined, that's some 20-30 mins in and the prepping of your meal hasn't even started yet.

Now if you're the kind of person that's going to be in there 3-4 hours anyway, the ritual doesn't harm, but it doesn't add much value either. It's needlessly slow and inefficient.

Your future dystopian nightmare is already here, and it's fine. In the Netherlands, some sushi restaurants work as follow. You are seated. There's an iPad for everyone, and people just tap what they want. Some minutes later, your food arrives. This supposed cold-hearted efficiency means I get to spend more time engaging with my friends, the very point of the visit.

By the way, you're not doing restaurants any favors with a slow and long visit. It means they can't use your table twice. So finish your meal in 1.5-2 hours and if still not bored with your friends, go to a damn bar.
Gross. Good luck with that. I’ll stick to actually valuable things like bitcoin secured by Ecdsa keys thank you very much.
QR codes are great, please keep them.

I'll order what I want at my leisure, not having to flag down a server is a plus. We often make up fun little games to see who has to order the next round.

Menus can be surprisingly disgusting if the waitstaff is really busy, I'd rather not touch them and/or lay them on the table.
>Svelte has been around for a few years now - and I've yet to see/hear about an application built with Svelte at scale.

What do you mean 'at scale'. It's a UI framework that runs JS and mutates the DOM - there's no issues with 'scale' here.

That Svelte isn't popular is because some frameworks get popular and go viral and others don't. That's it.
Main downside: I don't always take my phone with me. I don't hate QR code, but adding a "backup" menu that is accessible without phones is a must I believe.
You cannot make that conclusion. You have a correlation the
causation is not proven:

"While these results showed statistically significant increases in all sperm parameters, the magnitude of change is within normal individual variation and may be influenced by regression to the mean.Additionally, the increase may be due to the increased abstinence time before the second sample. Men with oligospermia did not experience further decline."
Declarative, state-driven UI development is a valuable abstraction.

Which browsers do not support natively for decades and entire markets of ecosystems grow to work around that stupidest fact. Browsers could detect, batch and “reconcile” (whatever that means) the changes to the js runtime with much less runtime and devtime overhead than it is done in js by manual state tracking and updates.
Looks like this data has been collected through the official API, so you could just query yourself in there.
Batteries. Inefficient JS aggregates to result in significant energy use.

If I'm building a desktop app that will run in the browser then it isn't much of an issue, but if that same app is expected to run on a mobile device then my wild JavaScript kludges start to really matter.
This is done by some cloud software (e.g., OpenNebula). The downside is that modifying the metadata is now difficult since block devices being hot-plugged can cause issues if in use.
Bank deposits of legal tenders are insured by the central bank. In the Eurozone the ECB insures all personal deposits up to 100.000€. When the bank of Nicosia, Cyprus went bankrupt and the account holders could no longer withdraw, their losses were fully subsidized by the ECB, up to the 100.000€ limit.

This undue confidence or trust we bestow in regulated banks comes at the expense of the wider public: when we lose our deposit due to insolvency, everybody is forced to pay for it by the monetary expansion of the ECB, which covers our loss by printing (or by digitally creating) more euro, and distributes this minted money to the affected bank, allowing withdrawals to resume. This intervention of the ECB dilutes the purchasing power of every unrelated person holding euro, regardless of their country of residence, and regardless on how meticulous they are in choosing a reliable bank. Even the CFA franc in West Africa suffers from this enforced depreciation, being pegged against the euro at a fixed ratio.

Thus, the account holders gain an artificially strong confidence in the bank of their choice, regardless of whichever bank that might be, regardless of how much risk exposures the bank takes, regardless of what financial instruments it edges against, and regardless of the size of its fractional reserve compared to its liabilities. It is an insurance whose only purpose is to allow the bank to take undue risk with volatile instruments and to collectivize any resulting losses against the public, while deluding the account holders with the ancillary excuse that their deposits are safe no matter what.

The alternative to having 21 year old Joe running a million-dollar crypto exchange website from a laptop in his basement is to apply fucking due diligence in choosing our counterparty, and prosecute whenever proper fraud and intentional deception take place.
Is the coverage also mandated? How about the adjudication process? How about the amount of effort to successfully file a claim?

As a hypothetical, consider a process requiring each claim to be submitted in person, 9-10am on Mondays, down an alleyway in Toledo, 4 week turnaround, and then resubmitted 6 times before it's approved. It's not quite this bad, but everybody has a horror story and (unlike auto and home owner's insurance), I've heard nobody say anything nice about their health insurance company.

(I'm working on a winning team fixing this at national scale, DM if interested)
Author here. I've used pg a ton in the past in production systems as an operational database. Never really missed having datediff.

Once we started using it as a data warehouse I noticed that function was missing -- most other data warehouses have it. Thought it would be worth providing an implementation since date stuff is annoying to do.
Pointing fingers at it is how you get public attention to the problem, which may lead to demands for change, which is the purpose of accountability journalism in a democracy.
One material that should be used much more in building but isn't: straw!

It's become a recent obsession of mine.

* has a long history of use (no research needed)

* is eco friendly (in fact sequesters carbon)

* cheap

* readily available

* pliable material that is forgiving to build with, even for novices

* quick to erect walls

* is a waste material - usually ploughed back into fields or burned

* has very impressive thermal and sound insulation, so no additional insulation is needed, unlike a concrete walled home or building

I could go on....

Of course not every building or structure can be made from straw bales, but many houses, warehouses or smaller commercial buildings could be. It's a very low hanging fruit in the battle against climate change.

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Straw-Bales-Self-Builders-Su...
Than what? A printout of the same PDF? I mean if you prefer paper then yeah, I get it but it's such a small difference.
I think living by this is a good basis: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants

We know that vegetables are good for you. Processed food is not so good for you. We also know that eating too much causes problems.
Larger total market.
What does that even mean? Paper menus don't need to change, they work perfectly fine as they are.
Imagine knowing someone in 2009 who could get you in early on uber or airbnb. or in 2006 get you in on Facebook. you need to know the right people, combined with luck (choosing to invest in uber isntead of quora) and some risk taking.
Increasing women’s sperm count would have been a much more surprising finding, for sure.
Thanks for the recommendation for Effective Python! As for the CPython Internals Series, I've been following that and it's really quite excellent (I just wish there was a dead-tree version of it -- I still prefer physical books).
> recently YouTube has been serving me exclusively Spanish-language ads

This has been happening to me, but on Twitter! I know a very basic amount of Spanish, but am a non-hispanic dude in semi-rural Texas.
I and the post I replied to was talking about MySQL. MongoDB is an insecure pile of cow poo that has been so often implicated in hacks and data thefts that I don't get why a) anyone is STILL using it and b) the containers STILL don't have a security-first default.
Cinderblock foundations aren't uncommon, brick or stone and mortar.

And lots of basements were packed eaeth, a whole nother level of 'unfinished'
>So perhaps one should look to the behaviour of the parents and society in general in order to tackle this kind of misbehaviour by ensuring that it does not happen instead of simply reacting to it when it does.

Ok tell us how since you seem to be an expert on it. You can't "tackle" every situation with sweet words before it happens, especially when you're directing those words towards a being that doesn't have a full formed brain yet.

My general experience with Europeans is that it takes almost until middle age to leave the house, stop suckling their parents income, and act like adults where they can be responsible for themselves.

If that's what you want for your country fine but I think the hands off parenting and letting them get away with everything when they're young has consequences.

Anecdotally, my wife's German cousin came to visit quite often when he was little. His parents never disciplined him and took the Euro approach to essentially whining at him when he did something wrong. When he got upset he would just go around American Grandma's house knocking her stuff off the shelves and breaking it. Grandma had enough of that and gave him a nice swat eventually. He neever did it again. The kid is in his late 20s now, doesn't have a job, his parents are buying him an apartment, he has no clue what he wants to do, and has failed out of school multiple times. He also still acts like he's 15.
Thank you for that suggestion! Let me investigate adding the ability to change that. I may be able to come up with a workaround for you that can be added to the CSS (one great thing about Miki is that it's hackable like that).

If I can't change that aspect from the outside, we'll add it as a feature request for the product and put it on our list. Thank you again!
This is it. When you’re working on things you love, it’s hard, and can be lots of hours, but it doesn’t feel like work.

Speaking from my own experience of founding a startup. There are also times it was absolutely miserable. But it’s true: I wasn’t beholden to my VCs or angels. I could have quit. I just enjoyed the work so much, so deeply, that I didn’t want to quit.

The challenge was not burning out: I needed to take more vacation, because it not feeling like work didn’t mean it wasn’t, still, hard work which people need a respite from.
The thing he doesn't mention is all the people burned out by 35

The business model of his company is built on the backs of those people. The more of those people he can attract, the richer he becomes (to a first approximation)
You can actually put ~50k per year into a Roth ira using the mega backdoor technique. Still impressive.
Working hard is relatively easier if you care about the work.
Why would a Gender Studies degree be pointless? Given the current landscape around gender and such, having more educated people in that area seems like a very good thing.
I am a data person and I never knew about the boundary counting.
Like you can have a `day diff` be 3 and the `week diff` be 1 and the `month diff` be 1
You can also have `day diff` be 25 and the `month diff` be 0.

I would love to know why warehouse do this because as a data person it confuses me and is even more confusing to explain to stakeholders.
> median sperm concentration significantly increased

So, this confirms that the spike protein created by the mRNA does not stay in the muscle tissue and instead spreads around the body, right?
Cartographer transforms old maps into 3D images showing location elevation
There probably is some tethering to whatever his perspective is at the time. At some point, YC was a relatively new idea coming to life and he was probably constantly thinking a certain way. Now, it's something that he's been up to for decades.

That said, I think there's more of a zeitgeist change than actual change in pg's content. Things sound different 10-15 years apart. A lot of things age poorly, often: idealism, stand up comedy... most anything avante garde-ish.

Clever people spoke highly of agile,for example, when it was manifestos and such circa 2005.
They're probably also (digitally) malware in many cases, too.
Social media apps should share the same social graph by implementing ActivityPub
If you worked for 10 startups and haven't had any equity that can be worth of something, you should question your own judgement and choice of startups instead of telling people don't join startups. Don't join BAD startups.
> This does not change my point in the slightest, which is that wait staff need tips to survive because the tipped minimum wage is unlivable basically everywhere.

Its the same as the general minimum in several places, and at or above the federal general (not just tipped) minimum even more, so if its unlivable “basically everywhere” that's more than just a tipped minimum problem.
Not the same thing, as the facts are now a property of Animal. My second example doesn't even mention Animal. You still have the problem of "putting things into a category" vs. just asserting facts.
There are many competing managed care organizations (health insurers).

Healthcare cost increases slowed down after ACA:

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/more-evidence-of-post-aca-slowdown...

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/23/790687286/examining-health-ca...
How to Recover Your Custom Domain Blog on Hashnode That Stops Working
duplicate:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27675648
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674393
Since moving to Boston I have only lived in multi-family wooden houses, and this just isn't true, at least with modern-ish insulation. I can occasionally hear my upstairs neighbor's dog when she gets excited, and precisely nothing else.
I've wondered about the "no TV" stance too. I used to push back against it, but I believe there's something to it. Here's my current reasoning:

First of all, TV and movies have their strengths. Videos can communicate phenomena that are difficult to portray with the written text. They're also very accessible. However, all but the most low-budget shows and movies need to make money. Therefore, they need to appeal to a reasonably large audience. The economic motive limits the depth of the content.

Books can be written by individuals. Great books, and especially classics, are usually written for non-economic reasons. Often the author has a passion or a world view they want to share.

Books, as a medium, are older. Old books are filtered by time. They also let us learn about peoples who have different assumptions than we do. You can do this by reading about other cultures that exist today.

Books, as a medium, let one pause and think. You can write in the margins. It's possible, but more difficult, to do this when watching a show, listening to an audio book, or listening to a podcast. I like that I can listen to podcasts when I run or clean the dishes, but I grasp much less then when I read.

I agree that it's not enough to not watch TV. You need to discriminate regardless of the medium you're consuming, but I believe books are a better way to learn than most other mediums. Therefore, skipping television is probably a good idea if your goal is to develop a deep understanding of the world.
Anecdotally among my Nigerian friends, quite a lot. Almost as if we're all similar..
> "It should be common knowledge by now" is very hand-wavy.

It is written explicitly in the manual that any port you choose to publish is reachable by all machines that can reach the host.

Just how more explicit does this warning have to be?!

And anyways: a simple "netstat -lnp" would have shown the docker-proxy process and world-wide reachability.
I think the rub is that what you propose is not politically feasible. It may or may not be objectively a great idea, but we live in a democracy and the moment you do something overtly that causes pain for enough of the voting population to matter, they will just vote in a different politician who will reverse the policy.
There is a ton of 4 story stick-built multi family housing in the US
I love QR code menus because I'm not forced to touch a menu that 100 people before me have touched.
You don't need a static IP though. You just need dynamic DNS and to use the name. And depending on the ISP you might be "static" until a long enough power outage anyway.
That's interesting - can you use it to send me a little money over the internet?

Bitcoin isn't good for this either any more, but litecoin, monero and bitcoin cash all work well.
EdX definitely shows “Starts $TODAY” on courses with self paced start any time schedules. I know it does this and it still gets me every time by creating this false sense of urgency that I must enroll today lest I miss the opportunity.
At my current employer, everyone's salaries (and the number of options they've been awarded) are in a Google spreadsheet that's viewable by everyone in the company. It's actually kinda cool to have such transparency and has forced standardization of things, and I have to imagine it has reduced biases and made things fairer.
The level of disrespect towards the social sciences in HN is just baffling to me.

Sometimes people study stuff for intellectual fulfillment. I haven't studied gender studies, but according to HN, if I were to study sociology I'd be an ass with a pointless degree.
> And its not a problem with the technology, its a problem with human beings. We're forgetful, lazy, and make mistakes.

That is true. Another weakness humans have is our inability to intuit large numbers and probabilities.

For example, it's hard for people to really grok that, even if you added up all the people who have died from nuclear and radiation accidents in all of history[1], including not just the sources you mentioned, but disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima, it would be far less than the number of people who die from pollution caused by fossil fuels every month[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_...

[2] https://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-...
By using basalt or other composite rebars the concrete cancer problem is solved.
>a quick switch to EV will substantially reduce the amount of carbon pollution

An even quicker switch to "drive less" will do as much good, and save you a load of money too! (As well as consuming significantly less of the world's resources)
Seconding this recommendation. It could be asthegmatism as well. Regardless if you have a problem with your eyes, go to an eye doctor.
This is very cool, thanks!
Sorry but this sort of protectionism is wrong in my opinion ... It's like saying don't get a motorcycle because you might get into an accident.
Isn't that always subjective? Pointless with regard to what goals/standards?

Is lying in the grass pointless?
Epoxy coated rebar was a trap, and is now being banned around the world. Paradoxically, the epoxy coat can make corrosion worse than the bare steel, let alone galvanised.
In my experience, nonprofits do accrue a bit of needless fat that is often justified by their compassionate mission. BUT, even then, only by so much. They still need to accrue enough funds to pursue their mission.
The thing that most people seem to be missing is PG isn’t advocating for working hard just to work hard. He’s advocating for working hard at things that you love, because then it doesn’t feel like work.

He is also glorifying anxiety, which is unfortunate, and I think this essay stands stronger without those particular points.
I have made this mistake several times. If you are doing it for a client, Wordpress is the best answer.

It's far from sexy, but you know it will still be stable in 9 months and the client has other avenues for self support.
pop os seems to work better out of the box than ubuntu. i use pop myself and screen rotation works ok (x1 yoga gen4) but i get screen taring every once in a while.

zorin os is another one to check out. ui is more like windows and i think it has a tablet mode
Is LinkedIn actually an important thing to have?

I made one years ago and used to occasionally go in and update it, but with my most recent job I didn't even take the time to add it. The past few years I've really re-evaluated what should be public, easily-accessible information for anyone who knows my name.

And all I get from having an account is recruiter spam, and emails for connection requests that are oddly written in first-person and have the person's name as the sender which seems weird.
What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled?
That was also my first question:

Yes, but how do I work hardly?
Typical TV has low information density. It’s not a good way to learn. This is ameliorated in the non-fiction world in the YouTube era as there are so many detailed video essays now. PG grew up before then.

As far as fiction, books have told richer stories, though, again, things are somewhat different in the “prestige TV” era.
Is anyone else distressed by pg's sudden turn to these sorts of para-culture-war issues? He's gotten increasingly anti-woke over the past year or two and it's starting to leak into sloppy argumentation like this.

In decades past, he'd discuss similar issues ("how to identify a good hacker", stuff like that), but the focus was on the talent and what it meant and how it worked. Now... suddenly this kind of genetic stratification is just a given? Not a good smell.
What’s Churn and How to Minimize It in SaaS
Need a right to be forgotten 2.0 legislation in the US.
The easiest solution is to cap at a maximum value for Roth (post-tax) purposes. Pick a number ($50M, $100M, $200M), and anything over gets taxed at traditional rates. You can only put in $6,000USD/year into an IRA, so it's absurd for anyone to pretend a return of $1B USD+ is acceptable.

$6k/yr for 30 years at a very-high interest rate of 15% results in $31.3M .. so capping Roth-value at $50M will prevent extreme abuse. Though, I suspect many will argue for a lower cap
Oh, sure, I think it's also terrible in for-profit companies. I think it's a source of vast economic inefficiency. But the usual excuses for it don't apply at nonprofits.
You all don't have an issue with sites reselling the salary data in an anonymized fashion to those "Peeping Tom" types?
Because the digital menu is cheaper. A lot cheaper. You don't have to reprint when you alter it, you can automatically move people to the right menu based on the date/time.
This is bullshit. This is what people who’ve failed tell themselves to rationalize that failure.

People who’ve succeeded at achieving ambitious goals are able to look at success from both vantage points: from having yet to succeed and succeeding. You’ll hardly ever, if ever, hear them say it’s solely the consequence of having the right networks and being lucky.

Sure some luck is involved, but most of it is attitude, and this is NOT the attitude.

I say thank God for people with this faulty perspective. It makes it easier to succeed when the playing field is full of people who’ve told themselves it’s futile to even try.