skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your points are true, but I think other factors also play a role. What makes, for example, Australian investors behave differently to American investors? No doubt differences in economy size, regulatory regimes, etc, make a difference. But I also think some of it is due to differences in national culture. People have been talking about "tall poppy syndrome" as an element of Australian culture for decades; people don't say the same thing about American culture. (That said, it looks to me like the concept, but not the name, is increasingly making inroads into the US.)
I was talking about this exact thing with my girlfriend the other day. Tinder and other dating sites want you to stay as long as possible and spend as much money as possible with them. How do you do that?

Number one: You give them hope. Give people hope that they will find the person they are looking for if they stay on longer. Give people hope by helping facilitate a match just as they start to lose interest in the website. Make them think they will find someone.

Number two: Cultivate a culture of attractive people. Keep the attractive people staying. This gives hope for the unattractive people as they sometimes match with them. Keep the attractive people happy and help facilitate lots of meetings or them.

Number three: Provide an easy way to skip the whole attractive/unattractive hierarchy by letting people spend money. Now you too can get in on the action (but not for too long) if you have the money.

I realize this is a pessimistic view of dating sites. Heck, I met my current girlfriend of three years on OkCupid luckily. It's not all doom and gloom.
>Almost everyone texts or emails and I’ve never had anyone freak out if I didn’t reply quickly.

email/text response time is very much a metric on many employee evaluation systems.

you might not have gotten anyone to 'freak out', but I guarantee that slow response times will get you lower performance reviews at many establishments.

(should it? absolutely not, I am entirely against the practice.)
> Saying that something "could only happen in America" (usually) indicates a view that America is somehow unique (as in the American exceptionalist view).

Having had a bit of a ground-level view of this going back over a decade, yes, America is exceptional in this respect. Lots of people tried to do private launch overseas. Trivial barriers like explosives licenses stopped most at the gate. The sole success stories are in the U.K. (Skyline) and New Zealand (Rocket Lab), with the former stretching the definition of "success." Meanwhile, America has SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and a trove of others.

The permissiveness and commercial latitude the U.S. government affords Americans is unique. The protections American law and culture afford private property is similarly quite extreme. These facets come with downsides. But in 2001, I can confidently say that had Elon started SpaceX anywhere but in America, it would have dismally failed.
Hmm. Turns out consumers are willing to pay money for goods and services. Who would have thought?
Well if you're really looking for alternative shapes, one of the Mars fantasists I was alluding to actually went to space recently in a rather flat triangular vehicle. Which is of course completely irrelevant when one is evoking a male ego megaphor and not opening an engineering discussion on aerodynamics. I would have hoped critical thinking could also help with that distinction in topics.

Fwiw, I'm at least glad that single word seems to be the only part of the comment above you found objectionable.
Quick note (probably too late) that the behavior you describe is a classic symptom of something the DSM-5 calls "Borderline Personality Disorder".
I thought that the “end game” of bitcoiners is to have it replace fiat - be accepted in stores, be the preferred way to send money to others, be the primary way to get paid and so on.

So what are bitcoiners gonna do if Paypal and VISA add “pay with bitcoin” option and give it to billions of users? It would be a nice and simple interface that is easy to use but that complies with “bad bitcoin” list.

For every hardcore bitcoiner who is waiting for fiat to implode, there would be 1000 laypeople who do not care but they bought some bitcoins because TV said so. And all of those laypeople will be forced to comply with “bad bitcoin” list.

So now let’s say you have a bitcoin business. You can accept “good bitcoins” that you can send to billions of people, or “bad bitcoins” which you can only send to hardcore bitcoin enthusiasts, 0.1% of population. Is there any economic sense to accept “bad bitcoins”?
Advanced Financial Analysis with Python – Part 0 – Prepping the Data
> I do enjoy pissing on things that look or feel Unix-y

Uh... Git was created by the guy who created Linux.

Initially to help manage distributed Linux dev. Not forced on anyone other than Linux devs. Not dominant through nefarious business practices like MS Windows, but because it spread *organically* overtaking other "well designed" systems. People voted with their feet.
I was buying stuff at Home Depot today and you could just scan the stuff directly in your cart without putting it on the scales.
I think it means you hang around too many old people. Younger people have a good feel for what's changing and the optimism.
I feel like I'm in an alien world when it comes to Vue - it has this weird pattern of making strings do loads of heavy lifting.

The Github Commits[1] example on their documentation has a load of stuff that just doesn't sit right with me.

Things like

v-for="record in commits"

to loop over something is insane to me - this isn't code, this is a string inside a html attribute! How can you get any sort of good type analysis/variable checking/syntax highlighting inside this?

Similarly, accessing properties like

:href="record.html_url"

has the exact same issues - what if there's a typo here? My IDE can't highlight that this is wrong because it's *not code* and is just a string.

Maybe I'm just the odd one out here, but vue (and angular) love to use strings as a makeshift programming language, which to me is a major smell.

^[1]: https://v3.vuejs.org/examples/commits.html
Not sure if this is what you mean, but redemption systems are where you are just getting your own money back. Nobody is really paying you.

Maybe there are some places that pay for the plastic itself, but I would imagine they are more picky. Or the government is paying them as part of some misguided scheme.
Happy?
People sentenced by a judge or jury have a hope of appeal. People sentenced by Google don’t have any hope.
You can get an approximate taste of what it's like in plain old Java + JRebel, it's seriously about the same as trying to do it with Python + something like Flask. Start up a big application server in debug mode with Eclipse/IntelliJ, be annoyed that it takes 2+ minutes to start after everything's compiled. Now you want to work on a story, or some bug. You can make changes, save, it recompiles just that file (incremental compilation is a godsend in itself), and hotswaps it into the running application memory. No need to restart anything (with JRebel, for most common kinds of changes; without JRebel, only for some changes). It's particularly useful when you're debugging, you find the problem, change the code, and re-execute immediately to verify to yourself it's fixed.

You also can get an experience like PHP, where you just have to change and save some files, and your subsequent requests will use the new code. This is so much better than shutting down everything and restarting and is a large part of why CGI workflows dominated the web.

Common Lisp takes these experiences and dials them to 11, the whole language is built to reinforce the development style of dynamic changes, rather than an after-thought that requires a huge IDE+proprietary java agent. It's still best to use some sort of editor or IDE, and then you don't have any worry about source de-syncs -- frequently you'll make multiple changes across multiple files and then just reload the whole module and any files that changed with one function call, which you might bind to an editor shortcut, but crucially like debugging is not centrally a feature of the editor but the language; the language's plain REPL by itself is just a lot more supportive of interactive development than Python/JS/Ruby's. Clojure, and I personally think even Java with the appropriate tools, are between Python and CL for niceness of interactive development, but Clojure tends to be better than the Java IDE experience because of its other focus on immutability.
Hard coded admin usernames and passwords, MULTIPLE, on telnet!? What is this, 1970?
Multi-threaded code is normally not implemented in an async style, but instead is done where each thread of execution is synchronous.

Async style comes into play generally for languages that lack real threads, or as a way to manage callbacks (even if single threaded), or in order to wait for blocking IO without the need for a real thread.

So ya, it's idiomatic to use blocking to coordinate between different threads in Clojure, same as Java.

Java decided to work on making stackful coroutines instead of stackless like C#. That requires a lot more work, but should be coming eventually to Java. At that point, your "blocking" code in Clojure will no longer block a real thread, but a lightweight fiber instead. But patience is needed for it.

In the meantime, if you're dealing with non-blocking IO that operates with callback semantics or other callback style code, what you can do in Clojure to make working with that easier is use one of:

> core.async - https://github.com/clojure/core.async

> Promesa - https://github.com/funcool/promesa

> Missionary - https://github.com/leonoel/missionary

> Missionary's lower level coroutine lib - https://github.com/leonoel/cloroutine/blob/master/doc/02-asy...
> First we need to decide how intelligent are the dolphins, then let us look at the stars.

The premise is wrong. The premise here is that intelligence is the only factor. Physics doesn't allow dolphins to enter the bronze age. Hell, even if dolphins grew arms and hands they couldn't enter the bronze age. They're probably smart enough to do so, but there are other factors limiting them.

We have looked at Earth. We can look to the stars at the same time. It isn't an "or" operation.
All Hyped Up for Hypercard: Further Adventures with an Apple Legacy Format
well you can opt out of the DMV subscription by getting rid of the car and use public transport.

and just like ditching your printer, it does not work for everyone
For anyone interested in reading more about the libertarian movement in NH, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling is an interesting read.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50358538-a-libertaria...
Advanced Financial Analysis with Python – Part 1 – Trailing 5 Year EPS Growth
Neither Crew Dragon, or Hydrazine, is on the rocket in question...
Software Engineer launches startup despite long Covid
The FAQ says it's determined by likes. Not it was a gag.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/wiki/faq#wiki_1._.22we_just...
I get line speed with the Ubiquiti software installed.

Here's a writeup I did last year but it doesn't touch on OpenBSD: https://0x85.org/ubiquiti.html

I'm mostly over BSD in general. I don't know why, given that Debian exists and performs much better, I'd reach for BSD unless it had support for some esoteric hardware that Linux doesn't support.
Thanks. For usb hint. Have a HL-1440 for 15+ years never replaced cartridge but usb only is kinda limiting but it's reliable when I need it.
Can echo location be used for depth perception?
I don't mean redemption systems. Where I live, recycling centers pay for used plastic in bulk. We bag up a variety of plastic and take it to them. They don't pay a lot, but they do pay, and I wonder where they get the money.
Well the sooner countries can start to transition to an economy that is not reliant on perpetual population growth the better.

I am always amazed at news reports from Japan about how the sky is falling because their population is shrinking. For some reason no one ever says "on the plus side, Japan is one of the most densely populated places on the planet, a slow decrease in population will help improve quality of life measures and sustainability".
> And he doesn't even mention that you could just be outside, and be unreachable and not able to reach other people too.

Or you could be at home and ignore the phone. People used to arrange a time to call or know when to call. It used to be considered impolite to let the phone ring more than 4 or 6 times unless the call was urgent. People never expected you to call back after an unanswered call, since answering machines and caller ID were rare.

> Now that all has completely changed

I find the change immensely frustrating. It isn't so much the expectation of others for an immediate response that bothers me as an internal desire for an immediate response from others. Sure, those feelings may only pop up when something genuinely important pops up. On the other hand, the other person doesn't know that until they check their messages.
"muh long covid"

so very very gay
> which is probably only 20% of us here

Uh. Shops offering printing-as-a-service are one of the most common things found in every small town, all over the world. They're one of the first entrepreneurialist ventures to be developed in developing countries after electrification (just buy a printer and a computer, and charge $1 to print a page.) Every Internet cafe offers printing. Every parcel shipping store (UPS, FedEx, etc.) offers printing—and in fact many Internet cafes are just glorified print shops where you can pay to use the computers originally set up for printing. In villages of 500 people (such as the one I lived in as a teenager!), either the post office, the community center, or the elementary school (frequently all the same building) will own a printer, and allow people to pay to use it.

Okay, you might live in a cabin 200 miles away from the nearest town. 80% of people are not in that situation. 80% of people on this Earth have access to someone they can pay to print something for them.

> It is also only convienient if you don't have to regularly print things

Don't have to regularly print things in color. Most people don't. Unless you do photography for money, color very likely isn't a crucial part of anything you're required to be printing. (It might be a nice-to-have part of things you're required to be printing; or it might be a crucial part of things you don't really have to be printing; but it's unlikely for color to be crucial, and for the print to be required.)

I need to print things quite often, and yet I personally haven't needed to print anything in color... literally ever. (I did print things in color, when I used to own an inkjet, but in retrospect, I didn't need to have printed those things in color.)
This is not a regular string, it is a template.
And the tooling handles it just fine.

You get type checking, linting, syntax highlighting etc.
They are all over the west coast period. In Portland and Seattle they even take place in broad daylight.
That view is incorrect and based on old fascist propaganda BTW.

1: Stalin wasnt an omnipotent ruler, he was elected and has to answer to the Party etc. Hardly can blame him personally. He was not a king.

2: Stalin ordered to send lots of grain to Ukraine from other parts of USSR. The idea of Stalin intentionally starving Ukraine is absurd.

3: Famines were regularly occuring in these poor regions at those times.
In 2021 90% of the UK population declared themselves to be trans vegans.
Sort of, you can see the Milky Way easily if you just go to a rural area, and you'll see that even if there is no light pollution it's much dimmer to the eye than you see in photos.

Most of the other nebulae you can't really see at all with your naked eye no matter how dark it is, human eyes just aren't that sensitive. The Orion nebula is one exception, as it's extremely bright for nebula standards, you can see the core part of that nebula with your eye easily.

These photos are more like what the night sky would look like if it was dark AND our eyes were much more sensitive. Maybe some animals actually see it that way, I don't know too much about biology.
Getting out of fiat currency, is clearly a value
Hi @bachmeier, thanks for the feedback!

On 1), our SaaS version is equivalent to our higher end Enterprise Edition E20 and aimed at larger orgs. For small orgs we have the open source version that can be easily self-hosted. That said, it sounds like price is material for you, so maybe there’s something we can do at a lower price tier, with features closer to our open source product.

On 2), Focalboard is still in its early days. We are using it internally and with early adopters of the open source version and are pretty excited about where it could go—replacing Trello, Asana, Notion, Jire, Confluence on-prem and as SaaS in the long run, and on an open source platform you can customize.

Our hope is in future there could be a “Why we switched to Mattermost and Focalboard” with a blog post on replacing a fair chunk of the collaboration stack with an open source alternative that could be extended.
Don't bullshit me. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/electromagn...
It is absolutely possible to have the same type for values that have the same shape.

You can have a `Map k v` that is a record that dynamic languages have that they call object/map.(make k/v Object or Dynamic if you want)

You don't need to create a new type with precise information if you just want that(no you don't need to instantiate type params everywhere). There is definitely limitations in type-systems (requiring advanced acrobatics) but most programs don't run into them and HM type system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley%E2%80%93Milner_type_sy...) has stood the test of time.

For a great introduction on the idea of a type system, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brE_dyedGm0 .
This man chose to do so voluntarily, not out of sheer necessity.
Back in college my roommates 10 year old car died because the on board computer for fried. That car was made in the 90s. Just because gas cars burn fossil fuels doesn’t mean they don’t have electronic components.
Global Cycling Network did a piece on the DryCycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B0eXmbrBIo
Many (not all) types of suntan lotion are toxic enough to corals that it has an impact on the environment at popular beaches in coral reef areas.
Thanks! I like those ideas. Definitely been pondering better ways to filter the links and ensure the most relevant ones rise in prominence.
I can't speak to what the parent comment might have been referencing, but the CDC estimates 120MM infections through May 2021.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Just ... No. Read the history. At least read Wikipedia.

"Staged combustion (Замкнутая схема) was first proposed by Alexey Isaev in 1949. The first staged combustion engine was the S1.5400 (11D33) used in the Soviet planetary rocket, designed by Melnikov, a former assistant to Isaev.[1] About the same time (1959), Nikolai Kuznetsov began work on the closed cycle engine NK-9 for Korolev's orbital ICBM, GR-1. Kuznetsov later evolved that design into the NK-15 and NK-33 engines for the unsuccessful Lunar N1 rocket. The non-cryogenic N2O4/UDMH engine RD-253 using staged combustion was developed by Valentin Glushko circa 1963 for the Proton rocket."

And way down at the bottom of a long engine list spanning more than half a century...

"Raptor—SpaceX LCH4/LOX engine in development, first flown in 2019[19][20]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staged_combustion_cycle
A UK person I know said they won’t install the “pingdemic” app because they would have to isolate every five minutes; instead they just use the camera app and pretend. And that’s a vaccinated person who’s pretty cautious. I would assume it’s a widespread sentiment,
Commaai/laika: Simple Python GNSS processing library
I think many peoples' experience is that most real world data models aren't as perfect as making up toy examples in blog posts. Requirements and individuals change over time. You can make an argument that in a perfect world with infinite time and money that static typing may be better because you can always model things precisely, but whether you can do that practically over longer periods of time should be a debatable question.
Towards a Minimal Nix-Shell
You seem to be imagining problems that do not exist.

The battery swap facility was for the Tesla Model S only, and the battery cannot be removed as if it was a Duracell. It needed to be disconnected with a specialized robot.

Current battery packs are even harder to remove - even if "battery pack theft squads" were a thing, which they aren't.

As for the solar flare - this sounds like a problem for science fiction. The chassis of the car is a faraday cage! They survive getting struck by lightning!
>it looks like a product but secretly a subscription

Surely this isnt about playdate.
I have a somewhat similar anecdote. At a previous job, I would frequently work late nights and weekends (honestly more for fun than anything). Around the end of one week, I ended up pulling a few consecutive all-nighters.

Unbeknownst to me, my mom on the other side of the country had been calling intermittently throughout those days (I keep my phone on silent). After a certain point, she called security at my apartment complex to check in on me. Of course she was then informed that my room mates hadn't seen me in several days.

By the time I noticed and returned the missed calls, apparently my mom was just about ready to call the police.
>They do if the employee sues claiming age discrimination, for example. At least, they have to defend the accusation to show it’s not discrimination.

They don't have to show anything. The employee has to prove that it's age discrimination.

>When someone has been at the company for 25 years like in the parent’s example, and they get fired abruptly without notice for liking the wrong football team, it’s likely the stated reason is untrue and inviting a challenge.

Without a pattern of discrimination this isn't a problem. If there is pattern of discrimination then it is. However, if that's the case it doesn't matter how much documentation they have.

>It certainly helps show that the company isn’t discriminating arbitrarily, and gave the employee notice and a chance to improve the situation.

You can't discriminate arbitrarily. Discrimination in this context means firing someone because they are part of a protected class.

>gave the employee notice and a chance to improve the situation.

Whether you gave someone the chance to correct the situation or not isn't relevant.

>BTW actual legal action isn’t necessary for firing to be getting harder. The fear of legal action is all you need, and that is in fact going up.

The number of charges filed with the EEOC has gone down over the last 20 years https://www.eeoc.gov/statistics/charge-statistics-charges-fi...

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/eeoc-roundup-part-i-10-...

"At the same time, FY2020 saw the lowest number of charges received from workers in more than two decades. The agency received 67,448 charges—continuing the steady downward trend since 2017 in the numbers of discrimination charges filed with the EEOC."
I've struggled with security vs. accessibility myself. my work won't allow my dictation software on the secure workstations we have to use, at least for the near future. they allow Dragon, but Dragon sucks for interaction and programming. companies can't just throw their hands up and say "security" though.. or at least they shouldn't. they can and do, I guess.
"Maybe circumstances unexpectedly got him into the situation of having kids yet not ready to prioritize the kids over other things he wanted to do."

And that sums up the Boomer generation in a nutshell.
Interesting. I saw it on Drudge Report and hadn’t seen it discussed here. DDG gave it a B+ so I just assumed it was reputable