skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure most restaurants aren't renting their premises in any case? Owning a property sounds like a massive investment before you're even able to do any business.

Of course the restaurant business is probably hit-and-miss and risky, and owning the premises might give you more stability, at least if you don't have a large amount of debt. It sounds to me like your stance might be quite cynical in the sense that almost nobody would try starting a restaurant if they considered owning their premises a necessity.
People in America going bankrupt because they have unlimited risk against things that commonly happen to a lot of people? Let me quote Casablanca "I am shocked, shocked to find gambling (medical bankruptcy) going on in here".
> While we never had a lockdown that ordered us into our homes in most of the country

This is not accurate? Ontario was very explicitly under a stay-at-home order for many months in the winter & spring; you could (technically) be charged for leaving your home for non-essential purposes
What percent of people going bankrupt have housing debt - either a mortgage or rent? What percent of people who declare bankruptcy have personal debt owed to people they know?

I understand that it's a 1 paragraph story but there's some nuance there that's being implied and some that people pass along that's not supported by that paragraph.
Some other interesting questions they should pose:

- What's your mother's maiden name?

- What street were you born on?

- What was your first car?

- What's your childhood's best friend's name?
The split is worse between liberals and conservatives. Liberals think the chance of being hospitalized is up to 50%. I’m a liberal myself but the abject fear that I see among my friends and the families in my mostly liberal school is scary.

Even worse, they believe it’s even more dangerous for children when it’s the exact opposite. Even considering delta the chance of hospitalization is still less than 1% and death is almost nil. “But what about long covid?” is the response I get, which is just as small.

If fear is dictating policy we will never break out of this because the time to vaccinate everyone plus the chances of a variant coming along means we will never be free.
sounds like you are looking for xsv. I like that tool a lot for selecting specific columns.
CenturyLink wired my entire neighborhood a number of years ago, but it looks like _before_ my house was built, and they haven't come back since.

All of my neighboring blocks have 1g/1g from them, but the most they offer at my address is a 40/40 "fiber-based coax" internet that I'm probably not even wired for. I would love for that to change - my DOCSIS internet has been pretty solid, but I miss the gigabit upload.
is it bricked if it can be recovered? bricking, the way I learned the term, means unrecoverable via any software means and almost any (or actually any) hardware means.
Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.
Who is downvoting this?

Why?
ETH: $23M transaction fee sent to a miner
Same reason you’d use twitter I suppose. That said TT’s biggest advantage is it’s recommendation engine. It really picks up quick your interests.

Downsides of tiktok is:

* can’t find upload date

* cant effectively share links in comments (they aren’t clickable)

* pretty confusing video editor if you don’t wanna share results
That's where short cycles come into play. If something is urgent for business (and often everything is "urgent") then it can fall in the next cycle which is just 14 days away. It's rare that something is so urgent that it should disrupt your entire dev team flow and focus.

Also what happens is you end up with a never ending dev cycle where business expedites an item making the cycle a little longer, business sees the cycle is longer and thus adds in more items to be included further lengething the cycle... I think you get where this is going.

At my startup company we have suffered from just this in past, where we would have never ending dev cycles while our maintenance back logs filled up and never got worked on properly.
fruit is not sufficiently addictive for adults to gorge themselves

The problems isn't just which foods are addictive, it's the economics of food costs too:

Fruits are expensive relative to much worse options. Fruits mostly are not very calorie dense, so you could gorge yourself completely on strawberries, eating an entire container in a sitting and paying (near me) $4 for it @ ~150 calories.

Or you could pay $2.59 for a 3-pack of microwave "movie theatre butter" popcorn for an effective price of $0.86 and consume around ~400 calories.

Calorie-dense junk foods are simply much cheaper to begin with. If you're on a budget and love, equally, strawberries & popcorn and want a few snacks for the week, you can spend $12 for 3lb of strawberries or $2.59 for the popcorn.

Or compare the cost of a 3-liter bottle of soda (about $1.10, or 1 penny/ounce) to the cost of 100% pure apple juice, which is about 3x the price per ounce. Yes both are sugar heavy, but the carbohydrates in pure juice aren't as bad and juice at least has other nutrients, and is sometimes fortified with more.
enact a course-correction, it is always more expensive to

(There is at least one partial exception to the fruit issue: bananas. Compared to other fruits, they are massively cheaper on a price-per-calorie basis. But you can't live on bananas alone.)
Russia is not obliged to pay Ukrainian bills. They're unreliable partners (both for EU and Russia), they have a history of blackmailing EU with threats to stop gas transit (Ukraine, not Russia threatened EU!), they're stealing transit gas all the time.

Besides, they're used as an enemy, as cannon fodder against Russia. Why would Russia feed them using our natural resources? What's our obligation? It's not their gas, it's not their pipeline (it was built by "soviet occupants").
Texas dosen't count your primary residence as attachable in a bankruptcy.

While in CA, you are only provided $250,000 in coverage.

Personally, I don't think anyone should be able to touch your first primary home for any reason.

(I thought all bankruptcy laws were federal. I just assumed they would all be the same in every state, but they don't appear to be? Everyone dumps on TX, but they do some thing right. I heard that if you are arrested for a DUI in Texas. A judge will take into account previous alcohol tolerance. So basically, if you are an alcoholic, and you pass a computer simulation provided by the state, you might be able to get out of that DUI. I think it logical, but I must have miss heard that?)
I believe accessibility is critical, and I was expecting to invest months of time and a significant amount of our money on the project. I cut my losses after over a week of full time effort because I was not making enough progress. One personal fault of mine is often the opposite, where I don’t quit early enough, and I keep flogging a dead horse.

Also, I think you are making many assumptions about me in your response: perhaps try to be a little more generous towards others.
I’ll settle for history being written by people who know what they’re talking about. Eisenhower opposed use of the bomb on Japan.
Kniberg has written extensively about agile practices, and this one talks a lot about Kanban:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A32O00Q/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

Although I think he ended up with something more Scrum-like later at Spotify.

He also has lots of good videos about broader team organization (Tribes etc.) that I found useful for conveying some of these ideas to my non-technical peers.
I just signed up for an account last year. I unfollowed everyone about six months later. Now I pop on every few days and either see something I'm tagged in or it says 'you're all caught up'. Sometimes it throws an error which is rewarding.

Seems to avoid most of the garbage on Facebook but I can still use it to contact people or hit the marketplace.
It seems unlikely for a mortgage owner to go bankrupt under today's circumstances. Right now, the housing market is up. This means that if anyone gets foreclosed upon, the house is worth more than the mortgage. So they aren't bankrupt at all. Sure, they lose their house and might be homeless, but no reason to declare bankruptcy yet.

In 2007, the housing market was down. That's where you'd get bankruptcies: because the house was worth less than the mortgage. So called "underwater mortgages". You get foreclosed upon, but still have to pay $100,000 after losing your house and becoming homeless.

So it all depends on the market price of homes.
Medialab has now acquired Kik (2019), Imgur (2021), Genius (2021)...

Big spree of acquisitions! Anyone have any idea the goal?
Why should I care, though?

"What state are you from" seems like pretty innocuous information. I'll readily mention that I'm from Seattle if it's relevant to the conversation or asked directly, and I tend to think of myself as being on the more paranoid / pro-privacy side of things.

All the big players already have my address because I gave it to them, and a stalker should be able to work that information out pretty easily because I post in the Seattle sub-reddit and otherwise engage a lot with Seattle topics.
I have been using tv now for a couple months at work. It has been working well on the data I see. If you find edge cases then please open an issue with an example csv.
Was in person schooling shut down before or after the delta variant? Imputing a risk to behaviors/decisions that occurred before the risk manifested is a logical error.
There was a time when corporations didn't have revenues to rival big countries, when they couldn't just buy laws at will.

Unfortunately that time is over, and life expectancy has been going down in the US for years now[1]

[1] https://img.datawrapper.de/2wczw/full.png
I second this. It has very detailed descriptions of a given philosopher’s theories and breakdowns of the distinct periods in their life. It is a great resource with well-written and concise explanations (often easier to read and understand than the actual works themselves).
Agreed, and it's even more insane when you consider the fact that the lockdowns increased the comorbidity of obesity among children!
Malware gets into the App Store and why Apple can't stop that
Continue of the story with the recent three iOS vulnerabilities. Apple says: 'I'm aware, thank you'.
And still did nothing.
Central planning is not a necessary feature of communism, and it has also been employed in capitalist economies.
They began on Reddit because Reddit was incapable of handling image uploads.
Isn't the obvious answer to stop scraping (or, at least try)? The author states that the value here is collecting data (not money from ads or something) and Facebook's APIs don't allow for the kind of analysis they'd need to build profiles. Article specifically talks about using Python to scrape profiles (presumably using a logged in account).
These do get shared, but usually in meme form where you turn your birthday into your "Werewolf name" and are encouraged to share in the comments. Because you're sharing in an altered, amusing form, you don't stop to consider someone can reverse your birthday from it.
"The vast majority of even elementary school childrens' lives are being moved online"

I know we're big on the tech bubble, but this is not only not the case, but we as parents should make it actively not the case. There's grass - touch it.

It turns out "online" is mostly a bunch of garbage - useless scrolling and dopamine hits from nothing. We need to turn it off. It's worse for us than smoking. I'd argue it was worse than leaded gasoline, and while we used it for a while, we finally got proper and banned it. Hopefully all "social media" gets that treatment, one day.
So they're an institutional investor. Like I said.
Hey Rob,

Please release that book on dating. Not that I'm interested in the topic, but I'm more interested in reading something entertaining.
What do you mean by "their own"? There's nothing about SONET/SDH that's specific to undersea cables.
Personally, I've had much better luck with MOCA than with powerline. Full gigabit speeds in an older 1940s house using basic Motorola adapters off of Amazon.
I think people in the US that still believe the US medical System is private are delusional

I want a private health system, one with actual market economics not with the hand of government poking and prodding at every turn making things worse. Sadly the free market shipped sailed away decades ago.

What we have today is terrible system of heavy government regulation, poor subsidies, "insurance" that is not really insurance, combined with the US health system bearing most of the RnD costs for the world.

Those that are opposing complete government take over already lost they just do not know it yet and are just prolonging the pain. Personally I say let it happen, and watch as it collapses because a US Federal run health system will be atrocious, the US Federal government is incompetent and corrupt, but it seems many citizens want a health system run by corrupt incompetence. So lets to it. then we can get way back to a free market once the people learn the lesson the hard way.
I don't think new coal plants are rational at all.

Re gas heating, I sure could've used some just this past winter during the Texas snowpocalypse. My apartment uses electric power for heating/cooking, so electricity was a single point of failure. Resiliency through diversity is a point I missed above.
Enlightened algorithms? Progressives ask Big Tech to censor 'bad' ideas
Reminds me of the "moral majority" celebrating HIV/AIDS deaths in the 90s.
>> Energy is so important, yet so cheap.

If you want a good economy you have to make the inputs flow unimpeded. People need food, and everything else runs on energy. It has to be a commodity.
Oh, I forgot to mention that data should synced in real-time between collaborators (Google Docs Style)
the main driver of the 2014 invasion of Ukraine by Russia

There was no Russian invasion. There was a coup and installation of Nazi government in Ukraine in 2014. Big percent of population in Ukraine is Russian. They do not want to live under Nazi regime that praises Hitler and forbids to speak Russian language. Also, Ukraine has plans to build concentration camps for Russian population.

So they decided to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
To be pedantic: it might be able to transfer 319 MB/s (with a gigabit port), but almost certainly not 319 GB/s, let alone 319 TB/s.
Of course! Never hurts to ask. I wouldn't assume they'll say yes but you never know, I bet it's pretty rare for people to ask that so it may even stand out as a positive.
Probably same as fb and insta. Just use it via browser.

(It wasn’t trusting my incognito mode when using playwright, but saving session while in iPhone mode worked)
I feel a great frustration by those who argue against healthcare reform in the US, because most of the arguments against a socialized system resonate with me, but they also seem to be arguments against the current system.

I would be concerned about moral hazard leading to people not taking care of their own health. And yet, America has a disproportionately bad problem with weight and cardiovascular health. I get a discount for not smoking, sure, but I don't get a discount for going to the gym multiple times a week and adjusting my diet to keep my weight goals. I seem to be sharing a risk pool with a lot of very willingly unhealthy people.

I would be concerned about a DMV-like experience when trying to take care of my health care, except, that's what we have now. Bad incentives are created for providers, for insurers, and really it's all of them against me. And it's hardly a free market when there's still effectively a complete lack of transparency over pricing, and I can't very well shop around for where the ambulance should take me.

I'm very pro-immigration as long as we have some security / documentation process that people follow that we actually enforce, because I don't want a social healthcare system that just gets abused by people who have no intention of ever being a formal part of the system that funds it. Except we already have a drain on hospitals in many states where they have to provide life-saving care but will never get reimbursed for it. And that's exactly what Romney's major argument was in defense of his state's healthcare law, but Republicans ripped him to shreds over it.

I just don't understand what Republicans are arguing for here because the current system is not remotely giving any of the benefits of a free market and that doesn't seem to be changing any time soon. If the current system is privately-run healthcare, why is everyone so convinced that the vaccine is a government conspiracy? It seems to me we don't have either ideal, so we're stuck with a half-measure that isn't really working for anyone but insurers.
What regulation would help here?
Of all the writings on solitude that I’ve come across, almost all are from the male perspective. Anybody know of some good female/other writings on the subject? I have daughters, and I’d like to be able to better relate to them on this.
No sorry, I assume tv is fine. The problem is in assuming `head -n5` gives you 5 rows and piping that into tv.
Vietnam’s internet infrastructure in big cities is quite impressive too. If paid in advance for an year, you could get 100 Mbps up/down for ~$11/month. There are several ISPs competing with each other so the speed goes up, the price goes down every few years. High speed fiber internet is commonplace. Higher speed is available too.

The only downside is that some websites are blocked, or slowed down at some points.
The purpose of metrics is to be something to game.

Now you do need don't to anything illegal policies in place, and you might have a [unwritten] moral code of what you can't do. However the purpose is to game the metrics. For all the discussion that follows I'm going to assume we are within these limits.

If the boss wants profit margin as a metric, then you need to figure out how to do things cheaper, and how to get more sales, or higher value sales or some such, and sometimes get something off the books. Note that this last is why smart investors always ask about the bottom line - because the rules of what you can hide from the bottom line are strict enough that the metrics cannot be gamed to your disadvantage. That said off the books is sometimes a useful thing to have - sometimes you know you need to do something hard and so you need to leave an approved way to hide specific things in plain sight.

The problem is most developer metrics are things where gaming the metric isn't good for the company.
I'd be interested more in Firebase if I could specify a SQL schema. I don't want to work around the headaches of a document store...
You really don’t get it.

I linked Wiki so that you could read about what it actually is. You’ve decided to cherry pick an excerpt that you think justifies your point, while completely misunderstanding what said excerpt actually says.

You’re arguing that platforms engage in rent-seeking behavior. Please point to a platform that has created wealth for itself, at the expense of others wealth (thus not creating new wealth).

Spoiler: there aren’t any. Now do you get why rent-seeking doesn’t mean what you think it does?

What you really mean is “platforms don’t work hard enough for the cut they take” which as I said above, is not what rent-seeming means.
I once built a complex spreadsheet for my colleagues. When I had to leave, what I built for them was almost instantly useless because there was too much they needed to understand. That got me thinking about the gulf between spreadsheets and programming languages. There are important differences:

- Spreadsheets don't separate code from data, which is an important aspect of programming. Blending the two is a nice shortcut for spreadsheets, but it ruins maintainability.

- Naming is important for programming, but spreadsheets encourage users to not bother with names and fall back to cell coordinates like "A10" instead. It's a great shortcut, but again, it ruins maintainability.

- Spreadsheet formulas operate on scalar values, while programming languages operate on nested data structures. Data structures are a key to managing complexity, yet the spreadsheet paradigm has only a very limited view of them.

If users are ever going to be able to use a spreadsheet-like interface for serious programming, most of those issues will need to be addressed in a way that doesn't hurt usability. That's a tall order! Users already struggle with function calls in formulas. At some point it's smarter for users to just pay a programmer to figure out how to build it.
That's like 18000 today, still cheap for the amount of work put in.
I think it's a bit of that, and the execs are aware that they'll always land on their feet, even if their company and workers won't. After all, if none of the bankers from 2008 went to jail, what does a Blue Cross VP have to fear?
Poor people also were against EVs before they went mainstream, so does that count for anything? I would evangelize Tesla and EVs in general in 2010 and the overwhelming majority of people who thought that EVs were “dumb” were poor and lower class. A poor person has the exact same opportunity as a rich person to say the words “that makes sense, let’s try it.”
My question is more about expectations of scale. If currently renewable energy (not just electricity - heating etc matters a lot) is something like 10% or 12% of total energy; and we need to go to something of 300% or even much more (to cover energy spent not on current needs but solely to cover the "unburning" the excess of previous century, "repaying the debt" much quicker than we accumulated it), then that extreme growth of renewable energy generation doesn't seem plausible to achieve in the timeframe you suggest.
An interesting angle to that is the continuous sorting that goes on.

You end up with some schools with the worst of the worst, and heaven help anyone stuck in there. How do you construct those places? Do they have a SHU?

Given our current infatuation with 'fairness' another issue arises. What happens when the good schools, given a voucher system, and the bad schools tend to have people who look alike within them. Should there be outrage?
> as essential as ramps are for wheelchair users
Imagine a world where 93% of people used wheelchairs all the time; there would be no stairs

Imagine a world where 93% of people have the Hunter or Edison Gene, no one would have flashy things on webpages, ads or otherwise. That would also mean more than 10 times as many people with amazing creativity and insight and many fewer people who are willing to do the same thing over and over and over and over like 93% of the people in this world. We likely would have found ways to eliminate drudgery for most tasks. Perhaps we would live in a happier world where people were more fulfilled.

@krono, living with the Hunter Gene in a world built for people with the Farmer Gene does not mean you have a problem, dysfunction, affliction, malady, sickness, infirmity, disability, defect, or disorder but does mean you must adapt to a world built for others.

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Celebrate and build on your strengths, mitigate your weaknesses as we all should.

Edison Genes [0]

Although ADHD is often described by the problems it presents, several recent studies (see here, here, and here) have reaffirmed other potential advantages linked to the ADHD diagnosis, namely — the ability to think more creatively, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO).

ADHD has been linked to three aspects of creative cognition, namely: divergent thinking, conceptual expansion, and overcoming existing knowledge constraints.

[0] https://medium.com/welded-thoughts/adhd-the-return-of-the-hu...
To be fair, HN is a particularly conservative crowd that I wouldn't say represents the tech industry as a whole.
Hard to hold police accountable. For federal agents, it’s all but impossible
This almost sounds like sarcasm.