skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one area where humans are quite different, I believe. I feel that I get nothing out of exercising (except becoming better at excersise, which is circular). But others definitely seem to do so, and get anxious if they don't.
I don’t really know. My uneducated impression is that Australia’s prisons are harsher than those of many Western/Northern European countries but not as bad as those of the US-but I don’t know of any hard data on the issue. Rehabilitation is officially an objective and of course the prison system makes some attempts but we can always question if they do enough.
As a title that is doubly circumspect. The question form "Is this the smallest ..." allows for "no". Or "This is one of the smallest ..." is always true if it is smallish.

Using both seems like timidity.
How can a Scrum daily not be a status pull?
Sounds about right as an annual figure. My annual stipend in London was ~£16,000 and the cost of living there is commensurately higher than in southern Europe.
While you are probably technically correct, remember many here are not native English speakers.

Given the quotes it seems poster was aware that the word wasn't perfect.

I'd try something along the lines of "I guess the word you are looking for here is fraudulent or abusive".
brouter.de is amazingly customisable for bike routing.

The trade-off for customisation/personalisation is slower calculation times. Most fast routing algorithms work by precalculating the best routes, which obviously doesn’t scale if everyone has their own “best”.

(I run cycle.travel, which prioritises one good, opinionated routing model over customisation.)
Good points, although I'd say most of these apply to most other European countries (i.e. language, salary comparison, service industry), including Spain and France.

Source: Me as an expat SWE living in Estonia for the last 5 years, who travelled to most of Europe (but not US yet).
It wouldn't work since we were allowed to manipulate certain aspects of text, too, to a certain extent, in a way that looked pretty much statistically random. That is, by comparing several copies of the same file, the bits were very much different, and the differences were distributed over the whole document. One of the main aims was to make sure the watermark gets preserved over various transformations, and we automatically tested each new document to make sure it works.
How many of you mourning the old internet frequent neocities or have their own personal website ? I don't think the the answer is 'a lot'.

Everyone on HN complains about everything being turned into a business but everyone also wants to create their own start up and turn it into a unicorn.
The bit about putting code in the DMA registers because they weren't used is such an insane trick :)
Three months wages to buy a car? Ok. Isn't that about the name now, at least for a new car?
Wow, great info. Very low-key and subtle, but the future is arriving slowly, one pig gene modification at a time!
When it starts raining though, you'd wish you're taking shelter in a car instead of riding scooters while wearing a raincoat.
>JSON maps well to javascript types, but not anything else.

Except it does. Take python. Ruby. Any language that has a notion of dicts, lists and strings/ints/floats. That's basically every high level language ever. Even exotic stuff like tcl. And e.g. C, a low level language, has a thousand implementations of those same structures.
Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities
Just wait until you learn about the correct pronunciation of "karate!" :D
That's actually why we're against it. Once they have the power it's basically impossible to recall it. There were many lines in the sand in the past and they keep being crossed.
This would be such cool feature. :) Google Maps often suggest me routes where I wonder if I'll end up in someone's backyard.
I have always thought several years ahead about my career, and the best way to do that has been keeping up on the professional literature. Back in the days when magazines were a thing, I subscribed to them with my own money (and wrote it off) because it was that important to me. The equivalent today is reading HN, and if I were you I would have no problem regarding it as an essential part of my career development.

Plus, it is just a good part of my life.
This article puts its finger on some interesting questions.

Circa 1930, when Agatha's domestic servant was an affordable basic but a car was not, JM Keynes famously predicted a 15 hr workweek. His productivity and GDP growth projections that this prediction were right. But, the workweek didn't change much. "Work hours" changed, but it wasn't productivity that caused changes. Wars, women's' liberation, college, child labour norms and such caused changes. Increased productivity did not.

Why? The most common economics-ey answer is "the hedonic treadmill." As wages increased, so did our demands. We want smartphones, fancy cars, expensive medical care and such. Essentially, this argument implies that we choose to work a lot to consume more.

I think hedonic treadmills are this is part of the answer, but grossly insufficient. A better answer. Economics should be providing better, more curios treatment of the question.

This article mentions “Baumol's cost disease,” but like the hedonic treadmill, I don't think it's a sufficient answer.

Economics is cursed by "post fact storytelling" issues. I think it needs to be balanced by post fact question-asking.

Did GDP-per-capita "really" grow 5X-10X during this period. What does that mean exactly, considering that an average person can afford more of some things and less of others? A 15 hr workweek pays less than a month's rent.

Car prices themselves are also an interesting case. Until about 1930, auto manufacturing (US) experienced its proverbial "hockey stick growth." Each year processes improved, prices went down and the number of units went up. By about 1930, the US market was saturated. Cars continued to evolve and improve, but prices stopped decreasing as production volume leveled. From this point on, productivity/GDP trends are means faster or nicer cars... it stops meaning more affordable cars.

In short, I think there are some serious discrepancies in the meaning of GDP when considered over short periods and long periods of time.
Start slow and build a habit.
I doubt you can compare superfish against bloatware antitheft "feature"
It's funny how susceptible Americans are to medical misinformation. The FDA is a necessity.
Uhm, I don't think that outcome is a bad thing at all. There should be very few and ideally no reasons you have to go into debt, except for high-value long-term purchases. And these are typically things that can sever as collateral (think houses, cars). Heck even computers and phones nowadays have significant resell value.

Come to think of it, except for medical bills, I really don't know what an uncollateralized loan would be for and which I'd consider a net-positive. And before you come back to me with medical bills: Fix your health insurance system and that problem goes away...
Agreed. Another negative side effect is that power users cannot help casual users anymore. They become dependent on the developer of the software in question and won't learn about the pipeline of how things are created.

A beverage dispenser has a good UX, but its usage is fairly restricted.
No, your manners. Plus little details like a nice watch, clean shirt, how you arrive, perfume, hair style, etc.

It's basically the same as if you go to a trade show in the US. All the salespeople are trying to figure out which visitors are CEOs and, hence, worth their time, and which ones are just curious amateurs.

Maybe Google "Thuan Pham" - the Vietnamese Uber ex-CTO. He's doing it so well that even for us westerners it's easy to see that he's in a position of power. He isn't going to be charged tourist pricing due to his skin color (which is normal for Vietnamese). He's going to be charged tourist pricing because of his behavior which indicates that he's mind-boggingly rich and powerful.
Looking at parliament's the left-right thing the French created spread.

Not to the UK however. In the British Parliament seating is based on governing party (right side of the Speaker (Commons) or right side of the Throne (House of Lords) and the opposition on the other side)

However for example in Germany there was a relatively big debate earlier in this legislative period, when the liberal party (FDP) wanted to move to the center, switching seats with the conservatives (CDU/CSU) to move away from the far right party (AfD) The "traditional" left-right spectrum was a key argument in the debate.
Whilst we can debate whether open source is better or worse code, noone debates whether open source has better or worse ux/ui. Clunky UI is what we expect from open source projects...if web 3.0 could create incentives for this phenomena to change.. It would be a lot more interesting
> bureaucratic overhead characteristic of government-run institutions

Whenever I read something like that, I wonder if the speaker ever worked in private industry. IME, government gets all their bad organizational ideas from us.
Elsivier alone siphons more money per year out of public funded science than ITER, the most expensive experiment ever.
So put in the full work to patch things, but do it slightly wrong on purpose? What do companies gain by being so passive-aggressive?
Not sure when this bubble will pop, but I for one can't wait.

I will finally be able to enter the housing market and stock market at decent prices.
Yes. The signal does come with some noise, but I've found HN incredibly valuable for my professional and career development. I spend quite some time here but I think it's worth it.

HN pretty frequently has posts from senior engineers or senior managers sharing things they've learned over long careers, which I feel has given me a shortcut into many of these insights.

Without HN, I would not have been as aware of how hot the developer market is at the moment, or what common salary levels are around the world. I'm starting a new job next week, through a startup that I found because it advertised a role on HN, at significantly higher compensation than my previous job.

Comments on HN have given me a lot of insight into how people approach things like contract negotiation or how they deal with conflict or frustration in the workplace. Often these comments come from a place of experience with patterns recurring over many positions at different organizations. I'm heading into (only) my third job so these experiences are valuable to read about.

Beside that I've also found many resources that were just fun or intellectually stimulating here.
> in JSON there can be many ways to implement a collection of name/value pairs.

Are there? JSON has dicts and lists. I mean you could store a collection of name value pairs in a list, maybe even a list of lists, but that's just stupid and an incorrect usage of the format.
Where as in xml there really are tons of ways to do that, and ALL of them are awkward
Degradation of human life: Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation."[2] Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing."[3] This condition, according to Debord, is the "historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life."[4]

The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which "passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity". "The spectacle is not a collection of images," Debord writes, "rather, it is a social relation among people, mediated by images."[5]

Reading those first two paragraphs I thought he was talking about instagram. It's written in 1967. It's amazing how these French theorists could see so clearly what was happening at their time and also see the future of what we would become. I wonder what people are theorizing about now who could be in the same class? and what they say about society and what things they say about our future that will become? amazing and interesting.
I would say it's pretty clear cut that this is abuse in a different way than ext4 because the blockchain has a format for how it stores various fields and you store data by putting different data in those fields. For example the fake addresses to which they send bitcoin to generate transactions.

It's also worth thinking about how this is used in the context of leaking data. Imagine if instead of posting Jennifer Lawrence's nudes on reddit, hackers had put them on the blockchain and just told people it was there. You now have an immutable copy of those photos stuck in a billion dollar speculative asset.
The author calls his previous employer "Google" but current one "Meta". A great illustration of the power of branding.
Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?

219 points by ElectricMind 10 months ago | 273 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26366538
There is necessary nuance to discuss between stimuli, thoughts, feelings, and unconscious reactions. And I reject wishing or intellectualizing away the realities of the human condition with an idealistic belief system. You can't necessarily control what you feel or how your body reacts if you almost get run-over by a car. Aspiring to become a Vulcan "Spock" seems an unhealthy goal, much as conforming to toxic positivity or toxic negativity. It's like: Why do people go to therapy? Often to unload their baggage to someone else, not to stuff more of it away and pretend it's not there. There's no "free lunch."

That said, I think there is value in repeatedly stressing people near or past their breaking points, relieving burnout potential, and gradually increasing challenges to moderate an individual's stress response and build their confidence ("break them down and build them up"). Furthermore, the Marines train their leaders make to decisions with incomplete information under pressure. Stressful experiences help make future experiences seem less daunting.
But not (or much less so) in 1965, which is when Baumol made his observation.
Plenty, if you push away the fluff threads (such as this one) you get to learn a lot of things and get challenged on your beliefs in the replies which is always a great opportunity to grow.
Long, leisurely walks helps me break monotony. I literally wander aimlessly, both physically and mentally, observing nature, things, people, vehicles, whatever as I walk. No cell phone and no other artificial sensory inputs (e.g., ear pods/songs) except for those I encounter.

It is absolutely fine to be not motivated for long periods of time. IMO it is brain's way of telling you take it easy for a few weeks/months.

As you slow down you may get some sparks here and there that you may want to explore. It's OK if they are totally unrelated to your work. Explore those random alleyways, you never know where'll they take you.
>XML is best used for markup,

Funny enough, the one thing XMPP does not use xml for is markup! See

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0393.html - an ad hoc markup format

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0394.html - a laughably perverse usage of the already perverse XML format
I don't know why they did this but I guess they had reasons - perhaps XML doesn't actually do that well even for markups
I don't think Moldova is representative of Eastern Europe. Hundreds of thousands of illegals among a population of 400 million doesn't sound like such a huge problem.
The overwelming majority is motorbikes / scooters:

* E-bikes are popular among teens / people under 18-21. They are cheaper, and the law prohibits them from riding motorbikes with above 50cc engines (which the majority are, unless you're riding a Cub 50 or so)

* As you go up the age ladder, ICE motorbikes dominates. I also have a feeling that traffic congestion is getting worst, thanks to more people having access to cars.
Fast travel and recording media lead to gains for the very best or most popular musicians who are now able to sell their music much more widely and play large venues in many cities more easily. It doesn't make the equivalent of the talented bar cover band any better off, in fact it socially demotes them to being something called a "cover band" when before these technologies that would have been almost any band.
I use TomTom GPS on my phone and the user interface/map view is so much better than google maps. Waze could be a possibility, but requires a constant mobile data signal.
It's like news and opinions, it can help you to keep you up with whatever is moving out there, and sometimes some relevant opinions or counterviews come up. News in general come also with a downside, you can find much literature out there.

To me your issue sounds like procrastination, which is normal and very common, just make sure it is not out of your control. Find a balance in how you spend your time, perhaps you would like to read HN as much as a magazine or only the top articles of the week if that helps you.
This is sound advice.

To trigger a change in perspective in me, I start cleaning and organizing. Finishing or closing projects. This brings me back where I started and I can rethink from afar.

Organize.
Separating services with network requests doesn’t stop you having “spaghetti logic”. All it does instead is add more spaghetti and put it in different bowls.
On Debian and derivatives, one can override the setuid bit permanently as follows:

dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec
If I withdraw £10, I get all of that £10s. Just as if troops withdraw, they don't leave some people. Or if my wife and I decide to withdraw from a conversation, one of us doesn't stay.

And yes, if I decide to withdraw all of my checking account from an ATM, I get... all of it.

"Withdraw" doesn't imply partial things. What you choose to withdraw, you withdraw.
Some of those classes of problems (log4j) are exactly why some people refuse to use external libraries or at least not pulling them in automatically for each build. It's not unexpected problems, it's expected problems that comes along. Everyone knows it will happen sooner or later but chooses to benefit from others work because that is how society grows. This however comes at a cost. And society is mostly prepared to pay the price because of the benefits.

Bitrot is also one of the things we have been fighting for a long time. That is why we have new file systems that scrubs the whole disk now and then, checking for bitrot and repairs while it's still possible.

Edit: Saw now that the article isn't even about bitrot. In my world bitrot is when data on the disk changes without anyone doing anything to it. A bit flips from 1 to 0 by no help from humans. This can be corrected automatically with checksums and backups. Against humans changing things they don't understand nothing can help you :-)
> people with the vaccine presenting at hospital are more likely to survive than those presenting without

In my opinion, that logic is flawed.

The currently available COVID-19 vaccines vastly reduce the likelihood of developing severe symptoms from a SARS‑CoV‑2 infection. They also somewhat reduce the risk of getting infected in the first place.

So, getting vaccinated against COVID-19 makes you far less likely to need to be hospitalized, should you contract the virus, which apart from of course being beneficial to yourself also helps with keeping the healthcare system from being overwhelmed.

However, if you've already been hospitalized, it is because you've developed severe symptoms, which in turn means that, in that situation, for you, the vaccine has failed.

At that point, all other factors being equal, your likely outcome is no different from that of a person who hasn't been vaccinated. Therefore, using vaccination as a criterion for triage (which - like you said - is all about rationing resources, not passing judgement) doesn't make sense.

Now, it could very well be possible that being vaccinated improves your outcome even once you've already developed symptoms sufficiently severe to require hospitalization. However, I'm not sure there's conclusive evidence suggesting that is indeed the case.
Where it's not possible? It's possible at least on all unixes and windows.
It took only 13 years to spot this in a FOSS project:

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/22/01/25/2259214/major-linu...
You won't be refused heart medicine because you didn't stop eating bacon when your doctor told you to 5 years earlier.

Yes, you would. Doctors refuse to give people treatment until they've lowered their weight, reduce their cholesterol, given up smoking or drinking, or increased their level of exercise all the time.

There is no point giving someone life-saving medical treatment if it isn't going to work because of some other factor. That's a waste of time and money. In every case the patient has to show that they're willing to do their part. Medicine is not just popping a few pills or turning up for surgery. There's effort required in order to get better.

In the case of Covid, having the vaccine is part of that effort. Someone who hasn't tried to improve their long-term health by, for example, giving up smoking, and someone who hasn't tried to improve their long-term health by having the Covid vaccine are basically the same - they're both putting their health at risk unnecessarily. Doctors should consider that when they're prioritizing treatment.
US Navy wants to get crashed stealth fighter back
Yes. Why not stick to that topic. Why to conflate by bringing in vaccine one?
thanks, when I searched for "google copyright" on HN it did not yet popup, probably still outside the search index refresh window.
I've often wondered why such schemes are not more ubiquitous, for instance for porn movies. Does anybody have an idea?
That's a good counterexample! Hopefully they won't realize it's still chugging along and keep it alive. :)
Is this compassionate use or experimentation on a dying patient for the future benefit of the rest of us? I’m fine with the latter, if consensual. But only if we call it what it is.
It is - many restaurants have two menus, one for locals in thai and one for tourists. Prices in the first one are sometimes twice as cheap. (I've lived on Koh Samui for 3.5 years)
Yep. That fork was a big fat juicy dead canary. Absolutely infinitely worse.
Hi, this trick works well for me : tell yourself you're only going to start on the task and work for 5 minutes, and after that, you'll be free to give up and walk away. You'll find yourself working on it an hour later (hopefully) :-) Because often, it's starting the task that's the big issue.
Since she was English, I suspect Christie would have considered herself middle-class on the basis of her parents, and not believed that her wealth had much to do with what class she fit into. Equating income levels with class levels is more of a US thing, AIUI. (Though wikipedia suggests her family was definitely pretty wealthy: she said her father "was a gentleman of substance, and never did a handsturn in his life", and the family could afford to send her to a boarding school in Paris. So definitely the upper reaches of upper-middle-class.)