skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point! I just stayed at a hotel in hollywood and was charged $20/day "destination charge" and I've had similar resort charges at hotels in hawaii. Hotels are no better than airbnb with these extra fees.
Assuming no context is required other than the reporting here, this is rather disturbing. On the other hand, it’s hard for me to take the moral vicissitudes of jacobinmag regarding tech censoriousness seriously, given their coverage of Parler and related issues.
Inspect the metrics over what time horizon?

Think about how companies choose between office and google workspace, especially excel v sheets, and the buying process. And think about the industry/function where it matters most - finance. You aren't going to see sheets usage tick up next qtr because you added 5 features that ibankers use. Usage of those feature will slowly go up, and when mixed with 20 other things you'll slowly see more finance users. Hopefully. Maybe Goldman will switch, and others will follow. Whoever is running Sheets is in a long term game. Much of enterprise software is like this. It isn't Facebook where you often get instant feedback.
That's unfortunate. The fact of the matter is that Amazon interviews thousands of engineers each month, so statistically there will be pretty bad experiences every now and then. I personally like to read candidates feedback every now and then and you can find some horror stories in there. Also unfortunately not everyone is a good interviewer and this can also impact your personal experience.

If you'd like to share what those "this seems off" situations where I'd love to hear that.
I was hoping that we'd eventually reach the point where the entire decimal representation of pi was written in the User Agent string...
Reflecting on the state of the world always leaves me thinking of this[0]:

30 March 1973

Dear Mr. Nadeau:

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society—things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

Sincerely,
E. B. White

[0] https://lettersofnote.com/2012/01/06/wind-the-clock-for-tomo...
> a 45 Drives unraid server

You run this at home? How’s your power bill? And why so many drives?
Adam Smith: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26127620
This is just wrong. Teenagers don't know or care about recessions or inflation as it doesn't affect them. Nor do they know about the cost of housing and education. Teenagers don't care much about the government either.

Social media blows up the fear about climate change (it definitely will not be "unlivable") and political extremisism.

Being misinformed about things you can do nothing to change isn't good for mental health, regardless of your age, and that's exactly what social media does.
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>it then makes sense (and is good) for principled people to trust their judgement, even if it makes them an outcast.

I don't get this. Being judgemental always seemed immature to me. Being curious and trying to understand why individuals or groups do seemingly irrational things: yes. Being judgemental (or "principled" (is this synonymous?)): no. To me, that was always a sign of someone who hasn't made sense of themselves yet. At what point have you made so much sense of anything that you can make a defining principle out of it? That just robs one of agency, reminding of religion and stubbornness.

I get that being fixated on some idiom is helpful in avoiding mental drift and maintaining focus, but that seems like the end of the road in terms of advantages. At the same time, that fixation limits your ability to go beyond the things you felt you understood years ago, whenever the principle was cemented into your cortex.

Is it a desire for deeper stability? For ground truth? Because if I look at what people actually are, no matter how intelligent they may be in some domain, what I see is not able to come up with general idioms. Not even close, actually. What I see is brains trying to make sense out of noise with extreme simplifications, rather fitting the data to their model than the other way around. I never got the advantage of saying "well now MY model fits this pattern, PERIOD!".
And this was exactly what the older generation was saying when I was a teenager. There's always a special pleading as to why this time for this issue it's definitely different.
I'm not sure why you're responding to me with that quote.
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What are their relative (stock-suppressed) sales though?
I'll meet you in the middle and say that the perpetrators of these crimes have not been exhaustively investigated and exposed.
While perhaps technically correct (the best kind) this misses the colloquialism.

Someone who goes out into the world, improves themselves, and tries to show that to other people will have more opportunities to be lucky than someone who does none of these things. Obviously both people can strike out, but the person who never tries is way less likely to succeed.
Fungi are some of the least understood organisms. To think what would be possible if we knew more.

What’s a good resource for learning more about engineering w fungi?
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When will people learn that you can't just list out all of the problems you've had with something and then say "it doesn't work". The correct sentence is "it doesn't work for ME". Nor is the plural of anecdote is not data. Piling on ever more stories does nothing to prove the point. What you need to do to prove that "mac doesn't 'just work'" is to figure out how many people are experiencing each of your problems. Jerky mouse movement? If only 0.01% of users experience it, so what?
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So our range is somewhere around:

- They were OK

- They treated me like a human being

- They were rude

There's no room for "We had an interesting conversation" or "They gave me some good advice" or "I think I made a new friend"? Not even "They seemed like a good person"?

The maximum is "They treated me like a human being" which is somehow above "They were OK"?
For me it’s finally getting to see my pup do both competitive and cooperative fetch/keep away with another pup in the same play. (All the more pertinent discussion is more valuable overall, but I wanted to honor wholesome family play too)
> Can't believe Mr. Chamberlain is a lawyer; I'd fire him on the spot.

I don't think the sort of organizations Chamberlain affiliates with are the sort who'd object to premature and dangerous behavior, as long as it targets the right people: https://fedsoc.org/contributors/will-chamberlain
In my experience, when done well, the manager on the org-chart is primarily a people manager and does the annual performance reviews of staff based on input from the employees' project managers, peers, and/or team leads. If they have additional goals (technical/product/etc.) beyond improving the capability and impact of their group then that can definitely muddy things up for everyone.
I hear lot of noise about integrity of the court.

My opinion is that if you have some papers that would hurt your integrity to come out, then their release is never the problem, it is the papers in the first place.

Doubly so in the case of a government agency.
Replace GraphQL with a hand written RESTful API should solve most of their issues.
> Political activism among youth seems to be quite high. Perhaps for the better.

Or sometimes for the worse. I can see how engagement in politics or disengagement from politics could both negatively impact mental health. Personally, I found it very difficult to “be on Facebook” and watch friends and family politicize. I can see how political engagement can be a coping mechanism but I can also see how it can be a source of psychological toxicity.
I've found that there's a kind of person who excels at academic pursuits but isn't so great elsewhere. Especially outside academia.

I was judged harshly at school. Fast forward years later and I'm that guy who hired someone who got better scores than me. Annoyingly I later also had to fire them because they couldn't deliver. Those scores didn't help them succeed. Too much theory.

They had not played the associated game of project management. Too much focus on getting good caused excessive success in their local minima instead of the bigger picture.

I realised this lesson quite frequently in many ways and our hiring is now more around the competency game. Can they do it? So now the bar is set differently and there's multiple games you need to play and succeed in. Better have hobbies outside IT as well.

We've gotten suspicious of people who overplay in the tech sandpit. Its suboptimal in our view.

Hiring adult humans who can succeed with adult supervision seems like a better overall situation.
I had the exact same experience, and support literally did nothing for me. It was terrible, and I no longer use Airbnb as a result.
I suppose you mean the leadership principles. Yes, that feels cult-ish, but is part of the company culture. I personally like part of them, but that's a topic of its own.

For the purpose of the interview, Leadership Principles are dressing for behavioral questions. Actually I think this reinforces my point: rather than generic behavioral rounds, you know which areas you'll be asked about. Also you shouldn't memorize them, but think about examples from your experience that match those.

I'm curious about your last sentence though. Long hiring process are exhausting and I understand a bad experience, but why were the Bar Raiser and the interviewers a red flag?
They are capturing with hydroxide salt dissolved in water. At issue in all such scenarios is how you get the CO2 back out. They claim to have something uniquely clever for that. It will soon be evident how well it works.
Ask HN: What explains the cult following of Elon Musk?
>People have their reasons for why they choose to focus on some things and not others.

You're saying that like those "reasons" are properties of the personality of their beholders. They are not, it's coping mechanisms all the way down.

>Perhaps the most important goal of a good society is to be able to assign people to things they’re most suited for.

Perhaps we should stop putting things as wild as brains into boxes labelled "suited for X, suited for Y". Perhaps the most important goal of a good individual is to be able to leave others alone, so they can flourish instead of trying to fit the arbitrary concepts that random other participants made up for them to fit into.
> I do not envy what dang does. It's a hard job. But at the end of the day these positions end up effectively enforcing the middle ground logical fallacy.

Dang has personally dinged me a few times -- maybe I'd disagree with a few, but the guy seems alright. Sometimes I troll and don't get caught, sometimes I'm being honest but dang dings me.

I dunno', but this is by far the best forum on the modern web. Of all fallacies, the "middle ground fallacy" seems to me to be the best.
Anybody interested in this subject might also be interested in a tool for Postgres I’ve been working on, Reshape: https://github.com/fabianlindfors/reshape. It aims to fully automate away all the pain and manual steps zero-downtime migrations normally requires :)
Cheers to admin for changing the title, but old title better reflected the last update (and I used it because Heroku doesn't have a permalink to each new update).
I was thinking about the establishment of peer groups and identity in teens, but you are right that there are other forms of relationship competition.
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Love that! Battery backup for night & downcast days?
Make an actual claim please. You've made no case, not explained why you think so very poorly, offered nothing that could be argued with or contested. This isnt useful or contributive.
yes, but also more money changes hands in longer bookings, so maybe num bookings is the unintuitive metric. Def worth pointing out that both are biased in one way or the other though.
If there was a way to know the behavior of NotPetya and realize that it has code to do things that M.E.Doc (the tax preparation program that was backdoored) was not supposed to do, that could have been used as a way to reject its installation. We are far away from being able to do such analysis at scale, but my point is that it is ultimately the behavior of software that makes it malicious or not.
> total cost paid by the gov’t 3.2 billion.

The sticker on just the two planes, without modifications, would be $0.8 billion. So it's a $1.2 billion increase per plane.

> Don’t they fly with fighter jet escorts

Not usually

> What exactly do they need

This is classified (or more secret than that). But you can imagine it needs to be resilient to atmospheric nuclear blasts, have the ability to support tons of communication gear, internal security, radar jamming/chaff systems, infrared suppression, support for press operations. There are rumors about things like onboard surgery suites.
Yes, I'm more than comfortable letting BMW put $12.5 million into Prometheus. If they shared even half of your confidence in this tech, they'd invest a lot more than that. My take, and likely the investors' takes too, is this is yet another carbon capture company, and it's success hinges on whether or not they can actually hit the performance their promising.
I'm an IAM Architect. I've only encountered Keycloak in projects where people used it to connect to another IdP and what they have configured was a nightmare. I assume at least if you are not familiar with oidc/oauth2 & saml2 it's easy to get it wrong. Have to take a deeper look on it.
To say it so the available standards are a rabbit hole and every now and then an additional one pops up you have to consider. The flexibility within the standards also doesn't help. There are many different IAM products you can choose but you really have to deep dive what path the products have implemented and also sometimes which (draft) version of the specs. The way like RFCs are designed (new version needed, no adjustment after finalisation) and that people don't know that doesn't help. So theses days I still encounter so many people who want to use implicit flow even though this is completely outdated or zombies like ROPC.
I really like https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics with it's evergreen approach and looking forward to oauth2.1 to sum up the current best practices.

Depending on your use case I have good experience with https://github.com/zmartzone/mod_auth_openidc and https://github.com/panva/node-oidc-provider.

https://github.com/OpenIDC/pyoidc also might be a good choice as security researchers in that area did take a look in it...
Is it accurate to say your argument is that stealing something costs less than what happened? Because I’m having trouble understanding your point.
The main point of the parent is that free market is not fair. If developing a substitute takes ages, the market will remain awful for that long. Perhaps that's a game you want to play, but some pefer not to.
Ask HN: Hosted Hacker News?
I wanted to start a Hackernews on a niche, is there a hosted version of something like Hackernews?
you won't hear about them. because the ones you hear about are good at raising money, primarily.
The same could be said of teens over a decade ago lol.
Well, at this height, are you not calorie-restricted already?
I was at 24% body fat and after trying 24 hours water fast 3 times a week for 2 weeks, I have come down to 19% losing 4 kgs in the process. After this I didnt fast for 2 weeks as I wanted to confirm it was not water weight and I am still at 19%. Also, post prandial insulin came down to 18 μU/mL from 28 μU/mL (2 hour mark Kraft test). I have tried cardio and calorie reduction before to reduce fat and have got decent results but fasting is so quick so it is now going to be my preferred way for cutting.
Presumably this stuff won't be taxed the same way. Taxes will need to be restructured so roads are paid for, maybe by vehicle licensing.
Yea, we're not fans of these types of awards in general, so we apply to only the few that we feel have meaningful competitive categories. In the case of Red Dot, getting a Red Dot award isn't particularly meaningful, but the "Best of the Best" designation is truly a competitive award.
For one, it's a fractal of the larger environment, rather than a microcosm.

Facebook vs phpBB.
I'll add that if you work at a place like this, you are part of the problem. your votes do not absolve you.
1 & 3) seems to be more indicative of the fact that there was a global economic crisis at the end of 2008. I'm not following these points from the paper.

2) seems to point the finger at social media more heavily though I think, but I'm not entirely sure what to make of that but this point is convincing to me.
The President needs to be able to do their job as President from these planes while in the air, including some of the more unique responsibilities of the job like directing a nuclear war. The requirements go pretty far beyond just providing speedy and safe transit.
Ask HN: Did anyone use tailscale to do hotspot on mobile via USB?
The obvious solution is to allow a trainer/coach to suit up in emergencies, teams travel with enough personnel that I'd be shocked if someone isn't as capable as most of the EBUGs.

And I do think keeping talent playing rather than coaching is one of the primary reasons they don't change the rule. With my rule change, if you're a 24 year old ECHL goalie how much money would it take to accept an EBUG "trainer" job? How would the cap deal with that could also be an issue.
2009? You mean right after the 2008 housing bubble burst and the recession set in?
I would ask the author to take another look at the meetups. Going to one, even consistently for a few months, will help in a variety of ways. 1) a lot of engineers are introverts, you have to keep showing your face if you want to be included. 2) while most of the time these meetups are “how I achieved X by using Y”, occasionally there’s some real meat to those presentations.

8 or so years ago I used to frequent a meetup only because it was hosted at our office. I figured a chance to hang with a few coworkers I liked and a free beer was worth it.

I ended up learning scala.

During those meetups we kept getting these really awesome presentations about concurrency and things. At the time a company who was just bought by a really known guy would present their solution to handling massive amounts of traffic. To us Java people we brushed it off as we’ve been handling volume for a while with Spring and stuff.

Anyway, what I’m saying is. Keep going to the meetups for the tech you are interested in learning. You WILL learn something. Then, when you ask questions (because you won’t be able to help yourself), you’ll end up networking. Strange I know.
Infinite marathon
This was before Facebook broke the SV no-poaching ring, so the offer probably wasn’t that spectacular. Also, in 2006-2010 any RSU’s would be rather horizontal.
For those who don't want to click through the tweets by the Human Events guy (Will Chamberlain), the "case" is basically that the clerk is married to a journalist who shared a byline on a couple of articles with one of the Politico journalists several years ago.
I always wonder where these companies like Gartner get the material they need to produce their reports.
The title doesn’t do this justice: the offer is 10% of a home for free if you live there at least 5 years, and the only caveat listed is that you need to be making 80% or less of the median local salary.

Surely this has to be inflationary on prices.

If I compare to the Australian market this would be massive, but I’m led to believe US housing is a lot more affordable, and imagine the loans that would be offered to moderate to lower income earners would also be lower, so it might be akin to first home buyer grants we’ve had for $20k ish.
How is social media a "real reflection" of the "state of things" ?
Doesn't social media amplify and overexaggerate lot of things ?
We're always talking about how people are living double/fake life on Social media and most users, when the see such things develop a FOMO.
> As a side note, "problems occurring" do not mean "they effectively have no future".

Yeah, but why should I solve them ?

Modern media and modern world has taught us that our existence is merely here to satisfy our own needs. Sure, humans' main objective is to prevail the existence of the human species. But why live ?

Why exist ? As a person with (recovering?) depression, I am not motivated enough to contribute to anything at all. Maybe making software is my thing. But what are we? endless Consumption machines ?

I apologize in advance for not sounding optimistic at all. I think that lackthereof religion has brought us to question our existence even more.

With a seemingly more-accessible we've made some things easy (survival, basic needs except mind) and others hard (purpose & happiness, setting expectations).
You're implying that this all makes it automatically wrong, but social changes are a real thing, some positive, some negative. The Socrates quote is cute but only goes so far.

In this case, in my life I have concrete examples of the jealously and FOMO invoked by social media (in this case, old school Instagram) from what people are doing literally on the other side of the world. That's a significant change and was much more difficult and far less in real-time in the past. It's not great for my mental health.
It really is not doublespeak. There are many examples of collective action / public policy that have the effect of maximizing or enabling individual autonomy.
> Multiple major recessions

One. They lived through one major recession, and here it wasn't really major, and is not something they lived through recently. They were younger than 6 when it started. I've lived through two. The 80s weren't a happy time, and there are no signs that that had such an impact on teen mental health. If it did, it would be proof that the impact of a major recession is temporary.

> prospect of a mountain of debt right after graduation

Situation wrt to teen mental health is similar in Europe, but there's a much smaller graduation debt.

Don't try to downplay the role of internet, mobile devices and social media. Here's a thought for your correlationism:

> Teens are aware that they are going to inherit a pretty terrible world, and are powerless to do anything about it.

Perhaps it's social media that makes that they are either too aware of it or simply mention it more often.