skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is a button at the top of the website to switch the font
That's a fair theory, but I would argue lenders like better.com are winning so much business is because they simplify the process. Their marketing is around that exact reason, as well. There's obviously competition in the space of making home purchasing less complicated, which leads me to reasonably believe less consumer protection from disconnected bureaucrats would result in less absurd complexity. I bought a house just a few months ago and I was on the hook for thousands of dollars before I was legally required to take a home purchasing educational course.

Only bureaucrats could think up such silly rules as to require people to take educational courses on buying a house and allow those courses to only be legally required after you've committed thousands of dollars to the seller.

If the market demanded educational material on how to buy a house (and it does, I've bought a book on real estate for that very purpose before buying my first home) then you get incentives that make sense.
I wouldn't want to pay that much because a stand alone battery probably costs less, but if I could pay $500 for some kit that let me use my tesla as a power source for my house at night I would be very interested. This would make sense to me as I have panels to charge it during the day, having a few KWH at night time would be pretty efficient.

The stand alone batteries are too expensive right now.
> Writes code that &emdash; gasp &emdash; has bugs.

Bug intended? :)
No it isn't, and that's a problem. Externalities would ideally always be priced in, though it's not practical to achieve that.
So the opposite of FOMO... Hiring is broken.
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How would investors know what hours the devs are working?
> Imagine you are given two identical envelopes, each containing money. One contains twice as much as the other. You may pick one envelope and keep the money it contains. Having chosen an envelope at will, but before inspecting it, you are given the chance to switch envelopes. Should you switch?

Unless the imaginary “giver” shows you what was in the other imaginary envelope you’ll never know. We don’t even know if this imaginary person is telling the truth. How do you know that “One contains twice as much as the other?”

I have never been offered a choice of cash containing envelopes in my life – maybe because I have never worked in a job where bribes could be usefully employed.

The whole “problem” is about as worthwhile a subject of contemplation as, say, “Do flying pigs taste more like partridge than earth-bound pigs?”

Does anyone know of a paradox that works/exists in the real world? I mean something a bit more substantial than whether some random dude claims to be a liar and you supposedly bother to wonder whether or not he’s telling the truth.
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I've actually never tried their coffee. I just remember hearing about them using robusta for the caffeine content and finding that interesting.
> A nine kilowatt electric generator costs under a thousand dollars. What kind of idiot is going to shell out six grand just to drain his truck battery for the same purpose?

The kind of idiot that wants to generate income through arbitrage by storing energy in his EV when prices are low and selling it back to the grid during peak hours when prices are high?

Don't forget the kind of person buying this kind of vehicle today also probably has a multiple car garage.
But do we really think that learning (current) Photoshop etc will have any relevance to them being successful in say 5-20 years? (if the graphic design world even exists by then)
We still can't adjust contracts for individuals because organizations are afraid that they'll wind up in court because "if what I wanted was stupid why did you let me buy it?"
Some libraries will create code mods to assist in transitions. For example I've used some MUI codemods in the past to make transitions to newer versions of the library more seamless [1].

There are also codemods to say move from underscore to lodash and vice versa (been a while and can't find them at the moment).

ASTs [2] are pretty cool in this regard. Especially if you write your code in a manner that easier to automate against.

[1] https://github.com/mui/material-ui/blob/master/packages/mui-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree
You are confusing 2 events. It's true that the USSR almost completely failed their first invasion of Finland. Though for reasons that are much much more complex than simple terrain imo.

But after barbarossa, Finland then seized the opportunity to regain it's earlier losses and attacked the USSR, this time with german help.

That didn't turn out well for the Finnish, and their situation was extremely dire by the end of WW2. Which is why they sued for peace in secret. The USSR could have taken the entirety of Finland at that point, and in fact the finnish government basically evacuated the capital. Why didn't stalin go for it? I guess we can't really know but from the wiki article:

"Stalin's desire to crush Hitler quickly and decisively without distraction from the Finnish sideshow" concluded the war.

Not only that, but for decades after the war, the Finnish communists (puppets to the kremlin) became extremely powerful politically. Finland was forced to hold trials against its own army, and for a time was completely subservient to the soviets. So if they really wanted to take over the entirety of Finland in 1940, I don't see why they wouldn't have done it in 1945.
Thanks for the thorough response! This is really interesting stuff. I have a few HDD magnets stuck to my wall and their existence confused me. I would never have guessed that the falloff was that big.
Most sites go through something like Sign Up > enter email and password > account is created, inactive > send email verification.

If you then log in with SSO using the same email, the existing inactive account, with its password, is merged into the new account, which doesn't require email verification anyway. Furthermore, people logging in with SSO don't usually check or even know about the password, they only use SSO.

With this flow, an attacker knowing your email gets to choose your password, if they can guess a site that you want to SSO login to, but haven't yet.
Why should you even know they were not clean at some point in their past. And what about the future?

Like the sibling comment, I find this very sad.

Perform drug tests if you're worried.
I think this is a actually a key selling point of this car: people are buying this specifically because they can run their house using it.

Your assumption is that your battery is going to suffer enormously. That's probably not the case. Batteries do relatively well if you don't stress them with enormous loads. Relative to driving the vehicle, powering your house is a very light load. Ten days is quite long. You won't be driving that long on a single charge for 100kwh battery.

And it would of course be highly unusual to be running your house for extended periods of time; at least not unintentionally. And even then it would not be worse than simply driving the car to the maximum range. You might want to drive to a supercharger after a few days. If they are still functioning of course. And if things get that bad, most petrol stations will also have issues powering their pumps.

But if that somehow is a regular thing in your life, invest in some solar panels instead of a generator. That should cut down on the running cost for that truck as well.
Rexml has been gemified. Shale's gemspec doesn't require a specific version of rexml and rexml<3.2.5 is vulnerable to CVE-2021-28965. I just checked Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and got Ruby 2.7 with rexml 3.2.3 by default so this seems like a realistic concern and it would be safer if shale required a minimum rexml version.

See http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/04/05/xml-round-trip-v...
I disagree with this when it comes to early-stage startups, primarily because the world often throws you curveballs that even the best planning can't avoid, and at an early stage there just isn't enough spare capacity to deal with it without scrambling.

I worked at a startup that was very well managed IMO. We selected a critical partner early on. About 2 years later that critical partner was bought out by a larger corporation, and they decided to close the business line we depended on (lots of other customers were kicked off and pissed). They even tried to bring up BS contract issues to get out of their contract early. We had fortunately already started adding an additional partner to take advantage of more functionality and not have a single point of failure, but it was still a mad, stressful dash to get everything switched over.

Startups just fundamentally don't have the level of repeatability/predictability at an early stage that would make bulletproof planning possible.
"Looking at it from an objective, systemic approach, you and yours have zero possibility of survival of an Earth biosphere destabilizing event."

And why would that be a bad thing? The question isn't about the human centric perspective (which you're still taking). The question is about what net benefit does humanity provide the Earth or, potentially in the future, other planets. Why would out extinction be a bad thing from a non-human perspective?

I'm not sure why you're bringing "greedy genes" into this.
Where I live in the Midwest, power failures are very rare. When they happen it is usually amid a major thunderstorm or snowstorm, affecting thousands of customers, with obvious obstacles to getting crews out to fix things. Power goes out... it might last 8 minutes, it might last 8 hours, it might last days.

At that moment, backup power (obtained at considerable expense) is precious. The utility may have to pay far beyond "well" to buy it.
For me at-least the burst of hyper motivation/ambition come cyclical - I describe my life as phases of cocooning or butterflying. What you’re looking at right now is the ending of a butterfly phase and beginning of the cocooning phase. To get back into it- think about the things you’ve put off while riding this latest high. You’ve already admitted you’ve gotten lazy with instant gratification so that’s a good start. One thing I’ll say about the gym is it might be harder to start working out again now that you’re older, but now that you’ve been through a fruitful butterfly phase you can pay for a good personal trainer to keep you on track. Good luck my friend- from one butterfly transitioning to a cocoon to another!

Edit: The proper term is chrysalis and not cocoon.
What about capping fees at whatever the party having to pay spent on their legal team, so the party choosing to pay more expensive lawyers for more hours is taking the risk on that increased cost vs. the other, and the less you spend on your side the less you're liable to pay if you lose?
I'd guess "Has productive and unproductive days." kinda covers this, definitely feeling the same - especially with wfh, I feel like there's days where I get as much done as I would in 3 normal days, but some days, I sit there all day not knowing what to do with myself.
If I give you a stack of 200 resumes, how are you going to decide which ones to interview?
Ask HN: Are the visuals of Unicode characters copyrighted?
If I were to use an esoteric unicode symbol as a logo, would that be copyrighted?
"illegal"? which law?
I'm not one to claim that anything that goes against the grain is good, but in this case I'd say there's 0 reason to chastise your taste. Not only did you do extensive tests to see what exactly you like, you've also managed to find something to appreciate in a largely dismissed thing. In my book, that's a great thing all around - the spirit of discovery mixed with a unique palate.

PS. But I'll keep drinking my hipster juice, simplicity is enough for me.
Can a 1x engineer design a simple web page?
>hot water heater

Why is the author heating hot water?
(sorry. That's a pet peeve my dad drove into my head)
Instead of reducing the number of trainees, how about we increase the number of faculty positions?

Isn't research good for society?
I'm not sure what choice you think I'm making. Me and my kids are all vaccinated. Even boosted. Except for the four year old, and that is just until five.
I forgot that it was even possible to draw a PCB without starting from a schematic.

I guess it's probably somehow possible with the tools I use, but I always thought of it as something only done with some crazy ancient app that doesn't even do schematics.
> Even if you’re going to pretend this isn’t what you meant, the claim that web md has a ton of information on how to make baby food is false, in the context of formula.

I'm not pretending anything. Look at what I wrote (which you actually quoted). "For a place better than tiktok, there is a ton of information on WebMD showing how to quickly and safely make baby food."

I put the link for a google search and referenced the list of results. You chose to only look at the first result to feed a baby. Did you click the button, "I'm Feeling Lucky" that automatically takes you to the first link? That's completely unreasonable and not why I posted that search.

Furthermore, I never said that WebMD shows how to make baby formula.
what if you're a 0.5x engineer...
> Monetize collected data by selling it to interested parties.

then they do care about the data, just not the quality of that data. But the fact they are collecting data is definitely of importance or they would not be collecting and selling it.
They could, but usually you don't want this to happen as an employee. Alternatively the court can force the employer to pay a severance if they regard the working conditions as untenable. An obvious example would be bullying at the workplace. But all of this is only applicable in the case of an unlawful termination.

Mostly if they want to get rid of you they offer you a severance.

It is also much more complicated than I can explain in a single post. For example, you can be fired for working "slowly", but you can't be fired if you are doing your best - even if all your colleagues are faster workers. It mainly depends on if you are doing your best.

E.g. your colleagues are able to dish out 100 pizzas in a typical evening but you only manage to make 50, and your boss wants to fire you. You don't agree and sue him. The court now has to decide if you perform so badly because of something that is "inherent" - which is called a "personenbedingte Kündigung" or in English dismissal on grounds of personal capability, or if it is based on your conduct. A dismissal on grounds of personal capability is usually deemed unlawful, as long as you give your best, if you consistently only manage to make 50 pizzas it seems like it, right? However if you willfully (!) perform badly the dismissal is usually deemed lawful. But, if you e.g. suffer from rheumatism and you can't perform the way you used to but you want to perform better, you just can't anymore it gets a bit complicated: the employer has to make a prognosis on how and if you are able to someday perform better again or if you could do another job. So, usually it is cheaper to offer someone a severance in that case.
they did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31523367
Oh yes.

I am both amused and annoyed at their abilities.
I worry about keeping my Tesla topped up about as much as I worried about my previous gas cars.

Six grand seems like a lot but if the price came down then I could see using the top half of the tank to shift grid power use to cheaper rated hours or use home solar later in the day.
> take a look at the wonderful California Tenants Guide.

I've never once heard people from California praising their state for making renting better. I've heard the exact opposite many times over.

Everything has tradeoffs. Every complexity the state forces into a transaction enables an exploitative company to leverage loopholes to their advantage. Only near perfect systems can reap the benefits of authoritative protections without inadvertently propping up exploiters who thrive on working around the complexity. Something a smaller, (likely more honest) company can't afford to do. There's a reason so many gigantic companies lobby for more regulation in their industry and I sincerely doubt that reason is to protect the consumer.
What point is this trying to make, exactly?
I hate the font too, but I guess that's kind of part of the joke
I never masked, socially distanced, or got vaccinated. I have been going to regular social events and businesses since summer 2020, and have not taken ill. In the last month, four of my friends, who are vaccinated and followed recommendations, are sick. Strange anecdata
A company that doesn't respect the need for privacy and/or the need to take time off should be avoided.

Nobody should have to explain a gap between jobs upfront - they could be gardening, on pilgrimage or attending family - Or simply take advantage of between jobs to take a well earned break. There are a million none of your business reasons.

There should be no expectation for this information, until you engage with them. And even then...
Non-pdf link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.1c01140
How long do you suppose it's going to take to make back their investment? For it to pay off in ten years they'd have to be making fifty dollars a month from arbitrage.
Infuriating is a bit of a stretch. A mild annoyance at most.
I did something like you. I also faced many of your issues and to solve it, I was also super focused on me, me, me. Trying to be better, more motivated, healthier, more exercise, better sleep etc etc.

Now that I know myself better, I realize I need to be integrated in a community with similar objectives, even when doing individual work. Otherwise, creative and/or research work is too demanding. However, everyone is different.
Ask HN: Why does my '15 MacBook Air have the same RAM (8gb) as a '22 McBook Pro?
The general public doesn’t understand lithium battery cycle life.

$6k to connect a 100kWH+ battery to their house is a drop in the bucket to the $100k they paid for the vehicle, and compared to buying the batteries outright as a home backup option.

It’s the killer app right now for EVs and homes with solar. A Tesla Powerwall is like $13k for 10kWh. You’re getting something 10x capacity at a fraction of the cost.
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> I've had people seriously panic maybe once or twice in that entire time.

I think you're making too much of the example of the candidate crying. That is indeed an outlier case, not the norm. But the crying case is an undeniable sign that job candidates can get extremely anxious during an interview, in a way that affects their performance. The issue isn't "breakdowns" per se, the issue is that coding tests are testing anxiety level rather than skill level. Ironically, most job candidates are in fact "controlling their emotions", as you say: they may show no outward sign of breakdown or panic, but on the inside, their mind and stomach are churning heavily, and this makes it difficult to perform at their normal level. Everyone is trying to act calm and collected during an interview, but often it's merely an act, and they're actually not calm and collected at all. What you perceive from the outside as incompetence may be a whole different story on the inside for the candidate. https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/news/2020/11/11/tech-sector-job-in...

Anxiety isn't all or nothing. There's a wide spectrum between totally calm and crying breakdown. When there's a crying breakdown, it's easy to recognize, but anxiety is not so easy to recognize if there's not a breakdown.

> I've done a lot of interviews and nobody ever mentioned having to prepare for them.

Why would they mention it, even if they did prepare?

> That idea seems to be a relatively recent idea (last ~10 years or so) and is probably a result of so many people competing for very highly paid jobs at a small number of firms.

Regardless, we're living in the present now, under current conditions, not living in the past, so for the purposes of getting a job, it doesn't really matter when the idea originated.
Discord has mostly replaced irc, except for open source purist communities.
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I'm more interested in the range extender[0] that was patented by ford recently. Body-on-frame vehices seem like a no-brainer case for EV's, since they're typically larger and have more space on the frame for batteries, and having a camping/off road vehicle that also has a range extender sounds like a great idea to me.

I've really been thinking of getting one after my 2019 crosstrek is paid off, but that won't be for a couple of years.

[0] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34277725/ford-f-150-range...
I had a similar situation. My lesson from that was that if I can make "my" problem "their" problem, it will resolve itself quick.

In my case, someone had mistyped a meter number (matching mine) when signing a new contract with a power company. I got a message from my existing provider that I would be transferred there. I called the new company to explain that it was a mistake, and they seemed happy to fix it. I had to jump through some hoops (get a key to the power panel for the building to take a picture of my meter and stuff), but thought it was okay to get it resolved.

But it didn't work, later I got a letter addressed to the apartment, saying I owned the new company money. I gave them a call, and they didn't really want to fix it, just get their money, and make me do additional stuff to prove I hadn't signed with them. It was then I could say something along the line of "We don't have a contract, which is YOUR problem. As far as I'm concerned I'm getting free electricity until you fix this". Of course I could only say this because legally they can't cut the power here during winter.

But when it became their problem of losing money, it was fixed without issues.
Does Netflix (still) subsidize TV vendors to include their app? Or is it the case that TV vendors would not be able to sell their products if they didn't come with built-in Netflix?

I read some representative from Nvidia Shield explaining that they were forced to add a Netflix button to their remote in 2019 because Netflix would no longer allow their app to be installed on devices without a dedicated button.
It's better! Don't fall for the "megabyte myth."
I have to admit I remain unconvinced. Has anyone ever run a real world experiment to verify the math?

For whatever reason I can't get past my intuitive feeling that this problem is just a simple 50/50 and these proofs are just fancy window dressing.
Arbitration rarely results in punitive damages or enormous payouts. That is the exact reason why companies put arbitration into their contracts.
That was my thought as well. I normally resist subscriptions, but given how much effort I went through each month to get my spreadsheet setup to work, it seems well worth it.
OneDev UI is 10x~30x faster than Gitlab
> It's a disgusting practice, IMO - but what can you do?

Rate the expected value of all insurance services at $0, that's my approach. (I guess you could call that giving up on step zero!) Why bother doing business with people whose profit model consists of taking your money now so they can decline to return it later? The better they are at their jobs, the worse a deal it is for you.