skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A post a while ago on reddit was someone who was complaining about a doordasher who didn't want to wait and bring like multiple bags of cat litter like up 3 flights of stairs.

I would say that many of those who are unable to get to the store to buy cat litter are also unable to walk up three flights of stairs to pick it up.

Recently, I was recovering from surgery and was not allowed to get out of bed. The exception I made was to slowly crawl to the front door to pick up the food the dasher had left there. Often, even though the setting was set to "deliver to me", they would leave the food downstairs.

My only option then was to leave the food there to rot and hope someone steals it. This was particularly frustrating during the lockdown when restaurants would close early. By the time the bad delivery happened all restaurants in my area were closed.

Often, I was left without any options. I did cook food beforehand but sometimes even thawing food can be too much while you are recovering.

Getting the entire order reimbursed would mean that the delivery person won't get paid for the delivery at all. I did feel bad about it at first, but they could have kept their promise and brought it to me.

One option would be to allow Dashers to filter between "leave on front door" and "deliver to client". But no, I don't believe that I should feel bad for someone who lied about being able to fulfil the company's promise. Especially once it became a pattern.

I ended up ordering a lot of pizzas during that time, even if I don't particularly enjoy them. Old-school pizza delivery persons would not only deliver to my apartment's door but some would even offer to bring trash or recyclables downstairs for me.
But definitely rewrite it in rust ;)
At 1001 karma you should get a sidevote button. It is a prompt to look beyond the typical emotional response. Sometimes up or down aren't important. But it would help things if the comment could move aside for now.

(Then at 10,001 karma there's the ability to super-upvote a comment, contingent upon its removal to a different website where it would be REALLY relevant... Would be nice if the web could be this integrative)
Any specific examples you can share? I'd like to know to gain awareness of whether or not I'm committing or participating in such gaffes so I can modify my behavior in the future, if needed. I don't want to be "that person"!

When I encounter egregiously toxic posts, I email our lone mod warrior, Dang (hn@ycombinator.com) to ensure he has the opportunity to review and take whatever action is appropriate.

The daily post volume on HN is so high, it's challenging (to the point of being impossible) to moderate it all alone. Plus it's a generally thankless, horrifyingly soul crushing job. So I try to help out where I can, when I'm not the one causing the trouble :p :cry:
> The only philosophers of that kind that produced an advancement in terms of stuff being consumed are the ones who did it all inside their heads and the only expense they needed was paper and pen (Einstein, Feynman, Bohn[sic], Maxwell..)

That is factually wrong upon a basic research. All their work was based on experiment
Can you describe what you mean by locked in personality and leverage point? Can you describe your agencies personality and leverage point?
Then post the lower salary range and save yourself and the candidates who won't work for that kind of money the time.
This is a thought provoking question, thanks for that.
Use the Bazel Build System
Install a 3rd party system-level firewall and block every outgoing activity excluding your necessary apps, browser and DNS.
I think the issue in the UK is that the majority of houses are simply not good isolated. A heat pump needs to pump into an isolated house or it will not be very efficient.
> The US Congress doesn't and shouldn't be passing a lot of huge sweeping changes every single year.

If everything were going great I'd agree with you, but "a lot of huge sweeping changes" is what we need and it's exactly what the American people have been asking for. Where's the federal law America wants to end prohibition on marijuana? Campaign finance reform? Internet privacy? Gerrymandering? Immigration? Consumer protections? Healthcare? Domestic Surveillance? Mass incarceration? Climate change? Education?

Congress isn't doing just fine, it isn't "not moving fast enough", it's broken. It's failing to serve the interests of the American people year after year after year. There is so much that needs done and so many people being hurt because none of it is getting addressed.
Sure. I'm just saying it's getting worse. Or at least, that's my subjective observation.
Did you end up hiring the people who performed better and who responded to the salary-absent posts, and what did you end up paying them compared to the initial ranges in the others?
Atlassian patches batch of critical vulnerabilities across multiple products
This might be surprising, but a vast majority of casual science discussion among scientists from different research groups takes place on twitter
What is a black company? i am not aware of this nomenclature. Please explain?

>[...] these are required to keep most of the solely good things.

Which things?
Yet we push millions of people on the roads when they are still dead tired, at once, massively increasing risk factors from multiple sides. Heck, many of them rely on coffee to be anywhere close to a careful and attentive driver.

You might want to elaborate on your definition of control.
Is this the video you meant?

https://youtu.be/MBBC-xL_MTg

If my math is correct, the Duke prototype (2015) predates it by a few years. Agreed with your point though, this genie’s out of the bottle.
Given this is actually relevant to the article and not meta, we can actually talk about the "turning into slashdot" meme without it being off-topic. It of course is impossible to really quantify how much HN is like reddit or slashdot (or what remains of it), but on relative terms, it's still easy for me to see the difference. You still have much fewer "meme posts" and worse meme threads. I admit this is real nerdiness here, but I favorited this thread years ago, preserved in amber, for you to see[0]. You can still tell it was heavily downvoted. Anyhow, even still, these kind of "meme threads" which pervade reddit just aren't that common here at all even today, usually being snuffed out before they're even started. So, even now, certain ticks that are common across the internet are still discouraged here.

I think one thing that has changed over the years is more acceptance of one sentence replies as long as they uphold the median political perspective. Things like, "this is terrible, how can this be permitted" used to get downvoted more (a lot, in fact), while I see some make it through the cracks lately, as long as they somewhat express a thought. Other than that, not much has changed. I can only say that being on HN so long makes you realize that there are memes and political groupthink here too, it just takes different forms or can be obscured somewhat by the longer more written out comments.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141357
IMO the linked Substack does a great job of demonstrating it. Take a look at the thread in Big Tech regulation that came up earlier today, that's one too.
You say control, I say guilt. Society loves to attribute systemic problems to individual wickedness, because it empowers the judgemental elements while requiring no actual effort.

As you say, careful drivers are not immune. But as long as someone, anyone, involved in the accident can be condemned as sinful (in many cases the sin of being tired from overworking forced on them by societal pressures), it can be explained away.
> In fact, if we ask safety officials, as a group they officially blame driver error and reckless driving for fatal car crashes. In other words, don’t look at them.

My understanding changed radically when I read about Sweden's "Vision Zero". Quoting Wikipedia:

] In most road transport systems, road users bear complete responsibility for safety. Vision Zero changes this relationship by emphasizing that responsibility is shared by transportation system designers and road users
I noticed this year I have seen a lot less Monarchs than in previous years.

I do have some milk weed growing out in the yard to do my part.
That's assuming they can. In my hypothetical scenario, it's their best offer because it's actually where they should be but our hypothetical protagonist has an over-inflated sense of self-worth.

Like I said, it's just a possible scenario where I can see how not posting their range could get them more applicants.
Uber stopped being able to punish drivers for cancelling due to the employee status lawsuits.
I haven't used it, but if you like irssi you might also like profanity which claims to be inspired by it: https://profanity-im.github.io/
This is something I know a little bit about. I'm not a fan of this bait n switch practice either. As others have said one reason it's done is to increase access and/or reduce costs.

> They will charge your insurance for a doctors visit but only have Nurses and P.A's available to see.

I can't comment on how One Medical bills for this sort of thing. But almost always, at any other "standard" clinic/hospital/etc, they will get reimbursed by the payor for 80% of what a physician would get paid for an equivalent visit.

As a general rule of thumb, payors reimburse mid-level providers (nurse practitioners/physician assistant/etc) at 80% of the physician equivalent reimbursement. If you do a little napkin math you can see why there is a financial incentive to use mid-level providers. Say a family physician makes $250k and a nurse practitioner makes $125k each year, and if they bill for a similar amount of visits in dollars each year, say $500k worth. For the physician the clinic has a $250k profit, for the nurse practitioner they have a $500k * 80% = $400k, minus the $125k salary, so $275k profit.

I have no idea about other tradeoffs (quality, access, etc) regarding the use of mid-level providers in replacement of traditionally physician services.
I think I'd rather see short, strident statements of opinion than multi-paragraphed 'reasoned' arguments that are essentially the same thing but with different aesthetics. Much quicker to process!
> the British government has provided grant money to a little-known solution: heat pumps.

What the hell? Heat pumps are not little known. An air conditioner is a heat pump. It's hard to take the article seriously when they gloss over this basic fundamental point.

I can tell they're trying to advocate for something, perhaps using the heat wave as a push to install larger bidirectional heat pumps that will make Europe less dependent on natural gas come winter? Still the whole framing just comes across as odd... like "Local area man stays cool with this one simple trick" [install an air conditioner]
I think the new design looks awesome. It maybe wasn't cost effective and was too painful a process, but hopefully it will pay off!
it goes to show how the gov. takes this sort of crime seriously, contrary to the popular belief that the SEC is ignoring insider trading. if the pieces are there, they will take action.
UK chips are my favourite in the world, but they are qualitatively different in every way. I always get annoyed when other countries claim to copy fish and chips but serve them with fries. There isn't anywhere else in the world that you can get chips like that, so inevitably the fish and chips that try and copy it are always disappointing. I know it's controversial, but are supposed to be soggy and oily, not crunchy. It's supposed to be like eating oily potatoes. There is a reason why fish and chips is so renowned and loved, and the chips are a big part of it. They are the best in the world bar none. I only didn't mention it earlier because people find it quite offensive, because they are so much different from other chips.
Control, freedom, personal responsibility. Public transit offers none of that compared to driving. Thus it should be no surprise that many find it better to die or be injured as a result of one's own actions, than those of some faceless bureaucracy, regardless what the actual rates are.
Another, simpler option:

When you put a range of $100-120k, the very high quality candidate who won't accept an offer less than $150k doesn't apply.

Or, put another way:

> It could simultaneously be true that including a good salary range increases the number of applicants who are good fits for the role, and also true that including a good salary range decreases the average quality of candidates.

Part of "good fit" could be "willingness to accept compensation in range". If the job range says $10/hr, the average quality of applicants will go down because the MIT Ph.D.'s won't apply-- but you weren't going to hire them at $10/hr anyways.
I have used Gin in the past and have really liked it.
Those days pretty much all brokerages will provide a feed of your trading activity and open positions to a 3rd party compliance aggregator like ComplySci. No login details needed, the feed is read-only, and only has need-to-know information. It requires double opt in - you provide information to your employer, and then the brokerage will confirm with you that you authorized the feed. But if you have a weird account that doesn't support this system, then you always have the option of entering them manually and certifying that you haven't missed any.
> the better candidates responding to the ones without salary ranges.

So they would have rejected your offer... or are you hoping to reel them in with the sunken cost fallacy?
I'm not really happy at any job, I would rather be doing something else. Especially with remote work as there are no real relationships built. But the higher the salary the more I can do the things that make me happy. Salary also allows me to take care of my family, pay for their college etc. I would be willing to bet that most (not all) the hiring mangers saying money doesn't matter are the ones offering salaries on the lower end. It's a job I want to get paid as much as I can as I am selling hours of my life to make someone else rich. Are the higher level people also taking lower salaries and lower equity in exchange for happiness? Maybe sometimes but often probably not.

"Meaning, if you are looking for a place you will enjoy working, do not start with salary." Are you suggesting people go through multiple rounds of interviews with no idea of what the salary is for the position? Of course you start with salary otherwise everyone is just wasting their time. If the company does not want to discuss salary up front then there is probably a pretty good reason for that and it's not a place I want to work as this trend would likely continue come raise and promotion time as well. It's the same companies demanding loyalty and offering none.
I'm fine with the scroll bar disappearing as a control.

But I badly want it as an indicator. More than once, using macOS or mobile OSes I could not realize that an area contains much more items than meets the eye, because nothing suggested that I should scroll.

This, of course, is due to the general tendency of throwing UI discoverability under the bus of "clean looks".
ELI5 requests don't give much karma IME

I don't know about a lot of things, so I do it often and I've never gotten more than a few points
ACM's "Research for Practice" Reboot
There’s risk mitigation there in the form of training and testing.
It's hard to get used to a new situation, build relationships, etc. 2 days a week. Time tends to solve those things. I don't think I'd have connected well with all my favorite coworkers from the past if I'd been working from home most of the time.
It's still lower priced than a Lantronix Spider, too.
What I've learned is "right place right time". You can make a post that violates half the commenting guidelines, but if you're in the right thread with the right obvious, you can get a good amount of upvotes.
When you want to get stuff done as opposed to having strikes, walkouts and other annoyances. People first and foremost want to be treated with respect, not like iron or coal or other stuff you'd dig up from the ground.
I've spent the majority of my life living in rural areas. I've also spent a ton of time on public land in just about every state west of the Mississippi. The lack of historical context and understanding of the economics of resource extraction here is staggering.

1 - Guess who the land belonged to before the federal government? It wasn't the states. I reject your assertion that localities are even entitled to a say here beyond the federal democratic process. Almost all of the land in question was open to claim at one point - nobody did so and ownership was retained by the government.

2 - It's absolutely laughable to say that they "just stopped allowing anything on the land". In certain areas maybe but as a blanket statement that's absolutely incorrect. As a personal anecdote, one of my favorite spots to pick berries in western WA was clear cut just this past summer. I'll never visit that spot again in this lifetime. But hey, someone got paid a couple of bucks so I guess that's a net positive for the country. Don't even get me started about cattle ranchers and the damage they've done.

3 - Those jobs were based on extracting a resource that didn't belong to them and that takes decades to recover, if ever. Why should the rest of us let (in your words) some po-dunk town clear cut everything in sight when the rest of us can make our living without destroying everything from sea to shining sea?

4 - Should we help them out now that the economics have changed? Sure, absolutely, totally support that. However economies built on resource extraction have never been sustainable long-term, what's the point in doubling down on what already failed? I also disagree with your supposition that federal restrictions is what hollowed out these towns, the fundamental economics of resource extraction is why they've failed to be sustainable over the long term.

5 - I actually agree with you on one thing at least: put all it up for sale at a fair price. All national forests, all BLM land - everything that isn't wilderness or a national park. While the cattle ranchers, miners, and loggers will get a bit I can guarantee that conservationists will buy more. Leases are a sweetheart deal to extractors and always have been. Why should they buy what they can lease for basically nothing? The extractors would fight your proposal harder than anyone else.
People are rational, model works.

But you can not approximate complex system like human brain with couple of variables. There are not hundreds, but millions of biases.

Advanced epicycle models had dozens moving parts. JPL planetary ephemerides (modern equivalent in polynomials) have several millions of parameters and terabytes of equations.
So how do the pedestrians that make up a sizeable part of road deaths control the situation then?
Ask before the first interview. You shouldn't waste your time on an interview until you know the position matches what you're looking for.
I dont understand. What did they do? Just eat lunch in the same table as you and nobody said a word?
> nuanced comments, or comments that defend both sides of an argument, tend to get ignored or downvoted. Which is sad, but makes sense—the supporters of either side are the ones who care enough to interact, and they’re not going to signal-boost the opposition.

I actually don't think this is entirely true. I definitely sometimes see people using downvotes as a "I don't like this, fuck you" button a-la Reddit, but most of the times I feel that HN is very civilized when it comes to using the downvote button.
> Well this is a semantic and socio-political question and not a scientific/medical one

You submitted an article from the "Journal for the Critical Study of Society", why would you expect medical questions, or medical discussion?
Is there much that is good about predicting this stuff?

I find Amazon loves to tell me to buy ... the thing they know I just bought and you don't need more than one of ...

I hardly ever get ads or offers for things I want.

How do you mess that up?
We've got strict credentialing here in France for obtaining your first license and we're well below the US in traffic deaths.

It may be part of the picture, though I still witness plenty of dangerous/aggressive/stupid driving here.

One thing we do have going for us, I believe, is "no permit" cars. These are tiny cars with tiny engines that don't require a permit to drive.

Many (most?) drivers with revoked licenses still need to drive. And they can still legally drive a "no permit" car. It's believed anyway that this serves as a security valve for keeping drunk drivers out of heavy, more deadly vehicles.

Of course, driving a "no permit" car under the influence is still illegal.
The recoil issue is heavily exacerbated by the way the weapon is mounted. The barrel and thus recoil force are ~12" above the center of mass, causing the recoil to try to spin the robot rather than just pushing it backwards.

If they mount the rifle upside down or sideways so the recoil is closer to center mass, I think the recoil would have a far lower effect. They could probably change that over fairly quickly.

I also suspect that they'll end up chambered in pistol or intermediate calibers. The ammo is lighter and more compact, as are the firing mechanisms, and I don't know if these things can orient themselves accurately enough to hit something at 100 yards. Something like this that can move fast with an integrated P90-like weapon would be extremely powerful and terrifying.
Avoiding the political is generally easy until the minefield vocabulary comes up, even if by accident.

Moral opinions are tricky because they feed directly into and out of concepts like integrity, fidelity and quality, which are favorites on HN and can be discussed technically as well as morally. But we don't really learn much about that razor edge in general education so it's not as easily avoided.
You should schedule a "create or replace table" statement every N hours/days/etc. It will be effectively just the same as a scheduled materialized view refresh.
I wonder how you judge the tipping point?

"Why do it in C when assembly language has been working so well for years?"
> Choosing to post anonymously, rather than using my real name, made things much easier. I’ve occasionally commented under my real name, and am embarrassed looking back at my post history. There’s nothing terrible, but I’m sure some of my colleagues and friends have stumbled upon it and smirked. This might be projection or paranoia, but it causes enough anxiety to deter me from posting regularly.

One thing that pseudonymity will do is allow you support positions you don't actually hold. To steel man them. To really stretch your brain to find the best way to present and argue in favor of them. Doing so pseudonymously means never having to explain yourself to friends, family, employers, or three-letter organizations later.

This also works really well for positions you're leaning toward but don't know why. Or half-baked ideas you'd like someone to respond to. Or just questions that you're embarrassed to ask.

This may not fit with the letter of the HN guidelines, depending on the distinctions between "throwaway," "pseudonym," and "temporary pseudonym":

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

But I think it fits with the spirit. From "What to Post?":

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
My kid sister died in a car accident two weeks ago. Now I find the numbers unfathomable. How can 40,000 families be suffering like this, every year?