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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What's your tips and tricks for the job seeker entering 2025?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: You're planning a vacation to somewhere, what's your process?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What is your favorite “A Page a Day”/daily format book?

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medium.com 5y ago

Inflation Isn’t just 2% for a Small Brewery

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www.hungerforwords.com 5y ago

Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Dogs

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judiciary.house.gov 6y ago

Senate Field Hearing: Online Platforms and Market Power

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

Starlink Mission, 3rd Launch

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

Nixon Got Pushed Out by Republicans. Trump Might, Too

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www.citylab.com 7y ago

Texas High Speed Rail Faces a New Threat: Semantics

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www.spotify.com 7y ago

Spotify Premium Now Includes Hulu with Ads

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www.lassitergregg.com 7y ago

Ohana, private social network for families (Alpha)

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nymag.com 7y ago

Creative Ways Cities Are Combating Rising Temperatures (2016)

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www.plantmaps.com 7y ago

Interactive United States Köppen Climate Classification Map

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hbr.org 7y ago

The Case for the 6-Hour Workday

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It?

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www.joshuakennon.com 7y ago

How Quincy, Florida Became a Town of Secret Coca-Cola Millionaires

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www.theverge.com 7y ago

Taiwanese grandpa plays Pokémon Go with 11 phones

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watsonways.com 7y ago

The Expanse and Social Media: A New Paradigm

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order Against Making 3-D Guns

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Tapping into the power grid could predict the morning traffic

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moviepass.com 7y ago

MoviePass’ Response to Service Outage

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www.vox.com 8y ago

Eric Weinstein on the crisis of late capitalism

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medium.com 8y ago

It was raining in the data center

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Investor Presentation Design Breakdown

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I think they might have deeper issues still with their outage. I just got an email and retroactive charge for something I returned months ago and shows as returned on their own orders portal. The link in their transactional email also links to a totally different product.

Yeah, but that isn't really an apples to apples comparison. Texas for example had ~400 heat deaths in 2024 depending on where you look but in 2023 it was 334 or 563 depending on your criteria [1].

But I want to put it into perspective. In 2024, ~62,800 people in Europe died to heat-related events.

Most of these deaths are not because of electrification but the fact that homes are built out of bricks and mortar and become ovens with heat waves that get hotter each year and ~10% to ~20% [2] of homes in Europe have air conditioning meanwhile ~95% [3] of homes have air conditioning. Your apples to oranges comparison mostly shows how Europe is generically unprepared for climate adaption (specifically heat resilience) and has nothing to do with electrification stability.

[1] https://www.texasenvironment.org/news-room/heat-related-deat... [2] It's all over the place some places like UK are around 5% adoption while southern Europe can be close to as much as 95% adoption. [3] https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2020/state/...

The appeal of sending a letter isn't to avoid human contact, it's to avoid the time suck of aggravation and frustration that these dark pattern schmucks throw in the way.

It also very likely goes through a different pipeline to get solved and is immediately escalated internally.

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not for all major banks, mine (usaa) forces 2fa which broke ynab and made it useable because i don't want to do data entry for every transaction.

I know the French Foreign Legion used to/may still give out passports and many regular army and SS troops from Nazi Germany took this up as a way to restart their lives. For all intents and purposes, this could work too.

I think most frameworks/languages swing in and out of the lime light. Using Ruby as an example, it was great then got really hot, then as you said Python got the data science boost and moved a lot of people there. I'm curious if Matz makes good on his promise to 3x Ruby that will result in Ruby getting some more data science libraries.

That said, last I checked regarding performance Rails and Django were pretty much neck and neck with a negligible difference with rails being very slightly faster (iirc).

I think also a big reason why Ruby is feature so heavily in this list is because of it's focus of developer productivity. It's a nice mesh of flexibility and convention. Generally all projects are setup and organized the same but you can still write a conditional if statement a dozen ways. Compared to my personal experience working with Django and Python are the woes of getting everything configured and setup for each project which is frankly a pita. Also, Python is fairly regimented on a lot of flexibility which has its perks too.