skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on how you go about it. Software engineers are one of the few professionals that can do well for themselves working remotely from a home office. You won't make any political progress this way, but you can be a happy code monkey. It takes some effort to find good positions that accommodate this, but they do exist.

Source: over the last 8 years, I've spent a cumulative 1 year working in an office, and the remaining 7 from home.
I've not heard of the DPRK possessing anything beyond S200/Buks (along with plenty of older Soviet SAMs) which shouldn't be discounted, but are not going to be capable of stopping the dedicated air defense suppression operations over the immediate combat area.
I've not paid a landlord for two decades, but it seems to me that home owners like myself compete with each other to bid up the price of property. If I earn more, that gives me more capital with which to bid for a bigger house in a better location and hopefully outbid someone else doing the same thing. So disposable income flows directly into increasing house prices.his isn't theory, it's what I've been doing for the last twenty years.

Edit: I'm not complaining, this effect has dramatically increased the values of the two properties I have owned (one after the other) during that time. I fully expect to come out well ahead, but it will be a problem for my children. I expect to have to help them fund their first property purchases, perpetuating the cycle.
I really wish people would stop using the term "1%" to refer to the super-rich. They're actually talking about the 0.01%, or an even smaller group.

Heck, anyone making $30k/year is in the 1% globally. Even in the West, a good (not superstar) doctor or lawyer can expect to be in the 1%. If you're buying $300k handbags, you're way, way, way beyond the 1%.

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Documentary works like this, mixing avaricious fascination with super-wealth as well as the morally-delicious feeling of superiority, always put me off a bit. It's sort of like the inverse of watching Hoarders - you get to be horrified and fascinated and feel superior at the same time.

"How could someone live like this?" you get to say. "I would never..." you get to say.

(Not saying that this photographer had that intention, specifically - I'm more commenting on the audience than the photog).

People are people; wealth is wealth; most people would act in these ways if they could.

And from the point of view of a kid starving in Delhi slums, your Prius looks a lot like Imelda Marcos' gold-framed Picasso.

That said... I'm looking at these photos with interest :)
Why not just let me type it?
I find it more likely that their advertising partners don't want the brands and companies they represent to be associated with fake, possibly libellous and politically inflammatory content.
Come on HN and announce you are looking to drop some 50-100K seeds on 5 projects

Be ready to be hunted :)
Pretty interesting idea. Go build it! It's your time to shine :)
"I’ve found that about 10% of drivers truly identify the speed limit sign and drive at or near that limit"

I really hope this is not the case
Post edit:

black thought is the GOAT though, how many rappers got a salaried day job on a talk show
Your HS English teacher who loved McCarthy was also mine! :)
There's a two-lane (each way) street near me with no houses along it, split carriageways and great visibility. It's a 30 zone with speed cameras. After 5 years of living in this city I finally fouled up and it got me.
Not the poster, but for my part, the reason I find this kind of behavior revolting is that it is clear to me that material goods are intended for all; though men have a right to private property, that right is not to all property, but to sufficient property to provide for their needs and their state in life, and all else kept after that is waste.

> Moreover, the earth, even though apportioned among private owners, ceases not thereby to minister to the needs of all, inasmuch as there is not one who does not sustain life from what the land produces.

> When what necessity demands has been supplied, and one's standing fairly taken thought for, it becomes a duty to give to the indigent out of what remains over.

http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documen...
That's not right at all. Intra-bank systems for transferring money are not only quite complex, but in many cases they are open to analysis by government middlemen, which is a sort of warped public reveal. This is the basis of "sanctions", using intra-bank mechanisms to effect public policy on an international stage.

Bitcoin's main problem is that you have to transfer value into and out of it somehow. In most other ways it is far superior to existing currency movement mechanisms.
I like this article, yet, there is this obsession with evidence that I can't quite pinpoint and it bugs me.
That sort of "critical thinking" arrogance is what keeps people from sharing their different opinions and perspectives from your pompous ass.
Well written post and a smart idea to generate affiliate revs. With that amount of Amazon links you in that article you should have a click-through of more than 70% and a conversion on Amazon around 10%.
Because you have not cited where and what guidelines I've supposedly broken, I suspect that, if my account is indeed banned, it's likely purely because you were pressured to do so, which would be unjust. If this is not so, please provide justification for your decision: where and what guidelines.
As was pointed out by a long-ago HN comment I've now failed to find, the tabloid "richest" lists measure particularly public forms of wealth. People who don't wish to be on such lists, now manage their wealth so they're not.
London has a daily fee of £11.50 to drive in their congested area. No idea how much it helps.
Just because the problem that millions of Americans around you have does not reflect your own experience, does not make it any less real.

Even if you attend a college with an absurdly expensive tuition, there are plenty of students who attend with a scholarship that covers it, and nothing else. Textbooks are, for the vast majority of college attendees, a major expense.

Required textbooks are simply immoral. They only benefit the publisher.
Very excited to see this because it is a big step in a community (quantum computing/info) taking control back of the peer review process from for-profit (and to a smaller degree non-profit society-based) journals. The challenge will be in how the larger cs/physics community sees it, but I don't think you can figure that out without trying.
This is one of my favorite comments on HN.
>The Summly acquisition was a big noise, but I don't know what happened to Summly. Did it ever integrate into Yahoo? I know they did something to do.

I believe those series of acquisitions were made just to bring on multiple mobile-experienced teams into Yahoo. The product didn't matter, but hiring teams of proven Mobile-UI/UX/Devs did.
All uber employees should be charged with murder IMO and serve time in jail. This is unacceptable.
> I can't remember a time in a Canadian public school where I was asked to do something useful for somebody. I think more of that would have helped a lot in terms of motivation.

I mean we had mandatory volunteer hours? But in general, yes, school is just a day-care and nothing more.
Turns out Verizon’s $70 gigabit internet costs way more than $70
Great article!

Important nitpick: Dr. Mary Ainsworth (the professor who wrote about attachment theory) is female. The article incorrectly assumes the professor was a "he."
"a little cheaper"? That product you linked to is more than twice as expensive even compared to the Soylent 2.0 bottles. Whenever Soylent comes up there's always the "soylent is nothing new, it's just marketing" claims. But I have yet to see a link to a comparable product. Is there a pre-existing product that is a nutritionally complete meal replacement in the same price range?
I read “Death-loving nihilism” as the flavor the author associates with the legionnaires, in contrast to “... a more workaday nihilism” associated with the Samurai. Perhaps he means that the meaninglessness of life puts the experience of death on equal footing with all others.
I am not sure about risk. Mayer had worked at one place before, Google and not as CEO so there was no CEO level reputation to risk. On the contrary this was an opportunity her to build her reputation as a CEO. If it was such a risk as some commentators say she could have chosen something else.

There is an agency problem with management. CEO pay is not connected to performance and there is no way to effect accountability especially for mid and long term interests. When hundreds of jobs are removed to save 10-20 million a cacophony of commentators chime in with sincerity about 'shareholder interests' yet these 'interests' don't seem to care when hundreds of millions are lost to non performing CEOs who take the brand, value and long term prospects of the company down with them.

Billions lost to fines for fraud, brand tarnished, management continues sticking on and yet not a peep from shareholders. It seems we make the rules and arguments up as we go along, as long as it benefits entrenched interests.
Yup, the good old federal highway funding, the stick that keeps the states in line. Also why we have the absurd and harmful drinking age of 21.
Specifically, to capital intensive corporations.
Living in NYC also, I use Gett mostly and sometimes Juno (due to 30% off limited time promotion). I always ask drivers which service they like. Many do not like Uber or Lyft due to the % they take, compared to Gett/Juno.

Also, I found it interesting that nearly all drivers have multiple cell phones logged into separate services, sometimes Gett and Juno! I wonder what the percentage of drivers Gett will be picking up that were already Juno drivers.
I know on the XDA forums, at least for the 5x, there is an app someone threw together to do long exposure times. I played with it some and got a pixelated mess, but I didn't try a tripod. Some people on the thread produced some pretty good pictures.
Honestly, the human body just isn't built to lose weight. We're built for starvation and packing on as much as we can, while we can. Humanity is just a victim of its own success with the sheer plentiful amount of food that's available now, at least in the first world.

Working as intended, WONTFIX, etc. Obesity at this stage of our civilization is not abnormal. It sucks, but it isn't abnormal.
Some people are genetically greedier than others and greedier people are much more likely to get into positions of power.

To make matters worse, people tend to like people who are like them. So greedy people help other greedy people. This means that power and money becomes concentrated in the hands of the greedy.
In that case, just ban me. I've also asked before. As long as I can still post here, I will occasionally debate with people when they take contentious positions I disagree with (esp when they make accusations).

I'm not flaming, and you know it. Nonetheless, if you think I'm a problem, just ban me and the problem will be solved. I don't want to be in a place where politics is totally OK to discuss until it's not for arbitrary reasons I can't guess or predict.
It seems like a nothing to me. He didn't say, "publish any thing with p>0.05," but rather, "see if there's something interesting."
In my experience, the 85th percentile is at the speedlimit + 10-15 mph. It's as if people have decided they're unlikely to be ticketed by going "only" 10 mph over the limit. I rarely see anyone driving at or below the speed limit.

In Europe I've gotten tickets driving only 5mph over the limit (58 km/h on a 50 road), which would explain why the 85th percentile is closer
to the actual speedlimit there.
Seems like they could have used something a bit nicer to work with too (yaml, libucl, hocon, etc). I am honestly getting tired of editing fiddly json (no comments, last element in list can't have a comma, etc) all over the place.
NYC seems to be on par with SF. Both living situations are extreme for someone with a more suburban upbringing.

Lack of mobility if you don't have a car, lack of available parking if you do, long lines in general, lots of traffic. Very poor care at many establishments due to overworked and over stressed staff. Miniscule and generally not so great living conditions. For example I lived in a nearly 100 year old house in Oakland with others, which 1 yr later found out had mold problems (a serious health hazard). Also lived in two very modern apartments in the heart of SF both of which had a converted living room bedroom with three roommates. One roommate slept on a couch for a year, paying over $1000/mo. Crime due to homeless situation (witnessed crime frequently during my time, petty crime especially. Side note, didn't a Bart train get robbed just yesterday?). Medical care is another big one (multiple experiences, one for me personally)

Even little things like cooking are very difficult when your entire kitchen is 1/5 the size of what you'd find in a similarly priced suburban home. Little things like this add to stress as I wrote a bit about already.

And sadly the south bay isn't that much better as a "suburb". The home prices in Palo Alto for example are quite outrageous. There are a lot of far nicer suburbs in other parts of the country without the wild price tag.

I was young when I moved, and don't regret the time I spent in the Bay at all. I learned a lot, it was positive for my career and most of all I just had to get it out of my system. The glitz and glamour of it all wore with time, as I suspect it does for many, and ultimately I felt it wasn't where I would want to build my future.
I agree, I think that a lot of the points seem to serve only to pad the article length and are not actionable for most people.

- Surround yourself with great people

- Consider changing where you live

- Save money

- Look for ways to become more productive

- Figure out how to perform better in your job

- Think better

The authors could consider cutting out points that sound like platitudes that can be found in a standard self-help guide or magazine.
What is crucial is data. I am not talking about training road condition, Google has been doing this for years. What is missing is traffic data. I have given this argument before on self-driving. One night a maintenance took place on a busy intersection in Flushing, NY. Police officers were asked to guide traffic. This is a planned event, but driveless car does not know; it doesn't have this data until the car shows up at the scene.

Yes, map services like Google have been receiving some data from government in addition to collecting user's current location and user's generous feedback (e.g. Waze user) to determine best route. But we are no where near the condition we can know what's happening ahead of us. What about weather condition? On intersection who goes first?

A safe driverless vehicles should be able to communicate (check, for as long as the communication is stable), and government and cars will share feedback to other cars. This is a crowd-sourcing effort to make fully autonomous car possible on road. If we just learn as we go on the road, these driverless cars will not work well in very complex road condition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194112
Seems like they're just starting to fix it now with Win10 and only on applications that ship a special manifest (or on entire machines if you set a specific registry entry).
When your opponents do not play by the rules, you win. Glad to see Google is making some strides.
That's true. However, in all the university classes with graded homework that I took, the homework only counted for a small fraction of the final grade (usually <=10%). I think it was only "graded" to give the less-motivated students a more straightforward incentive to do it, and encourage more consistent engagement with the course content.
> I think the Internet and competition from social media has made journalism better, as you can no longer buy up every local paper when Twitter and Facebook and Blogger make journalists out of anybody, and as a result the news companies have to work extra hard to justify their subscriptions.

Why would you need to buy up anything when you own the entire platform people consume their news on (e.g. Facebook)? Sure anyone can be a journalist, but unless Facebook's algorithms like what you're writing you might as well be yelling at a wall. I think the internet's golden age of information freedom is quickly coming to a close with the re-centralization of content publishing and discovery into a handful massive, privately-owned platforms.
Former FDA chief john nestor was known in DC for setting his cruise control to 55 and parking in the left lane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nestor

Some cops claim that aggressive traffic enforcement leads to knock-on effects in reducing gun crime:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/809689.pdf

> Gun seizures by police in the target area increased by more than 65 percent, while gun crimes declined in the target area by 49 percent

It probably makes sense -- any kind of warrantless search has the potential to decrease crime.
Turn major streets into payroads that are free for self-driving vehicles. It becomes a small tax on drivers and will convince them to use self-driving vehicles to save money. Work with companies so that self-driving buses arrive more frequently but only follow specific routes - while self-driving cars arrive less frequently but can take you to anywhere you need to go. People who are more time-pressed will take the bus. This would require cooperation between competing businesses and the cities' government though. Or a government-allowed monopoly / made into a public utility.

The benefits would be:

1) Compounds traffic on minor roads, encouraging people to fund the city via payroad taxes or begin using self-driving vehicles to get away from the traffic, which is now worse, for "human drivers".

2) Gets human drivers away from self-driving vehicles on major roads, which should reduce accidents. Less accidents means less traffic and more throughput.

Note: I don't think this would be realistically implementable. The regulations alone would be a nightmare to try and get passed.
You don't keep a 20gb Windows install in RAM all the time though. Bloat in explorer.exe is the issue here
I had to stop and ask myself how I learned that the power symbol means power. I can only guess that at first it was the symbol on the button that was largest. So size has meaning. Over time, I memorized the symbol. So now, the buttons can all be the same size.
To help clarify why this is a big deal, I'd like to share why I've been so excited about this project...

[tl;dr] - This is the first tool I'm aware of that actually allows you to generate both API docs and design tools from the same source.

Static documentation is a lie waiting to happen. Once docs are even slightly out of date, people lose trust and eventually abandon them.

On the engineering side of the dev/design process, this is easy to work around. We generate documentation from code and structured comments, which allows us to trust our docs as an up-to-date point of truth.

If you're building a design system that both engineers and designers will work with, there's no real solution to keeping sketch symbols and React components in sync. You're essentially stuck maintaining "static documentation" for designers in the form of a sketch file.

More often than not, things get busy, or someone forgets to commit a change to the sketch file, and the sketch symbols fall behind the code used in production.

Developers start to receive mocks that don't match the "standard" components they're using. Designers start to wonder why fidelity is lost by the time features make it to production. The design system falls apart.

`sketch-reactapp` will help us deal with the static documentation problem the same way we deal with it on the engineering side of things: generate from source.

This is the first tool I'm aware of that actually allows you to generate both API docs and design tools from the same source.

Congratulations on the launch!
This effect was formalized by Joseph Stiglitz 40 years ago, with his "Henry George Theorem"[0]―namely that "aggregate spending by government on public goods will increase aggregate rent based on land value (land rent) more than that amount, with the benefit of the last marginal investment equaling its cost".

This is a big reason so much of urban planning today has latched onto Value Capture of a way of financing infrastructure. In cases like Hong Kong's subway system, you can pay for world-class transit without any additional taxes, merely letting the subway capture the increases in land values that it creates.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/the-unique...
The headlines I see in Hebrew (both Gett and Juno's founders are Israelis) are somewhat more low-key: the undisclosed price tag is estimated at "few tens of millions", to be paid in shares of privately held Gett.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14163216
So your design systems team has to be able to code React components, or any change or new component has to be coded by a developer before being made available to your product designers?

If so, does is not lengthen and complicate a lot your design process?
I think part of the problem is how often people idolize the rich just for being rich and not for what sort of person they are, it enables them.

Money doesnt impress me, good people impress me.
Ukraine did not have own artillery to counter nor airpower.

South Korea has plenty of artillery and MLRS to counter N Korean threats, not to mention counter-battery radar systems.

I read someone who quoted a South Korean army officer who said once S Korean K9 SPH started rolling off the factory, South Korean army gained the advantage over N Korean army.

And with my very amateur level knowledge, I agree.
Honestly, it may be that the status quo of modern times is finally bleeding into HN. People generally can't sustain high levels of optimism or positivity in the midst of a primarily negative and cynical environment. I saw it in the military; new recruits came in bright eyed and bushy tailed only to have their optimism stunted by the existing military culture. Of course, that's only a hypothesis and I may be barking up the wrong tree.
FYI. That is not a Google library. It's some company called Call-Em-All
The marginal income tax rate is only a small part of the taxation story in the US.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20th_century_chart.ht...

Note the ever larger share of government spending as a percentage of the GDP. This doesn't happen unless taxes, in one way or another, go up.
If you account for the time you save for using reliable quality services from their cloud, time is valuable strictly speaking, they are paying you ;)
Yes. Those threats are real, but can be mitigated. Sea level rise, for now, can not.
It's dysfunctional, like a human version of the "paperclip maximizer" AI: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

Musk with his personal space programme at least makes "sense" of some sort. Imelda bought more shoes than she could wear in a lifetime: that's dysfunctional.

And it came with a real human cost. How many human QALYs did that collection cost the Philipines? Or, more personally, how many dead children is a Picasso worth?
"Frankly, I get the whole profit motive, but if your morals are so poor..."

This is the norm as I experienced it as a certified tech for a Fortune 50 entity working on Fortune 50 big boxes. The only exception was the rare day a safety inspector or district(or higher) bigwig was onsite. Project managers' positions are hyper-sensitive to cost & time, turn-over is always immanent. The sociopaths tend to endure & promote up.
One problem i see here is that what we call the "speed limit" is not simply a speed limit it is the speed you are suppose to drive at.