skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The top quarter of earners who majored in English make more over their lifetimes than the bottom quarter of chemical engineers."

This is an important statement. Success in a field is as important as the field itself. Those who lack the IQ or personality for an area of study and subsequent employment will find their life harder than it needs to be. My philosophy: there is value in being in the top ten percent--not that I've always lived by those words.

While the earnings chart is very compelling. I'm a little confused by the labelling. Why are the high and low end of the horizontal bars set to the 10th and 90th percentile? Does this mean the data point used as the high on the chart is the average (or median) of the sample of earners in the 90th percentile?
Anyone using this to edit Android source files? I need to look and see if Android Studio has anything similar.
Indeed, but the issue is that without predictability in the cash injections, nobody will be willing to invest in production.
One interesting extension for desktop Firefox is Containers [0]. This is like per site incognito mode so tracking cookies do not escape between containers. While it's not a strict security thing for me it's one of more interesting aspects of Firefox as a browser.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
if you sell your asset for less than what you paid for it there's no capital gain, and hence there's no tax.

> That's generally not an option if you want to move locally.

You don't get to have your cake ( gain money on a sale of appreciated house) and eat it too ( buy at the price before the appreciation )
From the linked article about previous results with one-time cash grants:

As it turns out, that assumption was wrong. Across many contexts and continents, experimental tests show that the poor don’t stop trying when they are given money, and they don’t get drunk. Instead, they make productive use of the funds, feeding their families, sending their children to school, and investing in businesses and their own futures. Even a short-term infusion of capital has been shown to significantly improve long-term living standards, improve psychological well-being, and even add one year of life.
The guy who puts the toothpaste cap on the tube will come back to repair the robots that replace him. If you think automation won't create new types of blue collar work then you're only looking at a narrow strip of the problem. Consider the ice delivery man: refrigeration destroyed his industry, but created so many more possibilities that there was a net gain in blue collar work. If you think we're on the precipice of AI/automation being able to solve complex problems without human aid I think you're overestimating the capacity of the capabilities of current generation tech. More specifically the blue collar work will be replaced by the blue collar work of tomorrow, it will be different, but it will still need humans at some level of the chain. Additionally there will be steep switching costs; I don't automation is going to replace ALL needs of current blue collar work as quickly as you think.

TL;DR
Automation will...

* replace some current blue collar work over time

* create new blue collar work over time

* take a protracted period of time to fully supplant all labor needs
I'm traveling to China next week for tourism. The flight is 14h long so I was thinking to bring my devices. However, I came across some articles that suggest wiping out devices after coming back to the US. What's real about Chinese hacking? How can my iOS devices/laptop get infected by just connecting to Wi-fi?

From the article:
> He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings “loaner” devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight and, in meetings, not only turns off his phone but also removes the battery, for fear his microphone could be turned on remotely. He connects to the Internet only through an encrypted, password-protected channel, and copies and pastes his password from a USB thumb drive. He never types in a password directly, because, he said, “the Chinese are very good at installing key-logging software on your laptop.”
Seriously. What happens if, as I did in the US, I'm convinced I want to be a doctor but at age 19 realize I really don't like chemistry, nor am I particularly good at it, and want to do something different?
I don't expect free upgrades forever, but I am extremely disappointed that I will have migrate all my data to another product if they cease providing an offline version.
What extent do you think the reaction to 9/11 was honor, versus 'we can't let this happen again'?
I don't disagree that the comment is probably against the rules.

I just believe the rules tend to stifle people from expressing how they truly feel about topics, and are therefore information limiting and generally a net loss.

It's a fine line. Some people's feelings are toxic all the time and wrong-headed and truly add nothing of value. Other people, when they have a negative emotional reaction there is probably a lot of accumulated wisdom behind it and you should really listen instead of censoring or rambling on about civility. Very subjective though.

Also, in my opinion, the constant suppression of any negative speech is exactly what gets someone like Trump elected. "Finally, someone on TV is saying what I FEEL and no one can stop him!"
Awesome! Really looking forward to trying this out. I saw your talk at the Node Interactive conference in Vancouver and really enjoyed it, you guys are killing it.
Should work much better in theory! Screen sharing is really inefficient for this purpose.
> So, teenager gets electrocuted by frayed off-brand cable.

That is news. But ‘electrocuted by iPhone cable’ is not what happened.
How do I know which handsets or tablets have "New hardware specific to neural networks processing" for the NNAPI?
Oh, thanks. Perfect link. It makes sense that rewrites are smaller, but the reduction factor was still surprising.
I still have my iPhone 3GS and the original cable supplied with it. This cable is pristine, pure white, no fraying of the exterior coating, completely safe to use. If you did not see the cable ends, you would think I purchased in the last year. Number of replacement cables purchased equals ZERO.

I replaced the 3GS with an iPhone 5. This phone's Lightening cable was visibly frayed within 6 months. Within a year, the interior wires' insulation cracked. I replaced the 5 cable with another cable. And another. Then stopped buying Apple cables because they are shit. I don't even want the cable provided with a new phone. Apple should offer phones without any cable and drop the price accordingly, exiting a market they clearly can't handle.

The 3GS cable and the 5 cable were used in exactly the same fashion by the same persion. The 3GS cable is still going strong after, gosh, 10 years?

I started to worry about Apple's commitment to manufacturing quality years ago because of what I saw with their cabling. This concern hasn't been allayed with the keyboard issues on their MBP line. I'd like to buy a new MBP (mine finally died after an 8 year run) but I am not going to until I see evidence that Apple irons out their quality issues. I just can't justify the cost premium when there are obvious problems.

Edit: somehow entire missing grammatically horrible!
How do you propose we decide who gets the best house? And who's going to pay for it?
That whole system sounds ridiculous. If I'm paying five or six figures to attend a university I should be able to register for whatever class I want and change my major at any time.
I agree that we don't need to be robotically respectful. If someone's a real asshole, I have no qualms with responding in kind, even if doing so is debatably effective. I wrote what I wrote because I thought that ttul's comment was baselessly disrespectful. The parent wasn't being a jerk, but ttul responded with out of place ad hominem attacks instead of addressing the argument.
Yeah, tell me about it.

Windows Teams support isn't out of beta yet and regularly has bugs.
Even being generous you'd be lucky to generate a $0.25/day profit mining Monero with a normal desktop. Factor in wide variations in electricity cost, the wear on PC components and fluctuating currency value and this is simply not practical.

This idea is predicated on an intellectually dishonest premise that mining crypto is "free". Naive do-gooders will run this app without realizing the hidden costs.
Elon Musk frets about love life and sheds tears in Rolling Stone Interview
Which amino acid is lacking from a vegan diet? The only thing I know is is that eating legumes is good to balance the low lysine value of most grains.
Version numbers in Nightly should be treated as works in progress, as it's built straight from the working Firefox source tree. When the current cycle ends, the code in Nightly will be bundled up to become the 59 release, and the Nightly version number will tick over to 60. Nightly displaying the 59 version number doesn't mean all features of the 59 release are present there yet.
Teletype for Atom.

https://teletype.atom.io/
... if you omit the lack of cross-platform support
> From the government's point of view, they were trying to maximize tax revenue, right?

No; there's basically no political faction that is interested in revenue maximization.
Does HashiCorp have a single product with published pricing? How long have folks been waiting on you to get around to figure this out?

I'd almost certainly have personally pushed for purchasing your software a number of times, but simply refuse to play the "how much can you pay" game.
Block cryptocurrency minining scripts with 1Blocker
Putin. The best president in the world?
The cloud storage they are pushing everyone to annoys me. I feel like it's just a matter of time before i will switch to something else.

Also, does the average person really need a $3/month subscription even though they could just store the few KB/MB of data in their iCloud/Dropbox/whatever for free? No they don't, but they probably won't realise that anyway. To me it feels like they are trying to fool people.

A 5 year subscription would cost you $3 * 12 * 5= $180
Who would ever buy 1Password software & upgrades for $180 in 5 years?

Even though $3 a month feels like a small amount, it isn't.
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What is academic freedom? I think this is a question everyone has gotten away from, especially in western countries. The fear of offending, or making someone/group uncomfortable, has silenced a lot of fact, critical thought, debate, and education.

The first example in the article "Chinese officials are truthful only when careless or drunk." That's incendiary and presumptuous. But to say that China is a communist one-party country, and Taiwan, is a free and independent country, is another, however both have incited rebuke from Chinese students in Australia, despite being 100% fact.
We absolutely would not need eminent domain. The city is full of tenantless low-density buildings close to transit hubs where the owners would voluntarily build six-story apartment buildings if we allowed them to.

(If they wouldn't, then why did it need to be forbidden?)
WOW what the hell is wrong with that site it's cancer. Then i remember i am trying out the new firefox and don't have an ad blocker installed.

Scrolling videos, entire half screen ads between or in the middle of paragraphs of text.

Is this the internet norm now and ad block has just been hiding it from me?
Where to start with this study.

* Study authors are tied to dairy farming and, animal and poultry farming.

* America is never going to be a vegan, or even vegetarian nation. There are too many jobs tied up in fattening cattle and pigs to go that route.

* Americans manliness is tied up into how much they kill, it's not going to happen.

* There are some horrific oversights such as the fact that a large portion of our farming is already for animal feed. Something like 800 million people could be fed if we planted different crops instead of animal feed.

* There is literally no reason to go vegan instead of vegetarian for most people. Almost all the ethical reasons behind veganism can be routed around with minimal effort.

* As someone who eats a mostly vegan diet, the dietary concerns for the vast majority of people are nonsensical. Yes, of course there are exceptions to everything, but there are entire countries that are mostly vegan/vegetarian that don't have these issues. B vitamins and calcium? Has his person done zero research? Both are absurdly easy to obtain in vegan form in the local grocery store of most somewhat populated areas right now, if everyone was vegan these would be staple foods.

This is absolutely the worst kind of sensationalized junk science to once again discredit a lifestyle that affects no one negatively.
I have a weirdly specific insight into this.

I was an oil and gas recruiter in Houston between 2014-2015... right on the cusp of the most recent O&G price crisis. So I graduate, watch all my engineering friends get nice fat 90k/year or even higher salaries (this is Houston equiv to ~120-130 Bay Area), start buying big trucks, big houses, spending like crazy. My candidates start doing the same, except for the oldest and most experienced, who would always warn about valleys in the field.

Lo and behold in 2014 gas prices plummets from something like 100$/barrel to 40, and suddenly almost every single one of my Chem E buddies is out of a job, and all my candidates are getting laid off, and I myself am busting my ass to keep employed because now we have maybe 2-3 jobs popping a month that get instantly targeted by every recruitment firm in the city, let alone thousands of unemployed candidates.

Anyway, one of my chem E buddies that was really good at saving money fucks off to SF to do Hack Reactor and has a great time of it. One by one more of my friends do similar, either doing a bootcamp or just jumping straight into automation type jobs. One of them even swapped to patent law. A lot of my candidates start putting things like "python" and "Matlab" on their resumes.

Long story short, the O&G industry can make you a lot of money, but it is extremely variable, and you get extremely specialized. A mech E with "rotating equipment" can't do a "static equipment job," according to hiring managers. Chem E can't do liquid natural gas jobs, even if they've got 15 years experience on all sorts of different projects. Etc. A lot of my candidates and friends just decided they'd go for a field with a lower barrier to entry and a much lower barrier for skill transfer.

(I did as well in the end)
It is predicated on the honest premise that mining Monero is likely profitable.
When I was in high school, I had summers off. I volunteered at the "Main library" of my county...a huge library and volunteered in their computer lab. I also volunteered at the local science museum and continued to do so on weekends during school. I have to travel to downtown, which required me to take a public bus.

For graduation, we are required some volunteer hours. If we do more hours, we get special recognition.

Volunteering is a great way to get some exposure to different careers and areas...There are a lot of opportunities of people just want to look.
> He then moves on to the design, specifically a driver-comfort feature that cannot be specified here, due to said threatened jail time.

Any guess as to what that the semi-truck "driver-comfort feature" might be?
C++ Applications:

http://stroustrup.com/applications.html

A big list.
> You're confusing a labor union in a communist country versus those in a capitalist country.

It's not on me to intuit that your misuse of terms is limited to the United States. Your statement is funny, though, and would seem to imply that labor unions opposed to Marxism during Communist regimes would embrace Marxism once those governments adopted capitalism, for some reason. I wonder if there are any examples of that happening.

> someone who was raised by two communists in Berkeley, whose main goal was infiltrating labor movements

I think you've taken the notion that all Marxists like labor unions and taken it to imply that all labor unions like Marxism, which is obviously not true. You should be able to see the logical problem there, even if you're not interested in the historical specifics, which are interesting.

If you're limiting yourself to the American left-right political spectrum, which tends to lobotomize a political discussion, you can probably sort of justify calling unionization a "leftist" tactic. That's not about ideas at all, it is simply because what we call our "right" has defined itself as being opposed to unionization. Marxism has nothing to do with that, and calling unionization "Marxist/socialist" is really a bridge too far.
No, I'm saying that if they're not able to find senior devs, that they should train junior devs. And I reject the idea that it creates a retention issue, unless you have no intention to treating those people well.

"You don't understand why that's a bad deal for employers?"

No, I don't, at least not for employers that respect their employees. It may be a bad deal for employers that don't, but for them, I really don't care.

"You want them to take on all of the risk and get none of the reward."

As opposed to now, where the employee takes all of the risk and gets no reward?

"Look, I like the current system where you have to build the skills yourself and find some way to get into the job market."

Yes, people who have been through hazing like the system of hazing and have no desire to stop it for the next class.

"Asking companies to play the role of code schools is just way too much."

I don't agree. But if that's the case, then they can stop complaining that there aren't enough skilled developers out there if they're not willing to help out.
One interpretation of "universal" is that it is income independent of other income, so if you get a job you still get UBI too.

This could be a huge help people who can't find stable employment, but still want e.g. a loan to buy a home.
> > This isn't just resampling an image

> GPUs can do that, too: http://fastcompression.com/products/jpeg/cuda-jpeg.htm

Agreed - but for how many different formats, and how well do those implementations support all of the various format options for things like bit depth or palettes, compression variants, etc.? That's not just things like compliance testing – itself a big problem – but also handling all of the slightly non-compliant data in the wild which users will inevitably expect to work.

(I'm somewhat biased having spent time dealing with JPEG 2000 imagery where various lapses on the standards side meant that it's still common to find images which don't display correctly in one or more implementations but are silently reported as correct in others)

Again, I'm not arguing that doing this on a GPU isn't a good idea — the hardware has become common enough that it's reasonable to assume availability for anyone who cares — but just that there's significant overhead cost for anyone who needs to handle images from unconstrained sources. It'll happen but this kind of thing always takes longer than it seems like it should.
i guess that debian and gnome are preparing her nuclear reactors for execute gitlab, :P
Does this improve much upon the original article?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704618
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So, really, what we're discussing is how much ceremony a language ought to require before enabling unsafe behavior. I think C++ provides enough ceremony that you can write decently safe programs in C++.
I'm not sure that an effect on inflation would even really be a problem. The Fed has been struggling to maintain inflation at it's target rates for many years and has had to come up with new and creative tools beyond just adjusting base interest rates.

In my opinion, the only way to introduce UBI at scale is slowly. If UBI does have an impact on inflation, we can scale up UBI during times of economic downturns and hold UBI steady when the economy is growing and control inflation with standard interest rate manipulations.
I saw that, but noticed that it still seems to use the "inklecate" compiler, which is written in C#. I wonder to what degree it's actually dependent on that?
I remember using that. I think I even registered.
I've been deposed, in a case involving my employer of twenty years ago. The defendant was trying to invalidate a patent; one of several at play in a multi-billion-dollar infringement case.

The fraction that someone will spend on lawyers in order to avoid a multi-billion-dollar judgement buys a lot of research. The attorneys had everything I'd ever published, for a very loose definition of “published”. They had every article anyone else had published, that mentioned me or thanked me in the acknowledgements. They had papers I didn't know existed, where I'd been credited. I was asked about the content of all of these, and about the history and content of my communications with their authors.

I had also been asked to deliver all relevant documents from my time of employment. Nothing had survived all my de-clutterings / house-cleanings from the intervening years. I can only imagine that if I had been able to supply additional fodder for questioning, I would have been deposed for many days instead of just one. I would also have had a greater chance of accidentally giving contradictory answers somewhere in there, by trying to reconstruct events from twenty years ago instead of remembering always to say “I don't recall”. (Learning not to be helpful in conversation was the bulk of the “deposition training” that the plaintiff's attorney provided me, the day before the deposition.)
Well I don't disagree, but at a state school with 40,000 in the undergrad class I guess they need barriers.
d.rip is javascript-only site.
Well it sounds like what really should be changed is the transfer requirements then.
I have an ipad pro specifically to use as a digital notebook. I use notability, and discovered I prefer to write on black background with white, red, and blue ink. I skip green as I'm colorblind and will mix it up with red.

I don't know if it is my color deficiency or generally applicable, but the colored ink really pops on a black background. So if I have little annotations that I want to point out on a diagram, that helps.
Suppose they move horizontally to a similar house. I don't know, they want one story instead of two.

Since a rising tide lifts all boats, the new purchase is about even with the old sale- but they also owe taxes. So within this window, they are objectively worse off than your average Joe who can move across town without owning those taxes.

Anyone trading up is also impacted as well. Suppose you bought a condo at 100k, and SFH was 200k. In five years you want to trade up, but the market went up 100%. Your condo sells for 200k, but the SFH costs 400k. Despite the lovely appreciation on your condo, you'd probably prefer if the market hadn't moved.

Sure, there's people who have it worse. Owning any home at all puts them in better shape than most of the world. But it's still not enviable to be unable to move within your community.
Contrary to popular belief there is no housing shortage in Sweden. There is howere shortage of new cheap housing.
1Password upgrades are not free, they were charging for major versions.