skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"[I]ncreasingly frustrated" suggests they were frustrated before, and are more so now.
well thats clearly untrue, because when adjusted for cost of living, California has a higher poverty rate[1]

[1]http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20/...
Not everyone can do it. Only countries on the edge of the continental shelf can do it cost effectively. Kenya is by the East African Rift. Similarly Iceland is on the edge of the plate. You can't do this easily if you're ontop of the craton for example.
The comment you're replying to asserted that: "One American bombing campaign in Libya or Iraq would be enough to feed and shelter the children and elderly in need."

You're changing the goalposts on both ends. Instead of "one American bombing campaign in ... Iraq" it's the cost of the Iraq war overall. And instead of "feed[ing] and shelter[ing] the children and elderly in need," it's the $125 per month average SNAP benefit. That's not even enough to feed children and the elderly, much less house them. SNAP supplements peoples' income, as well as school lunches (for children) and Social Security (for the elderly).

This thread isn't about whether the Iraq money could've been put to better use. It's about whether people need to work to eat. And we do. Just to feed and shelter the 14% of the population on SNAP we'd need to spend six or seven times the cost of the Iraq war. (That's not counting education, medical care, etc.) To do the same for service workers like waiters, baristas, cashiers, cab drivers, and garage collectors (who earn around $20-30k per year on average), we'd have to support fully half the population with the labor of the other half. That'd be twenty times the cost of the Iraq war, just to maintain those folks in poverty-level conditions. To pay for that (and nothing else), you'd have to tax the other half of the population 64% of their income.

We're not in a post-work economy. Far from it.
I tried to make account named "Chip Ahouy" for this same purpose, but the sign up form told me it wasnt a real name. It was brutal.
If you're talking about the movie The Intern, the role played by DeNiro is that of a retired 70 years old. Kind of different perspectives, but I do agree that there should be no reason someone in their 40s can't start a new career.
As you should be; I think this kind of pondering also did not yet adjust for the new life of the elderly; my mother of 70 is healthier and more active than my granparents were in their 50s. And I see that all around me. Not only are you not even at 1/3rd of your life; you will reach close to 100% healthy and active (assuming western country and access to healthcare which is a lot to assume, but this is HN) so you should be optimistic and just do things you want while not staring at your age. Thinking about getting old and lost opportunities makes you old fast.
So the suggestion is to use the nvim-r plugin. This plugin uses a custom R lib you have to compile yourself. This may not be possible in every situation. While this is a nice solution for your personal work station, it sometimes isn't in a corporate context.
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Have you looked into research regarding refinement types? Because they describe almost exactly what your reaching for (types with assciated provable assertions). Specifically Liquid Haskell[0] extends Haskell with (dependent) refinement types, but keeps the type checking decidable and the proof burden relatively light by using a restricted predicate language and an SMT solver.

[0] https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell-blog/
I am personally from one of those third-world countries (India) and in my experience, it's easier to stop using Facebook here since the social fabric is already strong enough that you don't really need Facebook to be able to stay in connection with people. I quit Facebook half a decade years ago when I was 16 and haven't had to use it again.

People used to have social connections before Facebook came around and the methods to form and maintain those connections aren't dead yet since there is a large portion of population who never started using Facebook (my parents, for instance.
For an alternative perspective: Sunday shopping is a boon to people who work or have other conflicts the rest of the time (e.g. work M-F, kids' games on Saturday).

Also for holidays: my mother really appreciated being able to work Thanksgiving, Xmas, July 4th etc because others really wanted that time to be with their families‡ -- those holidays meant nothing to us (immigrants) but meant that when she wanted someone to cover for her for some other day everybody owed her a favor (plus as a bonus people generally try not to go to the hospital those days -- she was an M.D.).

‡ (or perhaps it's simply that I was such a horrible kid that she was happy to be out of the house).
I find myself thinking about this a bit lately.

When I was in high school I was a middle distance runner.
I trained a bit harder than I should have. I was lucky to never have a significant injury that made me unable to run for more than a couple days, but there were definitely times when I felt burnt out, and I didn't compete after high school. Burnout, stress fractures and other roadblocks were very common among kids who ran more than eight miles a day, but many of us had this attitude that we had to take risks and push ourselves. I think we felt pressured because college wasn't far off, and we really only had one shot to go D1.

I'd troll a running forum called Dyestat a lot and there was this goon a grade above me who'd post questions every day about how he should structure his training (e.g. "is increasing 10% per week too much? How long should my long run be?"). The questions weren't bad questions, but everyone found them absurd because he'd run 10, maybe 15 miles in a week. How about spend time actually training instead of talking about training?

Because he took his boundaries so seriously, he increased his training load at a snail's pace -- I don't think he ran a 60 mile week before college. He improved consistently every year, never got injured, and never burned out. He went D2 (D1 > D3 > D2) and killed it. Now at 26 he runs 100+ mile weeks at 6:00 pace and tools on kids at the turkey trot every year. I check his twitter from time to time and it's clear he loves the sport as much as I did when I started.

I like to think that the difference was that he had a long-term goal that wasn't attached to some instantaneous outcome. He wanted to be able to push himself for the rest of his life, even if it meant waiting till past his prime to be any good.

I think in general if you make a change that's sustainable for the rest of your life, you win.
I think there's some trepidation in hiring someone older in an entry level job. People wonder why, and what might have made them leave what they were doing for something low status and low paying. Also, they wonder if the person will be hard to manage, because let's be frank, what some companies really want in an entry level employee is someone they can push around.

I can't say is haven't wondered these things myself at times, though I have hired people in their 40s and 50s for these types of positions before. We've got several retired folks working in part time positions and they are perfect. Professional, knowledgeable, prompt, hard working, and not looking to jump to full time.
Well no direct source but if Apple is going to discontinue sells of music because of declines, then they would also do the same for movies.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-itunes-falls-short-in-ba...

And what do you think would be the totally addressable market of selling tv shows when you can get almost any broadcast tv network show on demand a day after it airs through your cable company for free and a week after it airs for free from the websites/apps of AbC, NBC, CBS, and FOX.

You can get any TV show on demand the next morning from the CW whether or not you have a subscription.

If you have cable and miss a show it's available usually the next day on demand either from the cable company or by signing in using your cable credentials from the individual cable providers apps.

Then take into account that almost everyone has a device that they can buy and play digital music on in the optimal method. How many people who want to buy video digitally and would prefer to watch it on a TV have an AppleTV?

AppleTV is far from the most popular settop box and it's the only way that you can watch content on a TV (besides connecting your iPhone with a $70 gadget). Both Google Play and Amazon work on the most popular set top box - the roku.
Adding prerequisites would make a great beginning to a universal tech tree!
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> Looks like the debugger could use some improvement.

Try `gcc -g3` (the default is 2). But because C-style macros are context-sensative string operations, the result is not necessarily especially pleasant/useful and can be rather large (slowing down the debugger for everything else).

I find that using `static inline` functions and `static const` variables in the header can just be much nicer to work with all around (some argument type-checking, better stack frame management means alloca is usable, no accidental syntax clashes requiring lots of extra parens to avoid, and real debug info). And, if necessary, use a tiny macro just to form the call to the real function or form the declarations for repeated tabular data. I wouldn't have expected macros to be slower in any case, however.
> Attention! Installing cmus-osx will prevent you from opening iTunes until it is uninstalled!

This sounds like a feature.
I really liked this essay and I tried to send it to a friend in Paris via FB Messenger and got a weird message:

> You can't post this because it has a blocked link

> The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe:

> kzhu.net

> http://kzhu.net/does-life-end-at-35.html

Anyone know what might be happening here?
I do not understand why, but since quitting Facebook 6 months ago, I have experienced being better in touch with many friends. More of them reach out to me directly and the conversations feel more meaningful. Of course, this is only anecdote but it has been pretty surprising. I did leave Messenger on my phone, and I’m not sure if I will want to remove it, largely because I did move a year ago and am about to move again.
> not knowing whether calling the behaviour out in the moment would make things worse

I too feel this.

I currently try to find alternative solutions, although only one example is coming to mind: I saw a woman being very probably crowded by a guy on a dance floor, and it looked unwanted. I offered a hula hoop for her to play with: instant personal space bubble. (She took it, guy backed off and later left).

I figure the goal is to disrupt the current poor behavior, rather than try to correct / call it out, given my skill levels. Legit / mutual behavior will resume, unwanted behavior (generally?) won't.
> Who is to blame? Amazon? The companies? The drivers? Capitalism gone mad? Take your pick.

And a fashion against labor laws. One of the great things about labor, safety etc laws is that they apply to everyone. Company X may not want to implement safety rule X because it will increase costs and make the competition cheaper. Perhaps all the companies X, Y, and Z want to do it but all are afraid. If the law mandates it none are disadvantaged relative to their competition.

This is an important kind of externality, really no different from the paint factory dumping effluvia into the river, but less frequently discussed.
Oh come on, they're talking about interacting with R. I hope you're aware that R is a simple interpreter and any IDE for R is mostly a window manager that arrangs views on the source code, the REPL, and the graphic display if available. Also: vim isn't vi. Vim isn't minimalist
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> Some problems can even be solved without any programming.

Here's a fairly comprehensive list of those problems, but it hasn't been updated in a while, e.g., 601 is solvable with pencil and paper but it's new enough that it isn't on the list.

https://projecteuler.chat/viewtopic.php?t=1982
They basically talk about one single plugin: nvim-r, without linking to its web page.
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I'm not sure if it's so different where you are from, but that happens here all the time. I regurlarly meet Uber drivers in their 40s who did something completely different in their home country and are getting their real estate license (for instance) by driving Uber in the meanwhile. Many more examples like that but it seems to not be that strange. I myself am not very 'normal' but I try many different things, always. So far they make enough to allow to try out something new the next time. I don't see myself stop until I die, but who knows.
You can also download your content so that you can listen to or watch it when you're not connected to the Internet.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204839
But it is not a "C-based" language. It is APL-based. APL preceded C by at least eight years.
Each member of Congress has a substantial number of lawyers behind them to write the actual laws. That's necessary. But the direction should come from people from all walks of life, not just lawyers. I think the real problem may be that Congress creates laws by lawyers for lawyers.
If you want graphs, you're probably not working at the terminal anyway and you're most likely using gvim that integrates nicely with our desktop environment. You can display the R graphics next to the gvim window.
"Now, if coworkers or management are too incompetent for even that, sure, even the best developer would have a bad time."

I haven't worked with his team, but based on my experience with the company, it's possible that there was some of this, and people being so demoralized that they let the incompetent guy with the most standing make stupid decisions and then just do what he says. But they may not have been as bad.
> Apple has told DMN that no such phase-out plan exists. One source has repeatedly insisted that the plan not only exists, but that it is ‘on schedule,’ or even ahead of the original schedule.

Apple denied it when they first said it, and they deny it now. [0] But some anonymous source continues to say it, as of two years ago.

I'm not seeing why DMN should be taken seriously.

[0] http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/apple-itunes-kill-downloads-m...
Ya. Just spam attach in a straight line to wipe out everyone in your path.
The problem with Stirling engines is they have moving parts. It's highly unlikely a Stirling cycle generator on the Voyagers would have operated for 40+ years as their RTGs have.
#601 is pretty easy. Also, #512 and #521 if you have some background in prime number theory.
Hey Id definitely love to hear about how greatly improved as a musician? I picked up an instrument in my 20s and I feel like am plataeuing (I love playing the instrument and I love practising - and not just the easy stuff). The feeling is more about "so what now". How do you get past that existential question?
Bitcoin is deflationary with a cap on the number of units. If there is economic growth the value of each bitcoin will increase. Every current conventional currency introduces more monetary units as the economy grows.
I think we're agreeing more than disagreeing here.

But I think you're not properly valuing yourself in this scenario. People that can utilize AWS and navigate through all the services, use CloudFormation, etc. are in a high demand and at some level in the cost analysis you need to factor that in.
While this is a collective work, honestly, after hearing about JD for so many years: is there anything he CAN’T do?
Please cite your sources on the speed comparison. See: https://istlsfastyet.com/

Also, most games I have played seem to use HTTPS. The only time it is used is when the game does not need an instant result, in which case they use HTTP or HTTPs. Most of the times, this is in the main menu or similar. Doing this makes it even harder (assuming they use certificate pinning) for users to change the values returns to gain any advantage on their client.

Any part of the game that needs speed should be using a UDP based protocol.
Trench Wars zone is still alive and you can play the game. Though there are always the same <100 players around:
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Good question. I wonder I'd its better to read up on how to be a better coder (code complete etc.) and also learn about architecting systems. None of this is usually taught in CS.
What would make these dramatically more fun for me is the examples instead being exercises
Interesting piece, thanks for sharing. I'm constantly plucking at deeper questions around this topic. High-level creative genius seems to fall off for many people in their fourth decade (their 30s), at least for musicians and many mathematicians. This is less the rule for writers, I've found, and I've often wondered about the reasons behind that. I have theories, but I'm more interested in other peoples' thoughts on the entire topic of being able to conjure creative solutions and at what age those capabilities seem to peak, at what ages people have been able to sustain them, and when people have noticed these capabilities ebbing.
Naval Ravikant on work and intellectual curiosity
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No. Unfortunately, much of the design industry's exports as of late have become by-and-large impractical fluff. I say this as a designer. If these ideas were expanded upon and articulated with case studies or practical advice then absolutely.

If you're curious about principles backed with implementation details, check out https://cadence.cc. Looks unassuming but one of the best books on design I've ever read.
A friend of mine is a female PhD candidate in astrophysics, a predominantly male field. She entered graduate school expecting sexism and harassment, and unfortunately that expectation has in large part been borne out. However, one reason why she has been able to endure it is an effort on the part of male astrophysicists--many of them strangers--to intervene when they noticed she was being harassed.

One example: while meeting a research group at a post-conference social, a postdoc 10 years her senior put his arm around her. Some turned a blind eye, others were mortified yet inert, but one man got up and asked the postdoc to switch seats with him. The outcome? My friend was spared having to spend her (already scarce) social capital on wiggling out of this dude's arm, some of her faith was restored in the men in her field (reducing the odds she'd eventually quit it entirely), the dude was sent a signal that his behavior was not okay, and the intervener lost nothing for his courage.

For us males in male-dominated fields, it is critical that we be mindful of when the non-males we are interacting with are being discriminated against or harassed, and more importantly, that we do something when we notice it. It could be as dramatic as something in this article, or it could be as small as apologizing to the non-male coworker you spoke over or saying that you see the sense in a non-male coworker's idea when it seems like it might be getting criticized more for its creator's gender than its merits.
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Am I the only one who finds the incessant iPad commercials on e.g. Fox irritating? The crux of it would be the tagline where the girl says "What's a computer?"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?aosid=p238&v=sQB2NjhJHvY&mtid=2092592t39165&muid=151004C0-0448-4D20-BECD-7D973A171B6D&cid=wwa-us-kwgo-ipad-slid--&mnid=s5tW8uSOx-dm_mtid_2092592t39165_pcrid_233106572095_
But you have to register.

If you publish the benchmark, Oracle will sue you for obtaining the software illegitimately or sue you for not conforming to the license.
I find it amusing that everyone is so certain that Intel doesn't have a special arrangement with the copyright holder.
You may have a look at “The Magic of Math” [1]. I’m reading it right now and I am loving it. It contains a lot of interesting problems from arithmetics, algebra and geometry. They are well explained and show that math is about creative thinking and not about memorizing equations.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Math-Solving-Figuring-Out/dp/04...
I don't understand how that follows from the story. Can you explain your thinking here?
woah... that's a huge deal
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The short answer is yes...
As the other person has said, they have a FAQ for disabling the hotspot. I additionally set my modem to bridge mode in order to use a more capable router. It does look like Comcast mandates the use of their DNS whenever possible, and I'm sure that I bothered to configure an alternative because of reliability issues as well.
I've come to agree with you about the question "how do we define success?" It seems fiendishly difficult to answer, but is so central to well-being in the long run, and so many assumptions seem to be made about it without explicit reflection.

Think about it: financial success? Power? Expression? It's easy to assume these sorts of things define success, but I think it's easy to come up with tricky exceptions.
Designer here as well, similarly frustrated with the lack of analytical rigor in the discipline.

Cadence & Slang did not impress me. I read it a few years ago now so I can’t quote exact examples, but at the time it felt like more fluff to be honest. Well written fluff, but still fluff (ie will design students in 20 years, or even now, benefit from reading it like they would a classic such as “Grid systems for visual design”? My money is on no). Would be curious to hear what aspects of it you particularly enjoyed.

Sadly enough, I find that the best books on designing for interactive media are from the 80s/90s. Examples include Raskin’s “The Humane Interface”, Togazzini’s compendiums, etc.
Look up the diameter of the earth.
When I donate to Wikipedia, I get the assurance that the work produced will be available to the public at large and not locked behind paywalls. Superficially, that's true here too. But I don't want to contribute to projects that are building walled gardens - even indirectly. I would rather contribute to others.
More / less is a spectrum, so by definition it can’t be a dichotomy :)

Also, don’t know what “our system” or “your chaos” refers to, but if it’s the setup for another screed about how universal healthcare is superior to the current US system, save the wear and tear on your keyboard. I’ve heard it many times and I agree.
> Also it is my understanding that /because/ it dispenses with the plutonium out right it's more benign until you turn it on. Which you would presumably do after the potential for RUD in atmosphere has diminished considerably.

This is a good point. Here's a picture of a Plutonium-238 oxide pellet (referenced from [1]):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238#/media/File:Plut...

It will always look like that if you have no way to dump the heat -- basically it's a heat source which is always on.

On the other hand a nuclear reactor that's never been activated will have fuel that looks like this (referenced from [2]):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-235#/media/File:HEUran...

This is no doubt oversimplifying things, since Pu-238 is a pure alpha emitter, whereas once it's been activated, the fuel in a nuclear reactor will generate all sorts of nasty radioactive isotopes which in turn release alpha radiation, beta radiation, neutrons, and gamma rays. It will be pretty safe while it's still cold though -- in fact if it ends up in the ocean it's really unlikely to hurt anything, since there is already uranium dissolved in sea water.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium_238

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-235