skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good. The phone is too damn expensive.

My middle school son has a $64 BLU phone. It was subsidized by Amazon in return for ads on the lock screen. Non-subsidized price is around $100. Last week we went to a theme park with a lot of waiting for rides. He played plants vs zombies and YouTube videos non-stop while we waited for rides. I occasionally surfed the web on my $1049 iPhone X.

By 3 PM my iPhone battery was dead. His battery ... 64%. I’m hard pressed to justify the $1000 price tag of my phone after seeing his in action. Yea it takes better pictures and the screen it a little better. But is that worth $1000 premium? Oh yea, my Son’s phone is over a year old. So compared to an iPhone 7 the differences are even less.
It would be but if 90% of you are coding is website frontends or CRUD like back ends then your skill set is fairly limited and you wouldn't be thinking about learning AI.
> Without turning this into a pity post and sounding like an uncultured asshole, it was horrifying to see and really broke my heart that people are living in conditions like this.

I felt the same way when I first toured the shanty towns in the UAE where essentially “Slave” labor (mostly Pakistani / Indian / Bangladesh indentured servants) lived. In hack days I organized there in the early to mid 2010s, the students built a lot of wearable tech to help monitor the living and working conditions of these workers. Was very eye opening for all to say the least.
Seems to be based on this paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089523

There appears to also be presentation slides for a preview of this paper at: https://siepr.stanford.edu/system/files/FITZPATRICK_Age62mor.... Apparently, the effect is not that large; ~2% jump in mortality rates for males and ~1% for females.
I think market analysts continue to miss the mark on this story.

What I keep hearing over and over are variations of "people are turned off by the $1,000 price tag." I think this is a complete misread. People don't pay $1k for an iPhone because it's the practical thing to do. If practicality is the #1 priority for phone shoppers, they will simply buy a 7 or 8. I don't think this comprises the top of the market, though, and the top of the market is Apple's wheelhouse.

Practicality has nothing to do with why people buy the X. People buy the X because it's a status symbol and they want to be seen with it. With consumer spending up pretty much across the board, I will be very surprised if Apple misses on earnings next month or reduces guidance. I think comparisons to the release of the 6 are misguided as well, since this phone was in shorter supply to begin with, carried a 50% higher price point, and was released alongside two other models.
Complete aside, and I looked in your profile for a way to pm you instead of making this comment where I am sure to burn karma. I noticed in two separate comments that you are improperly using hyphens.

> ... no interest-like people the world ...

Hyphens join two words. This sentence was hard to parse and was nonsensical until I realized the hyphen was intended as a separator. Consider spaces around hyphens when joining parts of a sentence. I was stuck for a spell wondering what an "interest-like" person was - was it a person with a return on value?

Cheers.
There are boards with all that.

The fastest low-cost networking board right now (that I can find) is the espressobin, built around the Marvell Armada chipset. It's got three full-duplex GigE ports that can actually run as such as well as pci-E and SATA. Unfortunately it's oriented toward routers and stuff so it lacks HDMI, so no good for home entertainment.
I know with Slack there is an IRC bridge option (though I've never used it as I only recently started using slack for work). I think there's possibly bridges for discord too. Point being that if you want to consolidate you probably can. Back in the day I used to Adium, which consolidated all of my relevant messaging services into a single app. I didn't use AIM or MSN or iChat's apps ever; I simply added credentials to Adium whenever I needed. Perhaps third party services could fill the gap here as well. They don't all have to use the same protocols so long as they all have similar levels of access and someone is willing to support the integration.
Sure. Why don't I hear more about Americans doing medical tourism then? Is there some kind of information asymmetry, because it sounds to me as if there ought to be a lot of money to be saved if the sick people knew where they could purchase the medicine they require.

I can sympathize with this because I remember needing a medical procedure that I was forced to travel to a different country to solve, it wasn't even about the money but a case where I the patient was given poor information and then ignored, I actually took the doctor to the board over it in the end, and they ultimately provided a correct solution but it was easier in the end just to travel abroad to fix it.
You're right you didn't say slightly, I apologise. And the Hitler thing was an extreme example but you understand what I was trying to say.

Personally, I do perceive a strong anti conservitive and pro labour bias in that paper, even in simple ways like using flattering pictures of Corbyn and unflattering ones of May. So when i see an article on a complex subject that leads with an anti government headline I'm automatically reading it with the fact that these people hate the conservitives in mind and I thought that should be pointed out to others who might not be aware of that.
This has implications for the economy of prostitution, and pornography.
> Even if the migrant workers were exploited by local residents and employers, they were still better-off than they could gain in their rural home.

I’m hopeful you didn’t intentionally imply slavery was a good thing, but that’s essentially what you wrote.
1: Keep everything as simple as possible.

2: Keep your toolchain and build process independent from the operating system and editors.

3: Don't use IDEs.

4: Have a one command automated build and run as soon as you write a basic skeleton of your project.
Because it's a nice device?
Fast, sleek, good camera, stylish etc

Why do people buy nice cars instead of the cheapest, most economical models?
iOS Mobile Developer
> "all of the relevant information for making inferences"

I think this terminology is way too strong. Obviously the context matters. For example, the way the data is collected (whether or not the data collector is a known liar/p-hacker, the sensor is known to malfunction at certain temperatures, etc) should affect inference.
Why does making a computer program "reversible" lower the amount of energy needed to run it?
Can you post a few links of websites that are painfully slow on low end machines? I would like to test with my Son’s $64 Android vs my iPhone X.
Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now, He’s the Only One
Coping with Complexity
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Startups are not marathons. Working smart is better than working hard
Thank you for the info I’m aware that the hyphen used that way is a personal quirk. But I’m always looking to improve my written communication so I’ll use them correctly going forward.
I come to HN to improve myself and not to learn the name of today's Javascript framework. Up vote
Out of curiosity, how difficult is this to do? Would the average user be able to do this easily?
“Right tool for the job”, round and round we go.
What is Y Combinators marketing strategy?
How was their marketing when they started? and how did it change over time
And all cards are not created equals. They are literally tokens of how private companies see you.

When I started being a consultant, I had suddenly very low and very large ups and downs on my bank account. It was very irregular and my bank decided I was not to be trusted anymore and switched my regular card for a toy one. I could not even pay tolls and parking with it, and was caped to 500$ I could pay with for a month.

In that case, having cash is the only reason you can keep living like you used too.

Also I switched bank.
It's not "fair" as far as logical argumentation is concerned because the statement proves nothing since it is equally true of successful technologies as it is of failed technologies. It is an absolutely meaningless platitude.
Two things are attractive from an employer standpoint:

(1) Elasticity-- it's hard for both personal/morale reasons and legal reasons to lay people off, but it's easy to increase or decrease contractor utilization as needed.

(2) Expertise-- sometimes you need someone with some specialized know-how and you only need them for one job.
Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010)
'rare one' I used should clarify. I never speak for others so always surprised I have to explain that. Although I do have badge that allows me to represent entire planet I don't use it ;)
They can vote by moving to another place?
Not only do they get commissions, but for the merchants, people historically pay more with Cards than with cash

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-behind-beha...
Everytime a woman marrys a second or third cat - some poor men must become a culture warrior.
geometric_mean1 =: (+/ % #) &. (^."1) @: (0&>.)

Just this makes me want to cry. Good lord. Even if you like functional programming why would you want it to look like this?!
You're being far too kind. I don't mind if people become filthy rich as long as they do it legally. It's supposedly illegal to not quote people prices before providing services, or to have discriminatory pricing. Yet hospitals (you know, that place where those surgeons work) do this on a daily basis and blindly screw people over.

I say "supposedly" because I have yet to see anyone in the medical industry go to jail for violations of the Sherman, Clayton, or Robinson-Patman acts. Mechanics and contractors tried these bullshit games decades ago and it was met with actual enforcement of the law and that's why we have binding estimates for these services now. They also cannot charge you different rates based on which insurance you have. Even more so, if they fail to properly fix something and you bring it back they are required to correct the problem at no additional cost because you already paid them to fix this issue (these occasional instances are supposed to be covered by increasing the quoted estimates to account for a small portion coming back for additional work at no charge). The same is not true in hospitals. Whenever these surgeons perform an operation and there is a complication like, for example, and infection - guess who pays for it. The patient. There is precisely one place that I know of that doesn't do any of this shit in the medical field - The Surgery Center of Oklahoma. They even post a price list. Here's one page:
https://surgerycenterok.com/?procedure_category=knee#jump
Keep in mind that these prices are not only far less than what hospitals charge, but this includes competitive wages for their surgeons (whom I'm fairly certain aren't slaves) as well as covering the cost of complications, which also provides every incentive for them to not infect you or have complications arise.
If “excess” people are moved to a second-tier city X miles away, what happens when that city is full - create a third-tier city Y miles away? Will there be a separate transportation network between first-tier cities? Permits/visas to travel between city-states?
>I already did it for bcash but it took about a week to download the forked blockchain

Explain? I just imported my private keys (for Bitcoins I got before the fork) from Electrum to the Bitcoin Cash version of Electrum. Is there something else I need to do or is that just if you're running a full node?
This is not trivial and is not akin to simply uninstalling an app (coming from a google-free Android user on a pixel).
In customer service, a 10 is good, a 9 is good with room for improvement, and everything below an 8 is bad. The author makes a big deal about the difference between a 0 and 6. But both mean the customer is disatisfied. There’s no real difference.
Love to try this in 2018!
Never knew about this board. Might make for a pretty nice home router.
China is still a relatively poor country (1). I lived in Shanghai for a few years back, and even if you just go into the side streets a few blocks from the richest area in Shanghai (Pudong, Huangpu), you can see slums and sometimes dead people lying in the streets with no assistance. And if you go 10 minutes out of the richest areas, you have people living in hutongs and communist-style buildings with low level life qualities.

The problem is that these immigrants will never be able to become a first-tier city citizen, due to hukou. The government is trying to move these people into empty buildings in second tiered cities, but there are no jobs there. (thus alot of these migrants actually moved back to the farms last I heard)

1.) Statistica says that in 2016, China rural households only made about $1000/year. and urban households only made about $3000/year.
(https://www.statista.com/statistics/259451/annual-per-capita...)
BS. He didn’t write a word about slavery nor that it would be a good thing.

You need to recalibrate your Bernie Sanders radar.
The hostname is a domain name. Some domain names may not be hostnames, but all hostnames are domain names. So the entire domain name, which is also a hostname, is exposed.
Experts pick the best movie about their professions
Cool, nice to know about this. I'm still (slowly) switching from chrome back to Firefox.
Let's just have a cold look. If people don't want something what can a company do? Bundle that nasty thing with something people want. And this is what the ad industry has been doing. And now the power to bundle has started to unravel long ago.

It's simple. Would you prefer something with or without distraction if you had the power to choose?

Ad industry is doomed. Except if they find a way or other to regain the power to force the bundling. For example by declaring ad blockers unlawful.
> ... I was struck by how high quality the writing was.

That's pretty par for the course, IMO, WRT LWN's articles. It's why I'm happy to continue throwing a few dollars their way every month.
I regularly screw these scores up by honestly answering the question I was asked.

> On a scale of 0-10, how likely are you to recommend Netflix to a friend or colleague?

0

> You answered 0 to the last question. Why wouldn't you recommend Netflix?

It's 2018, people. Everyone I know either already uses Netflix, used to use Netflix, or doesn't own a computer. If I started going around making a recommendation like that, they would think I'm a prat.
Sounds like it's actually implemented, as least by this quote: "In both the 50- and the 20-qubit systems, the quantum state is preserved for 90 microseconds—a record for the industry, but still an extremely short period of time."
It is worrying that the US would move to a cashless society with credit cards. This is already a reality in the Netherlands and other countries in the EU, but with debit payments being the vast majority, which also have much, much lower fees. Handing off 2-3% of all transactions to Visa/MasterCard is just insane.
I wonder if these analysts actually get out in the world or just sit in cubicles closed off from the real world. Traveling this holiday season, I saw the characteristic notch all over the place. Rural areas of flyover country included, saw them everywhere. In the month prior while in NYC, I saw them being used by folks of virtually every division of socio-economic background. I’ve not traveled internationally yet since it was released, but it seems in the US anyway that the X marks the spot of a home run release for Apple to me.
This suggests that political stability depends on young men being able to pursue their romantic dreams. This would apply in any country, not just African countries. In nations in the West, an important limiting factor is the ability to get one's own apartment. That is, the ratio of average male wage to average rent. In the USA, the happiest year for this ratio was 1958, when people were spending 22% of their income on rent, on average. Not by coincidence, this was the peak year of the Baby Boom. In some sense, it was the best year in history to be a young white male in the USA. It was the year when it was easiest for an 18 year old male to get out of high school, get their own apartment, marry their high school sweetheart, and start a family. And of course, young people did this in huge numbers, which is why 1958 remains the peak year for teenage pregnancy in the USA.

But rent has been rising faster than the average male wage since 1958, and politics in the USA has become angrier and angrier. The mechanism that this article suggests, that polygamy leads to war, would also suggest an angry impulse in a country that has transformed from one where 18 year old men have their own apartment to a country where most men don't achieve their own apartment until their late 20s or 30s.

There certainly has been a change in the tone with which men talk about women. Nowadays you can find Pick Up Artist web sites where men in their 20s and 30s can supposedly learn tricks to win over women. The tone suggests that women are far away, and need to be tricked into things. In 1958, a woman was a person you lived with and shared your life with, starting when you were 18. Early marriage had its own problems, which have been picked apart in endless comedies, but according to this article, the ease of marriage in the 1950s would have explained the contentment that the American people expressed regarding their own government and way of life.

The other implication of this is that Consumer Price Index is a lousy way to track people's standard of living, because it tends to treat socks and lettuce and bicycles and apples and houses and automobiles and Xboxes and Nintendo consoles as all having the same weight to each other as their price. But if this article is right, that men need women or they become war like, that would suggest that one item (housing) has an emotional weight that makes it much more important than any other item. If we adjust the median male wage with the CPI then it seems male wages in the USA have been stagnant since 1973. But if we gave housing the kind of weight that this article seems to justify, then we could say that men have seen a declining standard of living since 1958. That is, the abundance of socks and lettuce and bicycles and apples and automobiles and Xboxes and Nintendo consoles does not make up for rising rent.
Let me first say that the burden of proof here relies on Fred Reichheld (or whoever else champions NPS now) to defend NPS from the claims in the cited papers.

I totally agree that NPS feels like placing faith too much in something magical. However, I don't feel totally convinced by this article; when people calculate NPS, do they really ignore any other analysis on the raw input (i.e. all 0's vs all 6's)? Yes, there are totally exceptional datasets that make the NPS look like it hasn't move; has that been a problem for people in the wild?

Also, is picking one ecommerce customer out of the data enough to say that there's no correlation between NPS and future behavior?

I've seen NPS used as a way of keeping a pulse on a community; if it drops sharply, something is clearly wrong in a way that normal monitoring can't surface.
Not if their site needs a large audience, e.g. ecommerce.
Which scales fine, with the 65 mile Uber ride costing you closer to £100.
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Older article which claims the link between surplus of young men and instability [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/an...
What do you have against IDEs and what languages do you mainly write in?
>It is not even the fault of the Beijing local residents be to blame for the tragedy today. The cream of economy development was either intentionally or unintentionally hoarded in the metropolises while the second tiers cities never get the chance. People have to migrate and follow the money.

Here is my observation based on my experience as a person who was frequently visiting Shenzhen over the last 10 years.

Shenzhen usually deals with "undesirables" much smarter:

1. Moped taxis - Shenzhen was one of first Chinese cities that made taxi - a taxi business. The moment proper taxi rides became available to general population, moped taxis vanished. Although motorcycles are outlawed in Shenzhen, most people running moped taxis were relying on police being reluctant to chase all and every of them. The moment an economic incentive vanished, so they did too.

2. Street food - mostly vanished when the city started to get more zealous on food safety inspections. When citizens were made to understand that a food safety license in a cafe is more than a piece of paper, they began voting with their valets by choosing food safety attested eateries.

3. Garbage scavengers - vanished without a trace once the city kickstarted legal recycling businesses with minimal subsidies.

4. Garage factories - killed by ferric chloride and other chemical detectors in city savage.

and the list goes on.

Beijing usually goes simply - we don't like you, firing squads will come this afternoon.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/person-lotus-position...
I'm familiar with the 56 qubit simulation from IBM: That does not appear to be significantly restricted in any way, at least not based on the limited understanding I can glean from their publication's results & conclusions (I'm not a quantum computer scientist or physicist). They appear to have found a practical tensor-based work around to the previous exponentially increasing memory requirements.

Moreover it is one that can, in limited circumstances, be applied in a paralellized, distributed environments (cloud). That appears to be the limitation: They successfully simulated a 56-qubit computer, but many some workloads using their method cannot be distributed, and must be computed within the same environment. I.e., they made two advancements: 1: A successful simulation, and 2: it can be done distributively, only for certain workloads.

Of course it's all roughly a billion times slower than a true quantum computer.
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Need some non holiday time to read this fully, but it's worth noting that aside from Spanner, Cloud Datastore (using Megastore tech) and Cloud Firestore (using the same tech as Cloud Spanner) all do Paxos across several data centers over a wide area and achieve millions non batched writes/second.

Sometimes it can be hard to tease out the true trade-offs in the systems as they don't get as detailed acknowledgement, but from a quick read it looks like tail latency will will be worse.

Improvements in consensus algos often have issues, correct implementation is hard, but it can make previously impossible things tenable which I find exciting.
'mah-' is US English, not English :P It's 'mah' in one country.

p.s. Seems every day on here I'm reminding people from the US that their country is not the world, their version of English is spoken and spelt in just one country, etc etc etc. Maybe I should give up doing that.

The most classic maybe was a linguist (yes, amazing) who on her blog was gloating that her variety of US English was particularly rich, in having almost every vowel sound in English. I looked at her list.. it didn't include the 'o' sound in 'pot'..
Agreed w parent (not GP). Ability to choose your relationship structure is usually overridden by economic forces. (Related: do cows suffer from inflation?)
Microsoft’s social initiative that became a successful bot
How does this compare to the Purism (https://puri.sm/) stuff? It seems that Purism is supposed to completely wall off the baseband processor. Does Eelo?