skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really solving the problem though, or does it just give us houses no one wants to own and college graduates no one wants to employ? That's what it looks like to me at least. I don't think it's bad monetary or tax policy per-say, although those are bad, but just bad policy in general. But the badness of the policy comes from a fundamental over estimation of what the government is capable of doing for a society.
If you want to be serious about saving our future, you need to stop standing on the sidelines and echoing the defeatist attitude that the situation we're in cannot be fixed. We need to stop worrying about offending a minority of people who have power and focus on ending their political power, because a lot of the fixes will be political and must be.

EDIT: being a little presumptive here, see below.
I don't see anything contradictory in what she says. You can love someone, yet not always take actions that are best for them. Your life can resolve around someone else, while you wish it didn't.
i want to build a few these at 3d print level, but would love to see someone prototype some of these at micro level, anyone have access to lithograph? Another basic question is potential clock speed based on size and material used. curious if anyone has done some basic ballpark theoreticals
Aren't null pointers just a variation on the Maybe Monad?
> Why compress at all? Wouldn't just having a pixel perfect stream solve the same issue and give better quality video?

Because compression reduces the amount of data that needs to be transmitted, reducing network and battery usage, especially if the radio channel is congested.

Instead of filling the stream and having a constant stream size, you could just code the drone do add random bursts of data, making any prediction from the observer useless.
Earning arbitrage through working remotely is something many folks have done for the last 15-20 years.

It provide a healthy ability to save and access lasting economic mobility if that's the goal.

At the end of the day what you make doesn't matter, it's what you're able to keep and move forward (or stabilize with).
the US government’s #1 financial asset is debt ... for university education

This isn't quite true.. In addition to the assets in the chart, the governemnt has about 8T in mortgages (out of 15T total outstanding) through several Government Sponsored Enterprises, like Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/mortouts...

The only difference is that the government took over the student loan market without creating a GSE to manage it.
It's very likely that the drone doesn't have enough bandwidth to send the raw video, so you need to compress.
Convince the capitalist/managerial class this is a good idea. The other option is to replace them.
Come to Eastern Europe, your student loan money is enough for a whole new life here.

P.s. honestly, I don't understand how ppl who are so hoplessly indebted are not migrating here. Bulgaria offers very cheap life with the opportunity of doing business with the EU and the US. Why work 24/7 when you can enjoy a good life in a place where the local people and economy need a foreigner to lead them in the business and globalizing world?
You don't have to agree, but that fact is still true. I also have hesitations with buying land in the Midwest, mostly due to climate change factors.
Private lenders are tiny part of the market in student loan originations, even a smaller part in undergradatute loans.

The federal government is the overwhelmingly dominant player and they set the terms by fiat rather than any kind of market.

The “lenders” are the USG, and the cost of capital is only the imputed inflationary effect of transforming a loan into spending. Given the experience of the last decade those inflationary pressures may well be smaller than we had thought.
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> Millennials are the most educated generation in history. Yet there are record numbers of them working off student debts as waiters and bartenders, and supplementing their income on the side with ‘gigs’ (like being an Uber driver)

We're the most educated in history, but many people decided to use that education to learn topics that aren't lucrative/in demand. Personal responsibility plays in a ton here, and some people made bad decisions. It's still simple/easy to get a good education at a state school, entirely paid for by loans, and come out with a degree that will allow you to pay those loans back in a few years. People who plan accordingly benefit in a HUGE way from the availability/accessibility of student loans, the barrier to entry is that much lower.

As far as SS goes, I'd be happy to see it fail but I'm also happy to keep paying into it without a guarantee of return in order to ensure my parents generation doesn't find themselves destitute. There are so many ways to plan for your future, having the government come in and force you to participate in SS is far from ideal. Not sure how my fellow Millennials feel about that, though...
It's fascinating accounting-wise. Matt Levine has a good write-up here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-08/fannie-an...

The interaction of the accounting rules and the new tax plan was fascinating too because the value of their deferred tax asset changed:

> “A reduction in corporate tax rates would require us to measure our net deferred tax asset using the new rate in the period in which the rate change is enacted, resulting in a one-time charge through the tax provision in the period the tax rate was changed, ...”

More here: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/42130-trump-to-sign-tax...
As a debtor, I would rather debt that can be discharged through bankruptcy, so there is incentive there to prefer this offer to that of another similar offer that doesn't include the debt transfer. In other words, there is benefit to both the borrower (a 'better' kind of debt) and lender (we sell something we might otherwise not).
I'd give you the same deadline of 5-10 years for figuring out a way to hold off the automation of military and security operations, which will be just as bad as losing the open web.
Occam's Razor -> simplest explanation is likely the right one.

You use big words and don't really say anything, therefore you're reeeeaaallllyyy smart.
I wonder if it would be possible to have a clause in your will stating that if any family member sues any other family member, the whole lot goes to charity. Bonus points if you can get a legal professional to utter the words "and you can all eat shit".
I submitted because of that story. I wanted commentary from the HN crowd on the flip side of the issue.
And that's _exactly_ why I will likely never have kids. I'm a millennial myself, caught up in all that (doubly so, if they remove the student loan forgiveness for public workers), and I don't want to make any child of mine grow up in the world it seems we're heading to (especially degrading climate).
hackervid.io, like HN but for videos.

https://hackervid.io/

Source code: https://github.com/netgusto/hackervid.io
Jesus.

That's rough as hell man.

Any strategies for coping with the losses? How do you both do it?
What technology will have the biggest impact on marketing in 2018?
I'm wondering who lost in this scenario, Overstock or Coinbase? The author offered to send it back to Overstock, and Coinbase presumably has a few other merchants, so presumably Overstock.
You're kidding, right? That other industries don't have high entry barriers? Just some I can name off the top of my head...

Medicine, law, pharmacy, actuarial science, accounting...

For most upper class jobs it's the norm.
It is more like: all hot girls/boys are already taken only leftovers that cannot complete fizzbuzz are left.

Unless your company is hot or you can poach people from your network you will have big problem hiring.
AFAIK land is not used for collateral to estimate credit worthiness. Taxes are, but it's understood that the figure is ballpark and subject to economic fluctuations.

A portfolio of loans, however, can impact the credit worthiness of the borrower if the default rate exceeds historic expectations, which is what US experienced in 2008 with mortgage-backed loans.
How many people are represented by a single IP address? How do you deal with changing IP addresses (most residential ISPs assign dynamic addresses)? How do you distinguish between residential and commercial traffic? How do you deal with cellular devices (for which GeoIP data is much less accurate)? How do you account for people who don't use the service you got the data from? (Netflix in particular has a limited subscriber base, but all the providers would exclude, say, elderly folks who do nothing but email).

Getting good data at nationwide scale is never as easy as it sounds in your head, unfortunately.
Ask HN: Where do you see mobile development go in 2018?
I'm starting to feel that the day has finaly come for cross-platform development, but there are so many promising techs i'm wondering what the next big thing will be.

A new breed of Web assembly frameworks running everywhere from mobile to web ?

What about Flutter , or Kotlin native, or Xamarin ? Will any of them have their chance now ?

Is a new upcoming mobile plateform going to emerge ?

I've got my hopes and beliefs but i'm curious to know what the HN community thinks.
The only problem with MDMA is it is not legal in the majority of countries. Up to hundreds thousands (something less maybe, but still a lot) of people all over the world would gladly submit reports about their experiences of taking MDMA together with and without these substances (piracetam, magnesium, antioxidants etc) if this was not associated with risk of getting busted by the authorities. I have no doubt his advices would have been proven statistically then.
I personally would. Any situation where I'm being judged by strangers in real-time sets off social anxiety.

Some things that help me in that situation are when there's some light/friendly conversation preceding the test, or when there's a limited the us-vs-them size, like only one or two interviewers at a time.
>Personal responsibility plays in a ton here

Except everyone is constantly told they need to go to college by authority figures as they go through the education system. There's also responsibility that falls on employers demanding college degrees for jobs that in no way need them, e.g., secretary.
With any luck I will die before my late 2013 15" MBP. The cost of the new ones is criminal, and the reviews are even worse.

I picked up a Toshiba Chromebook 2 and run GalliumOS (a mod of Xubuntu). I use the former-Chromebook for anything outside of the house -- unless its a meeting where I will specifically require Creative Suite. It's basically my 'if someone robs me, take this and I won't blink twice' laptop.

With every new MBP released over the past few years, it makes me wonder what happened to the people who were working in the various design teams during the Jobs era. I can't imagine that these flaws are the result of a single leader.
This is generally fine but “homework” is a terrible idea (trend?) because it isn’t looking from the perspective of the new hire:

1. Unemployment can be extremely stressful and there is a very good chance the person needs a job NOW. Every little thing you do to dilly-dally instead of making an offer is another hurdle that may send the applicant elsewhere. Act as soon as possible when you see a résumé you like (get on the phone, find out what you want to know, make a decision; if you bring them to interview and they’re struggling, give feedback immediately; don’t have a system where you wait 3 weeks to tell them yes/no).

2. Any effort you expect an applicant to spend will be greatly multiplied. That person is not talking only to you, they’re looking at LOTS of job postings!! If every potential employer starts assigning “homework”, it becomes a major hurdle and you can bet they’ll look a lot closer at an employer that might provide a paycheck in a couple weeks instead of “homework”.

3. You don’t need complex problems to understand if somebody can code. Let them use whatever language their résumé claims they know, give them something to do for a few minutes and see what happens. If they get stuck, give them a solid hint and again, see what happens. You’re trying to assess things like (a) if they appear to know what their résumé claims, (b) if they are the kind of person you can interact with to get somewhere on a problem.
Currently, I serve on two committees with my local City government. I work-trade with local farmers and volunteer with numerous non-profit organizations. I've converted my backyard into an urban farm and have started a composting program with my neighbors. I regularly meet with the Mayor to discuss ideas that could benefit the local community.

All of this is in addition to my 9-5.

What else should I be doing?

Also, I don't appreciate your presumption that I have a "defeatist" attitude just because I shared some of my honest thoughts. Next time ask.
Specifically, there were PoCs floating around on Twitter
Everyone I know and care about is here. That isn't inconsequential.
A big part of it, which you allude to, is that many people are either self taught entirely, or having studied CS during undergrad, are self taught in practical software development.

In a field like mechanical engineering, I assume an employer can take for granted that a new grad has a certain set of skills (general physics, structures, fluids, etc.). That can't be assumed in quite the same way in software engineering.
I would prefer a mix of 2 days in 3 days remote if I had the option. I think it is important to see some face to face. But I think as someone who programs if you get more quiet focus time, you can get bigger things done.
Let's not be too harsh on the baby boomers, they were trying to create a better world for the next generation, they chose chose to do it via an unsustainable system that relies on top-down direction of the economy using inappropriate tools. Can you blame them for that? Top down worked great at things like rebuilding europe after a war (admittedly an eminently unfalsifiable task)...

True, there were minority voices clamoring that this would result in ruin, but to be fair there are still well regarded "smart" people who argue that the problem for millennials is that those people in charge just didn't do it ENOUGH.
So, after typing this I realized that it is all related to Desktop OSs, not servers, so keep that in mind when reading.

I don't think applications are really the big problem these days with virtualization and all. If your OS can virtualize other OSs, that can act as your compatibility layer. Windows 7(?) did it for XP, MacOS X did something kinda like it for classic, etc.

The real problem is you have to offer a compelling reason for people to A) want to use it over alternatives, and B) develop for it over alternatives. Personally I think if you can make it really developer and power user friendly a lot of applications might show up just because the system is a joy to work in for the kinds of people who make things. You'll note that this is pretty much the opposite of where Desktop OSs have been heading.

Also, drivers. Not sure how to crack that nut.
I find it more plausible that a diverse workforce and market success are both effects of a good company culture, good hiring practices etc. than suggesting that diversity somehow causes success.

Not least because seeing diversity as a causal factor seems to imply that a person's skillset is somehow linked to their gender/race (or whichever diversity criteria is in play), and hence that a diverse workforce leads to a broader skillset.
> Instead of filling the stream and having a constant stream size, you could just code the drone do add random bursts of data, making any prediction from the observer useless.

If it's actually random, wouldn't the average bitrate of "still scene + occasional random data" still be lower than "active scene + occasional random data"? Given enough samples, of course.
Because they don't understand. A common refrain about the story in the U.S. of LaVar Ball, the impetuously famous basketball dad, is that it was a huge mistake to send his kids to play in Lithuania.

It's a classic example of "worldly" Americans going to the Louvre and being "cultured" but not having the depth of understanding that Eastern Europe is a wonderful, beautiful place. It's just not as well-kept and poorer so they turn up their nose.
https://inbound.org/ for marketing.
Right, and the graph was about the assets of "the US government", not about the Fed.
>> I owe my parents a debt so great I cannot possible repay it, no matter what I do for them. My only chance of relief is to take that debt and "burden" another generation.

That's well said.
I have no empathy for bad short term thinking.

I could not afford to go to the college I wanted to go to, so I went to a cheaper one I could afford but no one really gives a fuck about. However, it left me with no debt, straight after graduating.

Today, as people struggle to pay off loans for universities they once boasted proudly about, it’s clear I made the right choice.
This chart is very informative. It looked a bit familiar to me and it reminded me of this link: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/2017...

The charts look a bit too similar...
Millenial here. I think things are better then you think.

Failing government systems? Have always existed.
Unaffordable education? Never went, no idea. Online education still free.
Limited Housing and Land? Flyover country, tons of cheap housing and land.
Degrading Climate? Yes. But even the most pessimistic projections are unlikely to effect my life.

Its a great time to be alive. Country not at war, unemployment is low, stock market doing amazing, crime is low, tons of new fields are emerging, sex is significantly easier to find then past generations, and the internet is still pretty great.
Not OP, but we do home work assignment instead of white board coding as well.

While I can't be absolutely sure that they've done it themselves, a big part of the in person interview is based on the homework, asking them how they would extend it, add specific features, potential performance problems they see, etc.

Those answers are hard to fake if you didn't do it yourself

We had one case where a candidate used some open source code snippets in his solution, not declaring and removing the comments and license headers. Still it was very obvious in the difference of coding style.
What's SS ?
1) The loans that are being discussed are not owned by private banks, so even if 100% were defaulted there would be no bailout of banks needed.

2) There are no blood debts in the US. Debts are NOT passed on to heirs like property.
I have a similar position on child creation, but I've decided that if I do want kids (don't at the moment, but seems likely) and can afford to, that I'll look strongly into adoption. Seems like a pretty good solution all-around to me.
The Fed's Financial Accounts: What Is Uncle Sam's Largest Asset?
To my sibling commenters: https://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/babysign.asp
Yes, far more flexible, but in some sense yes.

The key difference between cloud and the traditional mainframe model is the decoupling between usage and the assets.

Time sharing is buying a share of an asset. Reserved instances is pre-commiting to computing utilization.
There have been articles posted here on HN about companies that moved to the cloud for savings, grew their business, and eventually left their cloud provider due to high costs.

I've never been in a position to find out the hard way, but that's how "the cloud" always struck me. "Have access to the computing power of a multimillion dollar mainframe w/o buying the mainframe!" But if/when you actually need and can afford a multimillion dollar mainframe (or equivalent), cloud pricing might not be much savings.
Am I the only one with IAM fatigue at this point, feels like we get a headline like this at a rate of one a week now
The quote you're looking for is "I’m simply stating that the distribution of ... abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes."
and don't forget microcode and intel
Law degrees used to be in demand. Then everyone went to law school. Now it's not in demand, because there are too many people with law degrees. Now you have people with massive law school debt making peanuts and all fighting for very limited amount of positions.

If everyone studied computer science, every single one of our salaries (save for maybe the top 5% of us, in terms of skills and experience) would drop significantly.

I know the absurd stereotype is that millennials are going to college and studying feminist underwater basket weaving, but there are many, many students who are chasing the "hot" new fields, only to find that they weren't the only ones who had that brilliant idea at 18 years old.
social security
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lol, in German we only have one word for batter and dough.
This is such a huge problem and it's so easy to see the collapse over the horizon.

There are just a few small differences between education today and education 30 years ago. Off the top of my head, you can go online today and see lectures for upper level MIT courses for free... Literally, the best university in the world has lectures available for free. And instead of learning the dewey decmial system and taking 10 books and flipping through looking for a specific answer, you can google any specific topic and immediately get relevant information. And you can go on reddit.com/r/askscience and ask questions to experts in any field. Just a few small differences.

What the hell are people paying for, then? The "college experience"? Does it really cost tens of thousands of dollars to validate that someone has adequately learned from consuming educational material?
Schools today have dorms that look like luxury hotels and the best gyms in the country; what the fuck is going on?

Meanwhile, primary education hasn't fundamentally changed in 100 years, outside of a select few schoolboards adding iPads to the classroom and thinking to themselves, "Yes, now we're modern." Nevermind that we still exclusively group children by their age group rather than their educational progress until they're 18. Nevermind that we have never questioned the idea of teaching children 7 different topics every single day, wasting extraordinary amounts of time with context switching, instead of focusing on a topic for longer periods (as it works in the real world.)

I just do not understand how this debt is going to be managed when (not "if") the education system is fundamentally disrupted. Economists more or less universally agree that federally guaranteed student loans are unsustainable and make education more expensive. So what's taking so long?
You're definitely doing a lot more than a lot of people are doing. I read your last line as defeatist, and probably misjudged you.

I will say however that a lot of the issues you talk about are systemic and larger than what can be affected by local politics. Compositing programs won't address there are still large corporate farms out there that contribute the most to climate change. The same is true of recycling, being vegan or eating local, etc. A lot of change that needs to occur involves regulating large corporations.

It sounds like you're aware of this, but that's how you address the future. I think you agree.

EDIT: leaving my presumptive comment above unchanged so people reading won't be confused.
Social Security ?
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