skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While is the US is moving slightly backwards... In most of the developed world we have never had as much free time, vacation and money as we do now.

You don't need to have your own business to have some degree of personal autonomy. In many ways you'll have fewer responsibilities if you're just an employee, and a larger degree of self-determination.

I'm not necessarily convinced doing your own business is a guide to happiness. That said, author has a point, if you do want to try, maybe avoid VC money. It's easier to become profitable if you're not dragged down by investors who needs to profit first.
There are many facets to this debate that aren't discussed in the news. One is that without immigration, the population of the US would decrease based on birth / death rates. If the population of the US decreases, social security and other social programs become insolvent. In other words, our social programs are based off the current working generation paying for the current retired generation, and has since their inception.

It's a complex issue, and benefits vary from region to region. The powers (with big microphones) that are trying to sway you one way or the other only focus on a few simple things.
There are plenty of ways besides suspending accounts to make the cost of botting too high to be profitable. A captcha for example is fairly frictionless for a typical user.
it will make more sense with something like

data "template_file" "eth_service" {
filename = "./files/eth.service"
vars {
wallet_address =
"${var.wallet_address}"
}

}

with

ExecStart=/tmp/ethminer -G -F eth-us.dwarfpool.com:80/${wallet_address}
They deny service to US customers.
I qualify as a Millenial and I don’t know a single person who’s planning on doing this. I rent right now in a major city but am looking to buy, maybe, in the next few years. For my peer group anyway that’s the norm. What I do find as one of the major drivers of increased housing costs are actually Boomers (aka my parents generation) engaging in a nasty kind of NIMBYism - a sort of “I got mine” mentality. My fear is that we’re building in a lot of tail risk into our cities by behaving this way and not building. There’s all sorts of absurd zoning rules all over the country. Things won’t change until there’s another collapse.
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college education may be in a better place today than it otherwise would have been without RMP, also many professors have academic tenure so that may need to change before university departments can really be responsive to students
Using a raspberry pi as a GPS NTP timeserver greatly amuses me since the raspberry pi doesn't ship with an RTC (or at least last time I checked). As a follow up question, how does the system time get set on one of these time servers? Does the NTP process have rights to update local system time or does the system rely on requesting NTP from itself?
Ok.

In this case, though, the included systemd unit launches "ethminer" with a hard-coded wallet address passed in.
Any chance you can remember which paper?
The Setenv Fiasco (2015)
There are better, cheaper, self-contained flamethrowers out there if you're in the market. They come up from time to time on gun forums.

They're far from popular, for what it's worth. They're finicky and while they're fun to play with for a bit... but really, what are you going to do with a flamethrower?
>Assault rifles pass the above test

So do cars.
That's not a real flame thrower.... I used to do something similar to this when I was 10 with a hair-spray can and a lighter
In the US, anything you do in a public place is considered fair game. The inside of your car does require consent, a warrant, or probable cause.
0. The local economy adds thousands of competitively paid knowledge-work jobs, recruits the best candidates from around the country and world to fill them, and makes offers that are at least good enough to fund a bachelor lifestyle without the benefit of tenure in the city.
To me, this isn't a story about gentrification. It's more of a story about the modern American job, housing, financial, and social status markets.

1. The job market, especially in media jobs, has changed into one where you can be fired at any time. Similarly, forty years ago, someone who had a good media job would not have felt safe making such inflammatory (right or wrong) statements.

2. American housing markets have adjusted higher to essentially consume all of the practical discretionary income of renters and buyers. A lot of this has to do with the securitization of these obligations, and the corresponding loosening of credit requirements. If the rope that the bank or the landlord is willing to give you increase, it's not just a personal decision about how much risk you're willing to take, because it affects the loans and leases everyone else in the market gets. Just because your neighbor is taking out a crazy loan he can't afford if anything goes wrong doesn't mean he isn't pushing up the housing prices just as much as if he could do it comfortably.

3. The financial markets have become much more sophisticated on one hand, but also much less local and much shorter term focused. If 10% of borrowers default, that's not necessarily a problem as long as the cost they cause covers the profit from the others. If the 10% cause major social problems, the holder of the CDO in Qatar has no idea, and wouldn't care if he did.

4. The increased availability of credit, and the increased willingness of markets to give credit to risky borrowers has forced people to extend themselves to the max in order to compete for social status. If your friend has a BMW and a big house even though he's practically bankrupt, you are pushed into doing the same thing. The girls at the next table at the bar have no idea that he's is being fiscally irresponsible, they just know that he has a cool car and a nice house.
I enjoyed the presentation but genuinely hated the website. Like, on a deep and personal level. I'm a little bit mad about how bad the experience of using this website is. There were several pages where I had no idea if I was waiting for something to finish loading, or if I was supposed to hit space to continue (I'm on a slow/unreliable 4G connection...I often have this problem, but I can usually figure out what's happening based on surrounding content and commmonly used affordances that hint at what actions are available and when). I know it's one-key navigation, very simple and seemingly impossible to get wrong, but because it's frequently loading large files, I frequently was in limbo about what to do (though by the end I stopped waiting and just started trusting it would do something if it had something to do...this ended up skipping at least a couple of things that I think would have been musical or interactive or something had I waited for them).

If this subject weren't really of interest to me, I would have noped out within a couple of pages.
Well, the title literally says "a set of" and "not a sequence of".
The incentives are huge, and digital life makes it all the more easy. The more information someone has, the more lucrative it is collect even more.

You can find someones property address online - it used to take wuite a bit of effort in the past. Now the effort is on the property owner to protect his privacy - using land trusts or other estate structures.

What is worse is now people volunteer information on social networks. If you dont, your friends do - nullifying your effort.

I am not optimistic either, but i will do whatever i can ti protect my own privacy whenever i can. I stopped using fb, and making an effort to learn estate planning and so on.
In Honor of Spaceballs, Elon Musk Starts to Sell Boring Company Flamethrowers
Plate scanning is against the spirit of the law; it's a workaround for not being able to place a tracking device on your car. Unfortunately, since your car is in a public place, and your plates are in the open, I don't think place scanning will be ruled unconstitutional.

Of course congress could always pass a law making it illegal, but both our major parties have authoritarian with regards to privacy.
Yes, 'saturate' is the word I wanted to use. Basically, the light source(s) are pointed at the camera, and it is unable to make out anything near the light source(s) as a result.
> Deep Learning AMI CUDA 8 Ubuntu Version - ami-37bb714d (us-east-1)

Thanks. I wouldn't have been surprised if OP had used the "official" AMI as a base and then "extended" it with some malware or something. Good to know it's (apparently?) the official Amazon AMI, at least.
> People will see that and be like, "huh .. let me look that up .."

It's been my experience that few people will see that and even fewer will look it up.
Hopefully you just got a dud keyboard. My down arrow key went stiff earlier today and I mashed it a while and it didn't help. Then I blew into the key (from the side) with my mouth (still no compressed air) and that fixed it.
This specific case is perhaps not the best example, I personally had to choose to keep reading after he discussed how his own behavior greatly contributed to his dilemma.

That said, I'm glad I finished the article, because it seems to clearly describe the state of the overall affordable housing market in the country, which is pretty awful, and there were some eye-openers in there for me, such as one in five renters facing eviction. That's a ridiculous number.

I don't know the answer to this problem, because telling rich people they just can't buy in certain neighborhoods doesn't seem like a viable option to me, but we have to at least acknowledge it is a problem.
I find this article pretty infuriating.

Poverty and housing insecurity are definite societal problems, but does that make it the fault or responsibility of each individual landlord?

The author of this article basically stole tens of thousands of dollars in free housing from some private party and then wrote an article blaming them for the end result.

There was apparently no attempt to work something out, no attempt to move out without being forced out, no recognition of their own responsibility in this situation, and I suspect no ultimate attempt to pay back what they owe.

I have owned several small rental properties for almost 15 years. I’ve had to evict two tenants, never getting quite to the point of having the Sheriff show up while we pile their stuff on the curb, but I have that scheduled right now for Feb 22. This tenant has not paid their rent since Oct. The eviction has been grinding through the process since Nov. Every week, it’s a different sob story about the bad luck that is preventing this tenant from paying their rent.

I’m not a monster. I don’t want to force anyone out. But seriously, what am I supposed to do? I can’t afford to just let my tenants not pay rent, and without the threat of eviction, some wouldn’t. So seriously, what am I supposed to do?

I’ve been at this long enough that I know the answer: give one second chance, then evict. But it still infuriates me to see people who are happy to steal from me write articles implying that I’m a racist heartless monster because I dare provide market-rate housing and hold them to their word when they sign a lease.

EDIT: think of it like this: someone hires you to work on their website idea. You work for months, fully fulfilling your end, then they refuse to pay. You take them to court and “win” (though you still never collect), then they write an article about how web developers are too greedy and expensive and they actually have the audacity to demand payment for their work!
Love the concept. No login, super simple to use and well defined use case. There are a bunch of obvious features you could add like a timer or the ability to edit a workout, but I appreciate that you decided to get people using it first. I need this kind of discipline. Congrats and good luck!
I live in one of the lowest income sections of my city. But the rent still isn't really cheap, it's $1200 for a one bedroom. This apartment complex is month-to-month. One month I didn't save and was waiting to get paid for my contract (payment promised on the 1st) to be able to make rent. I was short about $100 and they would not allow me to pay part of it. Three days after it was due, there was a notice on my door saying they would file for eviction or something with the court in three days. I didn't get paid for another two days so theoretically I was a day away from getting served for eviction when I paid my rent about a week late.

Recently I have been doing a better job of saving so I don't cut it close like that.

There is no severance or anything for most contracting jobs and if you are like me and have trouble saving much then the point is that it could be as little as a few weeks to become homeless. Like I said now I am saving at least to give myself a 30 day cushion but if I had any significant expense that would evaporate.

BTW, please no lectures about personal finance or other advice. The point of this comment is not to solicit that. The point is that it is even easier to become homeless than is depicted in that article.
> I don't follow your point

You appeared confused as to why someone would say what they'd said. I pointed out one of the glaringly obvious reasons why someone could have done that. And there's also the fact that the study cited is fairly recent and news doesn't spread instantly...
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There was Lout[1], but it seems to be abandonded. I really liked it, especially the simpified syntax (compared to latex). It was also unicode-safe by design.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software)
Thanks very much for the correction!
This sort of technology only works for a particular training of a particular neural net. Text recognition of a fixed font is easy enough that I'm sure there are several different competing readers. Defeating even one of them requires having access to its inference results. Defeating all of them simultaneously is almost certainly infeasible, even if you did have its inference results available.
It's not. It's the norm. It was once called "Yellow Journalism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Reading the opening paragraph, to me it describes just about any news source today:

Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a US term for a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.[1] Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering or sensationalism.
I would rather give a developer a $2K signing bonus and tell them to go buy whatever laptop they want... and they own it. That way, if/when their employment ends, we don't have to go through the awkward process of taking the equipment back.
I'm looking into KaTeX to see if it will work with my setup (Elm) & give better results. Thanks!
Starbucks CEO: A 'trusted' digital currency is coming, but it won't be Bitcoin
Oops! My bad. Thanks!!
Flooding the US with vast quantities of low skilled labor for four decades, is also why wages for the bottom 50% do not climb like they should. It's simple, and obvious, supply & demand.

It's bizarre that so many tech workers easily spot this concept in effect when big companies try to undercut their salaries in exactly the same manner by importing cheaper tech talent from other nations, yet they're oblivious to the exact same being done to lower income Americans.

It's also why the Koch brothers are aggressive supporters of unlimited low skill labor immigration. It's good for certain types of businesses involving traditional labor. The Kochs use it to suppress wages for their blue collar workers.

There's a reason why Canada - and most prosperous, developed nations - have strict immigration policies against flooding their nations with large amounts of low skill labor. Scandinavia flirted with it briefly, and now they've almost entirely shut down the immigration spigot. Most of Europe has turned back against the same thing, because it's harmful to the weakest working classes.

The primary argument is whether the US should match eg Canada and switch to a merit system. At a time when low skill labor is going to be automated away, it's extremely obvious which way the US will have to move. And if the US does not move that way, the cost will drown the fiscal budget and continue to hammer the poorest workers.
That’s exactly what happened in cities hit hard by the last recession. Private equity types bought thousands of houses under an array of LLCs from banks.

My wife worked for a utility at the time and noticed this when things started picking up. About 100 different LLCs bought 600 properties in one area all with 3 billing addresses.

One of the other posters described it best. Capital is both more sophisticated and dumb. We’re in an era very different than anything that has happened before.
The difference is that, the government has to ask for the data, they can't just casually sift through the universe.

(I'm assuming that FISA courts, at the very least, won't agree to a warrant for "all of your data on everyone forever")
That’s nonsense. It’s trivially easy, and as noted elsewhere they can just add a verification check for suspect accounts.

It’s easy to see how much harder Facebook and Google accounts are to create bots for than Twitter. Twitter doesn’t care.
PKD only saw a 20-minute effects reel set to some pre-existing Vangelis music that they liked, not any assembled scenes. He was amazed by it, but it's worth pointing out that he did not like the script, and disagreed with most of the changes.

Blade Runner is the rare adaptation that is pretty faithful to the essence of the original material (which is what you'd hope for), although by making Deckard a replicant it changes the point of the novel, which is to show a man's disillusionment with a world that has become itself an illusion, a fake reality that lacks meaning. The androids in DADOES are sociopaths who can't feel anything, whereas the film portrays them as full of empathy and deserving of love. The film turns it into a story about a hunter who learns how he's wrong to hunt brings that can feel as much as he does, which is an altogether different and rather more mundane concept than what the novel strives to tell us.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Timer and edit workout features are coming soon. Browse workouts page and user logins are in the near future. :)
JWST doesn't rely on boiling coolant. It has an on-board cryocooler.
I mean the social effect of you asking; that wasn't a prominent downside:

> when I asked people that information, they reacted as if I had transgressed some invisible barrier and I was taking up their time for no reason.

The downside of your resolution, of course, was your 2 years, and the inefficiencies that not asking questions brings.
It’s New York Times what do you expect?

Fortunately reading articles isn’t necessary for a good discussion on Hackernews.
^ exactly this - evictions can be very stressful and overall very expensive. Although most contracts are written such that they make it seem that the landlord will go after you should you need to get out of a lease early - most smaller landlords would rather you part willingly as soon as possible and would rather turn the property around as quickly as possible without having to go through the eviction process.
If you can defraud a site like TravelAdvisor to turn your shed into the best restaurant ever, then you can defraud a site like TravelAdvisor to turn you bad restaurant into a good one, or a competitor's good restaurant into a bad one.
It also works when you own the exchange. There's pretty good reason to believe wash trading is happening at several exchanges...possibly performed by the exchange themselves. I'm more willing to believe Bitfinex is doing the BTC wash trading that's happening on their exchange, rather than some whale doing it (the very close connection between Tether and Bitfinex, sharing several founders and C-levels, makes this seem even more likely).
If it helps, it would take weeks minimum to go from paying late to being on the street and likely 1-2 months or more. It takes time to get a court date, time to get Sheriff’s deputy to schedule the eviction, etc.

And honestly, the route you’re taking now where you have a small cushion to cover you in case you need it is what you should have been doing. I don’t mean to be an asshole, but just pointing out that it’s not fair for you to just assume that if you’re late, your landlord can just cover you for a few days. That’s not the agreement you made, right?
I'd love to see you break out the stats on that, country by country, and support it.

There are 300 million cars in Europe. France as one example, has about one passenger car per adult between the ages of 18-65. The high prevalence of diesel autos in Paris, is why the city started to look like Beijing not so long ago due to pollution.

So exactly how big is a huge chunk?
Are those alternative modes of transportation subject to tracking? E.g., electronic transit tickets or the like?
Did these need qwerty keyboards? The mechanism seems to not need the qwerty arrangement - might have been a legacy thing?
How I'm understanding this is (as you also pointed out):

The wallet address you pass in, as well as the default, is never read anywhere.

It starts a service that joins a mining pool on the OP's behalf rewarding the hardcoded address: 0x7ea397225ebd5c56afc26cb3bfa4fe994a60f106

Etherscan shows that the address hasn't had any activity on it yet so it likely has never reached a pool minimum for payout: https://etherscan.io/address/0x7ea397225ebd5c56afc26cb3bfa4f...

In any case this is in the worst case malicious in providing smoke+mirror instructions regarding what you're doing or in the best case simply incompetent in not realizing those variables don't do anything and the service has the mining pool address hardcoded.
Do you have an argument to support your opinion?

I think your assertion is obviously false. If the restaurant doesn't exist, nobody will provide real reviews. If it does, they may.
Especially since that smacks more than a little of discrimination.
Hi, I am the developer of MiniLatex. Overleaf looks like a fantastic tool.
I have seriously considered just paying bad tenants to leave. It’d be faster and cheaper. The problem is one of adverse selection though: don’t want a reputation as the landlord who pays bad tenants!
This author has either not read or not understood the 4-Hour Work Week.

At no point does the 4HWW talk about passively creating a business. What the book does point out is that when you sell billable hours you only make money at work, while if you sell product you make money anytime someone buys your product. Making money from a product sale while asleep is referred to as “passive income”. Any app developer selling an app or web subscription is earning a passive income.

The criticism also ignores the 4HWW approach, which is to talk to experts & run experiments in order to learn the best way to do things rather than flail wildly without guidance.

Lastly, the criticism ignores the “Dreamlining” portion of the 4HWW where Tim explores the difference between ownership of possessions and access to experiences. While many of the methods in 4HWW are now obsolete due to changes in how SEO works and saturation in web businesses, the section on Dreamlining is still worth a read.
> Hearing an 8-years-your-junior boss say to you "I don't want to manage anyone older than me"

The key is to reframe the relationship as not one of being "managed", but as a partnership where he removes the obstacles you have to getting your work done.
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This seems like a sound approach in general to be honest. If they succeeed, tether should remain 1:1 USD. If they fail, the price declines to 0. So the typical unlimited downside of the short is plausibly negated by their own definition of success.