skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the author of the parent comment, but my family shifted from solidly middle-class to members of the 1% over the course of a few years in the early 2000s (my teenage years) as our family business became significantly more successful. Here are some of the things I've experienced that strike me as examples of that:

- Talking specifically about money (how much high-ticket items specifically cost, how much anyone specifically makes) is gauche.

- Depending on the group and the location, there are functionally dress codes - you show up to brunch in sweats and sneakers and everyone else is in polos and boat shoes, you "dress up" in a shirt and khakis, everyone else is wearing a blazer and slacks, you put on a Macy's suit for a formal event and everyone else is wearing Tom Ford or Armani.

- What you do for leisure can be a fraught discussion - we eventually started traveling more, but I've met people who talked casually about summering in Ibiza or the Hamptons (and who used "summer" as a verb), or who have seasonal homes. "I stayed home and played X-Box" as an explanation for what you did on vacation earns a side-eye.

- What and how you eat, although that one has relaxed a little bit over the last few years as street food has been gentrified and made trendier.
Th Rust macro system is difficult to use. So it doesn't get used a lot. But when it does it tends to be used well.

The C preprocessor and C++ templates are not difficult to use. But they're both difficult to use well. So they get used. A lot. Badly.
I love these posts - so much that when my laptop died for a few days, I immediately signed up for Backblaze backup when it came back to life.
> Not necessarily in a timely manner, which is important for things like Autism (and because of the belief in the system, can actually harm the person).

On a related note, since you mention autism: for all the faults of the healthcare system in the US, it's far and away the best at treating chronic mental health conditions. For various reasons, most European countries have a pretty bad approach at providing access to mental health care. This isn't just for specific conditions, but for a wide range of the most common mental health ailments (depression, anxiety, ADHD, ASD, etc.)

Just getting diagnosed is incredibly difficult, but even for people who've been disagnosed, getting approved for treatment is such a long and painful process that many people give up[0]. I know people who have literally turned down jobs that would require them to live in Europe for extended periods of time because they couldn't afford (in the metaphorical sense, not financial) to go without treatment for months before getting approved.

Mental health care in the US has a lot of problems, and I hope we fix them, but there's no comparison if you're looking at other countries.

[0] Don't forget that many of these conditions also affect a person's ability to make it through the months-long process in the first place, so telling them "you'll have to jump through a series of hoops for a year before you can get treated" is basically equivalent to refusing to treat them.
Why? It's not like it'd be printing debugging level messages on release builds in either case.
Huh, I did not know about this. I just tried with a recently cancelled trip and it did issue an automatic refund. Only nit: the option that gave me the refund is called "Problem with cancellation fee", not "I would like a refund".

TIL, thanks!
I think the 'moral panic' about crypto is a far more likely political reason. Nobody had heard of Telegram before, now it is where you go to find out what coin is going to the moon next.

Yesterday Facebook took down all crypto-gambling adverts. There is a duty of care to not be the company responsible for making your customers crypto bag-holders. The gig is up with crypto in its current scam incarnation.
Corruption in India is high by default. Just like security often can't be an after-thought in software development, anything new in India should not leave anti-corruption measures as an after-thought.
If your opinion isn’t generalizable, it’s probably not useful in a discussion about civilization-wide issues, right? Moreover you’re only sharing your perception of how ads affect you, while others are pointing to known effects on whole populations. In essence you’re arguing against a system worth many billions with your own personal anecdote.
Aaaaany decade now!
Not sure if this is considered part of dentistry, but when I got consultations for jaw surgery, they used some sort of wand with a camera to build a 3D model of my mouth. I thought that was pretty high tech.
I can't speak for OP, but a big one is how to deal with the check at a restaurant. For people who are lower/lower middle class (or at the least not financially secure), you pass around a receipt and take turns deciding who owes what. In the middle/upper middle class, there is an unspoken rule the check gets split, and anything else is awkward. In the upper class, oftentimes one person will pay for the check and it's awkward to object.
I guess I'm just older than I thought. :)

Yeah, I'm not sure about braces now. I do hear ads for that invisalign product, or something close to that. So that's probably what's being used now.
Noticed the part that states "more predictable access to their funds"- it sounds like a subtle jab at PayPal, which is not surprising given the number of complaints that seem to arise surrounding PayPal freezing funds and so forth
In my gated community the rich actually collude to keep the wages for maids, gardener etc low. When I moved to this place as a bachelor and attended couple of pool side parties I was surprised this was also one of the topics along with the ones like how bad Real played in last match.
It's not the taxes that makes everyone like the Scandinavian countries.

If Chile can have government programs with comparable return or results to the Scandinavian countries at a fraction of the cost then they're a hell of a lot more interesting from a policy perspectives.

Comparing governments based on taxes they levy is like comparing modes of transportation based on the amount of fuel they consume.
Yea, I mean my parents couldn't really afford to be in the house we were in until I started to have a job. I bought my mom a Minivan.

Sometimes they couldn't pay for heat to get fixed. Or all the times I ate Ramen.

Or the fact that I wanted to be a MCS major but really had to have a CS degree.

But, I know many people that I went to school with who were unable to do so and had the same opportunities that I did.
Or had more money than me and couldn't get a job after they graduated. Even the people that I had the same high school weren't able to do that. They had more money than me. They were smarter than me. The only thing I can see that I had more than them was grit and determination. My intelligence wasn't even in their league.

I chose CS because I knew that an average person in CS could get a average job and the demand would be there when I graduated. My life is a constant hedge against the future.
birth limits you to upper middle class. you can be fabulously wealthy, but if you did not have the upbringing, you can not claim it.

however, if you are wealthy, you can buy an upper class lifestyle, and your children will be upper class, while you will not be.

in other words, their peers that they grew up with will accept them as upper class (meaning they had an upper-class upbringing), while their parents still consider you to be an up-and-comer, because you did not.

once you realize this, it's a much healthier situation because you stop trying to make that final jump. and once you stop trying to make that jump, both your upper middle and upper class friends will be more comfortable around you.

in other words, once you make it to upper middle, it's not worth worrying over. it's better to just focus on the money to make your family's life comfortable without worrying about social details. money defines everything under upper class; birth and upbringing defines the upper class.

by the time your children's children come around, everyone will have forgotten about you, and the new normal will have taken hold.

that last jump can only be given by birth -- which, if you stop and think about it, is exactly how it works, right?
T-Mobile Blocks Pirate Sites Then Reports Itself for Net Neutrality Violation
This is (2017), specifically 2017-10-28. Also, it's Part 1 of 2. Part 2 of 2 is here: https://rare-technologies.com/sharing-facets-dive-visualizat... and is also (2017), specifically 2017-11-11.
It's become a common fad on the internet to assert that believing in classism is the real act of division. The other possibility that jumps out is that Arwa Mahdawi is either Muslim or of a culturally Muslim community (I've read her work and so I'm aware of her but not her history), and, well, could just be some racisms up in here. Pick your poison.

(Ordinarily I would not amplify that sort of post, but decent folks need to know what they're up against.)
Facebook bans all cryptocurrency advertising
I seriously doubt that most people using social media are running their photos through Lightroom before posting them online..
Windows Update Causes Intel Display Driver to Stop Working
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It's always fun when you get to the bottom of one of these and find out some seemingly absurd mistake or design flaw, each layer peeled away reveals a new level of excitement. Even when it's not in hardware it opens up your eyes about the potential fallibility of all the layers beneath whatever you are doing.
But police _as an institution_ are entrusted with the public safety. The relationships between the officers and the institution and the institution and the public are both totally different than for the other groups you named.

It's not the same at all.
I think you'll find all the major social media sites strip metadata nowadays.
There is an option for "the driver asked me to cancel" in the "why I'm cancelling" drop down (or something to that effect).
As far as I can see, that's lots of code for generating a UI. Interesting that they do that instead of using the usual xml files for specifying the UI on android; the result is that there's lots of code, a number of statements for each single UI element, and all the listeners and such are declared inline.

The compiled code will be fine, probably. It won't be much different from that would happen if they used the standard method of xml files and separate classes for that stuff, and might even be slightly faster.

But it surely is less maintainable, and the code definitely doesn't look generated to me. Maybe if you count copy-paste as code generation.

I hope they don't use Atom as an editor, because it surely won't be able to cope with such a file. [/s; but might even be true. not tested.]
And Ikea has some really good furniture one could assemble themselves, too...
You PI chronic back pain disability claims.

They are expensive to pay out and often real chronic back pain is not easily differentiated from fake chronic back pain by a physical. The diagnosis is made based on patient reported pain.

The easiest way to confirm the diagnosis is observe if the claimant is behaving in a manner consistent with debilitating back pain.
Hah, I think this was one of the first things I read when I got into speedcubing, back in '08. The history of the puzzle is fascinating, whether you wish to learn to solve or not. Plenty of vintage websites to explore, too. Cubers now refer to the method Fridrich used as CFOP, partly since it was independently derived by a couple others around the same time.

The World Cube Association is staffed by really brilliant, wonderful people - and the website/solveDB is open source. If you can solve, I would recommend checking the site for upcoming competitions. You'll likely make friends.

Fun-fact: the YouTuber Badmephisto made the best tutorials back in the day ('08-'10) - nowadays he is better known as Andrej Karpathy and works at Tesla. Users may know him for the online Stanford deep learning courses.

(I used to hold the UK single record, AMA)
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> I think rather than teach young children how to hold spoons ... we should just teach improv skills

I think there's an argument for a little of both, by way of giving them tools to fit in at multiple levels (classes, call it what you will). Then it's their choice to fit in or stand out as they feel best in the widest range of situations.

Of course knowing which of 5 sets of cutlery is for what shouldn't actually matter much...
It sounds insane/neurotic if you think some rich people sat in a meting deciding that would be a good way to suppress the poor.

It might serve their richness but that does not mean they have hidden agendas in regards to it.
> There is a moral failing in our country where the pursuit of money is seen as the objective optimal thing to do. But it's very reasonable to look at how money changes people, and to turn away from such a lifestyle in disgust.

It's also very easy and PC to venerate the poor out of some misguided sense of pity or moral absolutism.

One could look at poor communities, and, as you said "turn away from such a lifestyle in disgust" and choose enrich themselves.

I'm also not entirely, or even in the least bit, convinced that our society, institutions, social structures, and general well-being would be better off WITHOUT class distinctions. Going deeper, they seem to me to be an essential component of civilization, one of the many necessary "glues" of social order.

edit: This site is slowly turning into Reddit - contrarian opinions need not apply. Instead of down-votes, why not rebut what I said? It's not like the matter is settled, and the last couple times the populous tried to "abolish" social classes, mass terror followed.
I hadn't thought about energy, but storing information encoded in light waves would also be an interesting possibility.
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He passed away a few years ago from congestive heart failure at 97. But he enjoyed a good last 10 years cancer free. He tolerated the treatment very well.
> The taxi took 35 minutes and cost an order of magnitude more.

It seems that the moral of that story is that people should avoid travelling by car in places where roadways are congestioned.
"The left" makes me curious who you're referring to.

Billing fraud is of course a problem with private health-care providers as well.
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> Believe it or not, most people will exploit systems to the fullest extent.

But "the fullest extent" is the same in each case. Really, the issue is that there's a significant segment of the population that is willing to go to various degrees of effort to exploit a system.
Question -- how have your mannerisms, speech, attire, body language, etc changed as you moved up in ecocnmic class? I'm wondering how the cues for your social class have changed alongside it.
> Teeth don't heal...

Read the book, "Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye".

Despite the clickbaity title (well, the paper book equivalent), it talks about how your teeth naturally do regenerate in the proper conditions, and what those conditions should be [1]. I've been personally using the system for a few years, and the last couple times I went to the doctor, no cavities have been found and my teeth are healthy.

1. If you want to skip the why and get to the how, you can read this web page and other links on it for more detail: https://drellie.com/my-system/ The only thing I do differently is include flossing using floss sticks.
They don't heal, so all your efforts are only to postpone their decay.

Uh, no. Your enamel can't be replaced. However, your dentin is regenerated constantly, in the same way that bone is regenerated. People with really good genetics can even over-generate dentin. Not only have I read about this, I know this firsthand, because I have developed "spurs" on the corners of some teeth where the enamel has gotten chipped. Dentin isn't as hard as enamel, but it's still pretty darn hard. Plenty hard enough to chew with.
I think it depends on how often the dentist updates the office equipment. I'm sure that stuff isn't expensive and why upgrade when what you have works?
I've gone to dentists in totally new buildings and saw some things I didn't see at my old dentist who had been there for years.
Being English is a minefield. Here's an old list but some of it still definitely applies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English
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I highly recommend this book, which is dated but holds up pretty well. I found it funny, sad, but overall just brutal in its characterizations of class in America. It's only available in print too: https://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/...

My overall takeaways from the book were:

1. Class is correlated with income, but not identical.

2. Class is so ingrained in so many areas of our lives that it's almost impossible to change. You might as well just be comfortable with the class level you grew up in, because you'll probably always be there.

3. A big reason for #2: caring about your class in the first place is middle class. The more you care about where you fall in the class hierarchy, the more middle and upper-middle class you are. Lower class folks don't really care (and may even take a certain amount of "pride" in being lower / working class), and upper class people have nothing to prove to anyone.

But the book goes into excruciating detail about the way people dress, speak, decorate their homes, what jobs they have, cars they drive, etc, etc.
Runtime, and community.