skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I talk to small business owners in community. Here is the thing, most small business owners are people with faults. They start well and know their business, but then conditions change. For instance, they feel they need a website, but they don't know why. Or, they need to be on facebook. Or, they want an edge.

The first thing to do is build the relationship and seek to understand their problems. The second thing is to look for the missing platform.

If the platform exists, then you can offer management services. An example of this managing Google Ad Words or Facebook Advertising.

If the platform doesn't exist, then it is opportunity to build something.

Usually, you can do both.
Law and medicine used to be highly paid professions, but this is becoming less true over time. Now it's hard for new lawyers to even get a job, much less a high-paying one at a big law firm.
> This is why both android and ios are NOT the mobile os of the future.

I too would like a more open OS for mobiles, but you have to realize that the majority of users doesn't care about this. They are unconcerned about most privacy issues, don't need to ever tinker at a low level with their devices, and they are the ones ultimately deciding on what the future will be. What matters is the UI, and that the various features "just work".

You are in a minority, however vocal, that has little to no say in what the future of mobile OSes should be. My take on it is that whatever will replace android and ios will be even worse on these issues.
I lost count of the number of web projects I had to work on that could be rewritten in a tenth of the code, for more performance, better maintainability and less entanglement between components.

Both on the server side and on the client side. Its really, REALLY easy to build complex software; but that never scales or evolves well over time. You end up saving on initial development only to be constantly plagued with problems in the future.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Somewhat off topic, but anyone else think it's kinda weird that an article about data privacy has so many third party tracking scripts?

I know it's sitewide on every article from the mothership, Gizmodo, but still...
Two practical takeaways: (1) The smart thing to do is shake off your first impression and reevaluate after receiving new information. (2) Pay special attention to the first impression you give to stupid people.
The fight over the meaning of "Open source" was lost by OSI almost two decades ago.

Here's a 2002 version of their website essentially admitting as much:
https://web.archive.org/web/20021001164015/http://www.openso...

>The OSI Certified mark is OSI's way of certifying that the license under which the software is distributed conforms to the OSD; the generic term "Open Source" cannot provide that assurance, but we still encourage use of the term "Open Source" to mean conformance to the OSD.
What sort of the job does a bachelor's degree in art history or classic greek literature prepare one for?

(A PhD in those fields could make one a professor, but a BA does nothing)
Off-topic, but not much, I always loved the results of the Biarritz experiments with video-phones (actually visio - phones).

How the device looked:
http://www.rxcontrol.org/Visiophone/index.html

A good summing up of the results of the paper by Francis Jaur (1990) is here:

http://archive.li/Qe1Kl

Basically people soon understood that the thing has its use, but limited it to "public" areas of their home and to selected communications.
I would argue that, yes, dillondoyle is being misled about what he is buying. And he even admits the remorse of the situation:

"That's the magic. I always go in with one specific item in mind that I researched online but never leave with just one thing..."

There's intent that he's going after a single item that he researched and came to a decision. But extensive use of psychological tricks somehow weasels in extra things. Call it a mark of a salesman. Call it being taken for a mark. But it does have the distinct feel of something not wholesome.
Underground utility locating
I fail to see how, since the page CSS uses font-family: 'Varela Round', sans-serif, and varela is not a monospace font.
Start with ETFs and ease your way into it. Vangard has a great site with lots of info to get you started: https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/

They also have a fund explorer where you can easily look at past performance and compare: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0970&...
Blog.TeddyHyde.com. Do it all from your Android phone, create and write blogs right into GitHub and add cryptocurrency micro donations.
> Roomba requires your attention: Your Roomba is stuck.

Why?! When I bought a Roomba a decade ago, it was a decent vacuum that picked up dirt, could not connect to the internet, and never nagged me. Why would I want it to be worse?
Where's VLC Updater?

Help -> "Check for Updates" tells me I'm on the latest version even though I've only got 2.2.6 on Win10 (- and I still can't find the x64 build on their page!)
The "government owns 90%" statement is in the article, in the first paragraph after the first chart.
MVHR dehumidifies the air inside, I explained in another comment above.
We have used units which are 96% efficient.
The underlying assumption is that people incentives to get jobs where they earn their living.

Political argumentation using moralizing negative or positive use cases without any attempt to quantify them can be very harmful.

The real question is if positives outweigh the negatives.

For example, is 2 to 5 ratio of misuse's vs. honestly can't pay too much? If we prevent two cases of misuse but five people have their life ruined because various unseen reasons, is it a good deal?
Why does it need to support u2f? Would be nice if it did but from a security point of view,it does support two factor authentication(TOTP).

If you're concerned about the authenticator app being compromised then a dedicated phone or hardware token device can be configured.

As I said,u2f has better security but at least financially speaking,time based OTP has a lower barrier of entry while being superior in it's security to most non-u2f alternates (phone call,sms,etc...).

I don't think lack of u2f alone disqualifies it from being considered as having top tier authentication.
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Interesting. I wonder if things like head tracking could also be utilized for improved efficiency even for those of us without any injuries or disabilities.
Student debt is a nonsecured loan (you can't repossess their education/degree if they default). The only reasonable way to get what you're asking is to allow lenders to vet whom they are lending to. In other words, allow lenders to deny a loan to someone with no assets who wants $150,000 to study art history.
Show HN: Anybody caring to take this micro-process manager for a test ride?
It's how it used to work, X10 home automation. Incredibly primative but considering we can run Ethernet over the houses electrical wiring now it's a more elegant solution.

I have some sonoff wireless power switches for my living room lamps, they keep losing their wireless connection and need power cycling.

I don't know if it's crappy firmware of if it's the usual unreliability and fickleness of WiFi.
> Unless they are capable of doing the speech-to-text on-device, then the amount of data is negligible.

What is the lowest bitrate codec and how does it compare to the plaintext version?
4 years of fun is definitively worth the risk of being homeless for the rest of your life.

Seriously what the hell is wrong with HN?

Do you really think the vast majority people are this greedy and short sighted at their own expense?
Not really. Online publishers think that surveillance is free money, so they're always happy to add more. Savvy users block it all. Some day there will be a reckoning.
My wife and I have spent the first 1,000 days of our marriage paying off $120k in student loans. Fortunately, we both hold good-paying jobs and live in one of the cheapest areas of the country. As a result, we can pay off an average of $3,200/month on the loan while still saving some for retirement and owning a house.

Our rate at the beginning was 6.8%.

A couple of things...

- the student loan interest tax write-off is limited to $2,500/year. The first year of paying off loans, we paid $17,800 in interest. Ergo, I had to pay income tax on the interest I paid to the government for the privilege of an education. It's bizarre to me that we incentivize going to school and then charge income tax on the interest paid. Wealthy folks get to write off all their mortgage interest on their million-dollar mortgages while we pay. It's ridiculous.

- Loan companies provide way too many attractive-looking ways to "reduce your monthly payment" by extending your loan. It's called "income-based repayment." They're creating the appearance of being helpful, while extending the loan and causing interest payments to skyrocket. I get that these services can be crucial to the financial health of some folks but the way they push them makes me uncomfortable.

- Student debt can be a wonderful, life-changing tool. There's no way my wife could have a graduate degree without it. Now she's a fantastic therapist using her considerable skills and abilities to make people's lives better. Do I wish the education didn't cost us 6% of our careers to pay off? Yes I do. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

- It does feel like we're headed toward a cliff...a cliff where parents are paying off their own student debt while their children are racking up their own.
This piece of code was part of a proof-of-concept.

I am curious as to whether the failure state model is sufficient and kindly ask you to take a look.
I don't understand what the bot did and why it's relevant. And I read the article twice.
It could be configurable/disableable.
I just want to say I really love how simple his site is and how fast it loaded.

Visual aesthetic not so much but UX is amazing. I definitely want to read more sites like this focused on simplicity of the content.
When obama said we need a more 21st century efficient power grid, i thought that sounds great. i thought that meant better equipment and lines that doesnt waste as much electricity, nope. it meant 'smart meters' that can tell all sorts of things about us. they didnt want to save electricity, they wanted our data.

The city wanted to install one of those smart meters in my home, i refused. but I was told that unless i have them installed, they would shut off my electricity. Being that they were in a position of power over me, I complied.
Explainer: Investors burned as bets on low market volatility implode

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-volatility...
Everything that has risk associated with it could be considered "gambling" by your logic.
Both are financially feasible with reduced military spending.
Sure, but we're moving from a time where your audio gear was something you could fix and would last for decades to having these kinds of devices where software support may last a very short time. If you're ok with that tradeoff that's fine. Personally I'm not.
I spent most of my 20s paying off my loans, I guess if this happens that would make me the biggest sucker alive.
>There is a difference between web design and web application development.

His essay isn't really about documents vs apps.

It's about documents vs documents. Or more accurately,
he's lamenting about docs_simplesyntax vs docs_complicatedsyntax.

He shows an example of easy HTML syntax[1] that harkens back to "simpler times" in the olden days:

<html>
<head>
<title>My First Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
My First Web Page
</body>
</html>

The problem with that is people want to author documents (not apps) that are more complicated (prettier, aesthetically pleasing column layouts, gradient backgrounds, drop caps, dynamic resizing of frames, and so on) that require more knowledge than his "hello world" type of simple HTML.

Even a web "document" like the wikipedia page on The Beatles[2] requires quite a bit of complexity and advanced HTML knowledge. I've been writing HTML on and off for 20 years and I'd have to do quite a bit of googling and stackoverflow research to replicate that wikipedia page.

[1] https://frankchimero.com/writing/everything-easy-is-hard-aga...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles#Controversy,_final...
Btw, there's no way we could've paid off as quickly as we have without a budgeting tool. We use "YNAB" (You need a Budget).

https://ynab.com/referral/?ref=pnPV1oqAP-ZfH0oI&utm_source=c...
(disclosure: referral link. If that makes you feel gross, http://ynab.com)

The budget allows me to confidently spend thousands of dollars each month on student loans, without wondering if I have enough to cover living expenses. Plus, most budgeting tools now will auto-import your bank stuff, which is splendid.
How do you get to this level of expertise? What are the resources people like these use to learn about this type of scalable systems? Any good books that start from the ground up on these topics?
My opinion is to take the highest paying job and live in your car. I can say this because I lived in my car, and it isn't that bad. In this, you accomplish three things.

(1) build up assets fast (or, pay off debts fast)
(2) make relationships with people who will see and value your skills which could lead to referrals (the tech world is really small)
(3) keep skills up and continue building up portfolio

> But I think that saying capitalism makes sure I am rewarded for wanting to make things is misleading.

I don't disagree, but I think capitalism is better than the alternatives. Capitalism rewards people for making things that are relevant. I'm not saying it is easy, but being relevant is hard work.
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I rolled with the Badger for a while, but I've moved away from it and toward a more network wide approach. Can't install plugins on my devices, and I don't want thirteen different browsers on my tablet. And my Xbox is stuck with Internet Explo-- I mean Microsoft Edge -- so I need a more comprehensive solution. And this article only points out more reasons why that is becoming necessary.

But my stack is ugly and kludgy and not fit for regular human consumption. We need a comprehensive community effort to make it sexy and easy.
Holy shit, that list is big! Thanks for it.
How to build a web scraper if your source is RSS feed
Journalists love welfare for upper middle class people. Mortgage interest deductions on your $1 million McMansion? Forgiveness of your $250,000 law school loans? Bring it on!

Our student loan system is fine. Under PAY-E, you’re payments are capped at 10-15% of your income, and high interest rates means you recover some extra from high income people that can be used to defray the costs to lower income people. It needs tweaking to make sure it stays in the black, but that’s it.
The bot tweeted a GIF from an old CD full of GIFs.

Someone recognized the GIF to be from an unreleased videogame.

The bot did not solve any mysteries.
The "Add more unintended shit to buy" was in parentheses as how the salesperson approaches the whale.

The problem I'm trying to show with that, is that they hunt the whales the same way free-to-play Lootboxes work. Gucci is a "lootbox", because you never know how you'll enjoy your purchase!

Many of us consider things like lootboxes, extensive psychological manipulation, facebook running 'studies', and many other phenomena that revolve around unwilling subjects. It's horrible to cheat those lower classes with EA's (and others) lootboxes, or free-to-play that equates more money = winning. But when I highlight similar actions being done at "rich people stores", people come up to defend their.. right to use those tools.
When executing on Java we are dependent on hotspot to support it in the native bytecode interpreter. In truffle interpreters we made some successful experiments with tail calls emulated using exceptions. It's pretty slow in the interpreter but as soon as graal optimizes it, it just turns into a tailcall loop.
Here is some more info:
http://epub.jku.at/obvulihs/content/pageview/508465

You may find some blog posts about truffle and tailcalls as well.
MVHR is a ventilation system - it removes the humidity.

A decent MVHR runs at double figures in terms of watts, so like an old fashioned light bulb.
Retired people no longer produce anything but they still consume nearly as much. The exploitation of the young by the old is the bedrock of civilization, we only ever fight about best ways of doing it.
Scifiistic Futuristic Door That Adjusts to Your Body Shape as You Pass Through
$120K is way above average among student debt holders and you paid if off in 3 years.

Doesn't that imply you got a pretty good deal? Or would you have been able to get a similar level of income without the education?

It certainly isn't evidence of people having trouble paying off debt before their children go to college. (that evidence seems to exist, but your experience is pretty contrary to it...)

Mortgage interest deductions should just go away entirely.
> and I'm not sure that ruining a young software engineer's financial life for a decade is less of a deterrent than jail.

Did I understand you correctly? Are you saying that being in jail is almost the same as having a bad credit with bankruptcy record?
Wow, you just blew my mind. I never thought about this, and now I need to run to excel...
Probably a design with south facing windows simply because while 28 degrees is unacceptable, so is an architecture with no windows in one or more directions.

Also, all power used inside the building must be dissipated somewhere. In a very well insulated building even just 500W idle power inside quickly adds to the air temp.
> the secrecy that is such a core facet of who Apple is,

I wasn't aware. What's so secret?
If that's your perspective, I can understand why it would seem ridiculous. But consider other perspectives. Think of all the people who weren't the first in their family to go to college.

Imagine that you're 18, and everyone you know tells you that you need to go to school to get a good job. People are competing to get into better schools, and you get admitted to a relatively nice private college with a beautiful campus. Your parents went to a similar college, graduated, got jobs, started a family, and are encouraging you to do the same thing.

Except now, college is something like 5x as expensive as it was for your parents, teachers, and advisors, adjusted for inflation. Your job prospects after college are worse, too. Maybe you manage to pull in $15/hr and you think it's pretty good, but meanwhile rent is 50% higher than it was for your parents and teachers.

You feel like you were lied to, betrayed, and you feel trapped. As a society, we created this problem. I'm not trying to take away agency from the people who chose to take out loans and study whatever they felt like, but we did send an army of teachers and academic advisers after our children telling them that college is what you need, and loans are how you pay for it.

The idea of a "non-economically practical degree" is a bit of a red herring, here. It doesn't matter as much which degree you get as an undergraduate. Sure, there are a few high-paying degrees like geology but in many fields you can get work with a range of degrees. Based on what I was majoring in, people would ask me if I was going to go into teaching, as if that were the only option for someone in my field. Yet here I am, working in industry.
What is Multi Dimensional OLAP CUBE, and give example with more than 3?
What your comment makes clear, and what I suspect the author does not consciously realize, is that cancelling debt is spending money.
Nematode Neural System Uploaded to a Computer and Trained to Balance a Pole
I think we need to force the reckoning to the forefront, for the sake of the unsavvy. This affects us all, and we need to get out in front of it, before it bulldozes everything.

If it hasn't already.
This is part of a deeper problem in certain parts of America whereby one's personal value is determined entirely by one's net worth (and perhaps also education).
> This is a collection of the best resources that will help you get started, that assumes no prerequisites other than basic understanding of Python.

On the other hand, for those who already have a Math/CS undergrad's familiarity with Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Probability, the best resource is pretty much www.deeplearningbook.org .
The ROI was double that up until ~2 weeks ago.

Alternatively, if you pay off debt, that is a known ROI and doesn't disappear after a bad day or week. And that's not counting the psychological benefits of not being in debt. About 10 years ago, I had a car payment, student loan payments, etc, etc and once it was all paid off, I realized I could make $X000/month less and still have the same quality of life. It was empowering and afforded me the ability to take other risks.

Knocking out debt isn't always the best answer but it's a pretty good one in most scenarios.
I think there's too much moral hazard there. A young person, with no real assets (you can't repossess a degree) would probably decide bankruptcy is a relatively good option, immediately after they graduate. And so the interest rates spike to cover the risk, which makes bankruptcy an ever better option.

This is one of things, like corporations being able to sue governments, that sounds horrific but has relatively clear benefits because if the risk is too high the business deal won't happen. A classic prisoner's dilemma, and the answer to that is always to change the rules of the game to try to make cooperation pay for both parties.

Not that both systems couldn't be improved.
If lenders didn't expect to be repaid unconditionally, they would be less likely to lend money to college degrees that were likely to be financially worthless. This is as it should be. Before the modern financial aid situation, some people still managed to get degrees with more of a classical academic focus (i.e. without regard to market considerations). There were fewer of them, but then the odds they had to go work at Denny's afterwards were also probably lower.
Sorry I was confused when you said “if not for the heat then to at least remove the moisture”. When your insulation is being used to keep heat out, your heat exchanger would operate in reverse to use extract air to cool incoming air, some MVHR units have optional precooling of incoming air. I expect a modern standard AC unit will be doing some cold recovery as well to improve efficiency. But ideally a fabric first approach will keep a lot of heat out when combined with external blinds and brise soliel to keep high angle summer sun out.
The partially examined life podcast has three whole episodes dedicated to William James’s theories of the mind and the self, for anyone looking for more.
Well considering text is literally hundreds of bytes, I can't imagine audio would be able to keep up.
I agree with you. I’ve been to Bal Harbour Shops multiple times to eat and hangout at Carpaccio. I’ve never purchased anything from the stores.
I see other malls in Miami bulding new restaurants.
Then the teachers, parents, and professors who lied to you about education should bear the cost, instead of the future taxpayers currently in utero.
The article reccomends a PSA teaching the metacognitive skill of asking yourself why you believe something and if you know any reason it isn't true.

It reminds me of the legendary Canadian House Hippo PSA. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TijcoS8qHIE