skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the figure for the median household income. That means that many people "in the middle" are making 59k between 2 people and probably several kids.
“12 cents/mile in extra wear and tear.”

Your scenarios are all built into my cost model. And since I don’t realize the depreciation until I sell the car or fix a clutch/battery/whatever so far it’s just piled into a saving account getting ready.

$10 could be less than minimum wage in a few areas, but for most of the country, and my area it’s a few bucks higher.
Won't your car insurance repair the windshield crack for free?
> In your case you make the assumption that absolute rest exists.

This is a straw man. No one is making that assumption. Something is in motion or at rest with respect to a reference frame. For some reason, you keep misinterpreting this statement and ranting about "absolute motion" and "absolute rest".
I write Python for my day job, but I often prototype in Go because it's so much easier. Also, regarding I/O, Python does nothing during I/O unless you take care to write async code and only call async libraries. Go does async by default and truly outclasses Python at IO bound tasks. For CPU bound tasks, Go is only 2 orders of magnitude faster. For I/O bound tasks, Go is about 4-6 orders of magnitude faster unless Python is carefully optimized.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16324159
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Be that as it may, I don’t think intent (other than the request itself being made in good faith) enters into it. Barring legitimate national security interest (and that means a hell of a lot less nowadays!): Public pays for it, public should get to see the details.
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On one level the code allows disabling color with a flag. On another level, the code provides support for a nascent attempt at creating a new standard.

Software development is a social activity, and if someone wants to introduce new functionality, they have to convince others that it's a desirable change. Making up a "standard" is the easy part; I'd expect that convincing others to adopt it is more challenging.
That’s not liquid though.

I would assume that they meant some sort of liquid asset that you could use, if they didn’t actually mean a literal savings account. So you could include spare money sitting in their checking account or a few other things… But not equity in their home.
> You are letting my point sail over you.

Please edit such swipes out of your comments here. Besides crossing into incivility, they add no information and make divisive topics even more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In high school it was a fun geeky thing to do and drive out into the desert where the power lines from Hoover Dam headed over to LA and light up fluorescent bulbs. There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that was told by one of the professors at USC of a guy who lived out there and used a few hundred feet of 12ga wire to build what would essentially be a secondary coil of an air gap transformer to power his shack.

I found it interesting but not interesting enough to pursue a career in power engineering :-).
OMG not this guy again! Many people don't agree with the assessment that he was being denigrating so unless you are looking for a debate on that topic, you might want to use another comparison.
I don't know... The Mist, and the bug pit in the Kong movie with Jack Black are pretty close to my nightmares come to life.
You don't need KYC if you want to perform a peer-to-peer transaction. Its only exchanges which convert USD/BTC which require KYC
To summarize your points AirBnB has these effects: 1) more supply & cheaper options for travelers/short-term renters 2) higher rent and less supply for long term renters. 3) More income for property owners (A more varied demand) 4) Less business for hotels/established incumbents.

It's a very hard tradeoff. I can't tell how to argue for one side or the other. Should we use regulation (or enforce existing ones) to help the long-term renters at the expense of travelers? Or should we let free unregulated market roll?
It's not clear-cut case for me either way.
Is it the same? Someone you know and trust, is different to him stealing from someone he has no idea about, and is likely a rich company or corporation.
Must have been through the hanging chad exploit.
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Come over here to Sydney and let's see how well you live on that $59k. Your post is far too broad.
Study: Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury

Citation: Schuster, Paul F.; Schaefer, Kevin M.; Aiken, George R.; Antweiler, Ronald C.; Dewild, John F.; Gryziec, Joshua D.; Gusmeroli, Alessio; Hugelius, Gustaf; Jafarov, Elchin; Krabbenhoft, David P.; Liu, Lin; Herman-Mercer, Nicole; Mu, Cuicui; Roth, David A.; Schaefer, Tim; Striegl, Robert G.; Wickland, Kimberly P.; Zhang, Tingjun. Geophysical Research Letters, 45.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075571

DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075571

Abstract: Changing climate in northern regions is causing permafrost to thaw with major implications for the global mercury (Hg) cycle. We estimated Hg in permafrost regions based on in situ measurements of sediment total mercury (STHg), soil organic carbon (SOC), and the Hg to carbon ratio (RHgC) combined with maps of soil carbon. We measured a median STHg of 43 ± 30 ng Hg g soil−1 and a median RHgC of 1.6 ± 0.9 μg Hg g C−1, consistent with published results of STHg for tundra soils and 11,000 measurements from 4,926 temperate, nonpermafrost sites in North America and Eurasia. We estimate that the Northern Hemisphere permafrost regions contain 1,656 ± 962 Gg Hg, of which 793 ± 461 Gg Hg is frozen in permafrost. Permafrost soils store nearly twice as much Hg as all other soils, the ocean, and the atmosphere combined, and this Hg is vulnerable to release as permafrost thaws over the next century. Existing estimates greatly underestimate Hg in permafrost soils, indicating a need to reevaluate the role of the Arctic regions in the global Hg cycle.
Understanding Time in Spark Structured Streaming
Censorship is not something only governments can do.

I think we’re well beyond the point it’s time to have a national conversation about how these private companies exist as the public commons nowadays. They make these entirely capricious and disgustingly transparent swings between “Place for open discussion and free speech” (actually the founders exact words in many an interview in Reddit’s case) when the owners want attention and hype and warm fuzzies from the user base, “private company” when it suits their needs or they’re challenged on their principles.
IMO the most dystopian part of this technology will be, as usual, the failure modes.
Median income generally increases in areas with a high cost of living. In the San Francisco Bay Area the three largest cities and counties have median income going from $87,000 to $103,000.
> The statement is: "Nothing is absolutely at rest."

An object is at rest with respect to its own reference frame.

> The academic descendants of the same academics who believed in absolute rest now call themselves physicists and make the same mistake and assume that absolute rest exists.

In other words, you think all physicists are wrong and you're right?
1%+ APY savings accounts are commonly available outside of the mega bank world. Online banks (which are real FDIC insured banks that just don't have the overhead of national chains and all their branches) and credit unions have competitive rates.

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/
I'm not arguing that his actions should necessarily be glorified, but I'm completely unsurprised that they were, and I think there are some very clear reasons why (beyond just saying it'll get clicks):

- First, I'm sure many people view it as a "robbing the rich" type situation, and it was completely non-violent. Those gold bars certainly were not from some small business owner making his nightly deposits. With economic disparity such as it is these days, I'm not surprised at all that people would find that amusing and root for the criminal in this case. (Of course, the problem with such "robbing the rich" situations is that the rich often recoup their losses at the expense of the not-rich. But many people either don't know or don't think about that when they see a "rob the rich" situation.)

- Also, it was a pretty brazen broad daylight robbery itself, due to the weight of the gold, and the video of it was pretty amusing to watch, with all the effort and breaks needed.

- Finally, this story is from an local NYC news channel, and NYC is the US metro area with the most Ecuadorians, by a long shot. That is not to say that Ecuadorians should or do necessarily feel pride when following this story, but it's at least a local (to a subset of NYC) interest piece because of his nationality.
Did you find sustained gains from increased sleep? I found that the increased losses are just due to the loss of carbon dioxide while sleeping. I lose 2 pounds in a typical 6 hour sleep. If I sleep 9 hours this can go up to 2.5-3.5 pounds. It took me a while to realize it was the length of sleep as it averaged out to be meaningless but had me searching for foods or activities as the cause.
That was a great little corner of the universe to occupy. That was the first talk at the first conference to which Chelsea and I traveled. And also where my friendship with you began in earnest. Incredible.
2018 Cloud Computing Trends for Mass Data Usage
Deductibles are not free on most policies, and not everyone carries comprehensive insurance on their vehicles, especially if they’re worth less than $6000 or so.
Being poor is being preached at by Silicon Valley know-it-alls about how you're not saving enough of your not-big-enough paycheck.
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Is a 4 digit password with a predictable username secure?
There is a company I am with that has decided to keep my personal information (Full Name, Phone number, Email, DoB, Address, Full phone history, and billing information) behind a web system protected by only a 4-digit PIN.

They can't remove this information for 45 days.
They can't disable the PIN access.

My complaints are met with "This is a standard and secure system"

I think that maybe if I show them the responses here that action may be taken.

I've been waiting for 2 weeks for the "Chief Privacy Officer" to respond to my email.
The OP specifically mentions the U.S. In the U.S. as cost of living increases, so does median income. New York City and the SF Bay Area have median incomes that are tens of thousands dollars higher than the U.S. median income.
I think in Dutch it would be more the "tone", how it is asked, rather than the actual words. Imagining myself being a rude Dutch waiter, the rudest I could ask it in Dutch would probably by just saying "Ja?" (as in, Yes) in a grumpy tone. But if I say the same thing in a friendly way, it would probably be just fine for most occasions.
Well, last time this was posted, 69% had less than $1000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548610

So I guess things are getting better?
Would you please not use HN for nationalistic/political battle? You've posted a bunch of such comments to this thread, it's not what this site is for, and it destroys the intellectual curiosity that it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If so how can you claim that the ship is at rest?

The ship is at rest with respect to its own reference frame.

> So do you deny that the earth is moving? I assume not.

The earth is at rest with respect to its own reference frame.

It is moving with respect to other things, such as the sun, or the center of the galaxy. Motion and rest are relative. This is the key concept, and I don't understand why you're having such trouble with it.
The ultimate goal is 25x your annual spending, including a tax-sheltered retirement account - that's f-you money.

Until you get there, 6 months to a year. Or for maximum safety, however much you'd need to pay for expenses and max out your annual medical + home insurance deductibles until you could find a new job. This covers the worst-case scenario of job loss + medical emergency + house burning down.
The HN title is incorrect -- perhaps the first direct evidence is Compton's original work, showing that electrons scatter photons. If electrons scatter photons, then photons scatter electrons.

Every time a photon scatters off an electron, there exists a reference frame in which the electron is brought to rest.

I'm certain that one could find an earlier argument than Compton scattering, too. Maxwell surely would have agreed that light could exert force upon charges.

The experiment to which the HN title links, however, is awesome, and is perhaps the first time one has demonstrated stopping 0.5 GeV electrons in a wall of light.
>"The study found approximately 793 gigagrams, or more than 15 million gallons, of mercury is frozen in northern permafrost soil. That is roughly 10 times the amount of all human-caused mercury emissions over the last 30 years, based on emissions estimates from 2016.

>The study also found all frozen and unfrozen soil in northern permafrost regions contains a combined 1,656 gigagrams of mercury, making it the largest known reservoir of mercury on the planet. This pool houses nearly twice as much mercury as soils outside of the northern permafrost region, the ocean and the atmosphere combined.

Gigagram? Never heard that one before.. uh a billion (US) grams? So.. a million kilos..a thousand tonnes..a kilotonne.
or 1,656 gigagrams = 1.656 million tonnes, I think. (Weird that the imperial unit is gallons, a measure of volume I thought)

This doesn't sound good. Also I'm surprised that human mercury emissions in the last 30 years were so high. Since the late 80s..sheesh.
Just curious, what sort of APY does "high yield savings" get you nowadays?
Re: sibling comment, citing high wages in SF as evidence that cost of living pushes up wages is getting the direction of causation at least 50% wrong.

You might equally say that owning a Rolex increases your income, since it seems most people who have one make a lot of money.
Home equity loans and lines of credit turn that liquid.
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I was speaking more to the resource utilization part of the statement, but sure: technically, there will probably still be humans left, in places, if we keep going at the rate we are.

If we're (as a species) lucky, that number might even exceed the minimum viable population.

The individuals in that circumstance probably won't feel very lucky, though.
It's fine to post links to the relevant paper, but could you please stop pasting bibliographic boilerplate into HN threads? I'm sure your intention is good, but the purpose of HN threads is thoughtful conversation, and this is not that.
Scary stuff:

> The study reveals northern permafrost soils are the largest reservoir of mercury on the planet, storing nearly twice as much mercury as all other soils, the ocean and the atmosphere combined.

And the permafrost is thawing thanks to climate change.

> “There’s a significant social and human health aspect to this study,” Sebestyen said. “The consequences of this mercury being released into the environment are potentially huge because mercury has health effects on organisms and can travel up the food chain, adversely affecting native and other communities.”
The 46% without investments is not surprising. In addition to people with low income, I had plenty of friends who never invested until their 30s despite having a great income.
This is such a click bait title. It was leaked last year! https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/71p5qs/newsiboot...
Even if it is fake it may be interesting to suspend disbelief. Whoever made this fake obvioulsy put a lot of time into thinking about this and may have spread it as a cautionary tale to avert a future scenario.
Windshield coverage on an auto insurance plan generally has no deductible. Chips, cracks and full replacement has always been covered for me with no additional cost beyond the $5 or $10 extra a month to have it on my plan. They negotiated and paid in full for a windshield replacement technician to drive 200 miles round trip to my location a few months ago and do a several hour replacement. Definitely worthwhile in certain areas prone to frequent windshield damage.
If I slept 5-6 hours a night, my progress would plateau markedly. If I slept 7-10 hours a night, it would keep going at a pretty good rate. Every time I got poor sleep, my weight loss would plateau a couple of days.

I wish I had kept more data. I need to try some kind of balance/plan again. I've gained about 10 back of the 35-40 I lost. I guess the bright side is that I've kept 25-30 off for over 12-18 months at this point and am maintaining until I find the right spot for losing weight again. I've just been bad with eating habits lately.

At one point I was still sticking to the plan but only sleeping 5-6 hours a night, and I eventually got to the point where I was almost losing nothing. The moment I got back into a good 8 hour sleep schedule I was back to losing significant amounts of weight.
The average household contains 2.54 people for 2017. Remember that households also includes things like roommates, cohabiting couples, and adult children living in the basement. The idea of an average household having 2 parents and several kids ended around 1973 [0], assuming that back when households had around an average of 3 occupants it was due to the so called "atomic family."

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...
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I feel, once criminals realize this facial recognition thing, they will start using facemasks or some other new techniques
Couldn’t you have said the same thing 20 years ago?
OK we've taken "first" out above.
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Ha, I figured out how to downvote an article I don't like.
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6 months expenses is a reasonable baseline for a lot of people strictly as an emergency fund in the event of job loss, sudden automotive or medical emergencies, or any other unplanned scenario that might otherwise put you into debt without the emergency fund.

If you're in a very secure career that is highly likely to weather a recession, less might be appropriate. If you're in an unstable career or freelance, more might be appropriate.

Money for short and mid-term savings goals should also be in something safe like a savings account, CD, or possibly bonds. Money you plan to use in under 3 to 5 years should generally not be invested in the stock market.
Even with $100k in SF, it can be tough to save with a family. Let's do some math. Taxes are about 25%, so you're down to $75k right off the bat. Median rent in SF is $3880, so that's $46560 a year on rent. We're down to $28k. Last year I spent $11k on student loans, between me and my wife, and we're down to $17k. $1700 on electricity and internet: $15k. Car payment and gas was $3k, down to $12k. We're left with $1000 a month for food, clothing, and everything else in one of the most expensive cities in the US, a city where a hamburger can easily cost $20. That doesn't go very far at all. Add in the medical debt I have, and I was pretty much broke at the end of each month.
From the article: "The app brings up the (scanned person's) vital information, including name, ethnicity, gender and address (..), the address of the hotel where they are staying and information related to their internet usage."

So, yes, every person is tracked.
1.3% to 1.7% in most cases, but it's been climbing over the past 6 months.

Not a lot, but better than the laughable 0.05% some megabanks offer.
How did it get there? I was disappointed that wasn't mentioned.
Thank you for this question.
Very interesting! Closed platform is a bummer, but that hardware is exactly my wishlist for a smartwatch.
Bibliographic info along with an abstract are an excellent way to help contextualize a thoughtful conversation, and does so without diverting attention away from the main thread.
Ask HN: Is Azure reliable? If not, what is the best place to create windows VMs?
I have been using AWS since 10+ years. Today I decided to try Azure. Eventual consistency with severe lag is apparent all over their UI. At the end of signup, they threw an error. After a few refreshes I could see the portal. Then they wanted me to signup for a subscription, but the error for that was in Portuguese (which is neither related to my locale, nor any preferences). Finally I somehow signed up for the subscription after multiple tries, but it took almost 10 minutes to reflect in the Azure portal. I wanted to use the cheapest 128 GB RAM machine which has 16 cores. However they have 10 core limit. I raised a support request to increase the core limit but it hasn't been handled for almost 8 hours and I am stuck because of this.

Are they really so bad! I am really disappointed. If they are dropping the ball with something so clearly in their control, I am not sure how much help they would be when there is a serious issue.

Should I think about another provider? Which other cloud provider, will allow to me run more than 128 GB RAM Windows VM, where all the data persists between restarts. I intend to use this machine 2 hours per day and keep it down when not in use. Couldn't find an easy way to make this happen on AWS.
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