skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people are there because they don't have a way out even if in your specific circumstance that wasn't the case.

I disagree, although I can't really give anything more than the same anecdotal evidence that's already been given. Both of my parents grew up only slightly above the poverty line. It was entirely because of choices their parents made. They didn't make the same mistakes, and are now both well positioned in the middle class. How? Essentially, they both just put themselves through school. That's all it really took. A few loans, and a fast food job on the side, got them the education they needed to break the poverty cycle.

I think the truth is neither of us have enough real evidence to be making the assertions we are making. For every anecdotal case you find of someone stuck in poverty, I guarantee I can find a case of someone who made a few simple choices and got out of poverty. What we really need are more studies like this that produce empirical data on the subject. Then we can start to argue whether poverty is a choice or a social class people are forced into.
I have 1300 tabs open right now and circa 50 kept loaded, and can confirm. Recent versions of Firefox do a pretty good job at this.
It could also be that there were just weirder ideas floating around at that time, too.
How about harsher regulations on the predatory businesses?

Yes--I know regulations are not liked.

Rent-to-own is basically extorsion.

My biggest gripe is the payday loan type companies.

Oh yea, federally insured banks should be required to cash checks, without a consumer being a customer.

We have so many laws/regulations that protect businesses; While the poor have the BBC. This is not the America I put my hand over my heart as a kid. I ashamed at what we have become.
> Every time my family had any money, they bought stuff. Not stuff we needed, but stupid crap.

There has been research into why this happens. I don't remember the author I read but the gist of it is, poverty conditions a person never to think long term. You spend all your mental energy on immediate needs. Food for today. Rent for this week. Money is never around for long. You know next week is going to suck no matter what, so if you come into some extra money you spend it on something immediately gratifying. Not necessarily alcohol or drugs, but like you say, stupid crap -- something that provides some immediate entertainment or escape but has no other benefit.
I don't see why there would ever be a lack of progress... maybe at some point progress won't be at all relevant to our current society, but there will always be something new. And at that point, where we have solved all problems, like mortality, hunger, peace, etc. And the world is a perfect place, it will be so far out from our current lives, that it seems like a misallocation of brain power trying to think about "what then?".
Want info on Michigan governments? Get out your wallet and prepare to wait
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Quite many of them don't, many (most?) not-top newspapers re-publish news gathered by others; many (most?) cable companies don't produce any news content themselves but just provide access to a bunch of news channels. Those still are media companies.
If tech really is the differentiator, then hearing that means tech staff won’t get commensurately compensated for delivering that decisive factor to the revenue mix.

The rules of old business still applies in most organizations: the closer you are to the transactional point where money changes hands, the more you make. This many times means sales, then management, then finance, then marketing, then engineering, then back office.
When you choose Windows, the computer uses you. When you choose Linux, you use the computer. Stop complaining and start switching. It should be apparent by now that Microsoft isn't going to stop their bad behavior.
I suspect that the benefits of conditional cash are very non-linear, such that the benefits aren't seen until the amount of monthly cash outweighs the immediate opportunity cost of meeting the conditions. If you're offering to pay me $200 per month, but I have to keep my kid in school (meaning a big time commitment from the kid and parent), and we have to go to regular doctor's appointments, then I'm losing several hours during a typical workday over the course of a year. If I take time off to take my kids to the doctor and also get myself to the doctor, then my boss is going to get irritated. I might lose my job. If I have to go to a work education program in the evening, then I don't have time for a second job. So now you're making me choose between $200 per month and possibly losing my job and preventing me from having two jobs. That's not worth it. You know what is worth it? $3k per month. That makes it worth the risk and effort.

But sadly, nobody has tried a real big money CCT program, because the good "small money" programs haven't been proven to work so nobody is willing to take the risk. But the problem is, you won't see any benefit until you get over the hump of the opportunity cost that people in poverty have.
Your second sentence describes the entire concept of civilization.
Gamify anti-poverty programs?

I wonder though, isn't forgoing small short-term rewards for greater long-term rewards a key aspect of escaping poverty? How can you condition that behavior with short-term rewards?
As someone new to Python, does anyone know if there is a FAQ anywhere that does a decent job of explaining the difference(?) between Anaconda vs plain Python (pip vs conda, that's a thing I think right?) I imagine one eventually learns this via osmosis after working in the environment for a while, but it's a bit mysterious to newcomers. I've got like 6 versions of pip.exe on my (Windows) laptop right now.
It will happen. Most likely Node 11 I'd estimate - 10 seems a little close for landing it

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15126
That doesn’t make any sense. Here in the US, Verizon and AT&T don’t offer home Internet in the vast majority of the country, and Sprint and T-Mobile don’t offer it at all. The wireline divisions of AT&T and Verizon also make very little of the companies’ profits (Verizon’s wireline profit margin is typically 2-5%). Goldman Sachs has been trying to get Verizon to sell its wireline division for years. Why would it sandbag it’s wireless service to prop up its wireline division?
If you are an employee, your cost to your employer is likely to be close to 2x your salary.
Giving someone a 200+ point advantage on their SATs based solely on the color of their skin is an anti-bias program now?
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Another tip: if you buy a new copy, consider an international edition if it is available.

For example, suppose your calculus class uses Apostol's "Calculus". You can buy the US edition, which is an utterly ridiculous $270 on Amazon at the moment, and that's just for volume 1! Volume 2 is similarly priced.

(It's particularly ridiculous because today's edition of Apostol is still the 2nd edition, from the 1960s. At least with those calculus books that they make gratuitous changes to each year to discourage use of used books, they can at least try to claim that the price keeps going up because they keep doing things to the book).

The international edition, which is exactly the same content as the US edition, but in paperback instead of hardback, and on thinner paper, is around $20 [1] per volume from numerous small booksellers. There's even a couple that are Prime and fulfilled by Amazon.

(I've heard that for some textbooks, the US edition uses color and the international edition is only black & white. For Apostol the US edition is black & white so it does not matter, but if you are considering a book that is in color keep this in mind).

If Amazon does not have the international edition, try AbeBooks.com. It is far more likely that AbeBooks will have a seller with it than Amazon, actually.

Similar to AbeBooks.com is Biblio.com. Occasionally one will have a textbook that the other does not.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/8126515198
Of course there's a better alternative and it's called open data. But I can tell you as an advocate for it in Michigan it's an uphill climb with the wind in your face ;<). But we have a team here that will keep pushing.
Sometimes I wish California would simply purge all republicans so it can become the bluest of blue state. That way, we can have a large scale experiment to see what kind of "utopia" will be cooked up under 100% liberal control.
"Given that there is a finite amount of these things to distribute among a given number of people, the distribution that will maximize total happiness of the population is one where everyone is equal. That isn't theory, that's fact, with mountains of evidence."

"Evidence" like, say, North Korea? Cambodia under Pol Pot? The Soviet Union under Stalin? Maoist China?

Heck, people are so happy with the equality in Cuba that they'll cross shark-infested waters in rafts they've made of trash bags stuffed with styrofoam packing peanuts.

I think your "fact" is not supported by the...err...facts.
Both true, although I can completely understand why devs went with MySQL over PostgreSQL at that time. I remember that during the same time period that MySQL was drawing seemingly endless criticism for generally poor RDBMS behavior (3.x and 4.x), PostgreSQL was notorious for having poor performance due to insanely undersized default settings. Like out of the box it was sized to run with at most 10 MB of RAM or similar that was just unrealistic.

I also remember it also had a lot of quirks and missing features prior to v8. I assume it was leftover cruft from Ingres, but I remember PostgreSQL v6 and v7 being unreasonably complicated to get configured just because the defaults were so off reality.

One thing you can say about PostgreSQL, though, is that it's developers don't rest on their heels. Every major release packs in a ton of new features. They've gone from being fairly low or middling on the feature set to being pretty near the top. Even point releases have me saying, "Wow, that's really nice to have."
>Every time my family had any money, they bought stuff. Not stuff we needed, but stupid crap. Definitely not calculated decisions to make progress to getting out of poverty.

Growing up my family did the same (waste money), but frankly, it didn't matter. It's not like a $300 check can do much to help a person, let alone a family, progress out of poverty. From my experience education is pretty much the only thing that works to move people out of poverty, and it is very expensive and exclusive.
Could someone send a link to that blog post to Ray Kurzweil? It's just because he loves exponential growth graphs so much. Just yesterday he was talking about the exponential growth in biotech that, within 10 years, will allow the entire population (of Silicon Valley? California? The US? The world?) to reach "longevity escape velocity" and live to see the coming century:

https://youtu.be/9Z06rY3uvGY?t=27m20s
It sounds circular to me: poverty itself incentivizes poverty. Are you less likely to grow up learning ambition, saving for a rainy day, and postponing gratification if your family grows up in poverty? I think the answer is, unquestionably, yes. You've gotten out of it by some combination of life experience that caused you to realize the bad choices, but also to have the ambition and imagination that better is possible.

I see poverty as kind of the backside of the power curve (various examples exist, I'll use airplanes): When an airplane is in slow flight on the backside of the power curve, drag is extremely high, and it takes a lot of power to get out of it, although merely just adding power doesn't guarantee you'll get out either. You need power and you have to change the flight profile (nose down a bit).

It's entirely possible UBI (and variant) trials in other countries where poverty is already low, will show higher efficacy than in the U.S. where poverty is higher and inherited, just like wealth.
There have been very long stretches of history in which general human progress was stagnant.

Or even going backwards, see Britain after the Romans left.
From that page:

> The coating completely penetrates spaces as narrow 0.01mm.

I would have thought that would make it very effective in protecting against whiskers in QFPs that might have a lead pitch of 0.4mm or larger. There's not a lot you can do under the bodies of BGAs and QFNs, but if you're worried about whiskers you're probably using QFPs instead.

This app note suggests that Parylene and a few other dip-type conformal coatings do slow down tin whiskers, but don't stop their spread:

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/52...
> 48 percent of which was paid directly to families as cash rewards.

So where did the other 52% go to? Working costs of the program?
For WhatsApp deleting the conversation through WhatsApp Web seemed to fix it.
> If you're happily giving money to cocaine addicts then you're not being helpful at all.

How about we don't conflate the two issues?

People who have so little money they can't afford food, should get assistance. Full stop.

Crack addicts who are so poor to require that same assistance probably need drug counseling and possible mental health assistance. In addition to the money for food.

If you think throwing it on a card or whatever will stop the addicts from buying drugs - you're mistaken.

Maybe we shouldn't treat people who are suffering as if they deserve their conditions. Maybe we should have more compassion for them, than we do for the corrupt wall street bankers who got massive bailouts in 2008.
Going with the previous calculation of $180/month ($2160/year), that's about a 9% annual increase for a family of 4 at the poverty line (I'm seeing stats of ~24/year).

One of the main ways in which redistribution programs are justified is by pointing out that a marginal dollar goes further for a poor person than a rich one. So I would hardly call this a "little" money, relative to baseline.

Having said that, one of the key advantages of unconditional cash transfers is that with much lower compliance/monitoring costs, a much higher percentage of all funds can go directly to the poor. GiveDirectly provides an 'imperfect estimate' of 81%, for the record https://www.givewell.org/charities/give-directly#CashRatios
Because windows 7 will simply never be fully compatible environment for ruby + gems with native extensions.

So I prefer to run Linux in a vm and focus on coding vs. trying to fit a square peg into a round hole and spend my time o troubleshooting the environment.
Correct. This is what makes UTF-8 is "self-correcting", in that you can always find which code unit you are at for a code point.
> Even so, why are there more of those technical immigrants female than the locals?

You are comparing locals( general population) to immigrant females( self selected group). Ofcourse population selected for technical degrees has higher % of technical degrees.

> There's nothing stopping 100% of immigrant IT workers from, e.g. India from being male. Why are they not?

Because all people want better life male or female. Getting into tech(even if goes against their inherent choices) for Immigrant female population is worth the high reward vs local population where upside of getting into tech is might not be worth going against their inherent interests.

> the majority of agricultural workers are from the EU

You explained it yourself. What you are asking is equivalent to 'why aren't there more of UK natives among agricultural workers'.
and also look at the post here, it was 2012
https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/startup-claims-80-of-its-f...
> Every time my family had any money, they bought stuff

This is a pretty well-known phenomenon among people with unreliable income. Their default state is that they have no money, because they keep ending up there. So when there's a windfall, they don't think long-term, they just know it will be gone. So they spend it on something that provides immediate gratification.

I came from pretty dirt poor too, and saw this among my own family and friends for years.
I set up my brother in-law's new HP laptop he got from Costco and I had to spend over 2 hours removing crap from it. The amount of crapware installed (and a lot of them are MS apps) is unreal.
That's a property any sort of investment. Do you decry the existence of Y-Combinator because the majority of the alumni's businesses will fail?
"Every NoSQL attempts to add features until it can do relational ops and then ends with a sql layer plugin on top. Those who can't are replaced by ones which can." - Rehash of Zawinski's Law by me
Plague of Frogs
Both Food Stamps and WIC are USDA subsidy programs for agriculture and food manufacturers. They require you to buy the particular things subsidized to ensure that the funds are directed to the right recipients in the correct ratio, not because of any particular human need.
isn't it everything ? everything is techno engineered these days

uber the tech taxi

amazon the tech store

... it's the engineered era
UTF8 streams are self-synchronizing: an ASCII byte starts with 0, a most-significant byte starts with 11 and a continuation byte starts with 10.

You can memchr for the last byte (either 0xxxxxxx for only byte or 10xxxxxx), then in the latter case go backwards to the MSB to see if the entire codepoint matches.
Coinbase is erratically overcharging some users and emptying their bank accounts
compliance and monitoring, most likely. The cash was conditioned on various attendance metrics, and the data collection process with such things is never as smooth as you'd like (I did a stint at a non-profit that ran experiments like this on behalf of economists).
I hope no one is investing all of their savings in any one type of asset, let alone cryptocurrency. Generally people diversify their investments according to their risk-tolerance. I am fairly young and not that risk-averse but still only have a tiny fraction of my investment portfolio in cryptocurrency.
well this one probably doesn't have dog pee on it
The Ward/Jakoby thing was a really sad excuse for the same old buddy cop dynamic we've seen a thousand times, but done better in almost every other case.

The "world building" was lazy and beyond boring; take a bunch of urban cliches and a bunch of fantasy cliches and slap them together.

The visuals were unappealing, the acting was flat, the dialogue was trite and terrible. The plot was beyond predictable and terrible (spoiler alert for the sequel, Tikka became the dark one at the end, which was obviously going to happen from the beginning.)

It's just all around a really, really bad movie.
It’s hard to believe that the loss of goodwill is worth whatever revenue Microsoft’s gaining from this, so I have to assume this is them dipping their toe into a strategy that attempts to make them more relevant to users. Maybe a reaction to the Windows app store’s lack of success? Thoughts?
Great points & feedback — thank you!

#1 – agreed
#2 – this is fair. We have some ideas on how we can help with these types of warnings appropriately and will work on integrating them
#3 – agreed
#4 – we are with you! Taxes are just the beginning :)
but the "cash" assistance was all about lowering costs. I get you've got costs of measuring the success rates etc, but I think the whole concepts needs to be rethought if they can't get that number much lower.
I studied business school in the mid 00s where most textbooks/classes still insisted that IT systems could be procured as standardized off the shelf products, despite the fact that all serious studies show that process management* and IT systems form a symbiotic relationship that makes it almost impossible to change one without the other.

*Business management is process management for most organizations.
Komodo Edit, Vi, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code, depending on the context.

And Cloud9. Very nice online editor.

Edit: I should state that grep is one of the most important components of my development cycle.
cool. would love to see NEO (and related tokens), Stellar, ZEC,BCH, EOS (when they transition to their own chain), Dash, ADA, Monero, and Ripple for the XRP fan bois.

Please do keep me posted in regard to investment opps. Thanks.
- Eager is relatively easy to convert to lazy, if needed. The inverse isn’t true.

- async is relatively easy to turn into sync. The inverse isn’t true.

- no API design is ”neutral”. Any API design is opinionated. Cancelable lazy synchronous promises is just as opinionated a design as the current design.
For me companies are not sports teams.

I can criticize or applaud a company for one choice or product independent of everything else. Actually if you were to look at my comments history, I've always been more critical of Apple.

Yes, you can change the browser on Android. In this context I don't care.

In my eyes Google has become an enemy of open standards.
> There are known good solutions for poverty that work reliably and consistently well.

Can you give some examples?
Hi. First I'd like to comment that I wrote that blog post literally quickly because I just wanted to convert an informal Twitter thread into a more shareable and digestible format, so I didn't take the time to make it "hackernews comment resistant" if you know what I mean.

On opinionated choices: I try to base that on mathematics. When it comes to async programming, that means equational reasoning and following some basic properties such as composition, associativity, left identity, right identity, etc, see https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land . These would be neutral because math is often neutral. For instance, if intelligent aliens exist, they probably figured out the circle just like we did.

On ideological preferences: there isn't anything free of ideology, so yes I am motivated by some ideology, not unlike influential members of TC39. There, you'll often find opposition to functional programming ideas, even though JS was originally designed with influences from Scheme, and allowed functional programming better than, e.g., Java at the time. See these TC39 notes, for instance: https://github.com/tc39/tc39-notes/blob/master/es8/2017-09/s...

FP ideas are usually opposed because TC39 proposals are driven by concrete use cases, and FP is all about abstractions. FP ideology is that abstractions are good because they accomplish abstract goals, not a single particular concrete goal. That does not play well with the use-case-first process at TC39. So, ideologies.

On "it would hurt the ecosystem": I think by now a lot of people from different language communities recognize the success of RxJava/RxJS/Rx.NET, and it tackles all those complications you mentioned, but for even more complex use cases, because it handles multiple values over time. I'm not arguing that Rx is a silver bullet, I'm just saying the Rx community has first hand experience with solving and teaching solutions to the problems you mentioned in the second paragraph and it's nowhere near "catastrophic".
Awesome, thanks for this list! We will add all of them.

In addition, what is the best way to get in touch with you (website?)
This seems largely practical/beneficial, and not of a significant downside. If you are pointing your domain at them for DNS, they are arguably canonically "that server" until you sent it somewhere else, and they're securing the connection for you.

The short-term nature of Let's Encrypt also works out well for this, because if you take your domain elsewhere, FastMail loses the certificate to claim to be that domain very quickly due to rapid expiration.
Yes we did! How have you been?
the contract/program doesn't need to run against every node just some small subset.
The comments on this thread drive home why pre-analysis plans[0] are awesome. It's easy to say, after the fact: 'the grants weren't large enough, the relationship between X and Y is conceptually non-linear, those aren't the right outcomes to look at,' etc. The point is whether folks would have offered these explanations in advance.

[0] 'Promises and perils of pre-analysis plans', Ben Olken, https://economics.mit.edu/files/10654