skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anything, I find that successful people are culturally un-welcome in the conversation today. It's considered presumptive or 'privileged' to give advice on how to be self-reliant and grow wealth.

Culturally this is happening in a number of areas. Victimhood has become such a powerful status to claim that we increasingly refuse to listen to so-called 'privileged' voice, regardless of how solid their advice may be.
> Everyone says they can't find programmers

It’s endemic, everyone interviewing no one hiring, waiting for unicorns with beards and sock hats. Don’t take it personally.
If you're buying software, you don't need to understand how it was made. It's similar to meat. If you're producing meat, you have to butcher animals at some layer.
I prefer being stuck in traffic than sitting on the pissy seats of public transportation. Waiting in the rain for my connection downwind from the smokers. Standing on the train because some piss soaked bum is sprawled across two seats... there are many legitimate downsides to public transit. People make the choices that work best for each of them. For the majority, that means driving in a clean, private car.
You believe so...with what evidence? You’re pointing at a system that has well-documented, overwhelming evidence of systematic corruption, lawlessness, and oppression, both in recent history and modern day. A “few bad apples” sort of defense is infuriating at this point, because it seems so willfully ignorant. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world - doesn’t that give you pause?
Turns out there are differences between men and women.  Surprise
This result is not surprising at all. When these taxi service becomes much more affordable, more people will use them instead of other transportation and more people will be stuck in traffic. Uber has been giving me tons of discount last year, making it even cheaper than Muni, so I’ve been taking Uber a lot more than necessary.

The reduce congestion, we need much better train system like those in east Asia so that people would love to take trains. Trains can also go much faster and they are much more predictable during busy hours
To some extent you're right, but I'd say education is absolutely a part of the problem. Most people (I'm guessing, based on anecdote), at least under 30, have no idea what the potential consequences of not showing up to a court date can be. Even if someone doesn't think the court system will help them, they should understand that not showing up makes things monotonically worse.
As far as I can tell, the surveys are asking about specific trips. It's true that I substitute ridesharing for public transit for specific trips (therefore contributing to these results), but also true that if ridesharing were banned, I would buy a car.
I believe that is intentional. Sentence missing from the blog post is still up on the reddit post[1]:

> Here's the end result. If the video tingles your weeaboo senses, that's intentional, as I want clearly uninterested people to skip the video as fast as possible. I'll explain why next.

...

> Now you might understand why I want to get people not in my target audience to skip – it's cheaper because you don't pay when people skip your ad!

In other words - you're probably not in the target audience.

Not saying I agree with why he is saying you shouldn't be in his audience (you're clearly interested in Japanese candy) but maybe you're not because you have an interest but would likely still cancel earlier than his normal audience. (which would have a much higher lifetime value making the numbers much harder to run)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/8062vs/what_i...
Since it’s a bidding system, someone’s getting good returns on these ads and I’d speculate it’s just a small handful of people who actually hit a sweet spot, with the rest filled by people doing temporary campaigns or testing out campaigns.
Apologies, my criticism was at the linked article. The quoted part was particularly bad. To the point that it really detracted from any point and only seems to exist for the signaling aspect.
Nothing you just said is at odds with the article. The problem is that people are spending time in jail (via the process you describe) because of civil debts that can fall into one of the following categories:

(a) debts of small sums

(b) with insufficient evidence that a debt is actually owed (apparently hoping that the defendant won't be able to competently defend themselves.)

(c) with insufficient notice to the defendant (apparently, this is the plaintiff's responsibility in some jurisdictions.)

(d) with insufficient consideration for the defendant's situation (i.e, physical or mental disability, single parents that cannot afford childcare, etc.)

It seems self evident that these situations are unjust and that reforming the process is desirable, wouldn't you agree?
Microtransit and shared cars: what I think we know
It’s an expense paid for by the city to provide municiple services to as many tax payers as needed. People rely on the bus. Seniors, disabled, young people. A city provides these services and sometimes it looks like one person on a bus.
I'm on Linux. I did a tiny bit more investigation and it seems like ltrace works on some processes (like top) but not on other processes (like Firefox). I'm sure that the Firefox process in question is making library calls because when I trace the same process with `ltrace-bcc`, it shows the library calls.
Yes but the article wasn’t talking about modern factory jobs.. it suggested that mid-tech is equivalent to the factory jobs of yesteryear — which were repetitive and not necessarily requiring superior intellect (relatively speaking.)
Mind you, if you've spent much time developing software to have the experience they seek, you soon start to learn those CS concepts naturally anyway. Really, all they are filtering against is people who are bad at interviewing and maybe they'll catch the odd person who does not even know how to turn a computer on but wanted to see if they could get the job anyway.
Nobody who has ever used Google Books would think that it's putting complete copies online. The results include pages with hits, plus pages around them. There are so many missing pages that books aren't readable.
And is it even possible to get access to such drugs if you can't afford them and have no health insurance? Genuine question.
How to Install and Use Snap in Various Linux Distributions
I experienced this first hand in Bangalore last year, when Uber and Ola (a company offering similar services) drivers went on strike for a week or so. Roads were much less congested during that time period.
For a counterpart, it is Bill Gates' new favorite book: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Enlightenment-Now
What? The median San Francisco house is up 6.8% between 2016 and 2017.
That’s a separate problem to solve. Trains in lots of countries are both clean and perfectly safe.
Sure. I'm just saying that the big four has the ability to deal with this contingency, and backing paperwork and documentation.

You don't get rejected out of hand for not being authorized to work in the USA currently.
That’s not what I’m saying. We most definitely should offer mental care to people who need it, regardless of ability to pay. My point is simply that many of them don’t want it, and we can’t force it on them.
Tomorrow I'll try this with JavE: http://jave.de/
Definitely worth keeping in mind. I'd add that resistance takes many forms; sometimes it's the voice in your head, other times its people projecting their own insecurities. It takes serious courage to walk your own way, to really stand up for who you are and give it everything you've got.
> Libertarianism means you can help others as much as you want to.

What’s the political philosophy that means you can help others as much as they need? Maybe we should talk about that one more.
One of the top posts in this very comments section at the moment contradicts your claim.
Long ago, in the time before React, I’d forked and fixed an older perl program that prettied up trace output from C programs. The binaries need(ed) to be instrumented using function call hooks feature in GCC (or most any other C compiler) but it’s pretty handy for doing what you described. Faster than GDB tracing usually.

I forget the exact details but you can see the setup on my GitHub if you want to try it:

https://github.com/elcritch/etrace

Edit: grammar
(Four years ago. The AG eventually appealed to the Supreme Court, but were denied a hearing.

15-849 AUTHORS GUILD, ET AL. V. GOOGLE, INC.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Justice
Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this
petition.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/041816zor_2c...)
> What’s the relative cost of in-patient vs. out-patient care?

They're not directly comparable, because the care delivered is fundamentally different, but inpatient care is about two orders of magnitude more expensive.

That's not to say that reduction of inpatient care is always a goal, though, because it's only a good tradeoff when the outpatient care actually would provide equivalent or better clinical outcomes. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not.
> Austin, Pittsburgh, or Raleigh

My post was about the Midwest [1]. None of these are in the Midwest [2]. Except maybe Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is technically not Midwestern because it's slightly more than a commute away from Ohio. But it's also actually not Midwestern because it's not a good prototype for a typical Midwestern city.

"The Midwest" does not mean "not the coast".

Also, all three of these are in the "coastal states" I'm contrasting with the Midwest.

> the markets in SF have been stagnant for years now.

Yes, I repeated some rendition of "except SF, which is uniquely terrible even among coastal places" many times in my post. And the problem with SF isn't lack of predictable appreciation. The problem with SF is that you can't afford to make the investment in the first place.

[1] https://ces4thgradewiki.wikispaces.com/Midwest+Region+of+the...

[2] PA and NC are mid-Atlantic and Texas is most certainly in the South.
You'd need to pay the doctor, and for prescribed drugs. Some doctors treat indigent patients at reduced prices, or pro bono. Also, food and drug chains often sell generics at discounted prices. And some US states prvide drug-discount services.
Same thing you do on iPads or iPhones. Hold the power button down and it restarts.
Reed College is considered an elite college? Honestly, I've never heard of it other than in the stories about Jobs.

I can see UC Berkley being considered elite, but Woz completed his studies there. He is not a dropout.
That's a good idea but I suspect you're being a little hard on a guy that went to the expense and clear trouble of getting something like this made, dropping the coin and then sharing the story for us to pick apart.

I doubt anyone gets their video based marketing right the first time - another thing an agency would have helped him avoid.

Me: I don't really care about the video or the product, I'm just glad he shared the marketing experience.
I have always listed my occupation as "Computer Programmer" on my tax return, though I have a CS degree and do everything from database administration to network administration to software design and development (including writing code).
yeah I think this would be very possible! I think the hardest part would be the "with its arguments" part. But there's a really useful Rust crate called gimli for parsing DWARF (I found it a lot easier than the C DWARF libraries I looked into).
Cache link:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:defn.io...
Which, in the case of most of the people who currently hold our wealth, turns out to be not very much at all. Are you surprised?
> Burdonova applied for a Social Security number as a “Legal Alien Allowed to Work” in the U.S. This is consistent with the H-1B visa program.

So Burdonova also got H-1b? Does she also work for the same employer? Or got it from different employer? Or is it not H-1b for her?
> Pinker avoids addressing the social breakdown of families

Is it really a problem that families aren’t together? Previously (with some hold outs) there wasn’t much choice and families had to stay together due to issues around control through money, religion and social pressures. Go back further (hopefully, though this is still pretty grim in many areas) and domestic violence was also legal.
“Breakdown” of families is a considerably better option than what was previously available.

> the increased polarization and technology-driven personal atomization in the current mileau

I don’t understand what this means, could you give an example?
I'd rather like to have a service that allows me to construct my own dictionaries.

In printed form, or is web-based okay?
I don't have much more experience as a manager than you do but here are some thoughts.
1. Share the roadmap with your team once confirmed by management
2. Don't force your implementation on the team but let them come up with it and use it as long as it is good enough
3. The time will never come that you feel that your reports are ready for hand over - it will only come by necessity when you are asked to take on more responsibilities so that you have no choice but to hand off this work. So, you may as well start the hand over today as there will never be a better time.
Compared to having your own car, even the absolutely best, world class, mass transit service is just terrible.

And I say this having tried both. It just doesn't compare.

This is not a battle you are going to win. I'm happy for other people to take mass transit and leave more road space for me.

Or I can be more fair and want more road space for everyone.

Mass transit is not a good solution, it's a poor solution, that sometimes is the best thing available, but never mistake that for actually being a good solution.

Properly designed cities would not need it.
> If they're talking to themselves, they need more than that. They probably need to be cared for in a mental institution

The statement that they should probably need to be cared for in a mental institution isn't true. That some or several may need to be cared for is true, yes, but the probability of that need is less well know. Schizophrenia and other schizophrenia-related disorders can often 'mellow out' on their own over time. [1] It is important to give someone a stable and loving and validating environment for them to be able to recover. There are several kinds of people who, while they talk to themselves, really just have their symptoms exacerbated by stress (e.g. schizotypal personality disorder can have quasi-psychotic symptoms triggered by stress).

1. https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/schizophren... (I will also note that this has been anecdotally determined, though I understand anecdotes are not data.)
He's a line manager. What do you think he should do differently?
forgot about google building a city nearby ,so probably prices will plummet which means even more companies will want to establish in sf ...

anyway , will be an interesting place with the 0.01% alongside bums...
> For the majority, that means driving in a clean, private car.

Not the majority. At least not in sensibly operating cities.

https://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-york-commute
Sure. Just listen. If they mention that they are a graduate student or post-doc, then that is code for poor and in debt.
A good reason it should be banned.
Based on Wikipedia reed is way up in college ranking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_College. His parents could barely afford it. Definitely not a community college.

Gates and Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard.

I just wanted to contradict the myth that SV is friendly towards college dropouts.
My first Android phone only had 192 MB of RAM.
To quote Carl Sagan, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Reminds me of the recent comic about privilege.

Most young people are quite sheltered, and many old ones as well. Ignorance is rampant. Wouldn’t take it personally.

Despite a lack of resources at least you got some brains, some in the same situation aren’t so lucky.
10,000 homes is more of a village, but ok. Prices plummeting would be great!
You sound so much like me. Are you me? Are we both talking about Austin? I'm coming back in a couple of days to throw things into a big truck and say my final goodbyes. LET'S COMMISERATE
If you want to look at research papers for inspiration, the term to look for seems to be "sketch recognition". E.g. this paper for UML diagrams: https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Spring/2002/SS-02-08/SS...
Ready to commit your changes, but too lazy to make up a commit name?
Space Aging
Seriously! This was unbelievably compelling!
I (well my company) hired one before, we didn't need anything fancy or specific at all - just a professional voice.

She worked for a voiceover company, but I don't remember the name. We called her company up and said we needed xxx word narration.
You say it takes over a year for people to understand your whole system?

I'd recommend looking into why the ramp up time is so long.

Especially if you only assign tasks you know how to do, you are likely hampering your systems ability to become simpler.

For example, recently we took away 1000s of lines of nuanced code by using an out of the box cloud service (which none of us knew how to use). It offers a similar interface, and it's cheaper and easier to use. Took a week to play around and research if something else was more appropriate, took another three weeks, and we deleted 10% of our code.
> According to the article, that is no longer the case

I think this thread is confusing "degree or equivalent knowledge" with "no really honest to god you don't need a degree".

Mid-tech is the latter. Consider the examples given in the article: "...computer systems analyst, computer network architects, and support specialist..."

The Midwest is not replete with jobs held by self-taught software engineers. It's replete with jobs (dubbed mid-tech) that don't require the self-teaching in the first place.
Seriously.. This obsession with thinner, bezel-less flimsy phones that look good only until the first time you drop it at a height greater than 2cms; Its cancer, causing manufacturers to make phones that are objectively worse from the viewpoint of ergonomics (these phones are very slippery and easy to drop), reliability and battery life.

I would pick a sturdy rugged phone over these cinderella phones any day of the week.
> you listed a bunch of advantages of wealth that I dont think anyone would dispute. and you talk about taking that away.

That is a non sequitur.
Bemmu presented this very same topic in person at a previous HN Kansai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs30WPkRpsY
Ancient necropolis discovered by archaeologists in Egypt
Makes sense. I mean, I say that it was totally impractical to not have a car and live in silicon valley before the rise of the ridesharing services; but I know a guy who did it. He had a bicycle and just always lived near work and a grocery store. Come to think of it, he now uses a rideshare service a lot more often than he bummed rides before, so ridesharing has increased his automobile usage. maybe there were just a lot more people like him (and you) than I thought before, people without cars who nonetheless live in cities designed without people like them in mind.
I'm sorry if you felt I was misreading your intentions. Your message did not mention that you were poor, or that you were asking if you specifically are welcome to comment. My answer to that would be: of course you are welcome to comment. Nobody needs to ask permission to comment here.
That seems like an outlier, while harassment is sadly commonplace, I know many women in SF/Oakland (arguably worse than Seattle) and they do not have enough issues with harassment on public transit to prevent them from safely using it.
I've read a bunch of personal finance books and I found that they recommend 3-6 months of expenses in savings as an "emergency fund." Of course, they usually mean in a bank, I don't know how literally you mean "cash." But if you have less than 3 months worth of expenses stashed, you're living somewhat precariously. The general population is absolutely terrible with money, so I would recommend taking random peoples' opinion on savings with a grain of salt. This is the internet, so take mine with a grain of salt too. It's worth doing your own research from experts.

I don't know how much canned chili you keep, but FEMA recommends keeping at least a 3 day supply of non-perishable food on hand. I don't think FEMA has a reputation for having borderline paranoia.
Actually it can but the cost to build it currently is not worth the return. In 5-10 years I don't think that will be true. First such machines will be adopted by large hotels etc where laundry which for them is usually bedsheets and towels as the tech gets smaller and better adopted by motels and over time by common people. I don't think it will be very long from when laundry room in a building or laundromats/dry cleaners will be automated where you drop off your clothes and collect them back washed dried and ironed.
Almost all work in the end can be automated the biggest hurdle currently is the cost building a specialised robot for a specific task is not cheaper than humans doing it specially for housework but for how long.
That's why I had to leave the midwest. I was getting low offers and it was even hard to find companies to interview with. As soon as I started interviewing with companies on the coasts and South (TX), I had multiple offers in hand within a few weeks. I would have rather not left family and friends behind but I simply had no choice.

One major shift that could happen is if remote work becomes more popular. Imagine if the majority of tech companies were that way. There would be a lot less risk moving back to the midwest or well anywhere knowing that it would easy enough to find another remote job.
This decision is also largely economic and cars are hugely subsidized in America compared to public transit.
I have a 1st-gen Moto X that I use as a backup.

It's about as responsive as my Pixel (i.e. not very responsive, not even close to iPhone) and it's a great size.

The problem is, as always, the battery. If I could replace that and install PostMarket, I might use it as my daily driver.
> the `do` syntax makes it patently obvious what is the important value

Given that it seems that the majority of people who attempt to learn Haskell end up giving up, I'd argue that very little about it is "patently obvious".

> it is the one being assigned into variables within the block and used as argument of functions

I think this is part of what confounds me when it comes to Haskell (aside from the terrible syntax and horrible coding conventions): when I'm reading an expression I understand the overall expression by understanding what the sub-expressions do. That is, I can start at the leaves of the expression tree and work my way up to the root.

In Haskell, sometimes this is not possible, because sometimes the type of the subexpression is constrained by something higher up in the AST. This leaves me not knowing where to start with trying to decipher the type of an expression.

> About the aversion to using parens, matched operators make your code brittle and hard to change. This is not obvious if you have never seen any other way of organizing code, but it is a large effect.

What are "matched operators"?

The aversion to using parens means that I can't even parse code unless I know the fixity rules of all of the operators in an expression. I'm sure you'll say this is easy to pick up after a while, but that has not been my experience.
With the operative word being "can" there, it's still libertarianism.
yea, and i hate it there too. we’re quickly turning society into a numbers game, making a very low percentage of us rich.