skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not the first time this article has come up, and as usual I'll give my 2c.

What qualifies me to talk about this issue? I was raised in the UK on income support, single mother, social housing, low income city etc;

Now the situation has changed somewhat in the UK; back then in the UK it was possible to get by without going into debt if you were smart about things and I believe this no longer to be the case, but I am no longer in this system and; to qualify my statement further: it was not possible to be poorer than my mother was. No family and no registered father on record. (He would have had to pay child maintenance if he was on record, the state does not supply this if there is an absence)

What I found to be true is that my mother will buy the cheapest thing that will do the job, she will treat her time as unlimited in finding similar quality goods for less money. She still trawls second-hand stores and will not buy anything that needs maintenance.

Her cars tend to be 1-step from the junk-yard (even though she has a steady well paying job now).

For myself, I select heavily for things that require less maintenance too. I buy extremely high quality things because I assume that my job is temporary and that I will once-again be plunged into poverty, and if anything needs to be replaced in that time I may not have the financial freedom to do so. I do not have anything that requires recurring costs (no netflix, no apple music.. I will not subscribe to anything that is not a utility), I do not take long-term contracts (if there is a choice between 12months at a cheaper rate or month-to-month for 10% more I will pay the 10% more not to be tied).

This is my anecdatum, of my mother who grew up working class and became poor through choice, and for me, who grew up poor and became middle-class.
iPhone 6 Plus has 1 GB of RAM.

Apple skims on RAM/GPU when they upgrade screens or come out with something new. Screen updates sell on hype. People can't wait another cycle for better hardware.

iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPad 1, iPad 3, 1st gen Retina MBP, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone X.
It’s a lot harder to quantify and value headspace. Is there a way? I was expecting the article to quantify it in reduced IQ, but it went the other way.
I said “artisans”, not “artists”. Not art, but things that people already buy, and already pay a premium for small-scale band production, like furniture and jewelry and ice cream.

A poorer home in the future might have a cheap AI-made TV, cheap AI-made cookware, a fridge full of groceries delivered either by drone or self-driving car, cheap mass-produced IKEA furniture assembled by a robot, all of these things “cheap” by cost but still higher quality than the mass-produced goods of today, but maybe the one luxury might be a handmade rocking chair from a local woodworker, who lives in similarly comfortable standards and spends his days building and selling chairs and canoes and cabinetry and whatnot, none of which is necessarily materially better than the stuff manufactured in drone factories and shipped across the world in drone ships and drone trucks, but people will pay extra for the small luxury of having their own special handmade things sometimes.

Also, because the necessities of life are so cheap, the woodworker can invest a big chunk of his woodworking income in index funds and have a share of the AI-generated wealth.
I fly fairly frequently and cal tell that’s not always how it works too. I don’t work in airlines but I wager it mainly has to do with demand and filling seats, much like hotels.
I found The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester to be a fascinating read about James Murray and how he came to write the OED.

It is ironic that the definitive book on the English language was compiled by an American, and that he made it while he was incarcerated in an asylum for murder just makes the tale more interesting.

Simon Winchester is an excellent storyteller and the Surgeon of Crowthorne is an entertaining and insightful book - highly recommended!
In the East Bay, sure. I tend to see $2800-$3000 for 1-bedrooms in SF.
Mixing Vue.js templates with server-side templates can lead to XSS
The Half of the World That Doesn’t Make Out
I find Urban Dictionary to be the most fascinating dictionary project in the era of the Internet, and much more contemporaneously useful.

By the time a term enters the OED, it's already fairly dry, or the editors are jumping on a bandwagon in an attempt to meme a word into existence for political reasons. Witness the Oxford English Dictoary's 'Word of the Year 2017': youthquake. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-t...

Good luck trying to hold onto relevance with stunts like that.
Thank you for the inspiring post. As someone who envied perfectionists, this opened my eyes. Take care of yourself!
Rights and Privileges of Public Virtual Spaces: How SO diminishes fresh users
Is your vision functioning well? An eye chart can’t tell you
On the other hand, I think it would be straightforward to strip script tags and attributes using XSLT. You could even go as far as just whitelisting certain tags/attributes.
At what point do passwords become impractical?
> BeautifulSoup is great, but it's counterintuitive (I always need to refer to documentation even for very basic aspects that I've used dozens of times before) and it's often slow and has some really weird xml bugs)

I won't argue the slowness and the occasional bugs, but unlike you I find b4 to be very intuitive. And this is mainly why I use it, despite its faults. Maybe our use case are different, but with a basic knowledge of html, I only rarely find myself reading the documentation. Care to give some examples of what you find counter-intuitive?
... more well known as Firefox OS.
Reminds me of a fun book from my childhood: The Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were (https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Things-That-Never-Were/d...)

Turns out that people have been fascinated by the things that didn't exist for quite a while!
Because that's cheating! I'm half kidding but you are arguing about price, mainly. Not why the cheaper (free?) content is lacking. You could also just afford a personal teacher and taken to the extreme, a personal translator so you wouldn't need to learn the language at all, which would be cheating. Except that you might have a personal desire to speak the language. What's the problem with Chinese that free offerings are inferior?

It is just chaotic is all I could infer from a first look. I mean English can be pretty messy already and maybe a specific Chinese dialect will be more regular than the bigger picture of the whole language. It's not that your coeds were being cheap, perhaps, it could just be disappointment for something as basic to cost anything at all, and relieve that it's not their personal shortcoming, but just an externalized advantage. You seem to say not even $20 was low enough, have I got that right at least?
But what did you use it for
There actually are ways like market mix models and multi touch attribution models to account for impact of those "late conversions" across multiple channels but requires fairly sophisticated data integration and modeling and is generally worth it only if you are optimizing millions of dollars in ad spend. The tools Google/Facebook currently provide are not really sophisticated enough for such work.

Source: I work on these techniques
>SVG supports JavaScript

Oooooh that probably has some nefarious uses
Australian surfers invent a rubbish bin for the sea
You are right, some regions can be unlocked. For example, N9500 (Snapdragon, Note8), can be unlocked (https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/how-to/guide-...).
Is it scroll wheel hijacking when the scroll itself works as intended (as configured by the user) but some part of the content "locks" to the viewport? I'd say it doesn't touch the wheel at all.
The FBI actually first interviewed Steele in July 2016 about 25 days before they opened the investigation.

“Simpson said Steele first shared his concerns with the FBI during the first week of July 2016 and in a subsequent meeting with the Rome official two months later when Steele provided the official ‘a full briefing’ of his findings”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/09/doss...
You really should study the history of the industrial revolution a bit more. It's not that as a species we did not manage to accommodate it, it's just that untold millions of individuals were made obsolete and they did not adapt.

The naivety is in assuming that there are simple limits to what AGI will and will not be able to do.

It's not an evolutionary change, it is a revolutionary change where the world as you see it today will have very little resemblance to the world the way it will be afterwards. If that change happens too fast there will be a lot of blood spilled.

Ignoring all this is one surefire way to bring about one of the worst variations on the theme - assuming it is inevitable, which the jury is still out on but the first steps on the ladder are being taken as we speak.

There was a good article on here a while ago about how safe your job is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14443606

Now zoom out to the rest of the world, take a decade or two as the timeframe and multiply by the likelihood.
Thanks for pointing tjat out.
So if they are to leave the original layout --not padding the spacing or subtracting spacing asf. then they should at a minimum use monospaced typefaces.
Can we use this approach to recover the missing 18 minutes of the Watergate tapes?
That's why Redfin (https://redfin.engineering/how-to-fix-googles-amp-without-sl...) pointed out that the Web Packaging spec could fix this. But before you have a general purpose spec that fixes something, you need a specific embodiment that does. asmjs came before WASM. SPDY came before HTTP/2. Flash came before HTML5. I didn't like Flash, but would you have suggested Adobe worked with browser vendors for years to bring the Web up the capabilities needed and never having shipped Flash?

Still, even without the AMP-cache, mobile sites were loading way too much JS, even after Google penalized them. The effect of AMP showing how sites could be loaded as fast as native Apple News/Facebook Instant, has finally gotten publishers to strip down their sites. You might not like the way it played out, but the end result is that not only do end users get AMP-cached fast loading, but they also end up download far less data, because the sites themselves have been pared down.
That separate piece of stuff to project on to is to avoid the ghosting effect you get from a projection reflecting from both the front and the back of the glass/air interface.
The ad was terrible. It explained how Candy Japan works. I don't care how Candy Japan works. I want the why should I buy Candy Japan. It should have focused instead on the candies that you can get. Delicious, weird, unique candies only available through this service.
tldr: "In conclusion, did you break even? Nope. I lost money."
"

I too have lost money on adwords, and have a feeling it is more the rule than exception.
Puppeteer has "networkIdle0" (0 network connections for 500ms) and "networkIdle2" (no more than 2 network connections for 500ms). My experiences with it have been very positive.
$100M valuation means ”we have four founders with PhDs from MIT, and our product uses both blockchain and ML”. Valuations are almost meaningless nowadays, with liquidation preferences and other tricks.
In the example I was given was wheat vs humans. A quick google search shows wheat has 164,000 to 334,000 genes, compared to 20,000 to 25,000 for humans.

The way it was expressed to me at the time it’s scientifically surprising much simpiler life forms have fewer genes. “This paradox has vexed scientists since the discovery of DNA about 45 years ago,” notes Dmitri Petrov of Harvard Universitys Society of Fellows, when discussing amoeba’s with a genome 200 times the size of a human. See: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2000/02/why-onions-ha...

As you suggest I should probably avoid topics outside my expertise, and genetics certainly is, but I am passionate about health and nutrition, on the edge of those topics the microbiome and genetics come up. Anyway I think was I contribute on these topics deserves a conversation (reply) like you have engaged in and not just downvotes.
Success: Enough market share to build a sustainable business so that it doesn't go away at some point.

And I know about Android's problems there (and mentioned it). But Windows Phone and FirefoxOS both chased those markets and they're both basically gone now.
the worse part of samsung's OS is the homescreen IMO, luckily, you can swap it out with something else but I imagine most users do not really know this.
This would be so rare that it'd be of little impact. That said, they would likely investigate who this person was, who originally employed them, and use those records along with any other trails left at points of entry and use that info to return the overstayer.
I haven't used an ad blocker so far, because I don't browse a lot of sites with ads, but have started seriously considering it when, last week, Youtube started to feed me with unskippable five minutes long ads. Five. Freaking. Unskippable. Minutes. Infuriating.

Fortunately(?), reloading the page made them skipped.
Yeah, its almost like its a pitch for the company to an investor instead of an ad to an actual customer of the business
chrome://gpu
I bet it's not using all of them.
Open chrome://flags and enable "Override software rendering list" and restart. Then thank me later
Ask HN: Do you think ledger technology will have a massive impact on society?
If so, what might that look like? If not, why not?

If humans capital is the most valuable asset on Earth then it's plain to see that the current economic system fails to allocate and attribute value in a way that best aligns with this reality. It would be the burden of the prevailing economic system to do so.

On one level, think Twitter and Snap being worth some $20+ Billion each despite making little to no money net net. What if they somehow pegged a token to their metrics, allowing them to remove a layer of abstraction and unlock value based on something closer to what really matters: the utility it provides people.

Is my head just in the clouds here? I'm looking for some friction.
Mm. I've been wondering recently why is it that Programmers don't have more specialized tools (Which incidentally reminds me of this lecture: [Bret Victor -- Seeing Spaces] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ).

It's interesting to think that high-performance traders have an entire market dedicated to specialized computer interfaces, terminals, etc. all focused on improving their productivity and ability to reason about the stock exchange.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11732258

As the top poster says about the Bloomberg terminals:

""1. You have to have a Bloomberg keyboard to work in finance. It's not even a question. It's a COGS for anybody who wants to work in finance or trading.""
There's a quick overview for python here:

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sockets.html

Which should go well with:

http://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-simple-web-server.html

And a follow-up to that might be:

http://aosabook.org/en/twisted.html

Now, this is all python - but lessons from the first two should be helpful in understanding most socket client/servers.
They only got funding in 2014. Before that it was just a guy in his garage tinkering with concepts. People often think they’ve been making t for 8 years because that’s when the company was founded. But actually at that time they were working on an iPhone app, not a headset.
> I think that would be the sounder public policy

Excellent! I think you're the first person here who has agreed with me :-) It seems like a subtle tweak, perhaps, to many people, but I think it would make a huge difference. Rayiner thinks it's unnecessary after Alice, but I'm not convinced; subject matter is a different aspect of the problem. (Also, though I welcome the effects that Alice is having, I'm not sure I think it's correct. The problem is that word "abstract". As software engineers, we know that abstraction is a hierarchy, and the abstract/concrete distinction is not absolute but is relative to the level within that hierarchy that one is speaking at. Any idea, in short, can be argued to be abstract.)

> keeping in mind of course that the patent examiner is a neutral expert

A neutral expert, but also one whose incentive structure encourages them to close cases. They don't get bonuses for fighting off obstinate applicants with bad patents.
isn't the airline industry at a net loss since its inception? I know that is a common belief.
If you are poor you cannot shop sales the same what you can if you have money. Stocking up on items is not really an option.
If you’re building a startup you should always be thinking like a business. Otherwise you’re just playing business.
This is the best analysis of the AMP situation I’ve read. At least someone wrote it. It’s reassuring to frame the debate in terms like ‘bad Google vs the open web’, but we should ask ourselves why are we pushing so much shit to the end user.
I've gotta agree with this, I feel like I should have a subscription like this and couldn't talk myself into it even when I was trying.

What's so cool about Japanese candy? There are a ton of other services out there like this one, why should I get this one? These are the questions I had that talked me out of it.

I say this hoping it helps, I felt really inclined to want to subscribe from past interest and I don't know what keeps me from doing so. Best of luck, and maybe I will in the future regardless ;)
1998 EJB and app servers were “PaaS” for Java. Modern Docker-based PaaS platforms are reimplementations of the same construct, with the main value-add being SDKs for a broader set of languages.
That doesn't matter. They still have been working on something for 8 years and haven't released a product yet.
Who do you think pays for the content you consume?
My favorite ad related story is I went to YouTube to see a movie trailer and got the very same movie trailer as the unskippable ad before the trailer :-D It's rare things get that good though..
The actual ltrace uses a set of text config files to understand the types of arguments and return values ( https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/ltrace.git/tree... ) - you could re-use those same files in order to format arguments nicely.
I'd guess it's written for someone comfortable with Python or programming in general (so they understand the syntax quickly) but has mostly worked with web frameworks and libraries.
I am so quietly proud of myself.

I managed to not learn the definition of that "word of the year". Through all the news articles about their decision, the outrage, I remain in blissful ignorance, content with my superiority over the Steve Buscemis at OED.

"How do you do, fellow kids?"

Personally I enjoy and visit UD more often than OED.
Do the ads use any more CPU cycles than the regular video does?

And which are more intrusive, TV ads or youtube ads? I can skip youtube ads.
To the first order the author can say they have. That’s reasonable enough given the scale of the operation. Higher order effects are for higher order budgets.
During a record year of questionable ICO's (itself creating a vacuum for the non-questionable variety)?

You're definitely going against the wind with that bet.
Well the initial snap impression is that the ad isn't very good. But let's talk about how this could have been done better.

For starters, I would not pitch a real world get stuff in your mailbox service with animation. There are no photos of the product, the explanation of how it works and why it's not a scam is hand wavy. I don't care how it works I care about what's in it for me, the buyer.

There are no clear examples of what you'll get. There is no sense of who is behind this service and why you should feel connected and like you would trust them.

In addition the implementation tactics are suspect. You targeted hardcore gamers, but you're not selling games. That's almost a complete non-sequitur.

Your goal was to target people likely to purchase candy, or perhaps Japanese novelty items, via a mail subscription service. It doesn't appear that you made much effort if any to figure out what that audience looks like and how to reach it.

One of the reasons digital advertising can be so effective is that it allows you to try multiple different approaches at the same time. Nearly every successful PPC type campaign starts with multiple theories, different hypothesis about who the audience is and what they'll respond to.

You try a few ideas, see what works, track sales and intermediate metrics (clicks, engagement, time on site, add-to-cart behavior) and then continue to direct your budget to things that show signs of yielding positive ROI.

These things are to some extent always a roll of the dice, but there are definitely some things you can and should be doing here to improve your odds of success.
Brand building investment exists today, but like all other channels unless you can prove the return you're just gambling. It's certainly not the best place to start if performance marketing is a viable channel.
Clearly you'd be one of those who don't appreciate being nerfed and you'd be therefore excluded from it by my rules. Probably you wouldn't appreciate that kind of workplace at all, and so shouldn't work at such a company. People can have different preferences for this stuff, and that's ok...

... but I think you're imagining a much more extreme environment than I have experienced myself. Throwing foam toys was something that happened occasionally, it's not a constant annoyance. Maybe it was different with this group at google, idunno. If it were more than occasional, I would squawk just as much as you.

Must work always be so deadly serious that you can't ever appreciate an attempt to crack a joke, blow off a little steam, unwind a bit before getting back to it? Yeah, I sure wouldn't want to hear about surgeons engaging in such antics in the operating room, but why does that make a difference in an office?

> And then people go on questioning how women are scarsely represented in IT,
> heck, anybody with some manners should be underrepresented in such a work
> environment.

I really doubt that nerf guns are the reason that women are underrepresented in this business.

I really want to understand your position on this, not trying to sound sarcastic:
If 2 people are throwing angry birds stuffies at each other (on occasion) in your office, and neither of them is you, that alone will make you so mad? Do you really care so much about what other people are doing?

> And the same privileged bunch that can't do work when it feels like work
> can't be bothered to blinking do some work like it's supposed to be
> regardless of whether or not their work feels like work or not.

I dislike being labeled as privileged, tho maybe you weren't aiming that at me. (Tho of course, everyone who gets a cushy engineer's salary is privileged. That would include you as well, presumably.)

Personally, it's not at all that I can't work without the toys and jokes and whatnot every so often, but that it just makes the working day a little more pleasant. For me. And when I'm happier, I'm more productive.

> And WRT drinking in workplace, I have not seen a single bartender drink
> while working, to this day.

We're getting very offtopic here, esp since we violently agree about drinking in the workplace, but
you must not drink in the same bars I do. I have often seen bartenders take shots or sipping on cocktails. In fact, I think most bars allow everyone working there one free "shift drink" per day. Not all bartenders do this. The more serious career-bartender cocktail-nerd types tend not to drink on duty (or at all, for that matter). But for most of them, it's just a job and they'll take the shift drink as a fringe benefit.