skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The review confuses psychological optimism with a problem-based definition of optimism: that problems are solvable (and hence progress is possible).

As David Deutsch points out in The Beginning of Infinity, Winston Churchill was an optimistic leader and a fan of science and progress who nonetheless suffered from depression (the 'black dog') [1].

Whereas Thomas Malthus (mistakenly) predicted mass starvation due to population growth [2] and was therefore a pessimist who nonetheless was of a sunny disposition and the life and soul of dinner parties in London.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-o...

[2] An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
http://www.esp.org/books/malthus/population/malthus.pdf
I interpret "price-gouging" as price discrimination. I can understand why people are unhappy about it. For the consumer in me, it feels invasive.

They're getting into both my head and finances to charge me more. Despite any good intentions of rewarding loyalty, I imagine the model rarely suggests to charge someone less than they normally would.

The business owner in me understands the pressures of leaving money on the table, particularly in very competitive industries. It's only costing them more money if they don't do this.

It's a tough one. I've seen many examples of algos behaving badly, where my life is being run by companies that think they know everything about me. In many cases they're close, but there's still several where there's an uncanny valley of sorts and I'm trapped with recommendations that are over-optimized or close-but-not-quite-right.

I'm hopeful that at some point we'll be better off, but it's a painful interim process.

An aside, I don't see your teenage boy comparison being that relevant. A teenage boy has to pay more for car insurance because he's higher risk, not because he has a higher willingness to pay. Cost of insurance scales directly with risk of payout by the insurance company. Your Apple example holds up better.
I'm sorry, that "mofo" was purely for illustrative purposes, although I might have Turret Syndrome.
My current favorite arm cortex are cypress's psoc. They're basically cortex m0/m3 + embedded cpld that has a direct interconnect to cpu reg/interrupts.
Trade is not a zero-sum game, in sum we gain. Cooperation leads to synergy. The sick and poor cost money. Having that in mind, I cannot understand why a country wouldn't give food and money and shelter to the poor. Without shelter, you get sick and can barely work. Without money, you are stressed and get sick. Without food, you get sick and can't work. It's obvious that even the hard working people have a better life when society helps the less fortunates ones. So, why on earth wouldn't a country do it? That would be unethical, irrational and economical madness.
> Ideally it should be dynamic congestion pricing so that the cost of driving on a particular road at any time is based on how busy the road is.

Congestion pricing is like trying to put out an oil fire by pouring water on it. And then charging the poor 15% of their paycheck for the water.

The primary reason there is congestion is that where people live and where people work are too far apart, i.e. there isn't enough housing near the jobs. Solve that and there is no congestion. Don't solve it and every other solution will be a new problem.

You can't get people to take a bus to a place the bus doesn't go, and you can't build mass transit from everywhere to everywhere across a thousand square miles of sprawl.

You can build multi-story housing near multi-story offices, and build both next to subway stations.
I agree with the first part, but not the second. Even when I've been at my lowest, I doubt there's been a day that I didn't check HN. It's just an addiction.
Here is the archive.org mirror, since the server is responding with error 503 (over capacity at the moment).

https://web.archive.org/web/20180226040031/https://defn.io/2...
By cheap, quick, and effective, I’m talking about human labor, not cost of silicon doodads for a commercial-scale product.

If you imagine we’re talking about someone’s hobby prototype projects, designing all of those things you mentioned takes skill, experimentation, time, parts, assembly, likely a team collaboration, etc. The combinations of parts get conceptually complicated and the feedback loops during the development process get slower and slower.

Obviously there are reasons to use custom-designed hardware if you are a corporation and you are building a million identical devices, or if you have extreme bandwidth or latency needs that a modern CPU literally can’t keep up with, etc.

But that’s a very different context than what the people several posts up are talking about.

P.S. if you pile your posts with abbreviations your readers have a harder time figuring out what you are talking about.
You said iOS password managers are stuck with copy/paste. That’s inaccurate, proved by your own follow-up with an example from LastPass.
Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug
Pretty sure it limits you to a set number of pages from any given book per day or something. I'm sure with sufficient effort you could work around it but a casual user can't just work their way through a complete book.
Margin and volume are the key to advertising. Coca cola needs to sell a lot of extra coke to make a return, and they do.

At the other end, car companies. You only need to move a tiny fraction of people left or right on a $20K purchase to justify a hell of a lot of ads. 1,000 car buyers changing from a Toyota to a Hyundai is a massive return.
Moving out to the suburbs when you have kids is a tragedy? That’s some serious first world definition of tragedy.
Look at all the free advice it elicited. What would it have cost to have people make all the comments on this thread? I reckon this post has accrued its value already.
Exactly, you solve the safety issue with a "groove", so it snaps to 0, and so you get tactile feedback that you did hit 0. Boom, done. No need for annoying stops.
How did Samsung it was a good idea to round the glass edges of a screen to the point that it warps displays colour & creates glare from indirect light?

It looks to be as big of a problem as on their 8 which I’ve observed people experience frustration with.
Sure you do.
Google, Apple and Facebook (and virtually every company in the Bay Area) have all stopped trying to get H1Bs for new grads with degrees from outside the US.

Microsoft is the exception for now.
> Of the situations you listed, the only valid reason for not showing up to court is because you weren't aware.

You are correct about the responsibilities of individuals, but that is not the only thing at stake. The system can be at fault for wrongly placing such responsibilities on people.

Consider the "with insufficient evidence that a debt is actually owed ..." part. Sure it is your duty in that case to turn up and get the thing dismissed. But the fact that you were forced to turn up means your freedom has already been compromised.

Small debts are also a symptom of a one-sided system. Civilised people usually settle small matters without going to the courts. Courts have to be making things pretty easy for creditors before that becomes a cost-effective way of collecting small debts.
The tech scene is.. well.. interesting.

You can really only work for the big Telco (Northwestel, owned by Bell), or the Yukon Government, or the city. Each have an overall IT team of something nearing 100 people, with lots of hardware, software, BAs, PAs, etc. etc.

Each has their pros and cons, each is incestuous and everyone knows everyone. Tons of people have worked for all three and hop back and forth as the seasons change. Once you have been in town a couple of years everyone knows you.

There is also a couple of small development shops.

A few people have worked really hard to get a maker space going (Yukonstruct) and from all reports it's doing great. Lots of members, lots of workshops on programming, 3D printing, etc. etc.

The money in the North is decent, and I only pay ~20% income tax, so it's a great place to sock away savings.
Correction - statistically they're not in the audience. i.e. even if you'd one person would be a good Candy Japan customer, YouTube ad billing incentivizes you to lower the false-positive rate (ie the number of people who view your ad but don't buy) rather than the false-negative rate (ie The number of people that skip your ad but would have been interested in the product).

Sometimes you get it wrong, like with GP, but that's worth it.

I think this is a Good Thing - it makes advertisers and YouTube care in dollars-and-cents terms about not wasting ad viewers' time and attention.
Actually, the exploit with the keyboards is both more interesting and more sophisticated than that. As described in Silence On The Wire, essentially how it works is that English letters are not randomly distributed. If you hear any given keystroke, you know that the most likely letter to be pressed knowing nothing else is the letter 'e'. This on its own isn't very helpful, but you don't type every letter on your keyboard at the same speed. It takes you ever so slightly longer to type 'z' than 'f'. You of course also only type one key at a time, as a consequence it's possible to merely follow a procedure something like this to recover English text given audio of it being typed on a standard keyboard:

- Assign a prior probability of letter frequencies based on a corpus of the language text you're analyzing.

- Separate the different keystrokes in the audio file into a series of times between keystrokes. (i.e, have your program recognize one keystroke as distinct from another)

- Based on the subtle timing differences between keystrokes, assign various lengths to different timings.

- Using the prior probability of the letter frequencies, assign the different time lengths to different characters based on their frequencies.

- You now have a straightforward mapping between the distance between two keystrokes and the character typed, which should allow you to decode the typed text.

Further calibration can probably be had by considering a word dictionary and using fuzzy matching to detect how often words are decoded incorrectly and what the correct decoding would be.
His answer is kinda crap, to boot. Menopause isn't triggered by the number of menstrual cycles, but by age.
I personally find it useful, although I can see why it feels out of place.

If you do decide to remove it, I think it's worth adding as an example in the README.
> the browser could easily warn you with a big "insecure!" page when you click on the button.

But this implies that whenever you click on any link on a page served via HTTP, the browser should warn you with a big "insecure!" page. I think this is far more obtrusive than a simple "not secure" banner next to the URL.

> I don't think https fixes that even for non-sketchy websites

You're right, if the website served over HTTPS injects random JavaScript/is poorly designed. However, the danger with HTTP is that every single website is vulnerable to this attack, not simply the ones served by malicious or incompetent hosts.
> Software development seemed quite approachable... software development does not strike me as one that meets the necessary degree here

The job title "software developer" is almost meaningless in the context of this conversation given the extraordinarily high variance in what that job title actually entails.

The software development job I had in high school required knowing what for loops are and knowing how to google web shit. The technical content was almost non-existent. The difficult part of that type of job is managing relationships with customers, knowing how to estimate deadlines and working in a team. I would consider most web development a mid-tech job.

At my last software job, I used graduate-level mathematics almost every day. The "at my desk" hours of the day were 60% reading mathematics papers and 40% implementing that stuff. Along with all the soft skills, of course. 100% of the technical problems I faced were not a Google search away, because I was the first person solving those problems.

As far as BLS is concerned, those are the same jobs. Clearly, they are at two extremes of the "skills" spectrum. And the compensation is wildly different. And the availability of talent for these jobs is radically different. But BLS doesn't see that because the job title is the same. Hmph.

> where there is no real pressure to hire people

Again, a HUGE "it depends"!
I don't know, the moon face seems real enough at the moment of seeing it, too.

Linking this to signal theory and the Fourier transform, one point to consider is that solutions are only true in the infinite limit, so a word, a phrase is never enough to represent reality. A sense of continuity is real enough, but discontinuity, too, although I can't position that in a psychological frame. Or Neurological. But speaking with the y combinator in mind, I don't think words are the fixpoints of thought, but feelings are. Maybe onomatopoetic names are and familiar faces are close enough.
> Heck, many wealthier younger folks don't have one.

This is a huge problem and I really wish more institutions would switch to email/phone services. Mail is incredibly unreliable.

Last year I had a medical bill which I completely missed due to a changing address. It was something I could've easily paid, but I didn't even know it existed until I got a large ding on my credit score.
Another valid reason for not showing up to court is no recognizing the states monopoly of authority.

I don't mean here to determine whether that's a good course of action, just pointing out another good reason for not showing up to court.
Maybe basics. To go deeper it could be many more classes, 4-5 easily. It just depends how deep and wide you want to go. You can't do more then basic overview of couple of standard algorithms in one class tbh.
I've flown united for 30 years and I'm finally off the loyalty wagon since they've eroded any reason to be a frequent flyer status holder.
1. Pedantic much? I didn't know we were talking strict city limits rather than metro area.

2,3: Your references make it sound like you last sampled the market in tech in KC in 2001, if Sprint is your benchmark for KC tech employers.

KC isn't as good as it could be, but it's a heck of lot better than when Sprint was the only game in town.
I guess the institution should be a transitory step in a social reintroduction process, not an asylum where to lock them away. (hopefully a system that does not chronicize them to assure funding streams.)
Ignore the "on paper requirements".

(assuming you haven't already been doing that)
Remind me never to loan you money.
Sometimes finding it difficult to do something is an indication you might have a suboptimal work flow.

You can get plenty of info about the health of the drive while the system is running.

There isn't much reason to run a filesystem check unless something is wrong.

Speaking of services it's extremely easy to query which services are running and enable and disable stuff. Plus there aren't 85 different things running.

If you insist you can run something like
https://github.com/mmstick/systemd-manager
Most first-worlders won't see much difference.

Poor people in equatorial regions that are already on the edge of uninhabitability without air conditioning will start to experience actual uninhabitability unless underground or air-conditioning solutions are procured (and even then, things will get very very uncomfortable outdoors for portions of the year)

Again, this will affect the most vulnerable people on the earth first: "A study by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2009)[120] estimated the effect of climate change on human health. Not all of the effects of climate change were included in their estimates, for example, the effects of more frequent and extreme storms were excluded. Climate change was estimated to have been responsible for 3% of diarrhoea, 3% of malaria, and 3.8% of dengue fever deaths worldwide in 2004. Total attributable mortality was about 0.2% of deaths in 2004; of these, 85% were child deaths." (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming)
I dropped out of college because I had to work 30 hours a week minimum to afford it. There just wasn't enough time. All I did was work, school, and homework. I was staying up until 4am doing homework, and then nodding off at the wheel all the way to school a few hours later. Something had to give. Giving up the job was a non-starter. There wasn't anything else to give up. So I gave up school. And that marked the beginning of my battle with depression. I'd grown up quite poor, but I'd never been depressed about it. Because the future I saw was me going to college and becoming successful. Once off that path, a real, deep existential horror that I'd never felt before set in.
I agree that it is a tragedy and it is also a tragedy how much resources we devote towards computer/software security.

There are tons of similar best practice inefficient solutions to society's problems in order to deal with the malicious actors because nobody has solved this problem and I doubt anyone ever will.

Do you have an idea for how to stop people from acting maliciously? Considering how subjective that question is, I cannot think of one (for a democracy at least).
I don't get the point, it's just a nicer alternative to beautifulsoup. Html pages are always changing, instead of writing the parsing logic in code, I think we should put xpath or css expressions in some config files.
Show HN: Geosnitch
Unfortunately, StackOverflow is difficult-to-avoid nowadays…
Nearly Half of 2017’s Cryptocurrency 'ICO' Projects Have Already Died
How's the open toolchain support with those chips?

I've also heard good things about NXP's Cortex-M chips - apparently they let you map peripherals to whatever pins you want, which sounds neat. And TI's MSP432 chips apparently have fantastically low power consumption for their performance. Atmel's SAM chips look less promising, with minimal peripherals besides a weird common communication bus that seems to handle things like I2C/SPI/etc, if I'm reading the datasheets right.

Does that sound right? It'd be nice to learn about all of them, but there are only so many hours in a day.
Super Cat Hero City Crime Battle
Super Cat Hero City Crime Battle is not another game of fighting against the gangsters.
Geoclue uses sub-providers to get accurate location info. The best one I've found so far is Skyhook, which can get my location to within a dozen yards. The choice of MQTT was simply in order to have something lightweight and generally config-free. I'd like to have alternative location services and remote listeners at some point, or depending on whether other people like the idea.

Feedback welcome, and all that jazz.
Kids are the easiest, fastest (9 month) way to guarantee a life of poverty. Make them get jobs if they're 12 or older. I started working at 12 (paperboy) and never stopped 25+ years later!

My advice is to stop school, work a bit, save up, then finish off that last semester class by class while working.

I worked 30 hours a week while going to college, not because I had a wife or kids, but because no one was helping me and I had to pay rent/bills on top of the loans.
I don’t have an iPhone 8 but was looking at the photos thinking oh the pixel 2 looks so much better, only to realise I was looking at iPhone 8 photos.... photo quality is very subjective these days the quality different is just not that different for either pixel or iPhone to stand ahead without it being subjective to the person comparing.
I definitely have felt that way, but I have the Note 8 now, and for the first time, I feel like Samsung has mostly tried to stay out of my way, software-wise. I do wish I could repurpose the Bixby key to do something else, but other than that, I love it. Waterproof, SD card slot, beautiful display.

I'm impressed by the S9, but the new features aren't compelling enough to me to upgrade, so maybe next year.
This report is from 2014. Since then a few GDP hits happened: Texas, Northeastern seaboard...
Excepted value distribution is extremely skewed.
Or with Modula-3 opaque types, for example.
Thanks Nicolas for the wishes. We will do our best.
That’s how I read it.
What's wrong with 75k anywhere in Indiana? As a hoosier myself I'd buy a home in fountain square and have a cush life at 75k.
That's exactly what I did, funny we posted at the same time. I worked 30 hours a week with fulltime school too. I was able to pull through it though and graduated. Took me 6 years instead of 4 total, but looking back, I would've purposefully taken even longer had I known it was actually one of the best times of my life. I had the benefit of starting at a community college though, which saved money, and those 2 years were easier. I also took other classes at other local community colleges to transfer the max into my university as well once I was there.

Yeah, you're right on the time management part for sure. I was the most efficient with my time during that period of my life than I've ever been. Basically work, class, study in library, repeat. It's not that bad, people are capable of more if they choose to. Best time of my life. It doesn't get better for sure. I've worked like a slave since then, with zero intellectual stimulation as I had at school other than what I seek out on sites like HN.
I think maybe collection should be free.

If I loan you $10 and you don't repay it, it's never going to be worthwhile for engage the legal system to reclaim that money. If there's no realistic threat of coming after somebody for $10, then no $10 loans will be offered. I think it's nice to have an environment where legal remedies are accessible to everyone for little to no marginal cost. It promotes pro-social behavior if everyone knows that everyone knows that contracts are always enforced regardless of the economic standing of the participants.
You have it partially in Rust, Swift and F#, it is just Google can't really do language design that well.
Ask Paul Beckwith about the fifty year estimate.
Perhaps if it were taught to CompSci students elsewhere in the US, they'd be more advocacy?
To give you a very round number it is several $k per day depending on where in the country ($2-5k) and what hospital for a bed in a two person room with 24h nursing floor care. That does not include doctors, meals, medications, tests, etc. If you're in an ICU or surgery it is easily 2-20x higher than that so you can't compare it. A skilled nursing facility or hospice can be less than $1k per day.

In home care even with 8 to 24h nursing can be had for a similar price or lower than a skilled nursing facility ($50-100/hr) with much better quality of life and lower risk of infection if you go to reasonable efforts to keep it clean.
> Is it really a problem that families aren’t together?

if you care about the epidemic of loneliness, the negative medical consequences of social isolation, and the demographic sustainability of developed countries, yes.
> the belt connecting UICU, Purdue, CMU, etc.

Look at the first destinations reports for those CS programs and you'll see what happens. People leave the region after getting the degree. In droves.
Oh gawd, enough with the social justice warrior routine.

I've been overseas more than half of my life in different countries and can tell you every country and culture has is it's nuances, good and bad, which exist and can be very different and very noticeable.
Agreed on both of your points.