skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much “deep” profiling we can do to improve things, e.g. to know how much is just graphics, how much is time spent processing byte-sequence spam, or heck even time spent processing scrollback buffers and stuff. I suspect it would turn out to be a mix. And I strongly suspect we could identify just a handful of efficient terminal sequences and push for broader support of the most efficient ones (i.e. things that directly tell the emulator to do X instead of receiving three dozen other sequences that produce the same result).

Graphics are a likely culprit but even then there can be multiple layers to the problem, sometimes literally. Putting bits in a window can be surprisingly expensive and it’s hard to have nice bells and whistles and speed at the same time.

It’s hard when given many bytes at a time. I once observed that simply by splitting a “vim” buffer vertically, my terminal received a significantly greater number of bytes (such as extra spaces for layout and several more special terminal sequences). The split also seemed to trigger more “full screen” or “most of screen” refreshes, versus smaller and cheaper updates that were typical of single editors. Scrolling, as it turns out, is a lot more complex in a split buffer.
In America, it's not the pay that gets you, it's the rising cost of living and the medical bankruptcy.
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Someone has to work to pay for those who don’t or can’t. There needs to be a balance. people who can work, but choose not to may end up messing it up for those who really can’t work.
Yet another poorly researched article about this experiment.
This has been a very limited experiment for only 2000 randomly selected participants (unemployed with certain restrictions). It has beem time-limited from the beginning.
More critical observers have always said it is too small and too limited to produce useful data. Some claim it was designed to fail by the governmennt. But the international press has overhyped it with Finland giving away free money.

Now nothing has really changed and no decisions were taken. No reports have been published and this had not been intended before the end of the trial.

The so-called news is that the trial is not extended. But that's really a lack of news, an extension had never been planned.

(I live in Finland)
Square and Stripe fit very different markets, there's some overlap in both could be used to power eCommerce sites but Square mostly targets traditional merchants selling products and services, Stripe targets developers looking to add payments to their product (SaaS, online marketplaces, etc.)

Either way, this is a perfect fit for Square - they already offer simple "one-page" web stores for merchants, tying in a full-featured website or store instead makes a lot of sense.
Good points and informative response. You're definitely an outlier, though.

> Professors are the worst and are not well paid at all

Not from the professors I know (engineering fields). That information is also public in many cases. They're not making your 300k-600k, but it's extremely stable, a position of power, prestigious because of the requirements, and it gets more prestigious with time.

I suspect with software engineering there is age discrimination against older people. Older doctors are wise and more experienced, older engineers are outdated and retiring soon?
I just bought bulbs from Home Depot yesterday. Specifically, the chandelier style base. Home Depot had a package of 4 incandescent bulbs for <$5USD[0]. They sold a set of 3 LED bulbs with the same base for just under $7USD[1]. To the average consumer, the LEDs are way too expensive.

I'm not sure I'd agree that incandescent bulbs are 10x the former price. However, you may be thinking of the Edison style bulbs that are trendy now. One of these bulbs does cost as much as the multi-packs[2]. They also have these in LED style for even higher prices.

[0]:https://www.homedepot.com/p/Sylvania-25-Watt-Double-Life-B10...
[1]:https://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoSmart-40-Watt-Equivalent-B11-...
[2]:https://www.homedepot.com/p/Globe-Electric-60-Watt-Incandesc...
>Should we in-game purchases for those in-game items too, under the premise that purchasing them is unbounded, unhealthy and addictive?

I think that the premise is a little weaker for straight up purchases because the uncertainty associated with gambling is what makes it so exciting, but yes if we would observe that a lots of children or families are unable to manage their finances and that this negatively impacts the financial behaviour of especially young adults, sure I don't see any problem with regulating them and limiting the use of those mechanisms in videogames.
I agree, the "nature" argumnets are bollocks (the US is big! That's why we don't have local transit in urban centers - yeah right), and I never understood why people make them (ditto for healthcare - "we can't have it because we are big!").

As for your question:

>are the difficulties any worse than elsewhere in magnitude and complexity?

I firmly think that this is the case - a century of bad urban planning is hard to undo. You don't have that in Europe (cities are old, the layout makes public transport viable and necessary), you don't have in 2nd world countries (a lot of growth happened under central planning that bet big on public transport because it couldn't provide enough cars for its citizens).

Huge cities in the US are different from cities in Europe. Even when a European city has suburbs, taking a train to the city center makes sense because you can get around the city center without a car. That is not the case in Houston or Dallas, for example. You wouldn't want to walk there.

Yes, these problems are man-made - but they are entrenched and systemic to a scale that I'm unaware of.

I guess what I am saying here: we need to understand the scope of the problem. It's not that it's more difficult to make trains running in Dallas than it is in Paris.

It's that we need to rebuild Dallas from ground up for that train to make sense there due to the way it grew in the past 70 years.

TL;DR: screw-ups are hard to undo.
Who would know unless you had a unique name and it hit the newspapers?
>1. $50,000 is not enough money to become a homeowner by yourself

1900 sq. ft., $44,900 --
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/709-East-St-Spencer-SD-57...

2342 sq. ft., $46,500 --
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/KS/77201215_zpid/23_ri...

1800 sq. ft., $39,900 --
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/WV/2089907837_zpid/61_...
Past discussions on the topic on HN within the past week or so:

- 7 days ago, 169 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16874921

- 2 days ago, 36 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16910856

- 2 days ago, 45 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16909881

- 2 days ago, 27 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16912072
I think I get it. They could have chosen to act faster, before being forced to act by the politics of inclusivity.

I personally don't mind though. In my city many positive quality of life changes were made only after some disabled people complained. I benefit from those changes too, so I don't mind the delay as long as it eventually gets done.
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If they are making money and paying taxes, then, net, they aren’t getting state money for no work.
There is also intellectual property issue. In my case whatever code I write on corporate laptop belongs to the company I work for so it’s kinda wrong to use it for pet projects.
YES WE SHOULD DEFINITELY STRIVE TO REACH OUT TO THOSE WHO HAVE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION STYLES THAN WE DO.

> To the extent that marginalized groups have a different style of communication than what is expected at SO, they will be treated differently.
Amazon sent me a notification informing me that with my last purchase I had saved over $100 in shipping charges since [some date]. They're aware that some customers (me) are seriously thinking about how much Prime is really worth. They're also aware that each little extra adds up. "Free": video streaming, videogames, apps, music, coupons, ebooks. I would have already ditched Prime if it was only for two day shipping, and I think Amazon is making strong moves so that shipping is not the only/main reason people subscribe.
My reading, at the time, led me to believe it was primarily a matter of access and facility, for Clinton. She wanted her email "her way", and State technical resources -- perhaps also dependent on cross-agency resources -- could not easily nor readily make it happen.

So, she had one of her own staffers take it rogue, with this server deployment.

Like a lot of senior executives, Hillary Clinton seems to have a pretty big ego and a commensurate attitude that she knows what she's doing.

In a larger context, something that really bothers me about all this: The Chelsea Manning problem arrived around the start of her tenure at State. State, the President and administration, pretty much all the powers that be were outraged over this event.

Again, from my reading, I gathered that the system these data were in was fundamentally deficient with respect to the security needs that were outline. Basically, two levels of acccess, with no compartmentalization nor, IIRC, active auditing -- perhaps much of any auditing or audit trail at all.

Clinton was head of State for the better part of eight years. They remained outraged at Manning and never ceased their push for punitive action.

But she very apparently never tackled and fixed the systems deficiencies that allowed the problem, in the first place.

As her campaign proceeded, I read numerous stories about its fundamental disorganization and corresponding disfunction.

To speak politically for a moment, I'd take this in a second compared to the malicious disaster that is Trump and his crony clown car of an administration.

But neither did she acknowledge, accept responsibility for, and actually work to fix the very tools her and State's work are now founded upon.

Go back twenty years. The intelligence services had a better scoped information collection and analysis system that showed real promise, while also better respecting privacy. Thin Thread.

Dick Cheney gets into the VP seat, and he wants to steer as much business as possible to his cronies. Thin Thread gets shut down, and in its place we end up with various proposals and tweaked formulations for what is called -- I can't remember the program names, right now -- "total situational awareness". That drowns in its own inefficiency, imprecision, and over-collection.

And in the gap, we also get 9/11 and a mis-lead if not dis-ingenuous ramp up to a multi-front war on the other side of the globe.

These people don't care about good, proper systems. They and their agendas vary; nonetheless, their agenda always takes primacy. And, invariably, the shortcuts or biased choices they force through end up costing, down the line.
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>The thing about trades is you don't need to be smart- just hard working

Man some of the comments in this thread really are disgusting.
Still having trouble figuring out of being a landlord of a second home is good or bad in this environment. You owe a fixed-rate mortgage, and you're charging rent.
German banks have always been extremely conservative when it comes to mortgages. It’s hard to even get a mortgage when you don’t have a secure job and bring a substantial down payment (like 20-30% of the house/apartment total).
You realize that the gopher (and glenda before it) was created by professional illustrator and not programmers?
I don't think that can be true realistically. Some people have to lose money in order for "universal income" to work. It may look sightly different if middle and upper class people "get" 12k a year, while having to pay the UBI tax of 20-30k a year (or whatever the numbers are) but on net it should be no different.

Until we have robots doing all work that are publicly owned, someone will have to be losing, on net, with UBI.
>>Second, trade jobs are usually pretty tough on the body.

Tougher than sitting in an office chair for 10 hours a day ?

But yeah, personally, I'd push my own child to get a degree, as insurance. Life can be quite long and you never know.
It's one of the main reasons I stopped answering questions on SO. I got about 4.1k 'rep'/'points' or whatever they call it, mostly just from old answers getting upvoted.

I tend to visit SO when google brings me there, but personally I prefer looking in the docs or asking in IRC (though it depends on the channel), rather than deal with asking a question on SO again.

An interesting thing is that this does not seem to be network-wide, there are parts of the stackexchange network that seem much friendlier and more welcoming to new users.
>(as arbiters and gatekeepers of all that is good against the raging unwashed hordes

Its not untrue though, is it? Its really easy for such communities to really rapidly degrade.

That SO and wikipedia have both retained quality for so long, while also having strict moderators hunting a strong ideal, in areas where so many of their peers have fallen prey to the unwashed hordes, implies that it may not be so easy to discard the strategy.

It might even be necessary at such large volumes. The particulars of their activity might be maleable, but just approaching the problem (very) defensively might bot be.
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I had prime for couple of years until things started going downhill (mainly not available next day or weekend delivery), but what's broke camel's back was disrespectful attitude of customer "service". I can handle a lot, but not this.
It's been couple of months now and I can see I saved a lot of money by not buying things on impulse, or buying cheaper elsewhere.
We interview specifically for people who can give and take constructive criticism. There are points in our interview process where giving a rational and constructive critique of our product would be a very good thing for a candidate. These are skills we value highly as they help employees improve faster.

We also do check for negativity in candidates though to balance this. Critical feedback can be given effectively without needing to be rude or unpleasant.
I signed up for an Amazon Prime trial a couple of monthly ago, after not using Amazon in a while. Was generally happy with it, but then ordered a kitchen appliance that broke after using it once.

Left the most boring and respectful review you can imagine, just stating the facts, how it was used, and that it broke after using it as instructed in the manual.

The review was removed within a couple of hours for breaking some non-specific policy, while similar reviews that end on a positive note are shown prominently.

I don't want to use Amazon after that. They're clearly just cultivating a review echo chamber optimized for conversion.
Both Django and Flask make me yearn for Rails :(
This is just a virch to appear on board with wider trends in the community, and addressing the issue you raised give StackOverflow no more recognition, advertising revenue, or standing in the community.
Does not compute. Go is speed now and Rust is just, well rust ?
Oh yeah I more mean the ones where someone doesn't manage to sneak in an answer before the question police get there
Inbox bundles are a revelation. I guess it's a shame Google failed to get the message out better.
Also announced on the earnings call:

Annual Prime membership in US to $119 from $99 in the coming months
But that doesn't mean they should dominate everything we do.
Feelings shouldn't control us, they can guide us sure enough, but the moment they control us we might just as well climb back up the trees and go back to angrily flinging poo at each other.
And subreddit admins.
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> even people with thick skin will benefit at least a little from a less toxic environment.

That argument is not entirely solid. After all the toxic environment is also the same environment that provides those answers. So if those two were positively correlated then decreasing toxicity could also drive down the answer quality. A cartoony scenario would be a stack overflow where everyone is busy assuring everyone else that their questions are good, non-stupid questions and they should be praised for asking them and wasting a lot of time on those instead of answering questions.

Of course we're unlikely to be at a global optimum here, so things can certainly be improved. You should just be more careful about analyzing those tradeoffs.
I actually just started using alacritty full-time recently, after walking away from it a few months ago because of the lack of scrollback. The only reason I'm back is because I am now super comfortable with using tmux in my workflow (and tmux's scrollback), so I don't need scrollback in a term. emulator any more.
I think this might be what they mean: Has anyone explored the idea of funding UBI with bequests?

Similar to how a university builds up an endowment via donations, and that endowment funds the day to day operations of the university, we could start a "UBI endowment" and encourage people to leave money to it when they pass. It would pay out very little at first, but over time think (50-100 years) we might accumulate enough wealth in the endowment to provide a healthy basic income.

Income accrues to the owners of capital. Currently, the world's capital is held very unevenly. Over time, humanity as a whole should become the owners and beneficiaries of its capital. Bequests to a UBI endowment could be a fairly apolitical, non-radical, non-disruptive way to slowly make this important transition.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/6lnumz/funding...
Quoted from: http://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN0...

Many international media-outlets have published stories alleging that Finland is going to discontinue its basic income experiment. This information is incorrect.

“The experiment is proceeding according to plan and will continue until the end of 2018”, says Professor Olli Kangas, the leader of the research team at Kela (Social Insurance Institution of Finland).
One that comes to mind for me, with a specific Google app: Google removed SMS from newer versions of their Hangouts app over a year ago. I kept the program at the last version to have SMS. Pop-ups appeared periodically asking me to update the app. After about a year, launching the app starting showing a page "This version of Hangouts is no longer supported. To continue, please update the app."

Of course, at that point, I moved to one of their currently-supported apps...but it means that my Hangouts conversations are in a different place than my SMS conversations.
> ... that stupid gopher and the way it was everywhere was a serious put off for me on giving Go a look. Nerdy AF.

Go is a programming language whose dominant demographic is nerds.

> ... can you imagine for a second that gopher on anything Apple?

Apple is a consumer oriented tech firm whose niche is high end goods.

> Reading the comments here makes it clear why most programmers should stay away from design.

You don't say.
I'd agree here. It's like they tried to make the new branding as generic as they possibly could.

I liked the simple, basic site that Go has always used. It seems inevitable that they'll redo the site, to include megabytes of JavaScript for features that nobody wants, like hijacked scrolling. (The site[0] for the design agency they talk about loads about 3 MB. Almost none of it is images. The site loads all that to display approximately ten words.)

Also,

>The circular shape of the letters hints at the eyes of the Go gopher, creating a familiar shape and allowing the mark and the mascot to pair well together.

If by "pairing well together", you mean not going together in any way, then yes.

[0]: http://within.us/
Yeah, all hiring managers know roughly how old you are by the time they've scanned your resume.
Bread could be slang for Cash which fits grammatically and would also be a reason to go to Mary's apartment for breakfast instead of Denny's.
> If you have less tolerance, how is that anyone else's problem?

Call me a radical, but people should have a modicum of social responsibility towards each other.

> Some people are also more prone to sunburn than others, but we don't say the sun needs to be less bright.

Luckily, we don't need to, having invented sunscreen.

> You are in control of your own feelings.

No you're not. Feelings are sneaky that way.

> Also why is it that minorities always comes down to not being male or white when half the planet is female and most of the planet is not white?

The blog post doesn't refer to anyone as "minority", but as "marginalized".
What I'm about to suggest isn't for everybody, but it might help you out. There are actually 2 ways to be rich: make more money than you need, or need less money than you make. There is an inherent risk with the second (because there are some things where you can't control costs), but it offers some advantages as well.

Making money is a stressful endeavour. Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people like a lot of stress. Other people have a lot of difficulty with it. Often it's hard for people to understand others who are in the opposite condition (Those who have difficulty with stress are seen to be weak or lazy, those who thrive on stress are seen to be manic or even evil). It's great to at least understand yourself, and while it should not stop you from trying to become the person you want to be, it's pretty damaging to ignore who you are now.

Making money is stressful because you have a lack of control. You are either spending your time doing what others want you to do (always hanging that carrot in your face), or you are spending your time doing high risk things in the hope that it will pay off (always flirting with failure). In contrast, not spending money is an exercise in control. Everything comes from you because you do not have enough money to depend on others.

In many ways it's the complete opposite of trying to make money. You need to move to a quiet location where the cost of living is as low as possible. You have to prioritise time working for yourself over working for others. You have to cook, clean, sew, grow your own food, etc, etc for yourself. It's not easy (and not at all for everybody), but for someone who is capable it's a way of simplifying your interfaces and giving you back a sense of control.

I can't really give you specific advice because we are different, but the main thing is to view spending time for yourself as more profitable than working for someone else. For example, spending an hour making dinner for yourself is more valuable than spending an hour working to pay for going out to a restaurant. Spending time growing herbs on the windowsill (or even building a makeshift hydroponics system out of spare parts) is more valuable than buying herbs (or whatever) in the store.

It's easy to get into the mindset that $100 is an hour's work if you are paid $100 per hour. Can you generate $100 in an hour of your own time? But $100/hour is $200K per year and that $100 becomes really devalued. If you are living on $10K per year, the same $100 has a completely different value to you. At $5/hour it makes enormous sense to leverage your own time rather than collecting peanuts from others. In that very strange way, the less you make, the more valuable your time is to you -- because what you do with it becomes much more important.

I don't want to discourage your from finding ways to get past an issue that is obviously causing you a lot of pain. However taking a time out to work for yourself, rather than for others may help you get some breathing room.