skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That presumes

That the top 3.4% really were just the smartest - not the also the wealthiest and best connected. There is probably both some dilution of talent and also more competition from all levels of society.

And as to point 1. In the UK at least there is no doubt many many more are doing a lot better at school nowadays. Schools have evened up and pupils work far harder as most jobs require qualifications.
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We use it in all of our environments and it is extremely flexible, mostly reliable, but still feels like a hodgepodge of plugins and various components. Once you throw in a variety of build tools and deployment options etc, it can get rather unwieldy. Still, we use it for almost everything now (no forgotten cron jobs running on random servers) and it gets the job done. I often think we should investigate other options, but we have made such an investment at this point it would be a massive undertaking to move to something else.
In the EU, all banks are required to provide basic banking services, including a debit card, to anybody who does not currently have a bank account. This practically killed cheque-cashing shops in the UK, and provided a significantly higher quality of life for workers, as well as simplifying payroll - direct debit can now be provided to all workers, there's no need to provide a cheque option.

The issue, of course, is that the US Visa/Mastercard system is an often-offline, pull-based system - meaning that a card set up to always require online transactions may be unusable, preventing banks from providing accounts with a debit card without the potential for an overdraft.
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Yes, but, the whole of the UK permanent workforce gets tenure in the US sense after, I think, the first year of employment. As do most EU countries. Long may it remain so.

The Tories abolished tenure in the UK sense which roughly removed the right not to be made redundant but didn't affect the standard employment right not to be fired "just because".
Can you link to an example of that? (Not disputing your experience, just want to learn.)
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One of the most difficult things for any organization based on a political mandate or a cause is to plan for its dissolution.

One of the best examples I have seen of this is in Denmark where libraries are now renting out a lot of other things and setting up plays and culture nights to keep staying relevant.
And now I can't take Slack seriously either.
Khosla shouldn’t have closed the road to the beach. But that’s not the primary issue. The county and public interest groups didn’t just want an easement to access the water. They wanted someone to operate a public beach there with parking and places for sunbathing, etc. But they don’t want to have to pay for that property. Public trust doctrine doesn’t get them that. So that’s why this coastal development permit rigamarole happened.
There's many small private roads, but all the major ones you drive on every day to get to and from your work once you're away from your suburb? Those are public, and unlike the ones that are in your cul-de-sac, they're used by many many people, not just the people who live on the same street.
> lingua franca

Hmm, I seem to recall we already had such a language in Europe since middle ages, it started with L and ended with n. It's still dominant in medicine. It could be funny to use it in tech EU-wide as well with "proper German pronunciation" ;-)
They make dimmer switches that can be controlled via Zwave/Zigbee as well. If you replace your wall switches with these instead of using bulbs that do the same thing, your automations will have no more problems of this sort.
The self-replicating hubris machine seems to be functioning as well.
It's true for the northern countries. I remember being in Stockholm once and everybody was speaking a decent English, from little kids to grannies. They said it's because they don't have dubbing on TV and learn it faster and better that way. :)
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Is it common that food stamp recipient can afford cell phone?
It is not even the “top” 50%, because what of those who are perfectly capable but just don’t want to go to university? It is just 50% of the general population.
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http://www.mathsisfun.com/

https://betterexplained.com/
They can "blow the whistle".

This could involve going to the press, to a standards body in the country, to the government, to their union or industry representative body.

In the UK there are laws protecting whistleblowers who take actions like this.
SO has long been the butt of jokes about over-moderation. Any arbitrary SO link found in the wild is 90% likely to be closed for some reason or another, even though it probably solves the problemn you ended up on that page to solve.

It's hard to read from this blog post, but if fixing this is one of the forthcoming changes I think it's a good move.
A bunch of US "mobile network virtual operators" created GSM phones that only worked with their SIMs and so on. It's the regulatory requirements and enforcement that lead to interoperability more than the technology.
Same reason people play the lottery - there's a chance (no matter how slim) of big returns
>This is just making money off of the dire housing situation, imho, by squeezing the maximum amount of people into a building.

Could you clarify? As opposed to landlords in other cities, who house people out of the kindness of their hearts? I’m just not sure what the argument you’re making really is.
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The problem wth home automation is that it’s all about solving problems which are already solved. And the level of complexity required to achieve the small delta of improvement just doesn’t make sense for most people.
“Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest (ourworldindata.org)”
Re article "Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest (ourworldindata.org)":

Our World in Data used a Lancet published Markandya and Wilkinson 2007 article "Electricity generation and health" as their source for air pollution deaths. Markandya and Wilson in turn took their figures directly from the published Externe report Power generation and the environment—a UK perspective, vol 1 (Berry, JE, Holland, MR, Watkiss, PR, Boyd, R, and Stephenson, W. ), which, re estimates for particulate matter harm, states that "there is no convincing evidence of safe, or no-effect, levels for particulates and therefore dose-response functions without thresholds are used" and "This is a pragmatic approach compatible with radiological health conventions used in the nuclear fuel cycle analysis".

If LNT to zero is to be used to estimate fossil fuel particulate deaths, it should also be used to estimate radiation deaths from civil nuclear power. Although coal, oil, biomass etc. are still much worse, radiation deaths would total about 100,000 rather than the 11,766 claimed in the article, and 1.4 deaths per terrawatt hour rather than the 0.07 claimed by Markandya and Wilkinson, putting it roughly ten times more hazardous than solar or wind (even using solar and wind figures from pro-nuclear sources such as NextBigFuture or James Conca).

It is a little unfair to use LNT for particulate fossil fuel deaths on the basis that LNT is used for radiation deaths, and to then turn around and not use LNT for radiation deaths!
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You already see this with courses around nursing and healthcare which need to be QA'd by external bodies like the local commissioning authorities. It does delay it, but not by as much as some of the internal processes that need to happen.

There might be more enterprising universities that launch courses quickly (and would probably still reserve the right to do it with things like masters courses), but most undergrad courses take years to develop and deploy anyway, so an external body reviewing the content and assessment criteria wouldn't hold things up much in comparison.
It’s helpful to live with a significant other. Splitting rent for an outrageous 1-bedroom in a big city is basically the only option...
RSS is a protocol, not a service. Email doesn't have analytics, nor does html or http or any other protocol. Analytics is functionality you connect to services or tools, generating logs of how you use something. It's not on the same level of abstraction as a protocol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
Does this work on DigitalOcean as well?
The hurdle of bringing "government data" back inside the government lifelines is one of the things large contractors can use to minimize the risk of the contractor being changed.

It's a non-trivial challenge as the government agencies seldom staffs up to the level of tech personnel required, and can't really afford to attract sufficient talent to automate without outsourcing the support contract.

Source: I've been adjacent to these efforts in the DOD/Mil sector with a military region BOSS (Base operations Support services) contractor in question.
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Link I found to definition:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson926/DefinitionCharacteristics.pdf
Corporate control: One or more large corporations control society through
products, advertising, and/or the media. Examples include Minority Report
and Running Man.

• Bureaucratic control: Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through
a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government
officials. Examples in film include Brazil.

• Technological control: Society is controlled by technology—through
computers, robots, and/or scientific means. Examples include The Matrix,
The Terminator, and I, Robot.

• Philosophical/religious control: Society is controlled by philosophical or
religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic
government.
Alright, so Collective privatised what used to be a student dorm, decreasing affordable housing to students, and now offers a bed in crammed rooms with other people for at least 1000GBP/month. For some reason this is considered a good deal (for Collective I guess?)... Is this the prosperous future?
Apart from Scotland!
Sure, but high interest rates make money more expensive, meaning less people can afford less house. A factor that impacts people who need to borrow the most (the non rich).

So what's better, high asset prices or high borrowing costs? Something tells me they both even out painfully.
> I am most definitely joining them (but keeping my "main" bank)

This seems to be a very common pattern, and I wonder if they are having issues because of it. I was a Monzo early adopter and even I haven't moved over entirely.

I think a lot of users _liked_ the prepaid cards, to help them budget spending money, etc. I suspect that a lot of people haven't upgraded to a full bank account with them as a result.
And all of this has become even better with Routines, it seems Amazon is continuing to expand on them and make them better and better.

In the morning, I say "Alex, Good Morning."
My lights turn on, my coffee maker turns on, Alexa tells me the weather, how long the commute currently is and a little morning news. She then switches to play Spotify while I take my shower.

When I leave, I tell "Alex, Good Bye"
She turns off every light in my house, verifies the door I let my dogs out of is locked, and triggers my thermostat to go away.
I would not exclude women from the candidate pool, for both moral and practical reasons, but if successful Chinese companies are doing this, it does cast doubt on the business necessity of diversity in tech.
Not sure if you answered this already but I still have GP's question unanswered in my head

> What is Jenkins X exactly, and how does it relate to Jenkins? Is it just a CLI utility that generates git repos, k8s clusters and Jenkinsfiles for us? Is it a fork of Jenkins?

This seems like the best resource on what exactly this is
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/tree/master/jep/400

So looks like its just a CLI tool that generates bunch of stuff for kubernetes and jenkins. Is that right?
Germany seems to be doing way better.
And various deductions including interest.
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£1,000 to nearly £3,000 a month

fuuuuuuuuuuuuckin ell
https://www.mautic.org/marketplace
Nitpick: Scots undergraduate degrees are typically 4 years rather than 3 as in the rest of the UK.
You were asking why carriers lock phones, presumably, that question is for the market that does that, which is the US market. Then you said they don't do that in your country. Then that's good for you, but that has nothing to do with my answer. In a market that carriers don't do that, if someone pulls that bullshit, they will be boycotted. In a market that everyone does that like the US, you as a business are better off colluding with that practice. The reason they don't do that in your market is that they can't, not because it doesn't make business sense.

>If fewer people actually use that carrier, they need fewer support people.

Has any CEO of any carrier or company ever said: "Oh geez, I wish I had fewer subscribers so I can cut the cost of operating this company"?

Say I hire a person that is capable of supporting 1000 customers a month. I pay the person $4k per month. By cutting that person I save $4k per month. If I actually get 1000 customers more and each customer pays me $50 per month, I get $50k. $4k per month for that support person is peanuts to the amount of revenue I get. In most cases, cutting cost is the solution only when I know I can't possibly expand.
Yes we must have social justice above all ! At the very least above average performance for all !

Are you really willing to believe that ability is randomly distributed among the population ? Because, frankly, that disagrees with a great many studies on the subject.

But of course, what you can do, is lower the level of pupils until the difference between them disappears. You cannot lift everyone's level, that just doesn't work.

Which do you think the government did ? Did it make everyone smarter ? Or did it lower the level until everyone performed ? What do you really think happened ?
Success is when the ones you looked up to becomes your competitors.
I had something like what you're describing as I was developing mild sleep apnea. Starting using those nasal separator strips religiously and got back to having consistently deep "dreamless" sleep ... but no lucid dreams.
> ...demographers say it will take decades for the ramifications of the bulge to fade away.

heh
The didn't list idiocracy. My favorite movie, but pretty bleak vision of the future.
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"Fortran is the only language that has an International Standards Body that sees that sees scientific programmers (and by extensions HPC programmers) as their target audience."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gp5YJfinOA
That was done quite awhile ago? Julia now has a bunch of unique stuff Python doesn't have because the basics are already done.
When someone says tuition is free or that healthcare is free what they mean is that using these services doesn’t cost out of pocket expenses and doesn’t lead to debt. In this sense those services are free.
You can get one for $10 and live on public wifis.

Cell phone is a necessity these days, not an expensive luxury item.
Huh? I might have misinterpreted your point, but you might have it backward. Most STEM courses are subsidised by "studies" and humanities. It can cost multiples more to teach a biology student than an English one, and that cost is offset by it being less than fees to teach the latter and more than fees to teach the former.

A university would have a hard time having a competitive science department without leaching cash from the business studies faculty.
Yes. In the U.S., in fact, there is a federal program called Lifeline that subsidizes the purchase of mobile phones (including smartphones) and phone service for those with low incomes.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...
No, it's just that the market is more realistic elsewhere. No one is squeezing 12 people into a 3-bed flat in Newcastle, because there are no people who want to live in such conditions in Newcastle - £300 a month gets you a private room with all utilities and council tax included. But if in London people pay £1000+ for just one room or similar amounts to share, then suddenly it becomes a much more lucrative market.
Basic income for some is not basic income. No country has tried this yet.

Most countries actually do have a form of basic income where they are subsidizing food, shelter, healthcare in some form or another for essentially all people falling outside of the safety net of income, pensions, social security & welfare, charity, etc. I tend to think of basic income as the former without the absolutely massive bureaucratic overhead. An enormous cost saving in other words. To put this in perspective: many European countries spend almost as much on unemployment programs and related bureaucracy as they do on the actual benefits payed to the unemployed.

With a basic income you could abolish minimum wage, make labor cheaper for companies and less risky, make it easier for people to take multiple small jobs to supplement their basic income and reduce their risk, stop forcing people to retire or forcing them to work until they are allowed to retire (both are bad), make all forms of income insurance opt in (pensions, disability benefits, unemployment insurance), etc. It just simplifies things a lot.

The reason this is not happening is that dismantling the existing bureaucracy is highly disruptive and will be hugely unpopular.
This woman carried her in-flight snack off the plane and it cost her $500
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I feel like CRUD web apps are pretty much automated already. You load in React or Vue or whatever, then you just write CSS and HTML in a copy paste style where you're copying from your brain. In fact! The automation has gone so far that people even specialize in using these new automation tools.

Typically they're referred to as designers and web engineers.

Dumb advertisement article...
I realize that most landlords consider themselves as doing a service but sometimes they don't seem much different from domain squatters. It's not really a service, what would happen if they didn't exist? Everyone only buys homes for living in as needed, drastically lower prices, more innovation based businesses that actually contribute to making the world a better place?
£1000pm for that is crazy. I did flat shares ranging from £440pm in Stoke Newington. I imagine the going rate might have climbed to £650pm, but this is just bonkers.
"It's important to keep in mind that while 185/8 is finished, we still have around nine million recovered IPv4 addresses in our available pool. Under current policy and growth rates, we expect these to last a further two years."

They've really cracked down on IP allocation since the days of giving companies entire /8s, or even since 2012

"185/8 was allocated in just five and a half years...in comparison, the preceding /8 - allocated under the old needs-based policy - lasted only five months"
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These are all political goals, worse, they are not logical thinking at all - not a good look for a bunch of scientists

Indeed, it’s almost on the level of Make Europe Great Again
Three grand a month for a cage! You can almost rent six 3 bedroom semi-detached houses for that where I am! (~150 miles north of London). Sublet or rent with others if you need the company

Don't embrace the cage, embrace remote working
>we still have around nine million recovered IPv4 addresses in our available pool. Under current policy and growth rates, we expect these to last a further two years.

And by then they will have recovered even more. The end of IPv4 is a lie, and how bad IPv6 is and the lack of good transitioning systems doesn't help.
Was the clapper a good product? Think the clapper, but instead it's completely customizable to your hearts content.
Thats very true. The tooling and dependency part about switching sucks for sure.
Possibly in imitation, there actually is no more Windows "team" at Microsoft either: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/windows-leader-terry...

So we're in for a rocky few years in commercial operating systems.
It's good there are different options, but this would be very unpalatable for me. The "anonymity" of these big spaces leads to very anti social behaviour in my experience. Luckily in 10 years in London I never shared with more than 1 other person and now own my flat.
Flatshares ("WG" , Wohngemeinschaft) are extremely common in Germany. For anyone under 30 living in a major city it is absolutely normal to share a flat with 1-3 other people.
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Does anyone know the amount of IP space that's allocated but never used or even allocations that have no routes to? I know there is a market to lease IP4 blocks and there is a resale market. I just wondered how much is just being sat on.
Indeed, this should not be portrayed as a competitive rate really, it's just the price of super convenience.
Requiring a file in Ruby
Nationalism is, for better or worse, part of human nature. It’d be mighty hypocritical for humanity at large if people could just pick and choose from their history.

For Germany specifically, denying responsibility for the holocaust just wouldn’t work if you also wanted to field a team at the soccer World Cup. Given that choice, even the right wing at least goes through the motions.

Two well-worn formula encapsulating the idea are “not guilt, but responsibility”, and “it happened once, therefore it can happen again”.

But the “dirty secret” of German identity is that we are living a rather good life within this cocoon of professed guilt. It’s not just about accepting history, but also (I hope) the work for peace and European integration that the country has done over the decades. But the result is that I very rarely actually experience negative consequences of my nationality. I’m far more liable to get encouraging feedback like yours. In a way, it’s the most successful humblebrag of history.

Politically, Germany had it far easier to escape the various calls to arms during the Cold War and beyond, or to keep its military smaller than official NATO agreements require. If you get really lucky, your country might even be forced to give up its fearsome currency, accidentally handing you the keys to a continent’s economy in the process.

Which is why I have no earthly idea why countries such as Turkey and Japan resist acceptance of their historical atrocities. Seriously: stop fighting it, and enjoy the adulation of a repentant sinner.
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