skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> probably still spending a larger portion of their income on clothing than they do now.

As we have spent less of our income on things like food, clothing, etc, and increased our household income dramatically.

In 1971 median household income was c. £270/week. In 2001 £420/week, in 2011 £460/week. (figures adjusted for inflation to 2013 levels)
In 1971 housing costs were £20/week, in 2001 is was £90 a week, in 2011 £120 a week.

Half of that extra money went in housing costs.

The big changes in income (especially in normalisation of a second income) from the 70s onwards were swept up in housing. Increase everyone's wages, and we just spend it on the same houses we had before. On the flip side, decrease everyone's wages and the amount we spend on houses will reduce. That benefits everyone apart from wealthy landowners.
Very often I like watching old shows. I find many new ones to be overloaded with style and cuts. I feel that it only appeals to new generation that buy into it. When I run into a Columbo episode, I'm so liking the slow pacing, the simplicity, the filming; even with the shallow bits at times.

Also there's a format thing, the only way they could decorate shows was with freeze and a bit of thrill jingle. I kindof like this way.

There's also the spirit of the day. 70s to 80s shows were often sunny forever life style. It's soothing.

Even supercars shows, with highly disturbingly bad effects [1] have a stupid simple formula that I find honest, even if it's often dumb. It's just entertainment, I find it less pretentious in a way.

[1] be ready for a shock if you ever watch Knight Rider again.
Most people are not interested in being as wealth as the king, or the nobles, but they are interested in having an extra pig and a hut that doesn't leak.
I've been a part from the archiving community for a number of years. Is archive.is now considered the defacto standard for snapshotting sites?
The Traveling Tesla Salesman
Section 4.2 of that selfsame link.
Also "middle class" in the USA is used to talk about what is known as "working class" in most of the rest of the world.
I suppose there is some truth to this. Elsewhere in this thread I quote a sharp observation by ChuckMcM which I find tragically applicable to the current American poltical-economic system:

Rich people demanding higher returns, enslave unsuspecting youth through their loan seller proxies.

But it's not even rich people demanding higher returns. As Planet Money observed in what I consider a seminal piece for understanding the 2008 financial crisis, The Giant Pool of Money, what helped precipitate the bubble and collapse was institutional investors demanding a simple reliable 3% ROI:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money

After Greenspan had warned money managers not to expect the US government to provide it with T-bills any more, Wall Street stepped forward with their innovation: NINJA loans, ARMs, CDOs, and the other crap covered in The Big Short. These had the effect of inventing new ways for everyone, but especially working and middle-class people, to go into debt to cushion returns for a wealthier investor class. Just as many people who traditionally would have never gone to college can now go to college by taking on huge nearly unmanageable amounts of debt, people who would have never bought a house before were sold the illusion of being able to afford a house -- by taking on huge unmanageable amounts of debt.

So yes, I agree, more millionaires fattens the right side of the tail. But it still seems to come at the expense, and the exploitation, of their down-class fellow citizens.

I also doubt that this new class of millionaires is evenly distributed geographically and the resentment being bred among, for example, Trump supporters, has less to do with observing the local Rockefellers tooling around town in their limousines, than watching the Kardashians on television and, nowadays, Potemkin Lifestyle Celebrities on Instagram.
Yeah good question. I'm wary of uploading my data to the cloud too, but I didn't heavily prioritize it, since my main goal is to fix/improve my sleep.

In addition to the Emfit, I use a pulse oximeter, and you can download all the data over USB. No cloud.

It's actually a medical device, which means the software is horrible. I'm running Windows inside a VirtualBox VM on my Mac to extract data and plots from it.

It has a finger sensor that you wear all night. It measures your heart rate and SpO2 (oxygen levels, roughly). That's it. The Emfit is nice because it also tells you when you get out of bed, measures REM sleep vs. light sleep, etc.

The pulse oximeter is useful for keeping track of sleep apnea, but I was suggesting a more general consumer device to get a picture of how you sleep first. (Most people probably don't want to wear something on their finger every single night if there's no symptoms.)

Sleep apnea is incredibly common. Snoring a big indicator for it. It means you aren't breathing properly at night, which means you can't sleep properly. Brain fog is a common symptom (although personally this isn't my issue). It ranges from minor/undiagnosed to severe/life-threatening, and it's chronic so it gets worse as you get older.

But I'm sure there are other sleep disorders that can cause brain fog.

So I actually use 2 different devices -- one cloud and one not -- and they give different information.

https://www.amazon.com/CONTEC-CMS50F-oximeter-monitor-softwa...
Someone's downvoted me for asking a question for clarification? I'm regularly reminded how garbage downvotes are.
> A much smarter approach in my opinion is to live on two separate layers: a secure private underground and an uninteresting public surface.

Yes. And never connect layers. Mirimir has no meatspace contacts. Also, one can have more than two layers.
Actions per minute (APM) is one of the metrics to judge skill in StarCraft
You're genius :)
Malware Collection and Analysis via Hardware Virtualization
This is brilliant satire but I feel like a real service like this may already exist, or will exist soon. It's the next logical step.
Making a Window Manager (part 1)
locked bootloaders/etc... They claim it's for security but they don't give you a choice.
>I don't understand why people care. Either you like the painting or not. Why does it matter who painted it?

Does it matter if a baseball card is "authentic"? To a collector it does.

The French museum are collectors. In this case, art collectors.

You can think of an art museum as a place to see someone's collection. Of art.

When this concept is clear, you arrive at a way to understand their mentality. Not that I agree with their mentality, but that's just how it is.
I hear both used to refer to different segments in the US. Do you have a reference for the translation you describe?
VC signaling risk in seed rounds
“We gathered over 8400 on-line drug reviews prepared by patients on statin therapy, and compared them to an equivalent number of reviews for a broad spectrum of other drugs.”

That seems like a pretty sketchy analysis method, given all the FUD about statins that people are likely to read when they go online and search for information. I’m sure there are tons of people who, just like me, wonder “I’m experiencing XXX, could it be a med side effect?”. How many convince themselves that’s the case after reading things online and then go add their own voice to the signal?
It's much easier and faster this way though.
This is fantastic. IMHO, Adobe should have just stuck with PostScript and forgot about PDF. I remember having to create fractal images for research papers and my dissertation -- the only way to allow them to render at any resolution was to write a program in PostScript -- (very cool to program figures for a paper)! -- no idea if you can program PDF's this way (which, unlike PostScript, I can't edit with a text editor since they're binary).
9,096 Stars in the Sky – Is That All?
I feel like 1-800-Flowers Inc. and probably any company that employed a phoneword to achieve prominence could probably argue otherwise.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneword
It's the (as of writing) current video linked from the "article" URL. Apparently the live stream was removed.
What he probably means by this is that lot of NSA-designed crypto contains somewhat weird design choices and it is interesting to try to find out what is rationale behind such choices. One well-known example of this are DES S-boxes, while the somewhat complex key-schedule of Speck/Simon is also interesting (both algorithms use essentially same feistel network for both key schedule and main cipher). Another interesting thing is NSA's tendency to design cryptographic primitives with explicit key checksums byked into them (parity bits in DES, BATON with 320bit key out of which 160bits (!) apparently are checksum...).
I used to stay up as long as I can. I appreciate darkness and quiet, and this was naturally when I could get that. Nowadays though I sleep at around 10am, and I wake up at 06am. It’s almost as quiet, and almost as dark and I get to read, and shower and maybe have breakfast before rest of the family is awake at around 07:30. This turned out to work better for me all things considered. I am also 42 now so this may be in part because I am not that young anymore and the shifted priorities, habits, and needs are better served by this new schedule.

( I never drink coffee )
I think he's downvoted because his comment doesn't really contribute to an interesting discussion. It just raises a perennial political issue where commenters could have the same fight they've always had on this topic, without anything specific to this stage of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger. I would welcome specific detailed thoughts about anti-trust in this specific context, but rehashing the same arguments about anti-trust isn't that useful.
I see you've added setup instructions to the README. Thanks, you rock!
I noticed the same thing when the first New Shepard video was released. Here’s a more detailed explanation of what’s going on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10620730
SGX = Software Guard Instructions [0]

SPOF = Single Point of Failure

[0] https://software.intel.com/en-us/sgx
You make it sound as tho FRAM is old technology... its actually just starting to be used in volume (in microcontroller based systems).
FRAM has some very desirable properties compared to current technology uC that use both SRAM & FLASH. Its still slightly expensive at this point in time but that will solve itself in time.
Yeah, I think they are a terrific way to "keep your sword sharp". Jump start the neurons in the early AM or lazy summer day. As well as a way to learn new algorithms, new languages via problem solving.

Code Jam had a particularly juicy one in the recent Qualifying Round, that could easily be part of a modern shadow rendering game engine. Just to put it into perspective, only around 1000 out of 25000 entrants were able to solve the large data set in the allotted time!

Google Code Jam 2018 Qualifying Round Problem D: Cubic UFO

https://codejam.withgoogle.com/2018/challenges/0000000000000...

Incidentally, I don't really learn a lot from books or tutorials such as the one linked. But rather from the contest analyses and top winners code solutions.
Some alternative suggestions:

1. If you're grumpy, eat.

2. Spend time with your kids or family, even if your back hurts. Something as simple as watching a movie together is good.

3. Visit your mom/dad more often. I wish I had.

4. Take your medicine when your back hurts. Don't "muscle" through things.

5. Don't judge others, some of us at 40+ are not doing as well.

6. Think about mentoring/part-time teaching/a way to give back to the community.

7. Buy a house, or check your 401k.

8. Don't chase happiness, be content.

9. Play board games, because they're amazingly interactive and a good way to retain friends and family.
The idea is if one, then the other. Kind of like when you spec out edge cases.
> it may also be your diabetes or pre-diabetes, which I assume you have

That seems a bit presumptuous.
And now they're in their 70s are far more likely to be involved in in-town crashes (while highway crashes may be weighted towards young men at high speed, residential crashes tend to be old people pressing Gas rather than Brake, or Reverse rather Forward)
%CPU is a misleading measure of how busy your processor really is
Some background: Apollo Command Module had an apparently similar arrangement of parachutes. In the case of Apollo CM, two out of three main chutes had to be properly inflated for the landing to not likely cause a significant injury. In case enough main chutes failed, the crew could cause them to be cut away and a reserve chute to be deployed. IIRC speeds under just a reserve chute were similar to speeds under two main chutes.

There are two significant differences between this spacecraft and Apollo CM: Apollo CM landed on water, while New Shepard lands on land and Apollo CM used a crushable piece of hull for final landing shock attenuation (that's why its landing attitude was slightly skewed), while New Shepard seems to use landing thrusters (a' la Soyuz).
The best satire is the one where you can’t immediately tell. This nailed that.
wasm has something akin to a syscall interface to talk to the JS side, but you can't just call arbitrary JS.
Repost: Water Bridges Over Short Distances with High-Voltage Electricity
Traveling Salesman in 10 Lines of Python
PDFs can, and typically do, contain postscript. Ps2pdf is one «compiler» you could use.
SpaceX's Merlin engines can't throttle down low enough to achieve a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1 (hover) or less than 1 (controlled descent), therefore they have to do a "suicide burn" where they synchronize engine startup during descent such that speed is "exactly" 0 m/s just as the stage is touching down on the landing zone/barge.

It seems like BO's engines are smaller and/or have deeper throttle capabilities, so they actually do hovering and controlled descent.
Sprint is considerable under-resourced in many areas, they dont have enough bodies.
Sorry previous post of this did not include link; this one should... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktq9jlopAGg
PeerRead: A Dataset of Scientific Peer Reviews
Accelerating Deep Neuroevolution: Train Atari in Hours on a Single PC
Just got back from a trip around Asia, man, it’s a lot of WORK posting photos with little blips about them. I refuse to use Facebook or Instagram, but Flickr was the same process and still took time away from the trip.

I seriously don’t understand how people with selfie compulsion snapping hundreds of photos a day make time to sort through them.
They edit the mask used to produce the chip, not the chip. It would affect all chips produced.
Gwern has released such a piece of software: https://github.com/gwern/archiver-bot

See also http://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs for a description of their usage of it.
It is also interesting that some UK accounting qualifications cover so much MBA type material, that it is possible to get a conversion onto an MBA in some accelerated amount of time. The big difference with accounting qualifications (ICAEW/CIMA etc) is that they have a really serious practical requirement including years of on-the-job experience. I guess that is a world away from an MBA
What's so righteous about the status quo that makes skeptics feel so compelled to defend it so vehemently by degrading Bitcoin?

But it seems we should be far beyond Denial and Anger stage and well into Bargaining and Guilt at this point. Don't worry, he'll join the chorus of "blockchain is good, Bitcoin is bad" rhetoric soon enough.
In 47 countries, people can appeal to the ECHR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights

Though I don't think they deal with domain names.
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Sounds nice, but my plan was to find out how much data I can handle easily on my plain simple desktop PC.

You may have seen, that you can filter by site [1].
Code quite ruined my chains as it didn't appear in blocks, but rather everywhere, so I went the easy way and filtered all code blocks.

I didn't filter math as I couldn't find a proper way to do it, but you can see that it gets quite messy [2]

[1] https://se-simulator.lw1.at/s/math.stackexchange.com

[2] https://se-simulator.lw1.at/q/a-e-3-how-to-span
thus, one strong clear use for cryptocurrency. a payment system that people cant get locked out of by the whims of the fiat middlemen
NumPy is written in C and BLAS in Fortran so for pure technical programming which AI / ML is Fortran Or C is the best choice any interpreted language is going to be at a disadvantage.

Arguably all the extra stuff C++ has doesn't really help and Fortan having built-in support for many things the c needs external libs for - Fortran would be the best.
The curators at the Museum of Art Fakes are already hard at work preserving this tasty morsel of history.
The death of a supply-driven world
Error messages in login process: Privacy and Security
This isn't a recent phenomenon, sadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect.
I like this satire, it's making a fun statement. I was mildly surprised though by the images they chose for "my unachievable body" for men. The women's examples were definitely absurd, but of the two dudes one was just a guy with unremarkable arms deadlifting, and another was just a dude with low bodyfat. Why didn't they go with like a mr Olympia or something? Maybe it's a statement on how much easier it is for men to be considered to have "a hot bod" than woman?
Ask HN: I am in depression. Remedies that can help me to get rid of it
No, doesn't bother me. I'm pretty comfortable with the idea that when I want to look for a new job, the onus is on me to articulate what I want to do, and in the meantime, the cold emails give me a bit of intelligence into what's stirring out there. As for morality, different people feel differently about different things. I have nothing against adtech or hedge funds (that's what they try to recruit me for) per se, but that's not to say I'd be excited about working on it. Again, a recruiter can't tell from a sparse LinkedIn profile what I may or may not care about.
Build a serverless multi-region, active-active back end solution in an hour
I’m apparently #blessed to have grown up in that middle era remembering before and after the internet where I think it’s less likely to have this type of insecurity.

I wish i had a crystal ball to see if were social media is going, for me, away is the only answer. For everyone else... I really can’t tell when it will peak.

That black mirror on the topic episode was so good!
Even the logo is spot on. This is dark satire indeed, predicting the near future where someone out there actually will offer such a service, and millions will buy into it. This would be a perfect fit in the world of Black Mirror.
Sprint has been losing money for years. If T-mobile didn't buy them, either someone else would buy the spectrum and they would go out of business. I was very much against the AT&T/Tmobile merger and history shows the government was right for blocking it.

But expecting competition from the cable companies is a bridge too far. The cable companies are the most anti customer friendly companies in the United States.
Not sure what "figured out" means. However, just to deflect another crypto-fueled ad hominem, I'd like to point out that Elon Musk was also a CEO of PayPal, and lasted only around a year in the position before he too was forced out.
> We may argue that domain names are different from phone numbers because they are recognisable. They carry trademarks, and unlike phone numbers, are often the way we remember of an internet facing person or company.

> Call JG Wentworth- 877-CASH-NOW!

> So ladies, if ya' butt is round, and you want a Triple-X throw down, dial 1 900-MIX-A-LOT and kick them nasty thoughts. Baby got back!

> I pity the foo' who don't use 1 800-COLLECT

> Jenny Jenny, don't change your number: 8-6-7-5-3-0-9!

> Save big bucks on every call- dial 1 800-CALL-ATT

And that's off the top of my head, many of which I haven't heard for 15 or more years.
Electric Scooter Startups Are Causing Havoc in Major Cities
Ask HN: Start-up 1 – Success, Start-up 2 – Asking for too much?
A couple years ago I met a small group of experienced entrepreneurs (1 success each, key industry knowledge/connections).

They were struggling to get traction with a start-up. Their outsourced webapp was buggy and messy. They had <20 users at this point.

I came in and developed the MVP they needed. To build trust and learn the industry, I accepted a medium cash low equity deal.

Fast forward a couple years, I led the system to 50M+ valuation with thousands of paid users and 5 employees under my wing. I let someone else take my position and I moved on.

A month ago, the entrepreneurs called me for another start-up. I agreed to take a look and clean things up for a low goodwill fee. They have a trademarked business name, promotional website, and pilot program interest from major businesses. They also own a running system that provides JSON APIs to interface some key external service providers for this start-up.

They need a technical co-founder to lead, build, and run the product. Specifically now, they need a clean, commercially viable MVP off the ground within 4-8 weeks.

Trusting them, I already developed 30% of the application. If I work 60-80hr weeks, I can deliver the MVP they need within 4 weeks with confidence. But the current agreement expires soon and the tentative long-term deal on the table is <5% equity vested over 2 years with 40+/hr pay like last time.

My proposal is 7%+ equity with 20/hr or no pay for X months. I prefer equity over cash this time. I value this pre-MVP start-up at 2M, max. I know I'm worth 50/hr absolute minimum.

Problem. Of the entrepreneurs, half really value me and half think I'm easily replaced by someone cheaper or a 15K$ contract with a 30-person tech team for the MVP. They can't get consensus to offer me even ~6% vested over 3 years.

Am I asking for too much?

Tech offers conditional certainty, but negotiations have always been tough for me due to the subjectivity of "fair".
Wealth doesn't map exactly to class - you can be poorer than some one but still not be in the Upper class.
Yep. But I am not sure what value PDF's add to PS.
All people are imperfect.

I have watched how market buzz words evolve, it is often not an intentional process. In many companies, there is very little direct cooperation between engineers and marketing/sales. In fact, it can get so bad that even the middle-management is not qualified to understand what their team does.

In such an environment, most people don't speak 'engineering'. So there are two groups of people talking at each-other, why?

> "When marketers shoot out of the gate with a shitload of buzzwords, this engenders in me an instant dismissal. I instantly don’t trust anything you have to say."

So now you have this poor marketer or sales person just trying to sell the God damned product, but it feels like nobody in the company even knows what the product is. Why? Because nobody in the company remembers how it came to be, and its success is nobodies personal vested interest.

By the time a product reaches a sales team - it's just a word soup. Verbs became nouns, nouns became adjectives, some words were made up, and some words only exist because engineers were condescending to sales.
People tend to have very opposite opinions on that. Local culture affects it but even people with the same background are often at odds on this topic. While that's the very first thing one has to consider when setting communication guidelines in a remote team.

Feeling teammates as living beings and not just nicks with avatars is critical for an efficient and mentally safe team. Meeting each other in real life is most helpful. Video helps there too. If none is an option, the team lead has a harder challenge.

But one way or another it should became a part of the team communication habit. And newcomers should be asked if they're comfortable with that.
Yes! Here’s a link to the paper: http://www.eurecom.fr/fr/publication/4205/download/rs-publi-...