skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't have sympathy

Self-declaration, by definition the evidence is in the statement.

> Apart from serious disabilities

No evidence for assertion.

> Most poor people actually have high incomes

No criterion for 'high'. Assertion ('most') cannot be proven or disproven.

> can't stop

No evidence for assertion 'can't'.

> spending money every day

No evidence for assertion 'every day'.

> on luxuries

No criterion for what constitutes 'luxury'. Assertion cannot be proven or disproven.

> to entertain themselves

No evidence for assertion 'entertain'.
Any discussion of whether "X is Y" like this is kind of pointless. More than that, it just devolves into sub-arguments. In this case, it will devolve into arguing whether an "investment" requires purchasing things with "intrinsic value", and furthermore whether the term "intrinsic value" has any sort of objective meaning at all, anyway.

At the end of the day, if people prefer to call me a "gambler" or "speculator" or "investor" for owning Bitcoin, any of those terms are fine.
I think I watched too many 1960s horror movies. I can't stop thinking about the twenty-tonne block of concrete, or the ruby laser aimed between my legs on the band-saw table as the villain goes to feed his kitty..
>A suicide rate that is one of the highest among industrialized nations.

Please stop saying that. Japan's suicide rate is on the decline and not that high.
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I like that Yap is "pay" backwards.
Thanks for your kind words! We care about internationalization a lot (both of the founders live outside the English world), and we're glad to see we can help you out with that.

We'd love to help anyway possible with the generation. Would you mind sending us an email (info@stadiamaps.com) so we could collaborate better on this?
With a typical design, half are angled well, and nothing says you have to put any panels on the other half.
If someone finds some feature of human existence troubling, what does it mean to say that it's 'not really' that feature that's causing them trouble? Sure, he might be happier if he was more stimulated, but that doesn't mean that he wouldn't still be a bit troubled when he took a little time to remember what troubled him before.
> Shuttle ONLY launched uncrewed, therefore any systemic problem which resulted in a loss of vehicle necessarily resulted in loss-of-crew.

Don't you mean that shuttle only launched crewed? Either that or I think I do not have the same definition as you do for "uncrewed" -- I take it to mean that there is no crew on board?
good very sound
Yes...$15k on a house is a non-trivial amount.
Well, you take what you want from the article, but it does not in fact say (or imply, to me) that people don't join looking for this experience. People do go looking for this experience specifically. I'm telling you this is the case because it's one of the reasons I joined personally. My best friend joined for similar reasons -- incidentally, there is only one person I consider a close friend who was never in combat, and he spent time in prison (it's no coincidence the old Stoics have been popular among soldiers and prisoners). One of the main reasons I joined was specifically for the chance to experience combat, even though before 9/11, it wasn't a very big one. People have different names for this ("kill terrorists" and "kick some ass" are pretty common), but it's what pretty much everybody joins the infantry for.

Now, what people find when they get off the plane could be anything. It's hard to quantify this complex experience even with the many varied perspectives shared by people who were right there with you. So you're going to have to understand that while the article is broadly true, nobody has perfect insight into what this experience is all about, myself included (perhaps especially me). Nobody in history has ever known all there is to know about war, just as nobody in history has ever known all there is to know about love. It's no different here, even if he's exposed a universal truth of combat. Exposed the kind of open secret that war fulfills a basic male impulse.

Either way, you replied to a comment in a thread about the innate human capacity for war and the danger of people denying or not recognizing that capacity, so that's why I'm talking about it here.
It’s explicit and encourages the consumer to handle errors correctly. The negatives seem to be cosmentic arguments.
No, grandparent is saying "carpe diem". You never know when you're going to drop dead, and being too old makes it difficult to see the world. Also, you never know when evil politicians are going to raid Social Security or change the laws to protect insurance companies that have taken on moral hazards, causing you to lose your coverage/annuity.
At a previous job, the book-keeper for a local office (a large accounting firm) was 97, and still working hard. And she was hilarious! She started with the company in the typing pool when she was 16.. she tried to retire twice, but got bored. They threw her a good party for her 80th work anniversary...
I'm going to throw out a controversial statement: It's hard because adults don't (and rightfully shouldn't) make friends a priority.

When you're young (<20), you don't have many responsibilities or long term goals. But as soon as you get out of college, you have several multi-decade goals to work towards:

1) asset accumulation

2) lifestyle development

3) family raising

From a pure risk management point of view, assets, lifstyle, and family are much more stable in terms of extracting value from.

Friends, from a value added point of view, are a risky investment for a couple of reasons. They require time and commitment to make and get value out of, but have a high chance of no return. If you invest too much in friends, you're pretty much guaranteed that something out of your control breaks the friendship by 5-10 years, either moving away, diverging interests, or the most likely, the friend decides to invest time in the assets, lifestyle, and family instead of your friendship.

There's a vicious circle (opposite of virtuous cycle) in this. As a society, if more people focus on family, assets, and lifestyle because they are less risky, there's less people willing to commit to being a friend available for those that want to focus on friendships, and eventually friendship by the age of 30 become extinct except in rare cases where special environments sustain them.

To summarize, it's a systemic issue where even if you wanted to make friends, it's not worth it as an adult to do so.
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We do something similar for changes that are risky, complicated, or manual:

https://sendgrid.com/blog/change-management-keep-it-simple-s...

Doing it formally for every deployment seems like it would kill productivity.
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Hey ggm, could you elaborate on what's broken? We just checked with the same browser and OSX, and the page looks to be correct.

Thanks!
The author mentions separation of concerns. I would suggest reading https://blog.cloudboost.io/separate-your-code-with-styled-co...
If it’s anything like here you probably would. In Washington state, most power is generated by dams [0]. For whatever reason, most (all?) renewable energy laws in this state do not consider hydro to be renewable.

[0]: https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WA
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For tutorials, I pay $30 a month for a PluralSight subscription, $12-$20 for the occasional Udemy video and watch vendor supplied tutorials from Amazon and Microsoft.

I hate ads for video content. I pay for Netflix and ad free Hulu. I use Plex for ad free content from CBS and the CW via by subscribing to the channels. It’s more ad blocking then piracy. Plex scrapes the content from the networks’ website real time and transcodes it and streams it.

I pay for Apple Music and before that iTunes.

I would pay for a high quality news source, I use to pay for WSJ.
As an economics neophyte, I found this engaging, if a little beyond me. Can someone explain it in 5yo terms?
> As you browse the web, that list changes as Chrome learns and enables autoplay on sites where you play media with sound during most of your visits, and disables it on sites where you don’t. This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience.

Predictable in a user application is the same result from the same action every time. UX changing based on opaque logic and heuristics is anything but predictable.
Thanks for the suggestion! This is something we're looking into and would love to provide.

Would you prefer this be provided as a downloadable dataset or a linkable dataset to use just like our map themes?
This one is so fascinating, given that the Milgram Experiment(s) (it was actually a full battery of tests under many different circumstances with a control group) showed categorically that people do not, in fact, follow through with torture just because they were ordered to. However, in one of the tests, the subjects persisted. This instance, for obvious reasons, gets the lion's share of attention, and the actual data generated from the study is rendered inconsequential. A thousand people can do the right thing with no monetary or status gain, but one person acts in 'disgusting' self interest, and 40 years of exposés will be written about the easy fallibility of the average Joe.

All this to say, most people feel guilt in one of two ways: in the commission of an act (or the prior contemplation there of) or upon critical review of the act. Not a profound observation, granted, but which crowd is present during The Review will have a heavy influence on the introspection that occurs. Food for thought.
We will definetly think about it. Thanks for suggestion.
While actually reading articles is considered a faux pas here on HN, I took the liberty of opening it up and ctrl-fing shark. Looks like they're not in there.
The point, in my interpretation, is: don't put all your eggs in the basket of your latter years. Find the balance of long term planning and short term fulfillment.
Is it just me or do you get the feeling it's possible her bosses may have been doing inside trades and she just got lucky by a) not knowing what was going on and b) copying the trades?

I love the story either way, it just jumped out to me that she obviously 'beat the market' which typically means you knew something others in the market didn't.
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I think the implication is that if your spend your life toiling for future reward at the expense of present reward, you may lay there on the pavement bleeding out, wishing that you'd taken that vacation you always wanted.

Obviously it's presuming that you're neglecting reasonable gratification in the present, and it's all a spectrum of choices and rewards. But often people talk about financial investment without balancing it with "personal investment". Personal enrichment can pay interest of a sort, too.
The better question is "Why do you want to build these things", because the answer to that question would help answer yours.

Are you looking to make money? Then Chrome extensions probably aren't a great way to do it, given that they're distributed for free, and a dating app might be questionable, but an online video editor might be a good idea.

Are you looking to make something you'd find useful for yourself? An in-browser video editor or gifplayer probably wouldn't be very useful for you, but the extensions could be very helpful for you.

Are you looking to build up a portfolio? Then it doesn't matter which you build, all of the above projects probably would be okay portfolio pieces.

I personally would not be interested in paying for any of the above, but as I'm trying to explain, that doesn't necessarily matter if you're not making it for money or you're not trying to cater to HN's demographic. Figure out what's guiding you and I'm sure you can filter at least half of the ideas off this list.
Looks fairly polished, good work.

It seems to be simplifying coast/river edges into straight line segments a bit too much? It's subtle, but I'm comparing to the default openstreetmap.org renderer.
Cats still predominately self-select their mates. The fact they even tolerate us is partially natural selection.
Here are some stats I just looked up for the US:

$7.25 minimum wage

90% of households own a car [1].

In many cities, rent is about 15% of income, and median rent is less than minimum wage [2].

0.64/100000 malnutrition deaths [3].

[1] https://qz.com/873704/no-car-households-are-becoming-more-co...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/02/best-cities-for-cheap-rent.h...

[3] http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutriti...
I've been using a .cc domain for my email for just over 20 years. Twenty years ago some people were confused by the .cc, but overall I had only a few problems with that. And now it's not a problem at all. No problem with email validators either.
Well, crosswalks shouldn't have buttons. Pedestrians shouldn't have the burden of pressing the button in time to cross on the current signal.
How does this compare to severspec https://serverspec.org and inspec https://www.inspec.io

Also i would hate to be on a team who is scared to change their code, be it infrastructure or application code!

If you are scared to change your infra code then you probably are not following true infrastructure as code practises.
> o-rings

Were a known weakness.
Wow. 80 years with the same company? That's absolutely insane.
> Although Tiny Basic is tiny, if the IL interpreter generally fits into the primary CPU cache with its IL, while the much larger native code does not, the IL code will execute at native CPU speed while the native code thrashes much slower.

Caches are larger today than in 2006.
This is really only helpful if you already know most of the core concepts and form your question I can't quite tell your level. But if you already know some languages I find this site really helpful:

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

Using their page on Golang[1] I was up and writing code in 40 minutes.

[1] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/go/
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By the same token so would youporn... But I wonder if they made the list.
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"RCA" likely means "Root Cause Analysis". I'm not sure how to interpret RSA other than as a typo for RCA.
Assuming a crypto asset is a currency, then no. You cannot invest in a currency. You can only speculate.

Investing confers ownership in an income producing asset of which you have a percentage ownership stake in.
I don't think you're being fair here. Although it is possible that the person did not write the comment in the disingenuous way in which I perceived it, I am not willing to regard him as so naive.

Importantly, it is not the opinion itself which I find off-putting - it's the way in which it is conveyed. It was neither insightful nor did it encourage any meaningful discussion... No, I'd go further: consciously or unconsciously its only purpose was to reaffirm the author's pre-existing convictions and to put down those of others.

I also understand why my comment could come off as trying to cut off certain lines of conversation as well, but the only reason why I am even getting frustrated about this is because I want to have MORE of those honest conversations about these seemingly controversial topics; it doesn't matter to me which way they lead me.

I believe that the "ultimate" questions have value in them that is not necessarily tied to them being answered, at the very least in the same way the exercise is good for one's body - I hope you would agree here as well. Unfortunately, most of the time, it is quite hard to find balanced online discussions which would bring an exploratory and open mindset to these questions; instead, they're usually quickly bombarded with dogmatic responses - an example of which I'm now ranting about.
The power of compounding interest. If you're 26 years old right now, then you have 70 years to compound your money.

Assuming an average of 7% annual return:

> x * 1.07 ^ 70 = 8200000

> x = 82000 / 114

> x = 72000

Essentially if you sock away $70k at age 26, that's how much you'll have when you're 96
While "Alexa laugh" (which I can confirm has happened to me) was fixed month ago, "Alexa, fart" is still an issue.

It sounds like a sophomoric joke but it's not. I was having a normal conversation with somewhere where neither of us said "Alexa" or "fart" and the Alexa randomly let out a huge embarrassing fart noise. Having known about the "laugh" issue it didn't take long to guess what Alexa thought it heard.
Wow. I remember reading the story about the librarian. Didn’t realize this was how the recipient spent it. Something similar happened to a relative of mine who passed away, and donated much of the inheritance to an organization she thought would spend it in a responsible fashion. I’m more of a skeptic in that I don’t believe those who didn’t earn it have learned to be fiscally responsible or capable.
Yeah, I guess I prefer a more positive framing – the person who said that most tech workers plan to retire in their 40s makes it sound like something's wrong if you're not and I prefer a more nuanced message.

I especially like thinking about the meaning of where your money is going – some people spend money on experiences which they like but a lot of it is keep-up-with-the-Jones stuff where e.g. people are paying crazy amounts for housing zoned for the “right” school when paying less and spending more time with their kids will have a much bigger lifetime impact. Someone in that position probably isn't retiring too early in any case but if they have their spending well planned out they're probably going to say that was an acceptable tradeoff for having kids, while the guy living above even considerable means is having a midlife crisis reconsidering hemorrhaging that kind of cash.
Most of the time, I agree with you. Especially with a lot of the pointless pedantry that people argue about on here.

However, the question of whether X should be termed an investment or speculation can be quite important in people's lives. Marketing in general is really important, especially marketing around which many people base serious financial decisions. If the label you put on the box leads people to expect one thing, and what's in the box is something else, that's problematic. This is part of why the SEC cares so much about who various securities are marketed to. And since, so far, the SEC has not stopped in to stop BTC et al from being marketed to The Average Jane, it's important to unofficially call out unrealistic claims and misleading terminology.
Funny, but it's not gall -- that lobbyist is paid well to be constantly pushing the Overton Window of acceptable policy towards ever more crony capitalism. Why stop now? Why stop ever?
Bitcoin is not a currency (it's a commodity) meaning other coins are also not currencies because Bitcoin is the most currency-like of the bunch.
http://thejns.org/doi/full/10.3171/2017.12.JNS172258
I must talk to your dad... Please!
Unfortunately, it seems the service the extension used has been retired.
Not a citation, but when I last looked at it for a cabin, the plumbing costs, pumps, and extra stuff required in addition to the normal heater drove the cost so high that it was just cheaper to add more PV panels, which have been coming down because they are made in great volume.

Someplace without freezing weather, or someone who might just say “too cloudy too long, no warm shower today” might have a different calculus.
So if it's a commodity, it's just speculation. Nobody invests in "corn" or "oil" for retirement.
The luck isn't in the timing--as others point out, even bad timing leads to impressive gains over long time periods if there's a steady stream of periodic investments. The "luck" comes from winning a genetic lottery that allows you to live to 96 with no major bankrupting health crises or other situational losses, and to be well off enough early in that timeframe to have excess to invest.
In the modern sense of the word, this is not a battery. It is a device that cracks water into hydrogen, which can then be fed into a fuel cell. Presumably, it consumes distilled water, which is why it is targeting utility scale storage and not home installations.

The work sounds interesting, but the article is painfully written.

Lead acid batteries produce hydrogen too. I think the insight is that this can’t produce electricity directly, so the chemistry can be much more stable.
So... You think we should forego installing a clean energy source that is available today and instead give that money to a company that does not provide clean energy in the hope that maybe they will provide the clean energy that we could have had today at some point in the future.

And your argument for that is... banks?
That's not true! They're not just writing crud apps they're also working in hedge funds and writing ai bots for social media.
That's only a wash if you never have to maintain them in the lifetime of the 30 year mortgage.
Probably because everyone can access your clipboard
I wish I shared your optimism. I'm observing current government policy not being particularly forward thinking, e.g. massively subsidizing the coal industry.
I'm a 27 yo with $70k to sock away who's confused by your units.
Energy providers in California do have clean energy options. They are also more efficient than individual solar installs.
They used to make us play this game in finance classes in high school. Everyone starts with $100k and invests however they want and you just have to keep track of it. At the end, the class compares what we earned against the class.

My class 90% lost money, 9% broken even, and 1 person got a ridiculous return. I learned from that, just invest in the index. Remember, you have to make more/less than everyone else...a nominal return of 20% doesn't mean anything if everyone made 50%. Last year, the NASDAQ earned nearly 30% two years in a row - that's par.
Dumb luck.... ritual (do the same things before bed like bath, read books, sing same songs, at the same times etc)...

Also take a shot at getting them to bed earlier as maybe he's overtired (overtired baby = not gonna sleep).

But everyone's mileage varies as there is no magic solution.