skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My definition of wealthy is being able to afford food, clothing, and housing, as well as some luxuries, without having to work.

And by that definition, you could make it work with $4.2M in the Bay Area, but it depends on your lifestyle.

Even with a median home of $1.7M, assuming you own it, you'll still need $20K/year just for the property taxes. You'll need transportation, which will cost you about $5000/yr because you probably live in the suburbs so you either have a car or two or use a lot of Uber/Lyft. You'll need food, which maybe if you're super frugal you can get down to $200/wk per person, so lets say 2 people, that's another $20K/year. Let's say you use thrift shop clothing and can get away with paying only $500/yr for clothes. So we need about $45K a year after taxes. If you manage to get all your money from long term cap gains, you'll need pretax earnings of about $57,000/yr for subsistence living for two people, which if you can find a nice 5% per year return, you'll need about $1.2M.

So for two people to live a minimal lifestyle in a median home with an amazing investment return that is very tax efficient, you'll need $2.9M.

But most people want more than substance living, can't get that kind of return or tax efficiency, have more people in their family, and want more luxuries.
How much would you pay for a subscription such a service?
I would say so. 23% of married retired couples and 43% of single retirees subsist on their social security; 50% or so have pensions, and some rely on their children. It's the wealthiest minority who have sufficient investments to live off of.
I have been working remotely for the past few years.
I am single (no SO, children).

I dare say my social life has improved as I am less stressed, get more sleep and above all, I have plenty of energy to go out and meet people in the evening than when I was working in an office.

Furthermore, I never really enjoyed the social aspect of an office, it always made me feel awkward and was more of a chore than anything as I tend to keep those relationships strictly professional.
That's cool, and I agree. Though as mentioned in another comment, I wasn't referencing the article, I was responding to the criticism that collecting user data doesn't serve a real purpose, and that it's just "creepy."
But in all countries where crypto-currencies are not considered money, is it illegal to double-spend bits?
100% agree. But at least there is an example at the very end of the docs: https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/sugartex/blob/master/sugartex.... I don't find it readable, but it is an extreme example - it would sell the concept better to start with simple, effortlessly superior cases.

I'm not sure about this whole concept of unicode. It is more readable for sure, but harder to write (to remember which unicode to use, and how to get it).

Perhaps surprisingly, java allows unicode identifiers etc, so I experimented with variables like δx and δt, and even ½i for PIC grids in CFG. It's cute, but I'm not really sure it's a good idea.
As far as I can deduce, you're trying to incorporate LateX into .md using the Markdown Philosophy of "you should write something that's readable as plain text, without compilation, also". Is that basically right? If so it should probably be right at the top, because it's hard to tell right now.

The idea makes sense, though I'm not sure if it's... better. Do you expect people to input " ⃗E" and "⨌" as text? Or ... what? Do you type the TeX and then have Atom autocomplete it into the Unicode symbols?
Interesting, but a lot of what I see is just plain luck:

> A match made in heaven! This community has about 175,000 subscribers

> We got lucky with this one. Our product is specifically geared towards travelers with a thrifty streak.

> successful marketing on Reddit is that it isn't perfectly reproducible. It hinges on finding a community that is both aligned with your product's value, and accepting of promotional posts.

It is trickier to apply this approach in communities 10 times smaller. If you start repeating the pitches you end up meeting people that frequent more than one community and the conversation degenerates into hostility.
It is true and mostly accurate by some back of the napkin math I've done. What stops people from doing 51% attacks is a few factors:

1) If you can pull off an attack for a few hundred bucks, it's probably on a coin that will only net you a few hundred bucks. Remember, these coins are thinly-traded altcoins, many of which only do a few hundred bucks worth of volume on exchanges in the first place.

2) Once you pull off your attack and people realize what happened, the "free" coins you get back will be worth shit because nobody will want that coin.

It's not as much of a free lunch as it might seem at first blush. I most certainly possess the domain knowledge and skill to pull off a 51% attack, as I have contributed code to Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies, written open source mining software, etc. But I would need several million dollars in starting capital to make the kind of money that would make me even consider it. That time would be better spent hacking away on a project with the potential to make me sustainable income, or a client project where I'm paid by the hour.
Get a mobile device and a browser that gives you control to block that stuff. Complaining about it here won't help anyone.
You would choose Tokina glass over high-end Arri or Zeiss for aerals if both were available in the Red FF35 format? Please walk me through your decision-making here.
Genuinely curious here: I created an account for this. How do you know that your delusion-sensing faculty is reliable, i.e., that it itself is not a delusion?
Thanks for the reply and best of luck. You make some wonderful points!
AI has superhuman abilities at specific tasks and sub-human at others, so just because it's hard for a human doesn't say much about how AI could cope. What is it about those aspects of the job that you think makes it impossible for AI?

For perspective, 20 years ago, what would have been your opinion about bipedal robots walking on rough terrain, self driving cars, and classifying objects in realtime from a video stream? Would you have said "Yea, those things might happen, but certainly not parking a truck." What other tasks do you currently think might be possible with AI in future but we haven't achieved yet? Tasks of similar difficulty to the parts of truck driving you mentioned.
Pretty rad setup! I love this kind of marriage of technology and art! Very nice work! Thanks for an inspiration!

Did you think about doing the same above Kīlauea these days?
Most anti-Microsoft comments don't get downvoted. Out of curiosity, I looked through https://hn.algolia.com/?query=microsoft&sort=byDate&dateRang... for recent negative comments about Microsoft, and 3 out of 4 were upvoted. For example,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17162203 was heavily upvoted.

Most things people say about HN comments aren't true in general, but only of the subset of comments that the person happens to notice. And we notice the things we dislike way more than we notice everything else.
Yea, the essay has other problems I want to fix too. What I am interested in most is the points about Larry/Sergey BTW.
That's not a fully accurate situation.

The most damning thing is that FirstEnergy didn't realize their system was falling apart. They lost alarm notifications at 2:14, and didn't realize that things were bad for another hour and a half. The first transmission line to fail completely [1] wasn't discovered by anyone until after the blackout, and FirstEnergy was called about the first transmission line failure but they dismissed it as a fluke because they received no notification of its failure. It took several people calling them asking about line failures before they realized that they weren't seeing their internal notifications, and by that time, their system was pretty much one minor thing away from disaster.

The only actual recourse they would have had at that point would have been to start disconnecting people from their system. That takes time, and by the time they realized that they were in such an emergency, it was too late. The system was already collapsing and the full blackout was just 20 minutes away.

[1] The Star-South Canton transmission line crossed company boundaries and failed twice then immediately automatically reconnected before failing for good a third time. The first failure precedes the Harding-Chamberlain failure, while the other two failures occurred after two lines were off for good, so this line's failure is considered the third failure.
Who cares how many spaces you put after a period inside a comment? Some of these nits are quite minor.

Overall, this guide is a little bit too rigid for my taste.
> Isn't the ballot initiative process the "public vetting or scrutiny" this guy is talking about? Seems like he's unhappy his group didn't get a chance to water down or kill the measure behind the scenes.

This is the same electorate that banned gay marriage (prop 8) and caused the worst housing crisis in decades (prop 13). Even if his opinion is wrong, his criticism of the the process is spot on.
What does "shortage" really mean? Isn't it just a matter of price?
I agree that we're somewhat overdue for a shakeup, although I'm not entirely sure any companies founded 10+ years ago could have anticipated the changing of the tide with respect to consumer privacy. I think the larger companies (notably Facebook) are learning as they go. And, frankly, doing a fairly good job of that.

An example is Facebook's reaction to racial profiling in the real estate and renters market. In my opinion, they handled that as well as could be reasonably expected.
> kubectl scaffold mysql --generate

This exists, its called helm, which in fact delivers the productivity gains the author is looking for.
It's how sensor and post-processing play together. You probably won't enjoy the look that is coming straight out of camera (ordinary and ugly), so an artistic license is applied in "cooking" colors, noise removal, sharpening, remapping of light dynamic range etc. to make it look better. If you do pro photography, you might be amused how much artificial some photos look straight out of camera, especially if you are using off-camera flashes; sometimes you get candy-like photos with accentuated edges that look unnatural, but that comes straight out of camera in the RAW file already.
EDIT: I mean that Kenya is a democracy and there has to be some kind of rationale behind a move, its not like Kenyans suddenly decided to vote in a dictator

In what country are laws are voted by the populace and not representatives or administrators?
tl;dr: author believes “No”.

Betteridge’s Law still applies.
> I think that this is probably a dangerous game to get into; calling for citations is, I think, only likely to be helpful when there is a mutually recognised authority

> biased' is not a characterisation that can be proven or disproven without some really careful definitions, on which two disputing parties are likely to disagree)

That happens to be the modus operendi of the propagandists, the liars, to say there is no truth, there's no way to determine it, there's no source more accurate than another. They say 'it's all propaganda', trying to put themselves on equal footing with honest people. It's liars who say, 'everyone lies'.

In fact, humanity has developed many ways of distinguishing truth from lie, fact from superstition, critical thought from ideology, physics from alchemy. That is, in a significant way, the project of the Enlightenment, which led to science, the rule of law, liberty, democracy, and all the things that have been born of them (including the Internet). Not coincidentally, I think, the propagandists are generally enemies of democracy and seek to suppress its effectiveness and the power of the public, in part by undermining its foundation of informed citizenry and open debate by interfering with it and saying it's impossible.
Strong-armed would seem to imply something other than "uphold your end of the treaty we both signed".
> Cheap to produce now, sure. Was it "cheap to produce" shortly after it was invented? And do you think the transistors we talk about today are identical to the ones invented in 1947? Or has there been continued innovation in that space, yielding BJT's, FET's, MOSFETS, and so on?

Exactly, innovation happens in this space because high investment is protected by patents and licenses.

> If you're the original inventor of a "thing" it's almost always going to be the case that you (or somebody with access to your engineers, etc. on an "official" basis) is going to have an advantage in terms of producing the "thing", simply because you know it and its innards better than the would be cloners... (and if this isn't the case, I go back to my assertion that the "thing" probably isn't actually very revolutionary at all).

Not true, There is plenty of tech companies that create technology but do not manufacture. ARM Holding would be an excellent example. There is also plenty of companies that manufacture but do not design.

> Anyway, if you invent something, and you feel the pressure to keep inventing because eventually the cloners will figure out how to build your thing as well as you, then that's a net win when "v2" (think, BJT, FET, etc.) gets invented sooner than it might have otherwise.

Patent laws include expiring period. This period is designed to make R&D profitable but keep pressure for innovation.

> Of course if you care about only a strictly selfish measure of how rich you become in the end, then you'd rather be able to just invent something, and monopolize it for n years. My point is that A. you can make money off an invention even without that artificial monopoly, and B. society wins when there is an arms race effect propelling innovation.

In some cases, you will be forced to provide licenses for you patented technology to prevent monopoly (Qualcomm/DDR). Nowadays is difficult to make any money from new inventions because low hanging fruits are gone.
I only have 3x 4k monitor, would need to buy another one to watch it in 8k ;-)
I'm making way more money now as a dev contractor... but I do miss a lot of things about my 9-month stint in the IBEW. There were definitely dirt bags in the union, but there were more guys who had a real interest in taking care of their union brothers. That, and coming home tired with dirty hands felt way better than finally deciding to shut my computer off and go hang out with my family.
> someone's possession of it doesn't diminish your possession of it

However someone's possession of data about you may indeed diminish other rights you hold and/or may be used to gain advantage at your expense. This is why we talk about data getting "into the wrong hands". I may not care for my employer to know about my sexual proclivities. I may not care for insurers to know my search history and draw (possibly incorrect) inferences from it.

The argument regarding privacy isn't about the potential that others' knowledge of your info diminishes the utility of the data to you (in most cases there is no _personal_ utility). It's about the power to restrict who can use that information as leverage in the advancement of their interests, often to the detriment of your own. It's about preserving agency.
A couple of us got flashlights and went to the main street and it was pitch dark and quiet and eerie. That was fun. Other than that, living without power got real boring, real quick.
Copied from Wikipedia because I didn’t know:

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the principle is much older. As with similar "laws" (e.g., Murphy's law), it is intended to be humorous rather than the literal truth.
> Efficiency gains on the existing tech + infrastructure will always win over revolutionary new tech.

That's just a gross exaggeration. Trains and cars were already new tech compared to horses, nuclear power vs coal power, diesel vs steam, steamships vs sailing ships, transistors vs vacuum tubes. Come on, history is full of revolutionary new tech surpassing incrementally improved old tech. It's unlikely that we're now at the end of the history of technology.
If you work on a non-Windows platform, then many executables will rely on libraries provided by the package manager. Your code might not be using that library from within a different process, but that doesn't mean that somebody else isn't.
> "bullshit attack"

There are currently only 2 lenses made specifically for this sensor - the Tokina and the Schneider Xenon.
You make a good point - luck plays some a role. That said, where I think we got lucky was finding a good "community fit" (Step 1 from the article). It was up to us to execute well on the rest :)

In terms of audience size, I would expect smaller audiences to yield smaller results. Despite that, I think the message of the post is that building an authentic relationship with a community means you can grow alongside them over time. This means continuous feedback, new ideas, etc. All stuff that's useful to us as technologists and entrepreneurs!
"The Elite is pre-Malthusian; they are obsessed with the zero-sum game of social status and the need to keep themselves elevated and others out"

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith said that when people strive for more wealth than they need to live comfortably, it is to achieve high social esteem.
This is the nature of truck driving, the headline has been $100k/yr job without the need of a degree for years, but in actuality, only those who work very hard & cheat the books get close to that.

No, trucking was a decent living 'till deregulation in the 90s.

"How Trucking Went From One of the Best Jobs in America to One of the Worst"
http://time.com/money/4325164/trucking-worst-job/
THis is essentially free optimization for every JITed runtime that is capable of inlining FFI calls because you get the real entry point from dlsym() and there is no sane way to get address of the .plt indirected entry point. On the other hand JVM AFAIK is not capable of inlining FFI calls (at the least because there is no API for direct FFI calls).
They don't stay consistently sharp at all apertures. They introduce chromatic abberation at different T stops. The out-of-focus area is less pleasant. I could go on ...

Master primes aren't right for every job, but they're the closest we have to an optically flawless lens in filmmaking.
I’m dying to know, were they able to use this New Yorker article as a secondary source and fix the Wikipedia entry?
MinGW-w64, QTCreator and gdb installation with MSYS2 for programming in C, C++
I hope that the "shortage" of drivers will lead companies to prefer shipping by rail, which is much less polluting, easier on the workers, and more efficient.
You only get good at what you do

- someone on the internet or something
A good reference in this context would be www.datacoup.com, which allows one to monetize their data in a safe manner.
In time, we'll look back on this argument and ask ourselves "Why the fuck didn't we all delete our accounts as soon as that became obvious?" (As the world burns around us...)
The funny thing about Kubernetes is that I read somewhere that it's not actually widely used within Google (please correct me if I'm wrong). Given that's it's a complicated piece of software and that Google has extremely complicated requirements, that's pretty concerning. To me, we've barely starting to solve deployments, the idea of Kubernetes seems a little ahead of it's time. If you're using GPC I do hear it's really great. But then, what's the huge benefit of Kubernetes in the first place? A tiny bit less of vendor lock in?
I have more experience working remote than in an office, and I'm deeply introverted, so I may not be the best person to ask.

I wouldn't say that working remotely for long periods has affected mt social skills. However, when I work remote, I socialize much differently than I do when I work in an office.

When I work in an office, all of my 'new kid in town' habits kick in. So I make a point of sitting as close to the kitchen space as possible, listen actively to find instant common ground, and make a point to make eye contact with as many people as possible. So, when I'm in an office, it's easy to have quick 5-10 minute conversations to refill the old social jug and get back to work.

When I work remote, it's harder to form those kinds of bonds with my coworkers. I've made some wonderful friends working remotely, but it's amazing how powerful sitting in a central space, active face-to-face listening and eye contact are, so I don't get to form the same types of relationships. Instead, I have to make a point to go out and do social things. If I don't actively work to refill my social jug, I get intensely lonely.

Of the two, I prefer working remote because honestly, I get the chance to build deeper friendships.
Kubernetes is newer than Google's Borg infrastructure I understand.

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kuber...
Those are such weak standards that they discredit the Boy Scouts.

It's like saying you're in shape if you can still see your genitalia.
Does nicehash let you run custom mining software to make adjustments to how it handles your transactions (permit double spend) or change the algorithm (like the verge attack)?

Edit: or would the malicious code live in a mining pool that you direct the nicehash hashing power to?
I've been working remotely for 18 months, married with a toddler and 10 year old daughter. I classify myself as an introvert, but vary widely from needing to be outgoing to extremely isolating myself. The previous job I left required me to be at the peak of personal extroversion professionally as a director of engineering. I worked with my team, business dev, and IT. I was also involved with sales calls and on-boarding customers. It pushed my boundaries but it forced me to grow. I started to enjoy being more extroverted.

I went from that position to working remotely for a start-up that had only 3 remote team members. At first I enjoyed the break from interactions with others but still had lots of communication with at least one other remote team member. About a year ago, I was moved to a different team, one with 2 local team members and myself. It has been a real struggle as I have gone days without interacting with team members or anyone besides my wife and son. I do leave the house daily to take my son to day care, but that is the extent of daily interaction outside the home with the exception of the grocery store on the weekends.

Limited social interactions has been and is becoming more of a problem for me working remote. Working in the office I developed friendships existed outside of the office as well. Those relationships are hard to maintain, and the same level of social life no longer exists when working remotely. We've instituted daily standup video calls and it helps a little.

I didn't have a huge social life before but it is now two extremes - either I crave the need to chit chat and interact with others or I withdraw completely from social situations. For example, I try to go to the coffee at least once a week just to be around other people. However, when I travel to the office quarterly, I cannot make it through the week of dinners and other events without leaving early to be alone.

Going days without meaningful technical and social interactions has caused me to be depressed and I've already considered leaving my current employer for a remote team that has more deliberate communication. Overall I'm glad with going 100% remote, but I have to work hard to not completely isolate myself.