skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On housing there are some caveats:

- it's a consumer-driven market, higher prices made a lot of ordinary citizens rich. It's not money that disappeared into a few rich shareholders' pockets like say in the medical industry.

- [0] mortgage rates have gone down from a peak of 18% to below 3%. That's the money that you'll never see again. Suppose you bought a home 3x your income, you used to be paying 54% of your income on interest alone, now it's 9%. Prices went up, but there was also downward pressure on your actual monthly expenses due to interest rates plummeting.

- 'houses' aren't fungible over time. Home sizes are way bigger and household sizes slightly smaller. On average each individual has roughly twice as much home space as before. [1] We choose to live bigger and sharing our space with fewer people. That's at least a sign of shifting preferences, and at best a sign of wealth, not poverty.

Caveats can be made about healthcare, too. We've added 8 years of life to each individual since the 1970s. That's insane.

I'm less excited about education. I see signs of credentialism. Education still has positive returns for individuals, but the story isn't as strong as for societal returns (i.e., at some point the abundance of degrees become a positional good or in other words a zero-sum game).

[0] https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKqLH.gif
[1] https://azgolfhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/American-...
Years ago, one of the HP people involved with early ink-jet printers told me that intuition about fluid behavior totally fails at that scale, and they had to use computational fluid dynamics to figure out how to get ink droplets to behave.
I also spoke in 2013.
It's probably one of the best out there, for likely no other reason than it being included in the box. I still remember back in .Net 1.0, Googling how to load a PNG to GDI from memory and being being met with "just load it from a MemoryStream." At the time this was profound (maybe not so much for Haskell coder, but we didn't all have the fortune of growing up with that). A few years later I was developing something that used STARTTLS (XMPP) and actually starting that TLS stream was just a matter of wrapping the current stream in a SslStream and swapping it out. It's very consistent.

Contrast this with, say, C where there is nothing. Encryption would look vastly different to compression, but both are a similar abstraction: transformations. Now if you wanted to load that result into a device bitmap, you'd likely have to dump the entire stream into memory on onto disk - depending on what different pattern the other library you are using thinks about streams.

Go did a much better job out of the box, but you'd have a hard time convincing me that .Net streams weren't an inspiration there; especially given the nomenclature used.
Chris Hobbs / RX14 (major crystal language contributor) is 17 years old, is a genius, and is behind a lot of the recent work on the language including windows support, parallelism, and other things. You can follow him on GitHub or watch him work on crystal on twitch:

https://github.com/rx14 |
https://www.twitch.tv/rx14
To expand on what Zack said, we're just about ready to merge in Cloudflare Workers support to our golang SDK (see https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/pull/188).

Once this is merged, it clears the way for us adding Terraform support (as terraform-provider-cloudflare wraps cloudflare-go).

There's been lots of interest from our customers in being able to manage Workers using Terraform, so it's high on the list.
This is so cool! Awesome work!
Worst work conditions ever
How much do CEOs of Fortune 100 companies make?
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http://www.lab49.com/posts/seniorengineer-java/

http://www.lab49.com/posts/engineer-webui/
The LC II was a big deal as a cheap color Mac when it was introduced at $1700. Of course, inflation. Today that's $3000.
I guess it's not clear to me why (at least in the 'first world') it's wrong for quants and engineers to pay something for the tools they use. (i have spent a fair amount of time contributing to open-source, so I've no problem with OS generally, but I also don't think their is anything wrong with the folks at Matlab getting paid for their efforts. Quants are sure as hell getting paid for theirs).
Why isn't the market competitive, then?
The catch is it's hard to measure & value the experience the older engineer brings to the table.
There's room for people whose tastes include hunting endangered species too! https://www-m.cnn.com/2015/05/21/opinions/rhino-hunt-is-cons...
Are EQT Partners the kind of private equity firm that tries to profit by running profitable companies?

Or are they the kind of private equity firm that loads up its companies with debt, pays itself massive dividends, and then lets the companies struggle and die under unsustainable debt loads?

(See: Toys 'R Us, etc)
> switch to a different texting app like Android Messages or Textra

Great, I just got a Galaxy S9 after being a longtime iPhone user. What are HN's experiences with these messaging apps?
Because the software is inconsistent (and thus buggy) in that regard. Also, barely any developer possesses the knowledge and infrastructure necessary to build their software for dozens of arcane architectures.

Packagers create the glue between the software (which is heterogeneous) and the distro (which is internally consistent). The world without this glue is a horrible mess and a huge waste of time; the old Slackware is a good example. It's thanks to the distro makers that you don't have to spend days collecting requirements and acquiring arcane knowledge just to install a piece of software.

So: yes, those people devote a huge amount of time - so the countless users around the world don't have to. The net time value is positive.
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Some of the theories seem to hinge on HSV1 and ApoE4 (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hsv1+apoe4) both being necessary to substantially drive up the risk. One example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019745800...

I don't currently have access, but it'd be nice if someone who did could crack into the statistics of some of these.
Do any modern browser based Java IDEs exist?
Cloud 9 doesn't do Java.
Eclipse Che doesn't support gradle (Yet..)

Anything else out there? Intellij is.. OK but local.
My favorite part about fishing is that it has nothing to do with catching fish. As a catch-and-release fly fisherman, the entire point of the exercise is in matching the hatch, tying a perfect fly, perfecting your cast, having the perfect presentation, and finding the exact right riffle. At that point, actually hooking a fish is just a side effect of what you are already doing.
Upvote from me, I fully agree with you. I'm sick and tired of people re-packaging python/npm/ruby/etc applications as distro packages. As a maintainer of a few high-traffic python libraries, it wastes my time. I am not ok with it.
Some inventors claim a novel solution that would have gone undiscovered for twenty years, and we benefit from those.

But other "inventors" claim the whole problem, including solutions that any interviewee would have produced in twenty minutes. That's where examiners' incentives demand bad decisions.
I've been really liking my XPS 13 since last year but Dell/Ubuntu really managed to fuck up something recently. My Dell dock works on occasion. Bluetooth randomly disappears. And wifi is hit or miss. I reboot constantly which fixes the issues but that is annoying. On the plus side the click pad is phenomenal and beats the hell out of anything apple has.
I grew up fishing in a family that loves fishing, boating, and being near the water in general. I fished prolifically every day after school in a small stream a few kilometers from my house until I was 13 years old. I quit when one day I went out by myself (like I usually did) and within a few minutes I caught a pike. My first. I landed it to remove the hook from its mouth and that's when it wriggled violently in my hands, piercing my right hand thumb in the fleshy bit with the hook that was still attached to its mouth.

At first, the hook wasn't too deep into my flesh, but the pike kept wriggling, and within seconds it came out the other side of my thumb, right through the thumbnail. I don't think I've ever felt such pain at that age. I was bleeding all over the grass, crying and panicking with this slowly dying fish attached to my hand. Reluctantly, but knowing I had to do so, I found a dagger in my tackle box and cut off the fish's head. It didn't go well and the creature died a horrible death as I cut its head off with my weak left hand, trying to ignore the pain in my right. But it was finally dead.

My hand started hurting a lot. So much, in fact, that I couldn't pack up my things and ride my bike back home, so I sat down hoping that someone would come by to help me out. The pike's head still dangled from my thumb. Eventually a kid about my own age saw me (crying my eyes out) and his mother drove me home. A few hours later, I was in the doctor's office and with some local anesthetic, he cut the barbed part of the hook off and slid the rest of it out the way it entered. He thought the whole situation was kind of funny.

The kid's mom who had driven me back home had wrapped up the pike in a newspaper and given it to my parents who promptly threw it in the garbage since it was covered in my blood and badly mangled from my botched up knife work.

I didn't fish again until two years ago (I was 32) when I thought I'd try it again for old times' sake. I caught a fish pretty early on. It was a tiny little bass with this enormous hook of my lure poking through its upper lip. I felt like crap. If this creature felt the way that I must have felt, I couldn't continue fishing. I sold my gear on Craigslist for cheap just to get it out the house and said goodbye to it forever.
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I recently did some contract work for a client on a Magento2 extension.

Technologies I've used: Python, pytest, numpy, scipy, opencv, pytorch, tensorflow, docker, PHP, Magento2

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I think you are replying to an ironic post to begin with. Doubt that quote was to prove a point, but to highlight the problem.
That does seem like a much fairer compromise. In the law at issue, a business could be required to charge and remit taxes if they had just 200 transactions with residents in the state. If this means compliance with dozens or hundreds of county laws, that could be burdensome.
Hi, you are mistaken on many facts here. I'll start with this claim. No employees at the Mozilla Corporation demanded that I resign. Six Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit .org with arms-length management and separate board) tweeted that I should step down (see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/mozil... which fails to note their employer was not the company to which I had been appointed CEO, although I was founder of both orgs). They never worked for me.
I think the various interpretations of QM, until one is proven (or we otherwise come to one definition)... they all lie within philosophy.
Pro tip: make up a fake birthdate for yourself. Use it anywhere that requires one.

Your mom's birthday with your year of birth. Your birthdate with month and day reversed. Etc. Use your own birth year - there's rarely a good privacy reason to mask that.

In cases where there is (can't think of any good ones, tho), always choose something over 21. That way you won't run into age restrictions.
Here's a somewhat related question on peer to peer systems.

Is there peer to peer VoIP that works? Discovering the other end isn't a problem; this is chat for a game, so there's a way to tell the other end about IP addresses and such. The question is whether you can reliably set up a VoIP connection between N known endpoints, including proper echo suppression and conference bridging, without a central server. Are the issues of getting through firewalls with cooperation from both sides solved? Is there anything that works well enough that non-technical users can use it reliably?
If it's possible to be a server side issue, then no phones are ever secure.
Meh. Linux itself doesn’t need Red Hat anymore. Upstream got good enough that you just don’t need to stay on proprietary backports for years and years just to keep your service reliable and secure. These days most of Red Hat’s value add on Linux is to keep deprecated features alive for their large slow-moving customers. Sure they also contribute cool bleeding edge work, but nothing that couldn’t be picked up in a heartbeat by a team at Oracle, Google, Alibaba, or a hundred other systems companies.

As for those satellite projects you mention, in my experience the dependency on Red Hat is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Their employees tend to close ranks and crowd out other contributors in the projects they sponsor. If RH disappeared tomorrow, for many of those projects the result would be more diverse contributors, with a healthier mix of ideas and priorities. It might help shock the Linux community out of the cultural rut it’s been stuck in.
> Ask a fruit grower how stupid this is

I don't know a fruit grower. Can you tell me?
terrible analogy. Ask a fruit grower how stupid this is

What about the fruit rotting on the ground? That's one of our favorite analogies.
They're all exactly the same and haven't changed appreciably in 10 years.
You need to know the domain in complex fields. In my area, the non engineers have no clue what is going on and are almost dead weight. The high output engineers now in management aren't always the best at managing people, but at least they make good decisions and don't slow the rest of us down.
TWITTER!!

Right now Twitter is what Xerox used to be in the 80's.
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About You: You'll be working primarily with PHP 7, JavaScript (React), the Linux command line, and MongoDB. Familiarity with eCommerce, Shopify, 3rd-party API's and AWS are a plus, so be sure to mention if you have a background in any of those. Experience comes in many forms and passion goes a long way, so please consider applying even if you aren't familiar with our entire stack.

About The Role: As a full-stack developer, you'll work with a close-knit team of other passionate devs to create beautiful products that operate at significant scale. Each dev is empowered to make decisions that materially affect the company's future. This is a great place for builders, makers, and hackers who want to be part of building something great. You will own what you build, being responsible for architecture decisions and scaling your solution to meet demand.

Compensation includes: Competitive salary & equity, medical/dental/vision/commuter benefits, fully-stocked kitchen with food & beverages, the latest hardware. A fun office environment filled with smart, passionate and genuinely kind people. PTO with some neat paid holidays like Valentine's day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, your birthday, etc. Flexible hours and everyone works from home once a week. ShopPad's office is located in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood — just a few steps from 19th Street BART station.

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thanks. just deleted access for a couple of apps I used years ago and forgot. Never again.
Chip Hall of Fame: Philips TDA7000 FM Receiver
something like for this session like how sudo works would work pretty well too
Chip Hall of Fame: Nvidia NV20
Doesn't seem to do full-text search for me. Maybe you have a newer version of Chrome than I do though.
Anyone who makes sure stuff compiles and runs on Windows.
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Tech stack it Java/Kotlin with Dropwizard on the backend and Angular/Typescript on the frontend. Lot of AWS stuff too. Looking for 2+ (not required to be in our tech stack) years of experience for that right now.

Development team lead: https://www.campspot.com/development-team-lead
Technical leadership role for one of our teams (2-6 people).

We're building products to modernize management and booking within the campground industry.
Your analogy is backwards imo but I totally get where you are coming from. I would still say though that it is a lot harder to write a compiler than it is to write a web app, at least in general. Building your own compiler is like building a nuclear power plant. Building a web app, from an engineering perspective, is like drunk texting your friend about quantum mechanics, and I say this as someone who works on web apps every day. Every once in a while a real problem does crop up, but the vast majority of problems faced by web apps are just about finding the right existing tool for the job, doing frontend stuff, tweaking SQL queries, and making CRUD endpoints.

You are right in one sense though. Being good at engineering doesn't mean you have a good eye for design and good common sense for UX, but programmers are expected to more and more these days. This is why it's still important to get a well-rounded liberal arts education instead of going all-in on engineering and coming out with no creative/artistic ability.
Why Asian-Americans feel powerless in New York’s elite high schools
Good job samsung. This is probably related to their rollout of rcs on T-mobile, especially as this only affects samsung's texting app and not android messages... which is absolutely maddening as the point of rcs UP is to use whater rcs UP client you want. -.- freakin' telecoms.
Uh, yeah... if I don't have to spend money on a new phone when I can just install better software, that's my preference.
How does decentralizing things combat the scourge of misinformation and fake news? Wouldn't it exacerbate the issue?

Not to sound like a hipster, but I feel like the internet went downhill when it went mainstream. That's when there was a huge incentive to take advantage of people, whether it's spam, scams, or propaganda campaigns.

The centralized control of our data is a separate issue, no?
If the behaviour differs at optimisation levels, would that not suggest that it is not a sane behaviour?
As an early adopter of PillPack I can say that it is awesome. Not only are the packs very convenient (no more bottles, knowing when you forgot to take drugs) but the customer service is the best I've ever experienced.

I had tried to use the mail-order drugs provided by insurance companies and they were a disaster. I couldn't find out what was coming when. Drugs would seemingly-randomly show up in my mailbox.
> The fundamental problem I run into with Lambda@Edge is just that their request stages aren't a great abstraction (OpenResty/nginx has a similar problem). It really limits what kinds of problems you can solve.

Yes! I completely agree. Interesting that we both ended up with the Service Workers API instead. I'm really hoping that Service Workers becomes the standard for JavaScript HTTP handling in the future.
The flipside of this is I think packaging for Debian has become far, far too difficult.
Somehow this reminds me of the history of lobster as cheap food for the poor and imprisoned. People detested it. Until of course the status of lobster changed.

Or the fact aluminium used to be extremely expensive and thus used for the most precious cutlery, ornaments etc. Until of course it became dirt cheap to produce.

Some things really are related to the ideas we hold, not reality itself. You can see this in blind tests of foods or drinks like wines, the blind ratings often don't correspond with their reputation or price.

Bourdieu's book la distinction is quite a good treatise on this topic. Taste and what we consider artful or high quality is much more constructed by our environment than by any innate or objective measure, we tend to fool ourselves on this point.
The shopkeeper is still somewhat wrong though: it's redirecting the energy, not absorbing it.

Regardless, Mark Rober and The Backyard Scientist have a pretty great video demonstrating exactly what is going on here: https://youtu.be/W4DnuQOtA8E
HTC is gone
I'm so glad you updated your site. It went from looking like a borderline scam to looking like a legitimate site with useful information. My first impression from the first I saw you post was that it either wasn't a real product or it was a poorly executed one. This is significantly better.
No thoughts on the Labs comment, but i think going public has a huge impact because every google employee's compensation is tied to the stock price (through stock grants). It's very hard to focus on non-monetary goals in that environment.
It's interesting to me that people's opinions on this subject are much like politics. You either make optimization a priority, or you don't optimize prematurely. You write clever well written and commented imperative code, or clear concise functional code.

They're two completely different schools of thought and may work well in either scenario. It depends a lot on your background, and your current context what way you are going to write code.
And what brilliant things were you saying in 2007? Yeah, that was an asinine thing for him to say, and insulting to . . . well, to people like me. I'm 53, and I happen to work at Facebook on the strength of things I've learned in the last 11 years or so. I dare say many of the people around me, including those who hired me, might have learned a thing or two as well. Maybe those who want to champion the idea of life-long growth and learning could make their point some way other than bringing up a quote from 2007 as though it represents current belief.
Do you have some details about how this wastes your time?