skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These calculators do not model job stability. GP is correct to be concerned; unless they have a truly unique skill set in high demand for the foreseeable future, steady employment is not a given in many fields. In the US, one needs about 7 years to break even on house purchasing costs (all the fees and commissions outside the titular selling price) before it financially makes sense to buy into another/different house. This is why you hear the rule of thumb that tells people to rent unless they plan to stick around "for awhile", or "for about ten years". We need a forward-projected statistically-inferred probability, based upon historical trends of the field a prospective buyer is in, on their income stability for the next 7 years.

It should come out as at 100% of current income, 50% probability they will increase at rate of inflation over next 7 years. At 80% of current income, 60% probability. At 70% of current income, 90% probability. And so on. Then the buyer picks where on the gradient they feel comfortable, given any side hustles, investments, etc. they have going on in their lives. This balances out the traditional DTI ratio that entirely favors the lending side getting their transactional fees regardless of the actual projected affordability.

The younger generations around the world are getting completely shafted on real estate asset overvaluation, and many are right to be skeptical of conventional affordability calculations. In the US, there is the triple shafting of higher education, healthcare, and real estate overvaluation. Median asset values are way out of line to median incomes, and only supportable by an over-lenient and captured debt system. The reversion to mean will be painful, and unfortunately most of the pain will not accrue to those most responsible for the overvaluations in the first place.
This is dumbing down the whole thing Sire. Why did ATT increased the fees by $1 and not $10 then ? Also you can literally chose from many many other telecom operators. I use T Mobile and my car has ATT. ATT is way better than TMobile for coverage may be the extra fees help them give better coverage ?

(Also what is the alternative ? Trump controlled government servants to decide how much fee they can raise ? At that rate we will be like UK where you need a license to own a TV).
Heh, looks like BBC got some help from the public - this one's got to be a capture from a home VHS.

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....
When I was living in suburbs for a few months, getting from A to B on a bike took a long time. 40 minutes to work. 30 minutes to the next mall/shopping street. Just one small house after another, with no amenities nearby. Vast low-density residential areas make for a long commute.

After I got back to the city it felt incredible to bike through it. Everything you need is within a few minutes driving distance. Work is 20 minutes on bike and I don't live particularely close to it. No worries about parking either, because there is always some place that you can lock your bike to.
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I don't see why you called it myth. Just because it sort of works short term does not tell you anything about long term consequences. Earth has changed drastically with all the humans on it. You need a lot of optimism about solutions for global warming and pollution. The linked short "feel good" video asks an extreme question "Will this lead to the end of our civilization?" (pretend the other side made a ridiculous claim to make them look foolish and to easily counter what nobody said), takes an incredibly tiny number of data well selected to support the desired conclusion, and of course lots of colorful animations - I'm supposed to take that seriously? I find the myth that the myth is a myth to be too mythical for my taste.
Probably just once with this in your pocket?

Same for bungie jumping, trampolines etc.

In fact, I wonder if this wouldn't be a problem with any fall, say on ice etc.
> Why did you quote half my sentence, leaving out the part where I explain why, and then ask why?

Sorry I just didn't want to quote the whole comment, didn't mean to imply I was only responding to the first part of the sentence.

I understand you can hypothetically prove that a simulation of the universe would require a simulation engine of at least a certain complexity. But since the simulation engine does not exist in this universe, we have no idea about what limitations or laws of nature (if any) it is subject to. You will never be able to prove or disprove the existence if this hypothetical simulator.
I've run xubuntu on this thinkpad since 2010, currently 16.04.

I've just rdesktopped into a windows machine to run a cisco ASA tool. Just had to reboot it.

YMMV of course, and the plural of annecdote isn't data, but I find it hard to raise bugs when they don't affect me.
The ORM makes it more likely to do stuff in the application instead of the DB

Again this doesn't match my experience. A mediocre .NET developer who can access the database with LINQ is far more likely to run their queries on the database than a mediorce .NET developer who has to try to write SQL queries by hand.

And the truth is that modern ORMs are often pretty clever with their optimizations, and in many cases the ORM will often outperform an average developer doing the obvious thing is SQL.
It does. If the laptop is light enough, you can handle it (grab it, put it back on the table etc.) comfortably with one hand even while laying away from it etc. It becomes almost as comfortable to quickly grab as a tablet or a phone.
Samsung's Galaxy S range of phones have been getting slightly thicker every generation since the S6. The S6 was 6.8mm thick, the S9 is 8.5mm, with small but progressive increases along the way.

The S9 still feels like it could break easy due to the all glass finish, but I think that has much more to do with avoiding plastic whilst still enabling wireless charging.
Berlin isn't exactly a medium or small city, and then you'd still have the problem that American cities are very car-centric.
The UK has a nice catch all for such things in addition to the EU laws;

From the 'Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994'

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For the purposes of this Act, goods are of satisfactory quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking account of any description of the goods, the price (if relevant) and all the other relevant circumstances.

For the purposes of this Act, the quality of goods includes their state and condition and the following (among others) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods—

(a)fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied,

(b)appearance and finish,

(c)freedom from minor defects,

(d)safety, and

(e)durability.

~~~

I don't think a reasonable person would regard a £2000 laptop being unusable after 2 years of regular careful use as being 'Fit for purpose'.
Kinda surprising. I know everyone seems to love git these days, but I find it's really better suited towards distributed and/or smaller projects. After feeling the pain of a megarepo system at work, I'm pushing to switch to a monorepo(well, like 4 repos instead of 200). git sort of sucks for monorepos.

Also, even after learning a fair amount of git, I still find I spend a noticeable amount of time dealing with it. I don't remember spending a lot of time on any of the VCS systems I've used in the past. They just stayed out of my way and let do my thing.
One of the biggest problems with ActiveRecord (the ORM in the article) is that it uses extremely obtuse names for extremely common methods. There are three different methods for finding how many things meet a given criteria[0], and none of them do the same thing. There are three different methods for loading data from an associated table[1], and none of them do the same thing either. None of the method names explain how the function is implemented or whether it's going to hit the database.

This is a problem that goes beyond the usual ORM antipatterns and bad database designs and becomes its own special kind of hell, because it makes code far harder to reason about and thus far harder to review, in a way that I don't remember encountering in Hibernate, Gorm, or anything else.

[0] count, length, and size

[1] includes, preload, and eager_load
> a lot of people (like me) who had access to sufficient mainframe power

Yes, that can't have been a lof of people.

The microcomputer movement was hugely influential to people who were children and teenagers at the time, since they were the ones able to spend lots of lightly supervised time trying things and learning at an impressionable age.

The BBC has a good list of "origin stories" of founders who started on the BBC micro here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15969065
It's 2018 and there is no pictures or video streams of the earth from space that can be verified to be genuine.

There are no real time cameras filming the earth on a level where we can signal to the camera and see it detect the signal in real time.

There are no videos of satellites in space taken from space shuttle or similar as far as I'm aware. All you find on Google is artist impressions and CGI.

Is there any way to verify any of this yourself without having to trust the space agencies? As engineers, you should understand the importance of not having to trust a third party.
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I didn’t become homeless, but my startup drained all of my cash, and then into debt as I tried to turn it around.

I was forced to go back into consulting. It was a sad time because I felt like failure.

But then 6 months of consulting I met lots of cool, smart people, and also lots of “dead inside” just collecting pay cheques people. Both of these served as positive and negative examples of how to be.

After a couple of weeks he sadness wore off, I learnt the lessons from it, and the entrepreneurial itch kicked in again.

The entrepenurial itch is actually an addiction to progress, once the addiction kicked in again I was back.

If you’re suffering from this go meet some people and get perspective, it helped me a lot
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I also received a few times offers by recruiters for a company I was already in (and visible on linkedin).
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His foundation's website also has some really nice data visualizations:
https://www.gapminder.org/tools/
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Did you try converting Windows users? Did you face these problems with them? If not, what did you face?
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I got this just two weeks back, fully up to date 2015 MPB. I was shocked that this could happen; I could even click around on the desktop for a few seconds before it locked up, and I had to hit Esc for the login screen to appear. I didn't even realise it was locked the first time it happened. A very visible reminder about software quality at Apple.
Have you explored the multitouch gestures for all this? I work on a 40" 4K monitor and I can't live without OSX's window management exactly for that reason. Windows wants you to fullscreen everything, while OSX has nice little touches like making the windows subtly magnetic or letting you resize symmetrically by holding alt.

Not to mention OSX is the only OS where you can drag the file icon out of a window's title bar to do stuff with it (eg. upload a file you have open) or right clicking the title to see the folder structure it resides in.

All these little affordances exactly where they need to be, and invisible when you don't need them. In my experience OSX is designed with a degree of consistency unheard of elsewhere, and that's why it gets accused of being unusable: people keep looking for the crutches you need on other platforms instead of just interacting directly.
A small to medium sized city is not the suburbs.
If you have no hiring power, why do you talk to the recruiter at all? It seems none of your business to tell her the team is not growing.
I'm curious about one thing. Like the article alludes to there is currently an extremely strong connection between fertility and low education, low income, and high religiosity. This [1] is a list of nations by net natural population growth. So births - deaths. From the top (according to UN predictions for 2015-2020): Uganda, Angola, Mali, Somalia, Tanzania, etc. From the bottom on nations that are collectively dying: Bulgaria, Latvia, Ukraine, Hungary, Lithuana, Romania, Portugal, Greece, Japan, Germany, Italy, etc.

One of the facts is that 137,000 people/day have been escaping 'extreme poverty'. But what happens when the part of society that is living in economically stable and educated households is not even reproducing to the point of replacing itself, while those living in low education and low income households are massively reproducing?

The natural response here is that if we can just improve the situation of places such as Africa then this situation ought resolve itself with birth rates starting to become comparable thus preventing a condemnation of the next generation. There are two problems with this view. The first is that this relies exclusively on a correlation which to date has proved less than predictive of African fertility levels. More importantly this effect is not just international but also intranational. Those who earn the most in the US have the fewest children with households earning less than $10,000 having a 50% greater fertility rate than those earning $200,000+. [2] It seems we're creating a society where each new birth is more and more likely to come into this world in some of the least appropriate households.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_i...

[2a] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...

[2b] - https://www.census.gov/topics/health/fertility.html (the link to statista presents this data in a cleaner format - also adding this as just a more reliable source)
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My T480S running Pop!_OS is stellar in that department.
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At $240K, if you have no family to support, you ought to be able to save up enough for a sizable down-payment in 5 years:

Assumptions:

Health Insurance is funded by employer

50% of total comp as take-home (post 401(k), taxe &c.) -> $600k take home over 5 years

$2.5k/month for rent (I'm assuming from housing prices that this would translate to somewhere between a very nice 1BR or a half-share of a nice 2BR in your location) -> $150k over 5 years.

$450k after housing. Even budgeting $20k per year for all non-housing expenses leaves you with $350k which is nearly 50% down. Having "not quite a 50% down payment" after 5 years of work puts you in rare company.
Correlation is not causation. If the only new products in the Apple ecosystem is thinner, have a non-removable battery, no headphone jack, no SD card slot, no magsafe power, then it is easy to reason that all people who brought new Apple products wanted those features. The problem is, they never had the choice.
All will, the underlying technology is the same and the 'micro' just refers to the plastic shell; the adapter is just a spacer with electrical contacts.
Ha HA that's my job.
Like anything else in life it is about balance. If you abuse ifs, then your code is unreadable, hard to debug and hard to maintain. If you abuse the alternative patterns then your code, again, becomes hard to grasp and hard to maintain.

You need to look for a balance between ifs and alternative patterns.
Apple. This issue is seriously simple.

Take the previous design, you know the one from late 2012 to 2015.

If you must (sigh), take out the SD card, HDMI, USB A, MagSafe and replace with USB-C. I don't know who suggested this, but whatever.

Don't add in a touch bar. Don't add in an over sized touchpad. Leave the keyboard alone. The layout of the model is amazing.

I purchased a late 2012 in Jan '13. It's been my daily driver for 5 years now, without a single issue and it's an amazing piece of equipment. It allows me to just get on with my work, rather than focusing on the issues with the OS (looking at you Windows 10).

Want to make the product much better? Upgrade:

- the screen to 4k

- the memory to 32GB

- the SSD speed and give me options of 1TB and 2TB.

- the CPU to the latest i7 and more cores the better.

Listen, you can even charge $5k for the privilege. I don't care at this point. My needs for it just working and allowing me to work without the issues of running Windows 10 are the only things that matter to me.

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Ok, I understand. We are negotiating here.

- $6k...

- $7k...

- $8k...

- $9k...

- $10k... ?

Sure, I'll pay $10k for a PRO laptop. One that lasts 5+ years. I'm happy to depreciate it over a period of time, because for me. It's not an ACCESSORY. It's a workhorse!

I really hope someone at apple listens. You guys had an awesome laptop. Then you made it crappy.

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I'm literally praying to "Lord Jobs" on the other side, that I don't run into any issues for at least another 3 years and Mojave is my last OS it seems. I'm STILL on El Capitan!
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I guess that is my point. The OP says that having a family in the US would be a struggle but if you set aside the handful of cities with out of control costs in the US like SF, NY, and DC the rest really are quite affordable.
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> I'm saying that 99.9% of Oracle customers would have been significantly better off from a cost, flexibility, and support perspective going with an alternative like Postgres when they started.

Although I agree that some huge proportion [1] of businesses today would do very well to seriously consider Postgres as the first option before even looking at Oracle, I don't recall this being true 17 [2] or even 10 years ago.

Remember, we're likely talking about non-tech businesses here, ones where they're sustaining operations with a single developer. You mention "ill-informed technology leaders" but it's hard to imagine there are any technology leaders actually involved on the buyer's side.

I don't think it's helpful to look back at such a decision through the lens of today's technologies and the kind of talent/expertise that is, today, available to a business whose core competency is tech.

I'm no fan of "enterprise" anything, so don't mistake my critique as cheerleading Oracle. I just feel the context of technology decisions is paramount. It also seems especially germane to the overall thread topic, which is whether a generalist can possibly have enough depth in key areas to be considered competent enough in them.

[1] your repeatedly asserted claim of 99.9% is extraordinary, requiring extraordinary evidence.

[2] Oracle 9i was released in 2001. EnterpriseDB wasn't founded until 2004.
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Interesting! Hopefully it's within the EU and not in the UK (some of our customers are picky for legal reasons)
Yes there are a few problems with ActiveRecord; it has been well used and has accreted lots of similar functions (a victim of its own success), and also it doesn't make it crystal clear when you are hitting the database.

IMO ORMs should be simple, unsurprising, and only have one or two methods which actually execute the sql and fetch data - they are there to make it simpler to build queries and map rows to objects, not to blur the line between fetching and manipulating data.
I fell for that.

Is this the JWZ of "no you have two problems" regex quote? What does he have against HN?
> Everyone keeps making these bacteria and finger print magnets thinner

I fear it might be worse than that; I have a Moto C, which is nice enough as a cheap phone. But they've made the case out of the slipperiest finish I could imagine, I have a silicone case just to trust I can hold it.

Now, if that's the cheapest finish they could make to get the price bracket they want, fine. But I can't shake the feeling that some designer chose that finish to make it _feel_ thinner. Just like a rough heavy weight paper makes something _feel_ valuable.
The "free marketing" runs in the other direction as well: the apps are marketing for the platform.
> I honestly don't understand all these quality sacrifices just to make things thinner. It makes the product actually feel somewhat cheap and brittle.

I never understood this. I read often in reviews about how the weight of something makes it feel more expensive and "premium". For something you're carrying around all the time, you want it to be light and manufacturing something light is usually going to be more expensive.
Seems like it would be possible to do something like: produce a freely available device that you provide some kind of supportive or value-added service for.
Of course we can know that. Basically all manufacturers save apple have a very long tail of non-flagship phones which nobody really pays much attention to, but which absolutely can answer questions like that. They have dozens of models, mostly basically identical save for minor changes.
I was one of those annoying Apple evangelists for years. My 2010 MacBook Pro was my baby and I loved it. Eventually it got to the point where I had to replace it (after 7 years!) and when I went to look around at the new MacBook Pro range, I was so disgusted by all the problems that I ended up getting a Dell XPS 13.

I consider my original MBP and the following models to be some of the best laptops you could buy at the time. If I could buy a 2015 MBP with a modern processor I would do it in a heartbeat.

Meanwhile I wouldn't recommend the current range of Apple laptops to anyone.
> But what happens when the part of society that is living in economically stable and educated households
> is not even reproducing to the point of replacing itself, while those living in low education and low
> income households are massively reproducing?

Migration is what happens. Followed by integration.
I'm running linux on all my machines, including a Macbook Air and it works very well. Unstable, insecure, hot and noisy would not be words I would use to describe my setup.

The only noisy machine here is parked in another room and given its size and processing power it is noisy but that goes with the territory. Apple doesn't make anything that is even remotely equivalent.

Which means I can run the same software on all my machines which is another benefit.

And yes, I've been doing this for decades.

As for 'dist-upgrade', I don't normally do that, I go for long term stable releases and upgrade when the hardware gets replaced, which is once every few years.
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In a world with no SPA django is as much a front-end framework as it is anything else (just as JSP, ASP and a million other frameworks that render html on the server and send it).
well i consider myself fairly technical and i've been trying various linuxes since 2003 - every single time there were some issues that i can't imagine non-technical person to deal with.

no matter the distro, no matter the desktop environment, no matter the hardware.

graphics drivers, sound system, xorg config, multiple monitors, wifi, you name it.

so excuse me if i take your comment about "no hardware problem since 2005" with a grain of salt.
Honestly, I have no idea yet.