skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> few people I know, even with high net worth and liquidity, have much of anything in a 'savings account'

Really? It's fairly common advice to store an emergency fund in something akin to a savings account (or at least something with FDIC backing). Either way, it seems bizarre for a high net worth individual not to have at least $500 in something extremely liquid like a checking/savings account.

Either way, it's fair to assume it means liquid cash, since the question is basically "could you afford an unexpected $500 expense?".

If you want to take that study to task, I think the far more interesting statistic is the 20% who would put it on their credit card: While those could be people who are just going into debt to afford the bill, it could also be people who just pay their card off in full every month and want whatever rewards they might be entitled to from using the credit card.
I first read the title as Macbook, even. The design is an absolute rip-off.
I recently bought an HP Omen laptop and naturally installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on it. Surprisingly almost everything worked well out-the-box.

All it needed was to install NVidia drivers and configure action on lid closure (sleep).
I've never learned any programming language / framework with a step-by-step component learning. I usually grab a simple task ( make a todo app, make a hello world, etc. ) and do it.

Funny enough I've worked with and know almost all of the yellow circles on this diagram only because I needed them at some point.
I just bought one because Apple didn't refresh the MBP. It is nice - maybe I need to get used to it, but it's not a MBP. Continuity between my phone for everything - iMessage, clipboard, wifi networks - is something you begin to miss quickly. The Apple trackpad is also hands-down the best experience.
This is exciting -- Rust has already shown great results through its implementation in Firefox (made me dump Chrome for Quantum)[0], so building a whole new operating system using the language makes perfect sense -- a great test bed for the language, imo.

And given the fact that Haiku OS team's goal is to build a 'unified' and well-fused OS for personal use [1], using a single language should greatly help with reducing complexity and improving robustness.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-h...
[1] https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq#what-is-haiku
I started enjoying Reddit when I unsubscribed from all subreddits, i.e. having 0 subscriptions. What I did instead was to group all of them in various private multireddits inspired by USENET, so I have comp, emacs, langlearn, laugh, etc. Thus when I'm just checking to see if a notification I'm expecting is there, there is no links that can immediately distract me on the front page. This saves me countless hours, and combined w/ opting out of all personalisation [1], of the new profile overview and of the fuckup^H^H^H^H^H^Hredesign, and with strict JS and content blocking, and Redirector extension, it becomes bearable.

One thing Reddit should note is that people are there for the communities. If there was sth. identical but run by a foundation or NGO, I'd jump there and delete my reddit account once the important communities are migrated.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/personalization
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Safe and unsafe is not a binary. Any plane is unsafe for certain values of unsafe. Any plane is safe for certain values of safe. There is always a tradeoff, and there is always an acceptable risk, whether you are Boeing or a normal person deciding whether to drive, bike, or take the bus to work.
I don't get it. I'm primarily a Python developer, so this looks like Celery to me. I've never understood why I'd want to tie myself to a particular library, rather than encode messages to an agreed encoding, then write workers in the technology most appropriate for the job?
The all caps Visa logo on credit cards is probably where it comes from. But, yeah, travel "visa" is a common noun.
It's incredibly frustrating of course. The only short-cut is via an EB1A green card or marriage to a USC, which are very limited options. That being said, we've helped many stuck in the backlog through the EB1A path.
Conversely, over the last hundred years, the length between recessions has been increasing, especially compared to the previous century.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
the important site is https://sf311.org/recent-requests which is listed in the article. while I applaud the city for having such a system the numbers are mind boggling. There are over thirteen thousand open street or sidewalk cleaning request active!

it does seem flooding and sewer are where the "feces" issues arise and those numbers are more manageable, only seventy active.

Additional article of interest, where the money goes http://www.sfexaminer.com/san-franciscos-money-goes/ which does note street cleaning costs
I feel you. I can read books and watch movies on a plane and that is about all. My last flight I read about new c++17 features.
Despite all the other meta comments in this thread it is an interesting commentary on public discourse in the U.S. that the messages like the OP are simultaneously interpreted as a satirical joke by some and as a straight literal comparison by others.

A U.S. hating defeatist will point to this list as proof that the U.S. is just as bad as Russia while giving no room for evidence to the contrary.

A loyalist can laugh all this off as hilarious while ignoring the reality of Trump's autocratic leanings.

In polls most voters are crying for moderate representatives and they just want people to reach across the aisle and get things done. But then come election day the polarizing extremist candidates end up getting the votes. As a population, the U.S. is in this self-torturous cycle where they cry for movement and change but in action they only perpetuate the gridlock and partisanship.

This climate really gives me respect for Sam Harris's approach: he really tries to interview others that have just enough of a different opinion so as to give rise to alternative viewpoints and interesting conversation while simultaneously striving to maintain an open, honest, and dispassionate discourse on emotional topics.
In the current environment, yes, they do.

Why? Because too often, each side tries to paint the other as the center of all evil. And people of both sides get really tired of being painted that way. They tune out very quickly when they run into something that paints them that way. So if you want both sides to hear you, you have to not shoot only at one side.
The US plays geopolitics very well regardless of who is in office. It's one of the reasons why you guys are the dominant force in the world. If anything, China is emulating the US.

To your example, seems like the real goal of the silk road is suckering nations into huge debts that they cannot hope to repay with massive concessions in case of default. Creation of client states is a key to American domination and the Chinese will emulate it with even more zeal.
> They can vote in PA elections

I can vote in my local Elks Club elections as well.

People in the West Bank live in Israel but can not vote in Israeli elections.

Actually - Palestinians living in Israel in the West Bank can't vote. A haredi Jew from Brooklyn who arrived in the West Bank yesterday and stole land from a Palestinian family who has been there for centuries, he has a right to vote in the elections of the country he is living in.
As one grows old we learn to avoid learning every new fad until dust settles.

I saved a few brain cells by not bothering with GWT, CoffeeScript, mootools, YUI, prototype...
The article does mention that relative comparisons often use less energy than absolute measurements which is in line with your thinking.
Looks like it works well:

https://liliputing.com/2018/06/first-look-huawei-matebook-x-...
You are correct, I am in the wrong shops.

I am in enterprise shops mostly and the one shop where we were releasing something every week or two was a 5 man engineering team that was left alone by the main company until we started making good money, at which point the company started interfering and we stopped shipping. In the enterprise jobs I have more projects under my belt that were completed and never released versus released products.

Every time it's been the result of either a low level executive losing a political battle and the project being shelved to rearrange resources or a company with little to no competition where executives didn't seem to care much about a million wasted here or there. One project I was on wasted over a million in development costs with the 5 product owners and me as the single dev because the executive who needed to sign off on the completed project didn't like the background color and insisted we started over at the requirements phase because "What else might we have gotten wrong?"

Startups seem more fun/invigorating but the stability and pay haven't been there when I looked so I just stick at the enterprise jobs doing what I can and saving money aggressively to be financially independent and start working at jobs that I want to work out
Typeclasses can be introduced; there's a PR doing that in a reasonable manner: https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/pull/87 It's not shot down.

Instance derivation is likely not impossible when typeclasses support is there. I wonder how expensive it could be, though. Making them also usable from Java (e.g. Comparable) would likely be problematic sometimes due to Java's inconsistencies.

Can receiver lambdas (the "DSL" feature) be used to produce something comparable? For something comparable to LINQ, though (same expression targeting e.g. an object graph and an SQL database), compiler support would likely be needed.
Wars don't tend to grow economies, and QE stopped in 2014.
USCIS is really tough on H-1Bs and getting tougher where the beneficiary owns 50% or more even if there's an independent board of directors that can fire the beneficiary So, given this, the best chance is to own less than 50% and have a board that can fire the beneficiary.
I'd argue that being unable to talk about ideas themselves and the dynamics of their belief without being derailed into arguing about the merits of the ideas themselves is a sign that someone has not managed to form a coherent, defensible worldview. When on solid ground you can always argue both sides convincingly, but have clear reasoning why you support the side you do, and talking about the opposing view does not immediately spur a desire to argue against it since you are confident in your beliefs despite empathy for the opposition. This is an impossible thing to get if you are unable to talk about and explore opposing beliefs without immediately having to defend your final conclusions.
The law has barely been in force a month. The big lawsuits and enforcement actions are coming (like Schrems').
It is sad to see that the "positive result" is a reduction in cognitive decline. That is not being called a medicine.
Fortunately, Dr Dale Bredesen has a treatment that reverses Alzheimer's in 9 out of 10 patients.
Ask HN: How do you build, nurture, and grow a Platform-as-a-Service business?
There are many excellent platform-as-a-service (PAAS) business that have grown from a simple idea done well.

Are there any personal experiences from individuals who have led, participated in, observed, competed against such a company (companies like Stripe or Twilio or ...)?

Are there any good resources to learn from?

What are key concepts to focus upon?

Thanks!
Consider instead the Xiaomi probook, another macbook clone. It works well with linux.
Well, the meme isn’t that far off. This community is starting to sound like the Soviet Union. Did everyone read that thread this morning and take it as a challenge or something? It’s not a goal to which to aspire.

These are lives you’re talking about here, kids, kids that happen to be currently sharing the same planet as you. Human beings are not figures on a balance sheet, and I lament anyone’s soul that would dispute me on that point. The pillars of this community sit on billions and get hospitals named after them, but some brown kids in a cave are a theoretical exercise to think about economics? They have memories. Families. Hopes. Should we debate your worth? What’s the figure where you are no longer considered worthwhile?

If I can’t meet you on something as fundamental as every life is worth saving, we simply aren’t having the same conversation, and I’ll be honest, your side gives me pause. And I see it far too often among people here who simply consider themselves pragmatic. Many throughout history have convinced themselves of their pragmatism, and we have all paid for it for centuries.

What unfortunate times to live in where the scions of high tech debate the value of individual lives in a far flung part of the world. This thread should disgust.
File this under “captain obvious.” However, the comments of this article are interesting and worth the read.
How had growth ever been possible in the era before the last 20 years or so?
Yes, it's possible. Your F-1 status is really irrelevant to the analysis.
How do you even define social media? Is HN social media?
What I like is how it breaks down the model that most people had. Models simplify, but they also constrain and we need to always be cognizant of where the model stops.

Some people over train in model-space and are unable to make thoughts that occur outside of that universe.
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What do you mean no idea. She was PM several times in the 1990s and not a good one. She and Nawaz took turns robbing Pakistan until Musharraff came.
That's sorta my point. If no one had any privacy, then any time you judge others you open yourself to being judged. It's like punching someone in the face, you could do it but they'll probably punch you back.

So yeah, maybe you could make a big deal about congressman so-and-so having a diaper fetish or whatever, but then people will probably want to look into your porn browsing history.
Unless you wrap yourself in gauze and never leave the house, you've effectively put a value on your own life that's far less than $10 million.
There are off-the-shelf libraries like ANNOY and nmslib that index the vectors in a way that allows for fast (possibly approximate) nearest neighbors searches.
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I am looking for a laptop with 32GB RAM or higher. This "best" laptop appears to maxed out at 16GB RAM like current MacBooks.
Yes, it could and the O-1 is oftentimes the path taken by international founders (where the E-1 or E-2 is not an option). And given the toughening EB1A standard, it's generally advisable to get the O-1 first.
> Weird. In france calls in in the eu and to the usa are free and unlimited on most contracts.

That’s because we have really good phone contracts in France compared to the rest of the World, and also because mobile roaming charges are forbidden in the EU [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming#Roaming_between_Europe...
> Why is the labor force participation rate not climbing back to 2008 levels?

Probably because the boomers are 10 years older than in 2008?
Clojure is likely your only choice on the JVM.

Also, you miss the point of Kotlin; it would be like saying that what you miss from Clojure is similarity to Java syntax.
I think everyone agrees that "fighting" the borrow checker is annoying, however at the risk of sounding like a Rust apologist I find that a couple interesting things have happened over ~2 years with the language:

1. The borrow checker usually kicks in when I want to take shortcuts that would bite me in the future. 90% of issues I hit with it can be solved with copy/clone.

2. When I take the time to satisfy the borrow checker I find my architecture is better. Usually I'm tripping the borrow checker because I don't have a clear single-owner or separation of concerns.

Also, if you're looking for an "easy" to program languages there's tons of them out there and it definitely doesn't make sense in my mind to use Rust where C#/Erlang/Java/etc fit the domain space better.
TSX views with full typechecking blow all stringly-typed templating solutions like Knockout Templates out of the water. In addition to that, immediate DOM repaint without any consolidation is inefficient and hard to debug at times.
I'm a U.S. citizen. My girlfriend is a Canadian citizen, and lives in Canada. If we got married how quickly could she start working in the US?

Thanks!
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Every single internet law of the EU has been a complete failure. Remember the cookie law? All it's brought us are these obtrusive large cookie consent banner. Same with GDPR. All I see is websites full of popups about privacy and I just click through to get content. All these EU laws show a fundamental lack of understanding of the underlying technologies and mechanisms. The laws only serve as a power-play and to employ useless bureaucrats which are funded by actual valuable work done by people who do understand these technologies.
Does it run the tasks in the same or a different process? Why is redis necessary? Can it pick up where it left off if the server restarts? Why so much boilerplate (still) for simple use cases?
A large part is demographics, and the drop was known for decades before it happened, as mentioned in papers from Census. FRED reports also explain this.

Another part is people staying in college longer (or going back to college) to get more education which is needed for a modern workforce, and the result of that is more lifetime earnings, not less.

A third part is many people are opting for one income, since many couples can now live on one income. More people moving from the middle class did so by moving up rather than down.
For digital nomads, work is where the laptop is
This is you?

http://www.robertsimmigration.com/index.html

Your website should have a bio and information on your background, education and so on.
> In this case, the likelihood of a single engine shutdown due to this elusive bug ... _combined with the fact that all commercial aircraft needs to be able to operate with only one of the engines_, makes Boeing ask for the exemption.

That's not very reassuring to me. The article is light on details, but this bug is apparently triggered "during a step climb to a higher altitude in ice crystal icing conditions." The fact that the plane can operate one one engine doesn't do much good if both engines fail due to the same bug because they're experiencing the same conditions at the same time.
Verge yet again showing their incompetence.

Seriously though, I've heard good things about the Microsoft Surface Book 2, though I am an Apple user. Just can't go back to using Windows. Even with all my 2017 Touchbar MacBook Pro's faults, it sure beats Windows.
Hi Peter,

I'm a naturalized Australian citizen with southeast Asian origin.

My I-797 petition was approved, but the H1B visa application is under "Administrative Processing" for the past 3 months.

I had lived in San Francisco for almost 3 years, and previously held multiple US visas (J1, E3, H1B etc.). I came back to Australia to renew/receive the new H1B visa as I was switching company in US, but currently unable to return.

What would you suggest I do to expedite this? Thanks a lot.

P.S.

My apologies if this is irrelevant -- I hold masters and PhD in fields very relevant to my US job offer. My offered role in the company is one of the senior roles, and I'm the only H1B in the company AFAIK. Thanks.
Sounds nice I guess, the 3kx2k display sounds good.

Other than that, I don't really want Huawei hardware tho
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt but I can't think of a scenario where a cold call is preferable to an email, or no contact at all. Can you give an example?
There is another endgame that I will concede is considerably less likely to happen, but I will maintain remains possible: the end of the modern-day nation-state.

My evidence for this claim? Very few nation-states if any are growing as fast (in terms of net worth) as the largest multinationals, but the multinationals are still relatively agile (read as able to mobilize their strength behind a common agenda). Sure at the moment, the largest multinationals have only as much net worth as some of the poorest countries. However, look at how cities and states try to out compete each other in order to have companies like Amazon and Foxconn set up their headquarters. How soon will it be until countries start competing with each other for something similar (building your next regional data center in EMEA? here are the contenders). If the multinationals really wanted to milk it, then they could totally make a game show out of it à la Eurovision.
Comcast is terrible. They called me 3 hours after I had just returned their modem and cables back to the store and they said "we never got it" and tried to charge me $300 for non-return of equipment. Had I not specifically asked the store rep. for a receipt and taken a video of myself returning it to the store, then it would have been their word against mine over the phone. I'm convinced this is a con they play on purpose to milk customers for extra money when they cancel their service (plus Comcast also had an ISP monopoly over the area, so they just didn't give a shit about their customer service).
My priorities as a business needing a job queue are:

- Does it run my jobs reliably?

- Does it run my jobs with good performance?

- Are failed jobs obvious and simple to report/retry/log?

Bull's tests and history shows that these needs are addressed.

For a backend, the Redis strategy employed by Bull is battle-tested and used by many other related projects. I can't say that about any other backend. I haven't found this to be a common, real issue in practice.

For multiple queues, I can easily run multiple namespaced Bull instances, so that is not an issue.

Bull uses subscriptions and RPOPLPUSH, so I'm not sure where the polling problem is that you mention. Bull's performance testing is very competitive.

Functions vs classes is an interesting dev choice... In JavaScript there is really not much of a difference. I would argue that functions are more lightweight, which is good for a job queue, but I don't actually think a job queue needs an opinion on client JS architecture.

If you have performance numbers and a test suite for TaskBotJS, that would go a long way to support the claims.
What a pointless little rant. I clicked because of the "harvard.edu" excited about data from research. No, just a few anecdotes of stuff we already know.

The interesting question is going to be, what things look like after the first few enforcement actions or at least warnings.

It is much too early in this game between adtech and regulators to declare a winner. Adtech is maybe the favorite and has taken an early lead, but it's far from a done deal when the other team is still strategizing in the locker room. (Watching Brazil vs. Belgium right now, sorry for the half-baked sports metaphor.)
When was the last time you were glad to receive a cold call?
I hate these kinds of numbers because they hide the fact that most of these jobs do not provide a living wage.
While your commentary around privacy and security is valid (they could indeed reference that more clearly), referring to them outright as an “Amoral SaaS service [you] kind of want to die” is extremely judgmental and out of place on HN.